Warhammer: Vermintide 2

Warhammer: Vermintide 2

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How to be a TEUTONIC PANZER* KNIGHT
By v4nd4hl
title (*German for TANK)
Actually a Grail Knight guide which focuses on a niche but effective offensive crowd control approach.
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Step 1: Be sure of what you want to embody
Have a look at these pictures. Meditate over them. This is your goal. Only proceed to step two if you truly got it. Never look back after that.



Step 2: Paint your Panzer accordingly
Make sure you look like this. And grief a few moments (alright, many moments) that light blue is not pitch black. Write a furious letter of complaint to fatshark about this issue before moving to step 3.
Step 3: Build your Panzer
You charge into and roll over your enemies panzer style - and let your allies kill what might be left of them.


Bulwark is love. Bulwark is life. Here is proof:
Step 4: Equip your Panzer
Primary weapon: Panzershield (Bretonian made).

This is the weapon you use 85% to panzer around.
Your sword "n" shield is your life. your swag. your legacy. put it in the face of everybody whenever and wherever you can. Be that friend or foe. Insist on using it (almost) all of the time. its not meta? You are above meta. You are omega-meta. meta-meta.

Secondary weapon: Warhammer

This ist the howitzer whose first two light attacks you use to clonk bonk heads of chaos tin men and fat (boss) rats.

Necklace

Makes your panzer even more panzer.

Charm

More firepower against everything is always good. Also let's you use your ultimate burst damage cannon against big fat rats (or trolls or whatever chaos spawns are) twice in a row after drinking some fine German Starkbeer.

Trinket

Fuel for your engine.
Step 5: Master the art of panzering
Use these combos against hordes when focusing on crowd control and/or getting rid of trash units. Experience will tell you after a while, which combo is situationally the one to use without getting (too much) hits as well as obtaining THP leeching you need/want.

Use these combos to fight/snipe elite/armored enemies in hordes. Again... with practice you will know which one to use under which circumstances.

These moves you utilize to get rid of trash units in few numbers which do not pose a threat.

Switch to your hammer to fight elite/armored enemies. You may use your shield to provide some room first or defense after.

Given the right situation, a little hammering against (mixed) hordes is in order. Use your shield again to provide room for yourself and your heavy panzer strikes.

Against bosses / patrols you can use your ultimate in combination with concotion. Just drink any potion. Hitting stuff in between your two ultimate strikes helps to further reduce cooldown.

If you come by Keri's quarters - for whatever reason - this is what you do.
Step 6: Watch gameplay videos
Analyse and imitate them thoroughly to become a better knight yourself

(dont believe the fake news presented by the narrative subtitles, teutonic knights are invincible and won)

(As you can see, approximately 4 Americans are needed to stop 1 Teuton in a fictional US propaganda movie)

(The battles they've lost they only did so because they were not wearing a shield - amateurs who have not yet found their final form)
Step 7: Connect to other knightly orders.
Use the link below to get in touch with other heavy duty frontliners like yourself.

SWISS GUARD, click here




PRO GAMER MODE, click here
Step 8: Pledge allegiance to the right cause...
... by commenting on this guide, leaving a positive rating and sharing it with new recruits.

Thank you. The Lady wills it.
18 Comments
Grimaldur 14 Feb, 2023 @ 10:03pm 
Domina vult
GROM 21 Feb, 2022 @ 2:57am 
Hmm.. Yes.
[S.A.S]sephchan 16 Feb, 2022 @ 10:05am 
weird
Diesel 13 Feb, 2022 @ 12:53pm 
This is pretty much how I play Grail Knight. Love the choice in writing style. Great guide.
Oedipus's Stepdad 8 Feb, 2022 @ 9:44pm 
>no griffon helm
Cap'n Abe 29 Jan, 2022 @ 12:45pm 
Fight for the glory of the great German fatherland(Reiksland)!
The Fountaineer 🖋 28 Jan, 2022 @ 6:15pm 
reddit
Padauts 19 Jan, 2022 @ 1:47pm 
This has to be the best fcking guide i've ever read and watched. The videos at the end are precious.
v4nd4hl  [author] 17 Nov, 2021 @ 8:35am 
@MisterBolognese

I'd say Grail Knight is something like a Crusader Mark I, whereas Foot Knight could be considered a Churchill Infantry Tank MK IV.
Swaghetti&Memeballs 17 Nov, 2021 @ 8:26am 
Wouldn't panzer knight be more foot knight's style than grail knight, seeing as he's both tankier and more defensive, and can literally tankroll over anything?