What is the best overall battle brother build?

[Klaus]

If you had to just pick one... and how do I do it?
I'm trying to get better at building my team. on game 3 now feel like i'm learning but still can't figure out what's "ideal"

[Belial]

There is no ideal it depends on the bro and stats.

[turtle225]

It also depends on what enemy you are fighting. You can build a bro that wrecks Ancient Dead but maybe he struggles against Orcs.

You get 20 roster slots, you don't just build everyone toward one ideal. You can be successful doing all sorts of things.

Maybe instead tell us how you are currently building your team and/or what you struggle against and we can try and offer some advice.

[Klaus]

i'm just trying to figure out the best overall build for killing hordes of enemies. I saw a video on youtube of a single or duo of brothers wrecking like a dozen or more enemies. I would say this is probably more "ideal" than alot of builds I would come up with by myself lol.

[Desperado]

BF 2H is the best bro, i just finished cleaning 3locations: 30orcs (1warlord, 7 berserk, 12young 10warriors (1loss )) then i run 7schrat in a 20+ barbarian camp with many chosen and unholds. And for dessert 10 necrosavant. I have a core of four 2H beast that ´s not possible without them.
With 45mdef 85hp 115fat 320/320 legendary they are on godlike mod.
My core perks : recover / brawny / underdog / colossus / battleforged / indomitable / frenzy / (rotation) and the two last depend on my stuff/role /stars.

About rotation, lot of player didnt like it or prefer footwork. I take rotation on everyone exept ranged (footwork). I cant play without it, like drugs my bros dies if i dont use it

Edit, i have tried nimble 2H, i didnt find them more reliable.

[Klaus]

what is BF ?

[turtle225]

Originally posted by Chef Zakarian:

what is BF ?

Battleforged.

Originally posted by Chef Zakarian:

i'm just trying to figure out the best overall build for killing hordes of enemies. I saw a video on youtube of a single or duo of brothers wrecking like a dozen or more enemies. I would say this is probably more "ideal" than alot of builds I would come up with by myself lol.

If you want high damage builds then generally you are looking at AoE (Area of Effect) 2Handers. Greatsword, Hammer, Bardiche are all great. Ideal stat line is 90+ skill, 30+ defense but you can also manage with less. Defensive core is either Colossus + Nimble or Brawny + Forge. And throw in Indomitable for good measure. You'll want Berserk and Recover.

Alternative high damage builds include Duelists or single target 2hander (Mansplitter, Greataxe, Mace).

Basically the less shield bros you are running the easier time you are going to have cleaving through enemy hordes.

[Klaus]

is it realistic to do a really great riposte sword build?

[thebadman]

Originally posted by Chef Zakarian:

is it realistic to do a really great riposte sword build?

If it is the legendary lightsaber riposte build then yeah, but you get only one of these per run if you have proper DLC.

[Tephros83]

Originally posted by Chef Zakarian:

is it realistic to do a really great riposte sword build?

Yes, but it should be a supertank, basically. To make effective use of riposte you need amazing defense and decent attack because you want to be surrounded and the only one engaged with the enemies, with high enough melee attack to actually hit them.

Amazing defense would include recover+adrenaline then indomitable+riposte cycles, >30 base melee defense before shields but 40 is significantly better. 38 was enough for the upper army of black monolith soloing and surviving (i.e. the tank soloed the guys coming from the top)

The legendary lightning sword just makes the damage done much better.

[Klaus]

i'm a bit confused about adrenaline, is the benefit being able to riposte first in the turn?

[Desperado]

adrenaline work with recover and indomitable, for max def.

[Klaus]

Ah so essentially you would adrenaline, then with the free turn you do indomitable to get huge defense before normal turn? sorry if i'm coming across really nooby, I actually haven't experimented with indom or adrenaline at all yet

[Estieukua]

If you use Riposte+Indomitable while surrounded by enemies, you'll be exhausted (and at the end of the turn order) on your next turn. So then, to do the same again, you need to use Recover+Adrenaline (auto-end turns needs to be disabled in the game options) to regain fatigue and put yourself first in the turn order for the coming round, and then you can use Riposte+Indomitable again and (usually) repeat ad nauseum. To do this, your max fatigue in armour with items equipped needs to be 82+.

Very effective, but it does get repetitive and boring if you have too many doing it ...

[Klaus]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1799540100
does anyone have advice on how to build this guy? His stars seem really good, can I do anything with him?

[Belial]

hes only good stars are FAT. You can try to build a tank, but overall i thinl this bro is meh