Any tips on how to play the Landsknecht?

[thegreatvarholy]

I'm having trouble figuring out how to make her shine. The slow firing weapon, the clunky descriptive text and other peculiarities are throwing me through a loop.

This is just a pedantic aside but I thought Landsknechts used zweihanders and other melee weapons. Feels like a bold choice to set the weapon as a gun.

[lnwGaGaz]

lol best class in the game rn

[thegreatvarholy]

Originally posted by lnwGaGaz:

lol best class in the game rn

I appreciate the response but that doesn't really help me out. I unlocked her last night and the text is kinda vague in regards to addressing her strengths.

Probably because I was "How are you still functioning?" levels of tired, might have misread things.....I dunno.

[Mr. Molecule]

Originally posted by thegreatvarholy:

I'm having trouble figuring out how to make her shine. The slow firing weapon, the clunky descriptive text and other peculiarities are throwing me through a loop.

This is just a pedantic aside but I thought Landsknechts used zweihanders and other melee weapons. Feels like a bold choice to set the weapon as a gun.

they use them in overlord unicorn.

I generally just build around projectiles. pick 2 of these, Transfixion, phantom needles, or meteor strike Use mark of archer, and take the attack speed.. Lands main weapon hits like a truck on crit, but i've typically only reached about 50% crit. But they struggle with group clearing, since grenades are on a cooldown now

[Ulyaoth]

Hi,

you can either pump down the Physical road with her Arquebus (Physical, Projectile)
- Weapon Proficiency - Arquebus
- Dedication - Rifleman
- Phantom Needles, Astronomer's Orbs

Or you make her a Grenadier (Magic, Projectile)
- Weapon Proficiency - Grenades
- Dedication - Technican
- Arcane Splinters, Transfixion

If you are confident with Trait Management, she is perfect for using another Class Mark and pick the Proficient Stance Traits, but at the cost of any "Defensive Stats".

Cheers!

[arcerey]

Originally posted by Mr. Molecule:

Originally posted by thegreatvarholy:

I'm having trouble figuring out how to make her shine. The slow firing weapon, the clunky descriptive text and other peculiarities are throwing me through a loop.

This is just a pedantic aside but I thought Landsknechts used zweihanders and other melee weapons. Feels like a bold choice to set the weapon as a gun.

they use them in overlord unicorn.

I generally just build around projectiles. pick 2 of these, Transfixion, phantom needles, or meteor strike Use mark of archer, and take the attack speed.. Lands main weapon hits like a truck on crit, but i've typically only reached about 50% crit. But they struggle with group clearing, since grenades are on a cooldown now

My usual approach is similar to this. I start with needles usually, and build around spamming projectiles to trigger more 'nades. So focus on traits like attack speed/frequency/count instead of making each hit harder. I do take the Crit Chance upgrades for the needles as that helps when getting the Phantom Split ugprade, which ultimately translates into extra projectiles/hits.

[thegreatvarholy]

Is crit chance even viable? Her crit scaling feels wack, though it's probably down to gear. I haven't unlocked much, just basic *** F-tier junk. Best I have so far is Holy Relic, I reckon.

[Mr. Molecule]

Originally posted by thegreatvarholy:

Is crit chance even viable? Her crit scaling feels wack, though it's probably down to gear. I haven't unlocked much, just basic *** F-tier junk. Best I have so far is Holy Relic, I reckon.

with archer mark+ talents in weapon specialization+ crit ring, it usually caps comes out around 50%. But the crit bonus is enormous, coming out like 1800% with talents+ring. in my last run ended up with the scaling crit bonus ring, at 2000%+. Crits were hiting for like 50k.

[thegreatvarholy]

Originally posted by Mr. Molecule:

Originally posted by thegreatvarholy:

Is crit chance even viable? Her crit scaling feels wack, though it's probably down to gear. I haven't unlocked much, just basic *** F-tier junk. Best I have so far is Holy Relic, I reckon.

with archer mark+ talents in weapon specialization+ crit ring, it usually caps comes out around 50%. But the crit bonus is enormous, coming out like 1800% with talents+ring. in my last run ended up with the scaling crit bonus ring, at 2000%+. Crits were hiting for like 50k.

I noticed her crits hit for such absurd numbers I thought it may have been a bug. Thanks for the advice! Gonna try and unlock the archer's mark as well as new gear.

[CY13ERPUNK]

min/max phantom needles and she'll be slinging grenades nonstop everywhere

build for multistrike and atk-spd

[thegreatvarholy]

Originally posted by CY13ERPUNK:

min/max phantom needles and she'll be slinging grenades nonstop everywhere

build for multistrike and atk-spd

I was trying out new ideas and, yeah, I stumbled into "Holy expletives, needles are borked!"

[Pumpkinreaper]

Originally posted by thegreatvarholy:

I'm having trouble figuring out how to make her shine. The slow firing weapon, the clunky descriptive text and other peculiarities are throwing me through a loop.

This is just a pedantic aside but I thought Landsknechts used zweihanders and other melee weapons. Feels like a bold choice to set the weapon as a gun.

Others have already weighed in, but for me I like to take every trait that increases her base attack speed, since her gun hits like a TRUCK. Late into a run, usually I will try to only take projectiles and/or physical damage abilities as well, saving a doubler potion (I can't remember the name, hahaha) to boost the attack speed version of one of the ethereal shift traits.

Now, the interesting part about this is that the game actually loads destructible objects from a fairly long ways away, which the Landsknecht is going to regularly smash due to how far her rifle's projectiles go. This leads into the equipment I use on her, one of which is Warrior's Fervor since you are going to have a lot of random potions laying around as you work your way to all the ability scrolls. I also use the holy blessing ring to help keep the 100% damage + attack speed buff going for as long as possible.

Note however that building this way means that your grenades are going to lose a lot of their 'oomph', though I find the tradeoff to be worth it.

edit: Also of special note is that due to how much Force you can build up for projectiles along with Landsknecht's incredible Crit Bonus growth, the magic explosion upgrade for needles can become quite potent.