Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Party and Weapon Roles

Pick what you want to kill best with your melee weapon based on the roles, and then pick a complementary ranged weapon. For instance, playing Ironbreaker with an axe and shield is complemented by drakefire weapons or grudgeraker to fit both the role of a Tank and Ratcatcher.

Party

Sniper: Picks off specials and some elites from afar

Ratcatcher: Sweeping or fast attacks, AOE magic, heavy fire to manage hordes

Tank: Uses shield to draw aggro and push hordes, then skills to mitigate damage, revive bonuses

Rearguard: Tank-ish mix of horde-clearing and anti-elite, focused on the rear, revive bonuses

Hunter: Melee-focused elite killer, also good on monsters, power sweeps

Melee

1h axes: Mobility for blocking and dodging, armor-piercing

1h swords: Mobility for blocking and dodging, horde-clearning, headshots

1h hammers: Mobility for blocking and dodging, horde-clearing, sweeping

1h shield: Tanking and pushing, generally horde-clearing, only axe combo has AP

Dual: Very quick strikes for horde-clearing, if not AP then can headshot, daggers get a “bleed”

2h any: Swords have heavy horde-clear, the rest are good AP with sweeping power attacks

Spear/Halberd: Longer reach to manage hordes and kill elites

Glaive: Heavy AP, can insta-kill elites

Ranged

Blunderbuss/Grudgeraker: Rearguard, Ratcatchers, Tank

Crossbows: Sniper weapons, supplemental anti-special

Handguns: Sniper weapons, supplemental anti-special

Longbow: Sniper weapons, supplemental anti-special

Repeater Handgun: Hunter, Rearguard, anti-boss tank

Pistols: Hunter, Rearguard, Ratcatcher

Repeater Pistol: Hunter, Rearguard, Ratcatcher, anti-boss

Multi-shot Crossbows: Hunter, Rearguard, anti-boss

Drakefire pistols: Hunter, Tank, Rearguard

Drakefire cannon: Tank, Rearguard, Ratcatcher

Staffs: Besides flamestaff, the light attacks are extremely utilitarian by role and fire eats through armor

You May Also Like

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Bonus-Damage Attacks Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Combat Tips Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Healing Items Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Item Traits Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Tips and Tricks Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – UI and Settings Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Understanding the Basic Roles of the Handmaiden Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Weapon and Item Properties List Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Effects of Potions Warhammer: Vermintide 2 – Offense and Damage Warhammer: Vermintide 2 PC Controls & Key Bindings Warhammer: Vermintide 2 PC Keyboard Controls Guide