Kerillian Waystalker Guide

Mayflies, mayflies everywhere

Introduction

A lot of players enjoy playing as Kerillian, but I experienced TONS of bad Kerillian players in my team: here's a few tips on how to use her decently.

Let's start with the basics....

Class

WayStalker

The waystalker is the most complete class for Kerillian
Damage, Wave Clear, Survivability and Team Support
Most players don't fully understand the potential of the Waystalker, it's probably the worst class for bossfights but the best for the rest.

Damage - The scoreboard never lies, Kerillian players are usually the ones with the most damage dealt in the match, this is not just related to the weapons but mostly because of her special skill

Wave clear - Trueshot Volley will be you best friend against enemies swarming, so keep her "ultimate" ready for that moment.

Suvivability - No secrets, Kerillian health regen is very useful and provides her with lots of survivability but beware, SINCE YOU CAN REGEN YOUR HEALTH, CONSERVE HEALTH POTIONS FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR TEAMMATES!
The worst and most annoying that could happen, is a Kerillian player wasting healing when he could just survive off the health regen (and parrying correctly!!)

Team Support - With the right bow you can offer a lot of support to your team, slaying most of the special and armored enemies! This is Kerillian's main role! Kill the annoying enemies!
StormVermins, Packmasters, Assassins, Ratling Gunners, Warpfire Throwers, LEECHES and the freaking Blightstormers (and their tornadoes) can ALL be easily killed by the Kerillian player before they deal too much damage to the team!

IF YOU LACK AIMING ABILITIES AVOID PLAYING KERILLIAN

Equip

Primary Weapon - Spear
For this build the main weapon will be the spear! But why the spear?
Simple, the spear at the moment is the weapon with most range and with the widest parry angle
It's perfect for slaying large numbers of enemies with the 3rd attack (horizontal slash) and the charged attack (horizontal as well).
It will give you the necessary space to survive enemy melee attacks, good mobility and with the wide parry angle (180° insted of the usual 90° of the other weapons) will give you A LOT of survivability

Ranged Weapon - Long Bow
The long bow is the best weapon for your role... THE ARCHER
Kerillian, as previously said, must kill most of the special and armored enemies, and here comes the longbow!
Perfect for the StormVermins, 1 headshot = 1 kill for all special enemies, also really good for Chaos Warriors if you can hit them in the head!

Necklace
This is the MOST important item for the build
An exotic (orange) necklace with NATURAL BOND enchant must be equipped on Kerillian.
Natural Bond will give you health regen even above half HP, and (to be verified) will stack with your passive health regen.

Even better if have "+ 20% health"
BEWARE:You won't be able to use healing items if you wear this necklace; but who cares, because you should not use healing items in the first place as I said before, right? ;)

Talents Points Tree

Level 5 - Morai-Heg’s Scorn - Increases critical hit chance by 5%. (On legend difficult change in to Hukon’s Tenacity)

Level 10 - Daughter of the Hunt - While above 25% health, Critical hits gain 30% additional power.

Level 15 - Isha’s Embrace - Increases Kerillian’s health regeneration. (On legend difficult change in to Vaul’s Quiver)

Level 20 - Khaine’s Thirst - Kills grant temporary health.

Level 25 - Asrai Focus - Reduces cooldown of Trueshot Volley by 30%. (On legend difficult change in to Lifebloom Arrows)

Zeta's Tips

- Don't rush for the kills, the scoreboard is not everything! Care for your team and support them.
Cover your "tank" during swarms, help him pushing away enemies while attacking with the spear;

- Be careful at the character dialogs, they'll tell you if a special enemy is approaching. Equip the bow as fast as you can and look around spamming the mark button (T by Default) to mark the special enemy, it will help your team understand where the threat is coming and kill him faster;

- Don't waste arrows for common enemies, if you run out of arrow you are useless;

- Always charge your arrows to kill enemies: quick arrows deal less damage and you will run of out ammo in no time;

- If one of your teammates is low HP and without healing items, stay always close to him, with the spear you can cover him on all sides and with the wide angle parry you can prevent enemies from hitting and killing him;

Ending

I hope you enjoyed the guide! Maybe, one day, all the WayStalker Kerillian players will read this guide and learn how to play one of the best character of this game (and maybe all the useless hate for Kerillian will stop).
This is a co-op game, don't care only for yourself and respect all your teammates.

Thank you for your time and thumbs up the guide if you liked it

- Zeta

[bigpigglet]

just a heads up, as i post this nearly a year later, be warned that as of a couple months ago, trueshot is now crap for hordes. it is now more useful for sniping heads on armored/specials as in 90% of cases, all three arrows now take the same flight path

[Real Awesome]

really helpful, thanks :-)

[Mindwrack]

huh properties????

[Goblin King]

good job on the guide, somtimes there really bad

[Promises]

Zarviya run crit chance, most of the time a crit will instantly kill a regular enemy, and head shots generally 1 shot anyway

[Zarviya]

Should I have crit power OR crit chance for my bow?

[Slevin Laine]

Great guide man! : ) cheers, I'm starting with Kerillian and I like it a lot. Now I know a few basics. Hopefully I'll improve with her.

[Bajs]

Juse use glaive and dodge. No need for spear.
I use ammo regen on passive, get 20% arrows back from ability and "after critical hit, gain 25% damage against enemies of the same armor type".
It gives some more damage against tougher enemies and more cleave against hordes. As long as you don't waste arrows on trash mobs you won't run out of arrows.
So far I've only run out of arrows for a few seconds on the last phase of champion skittergate boss so maybe on legend skittergate ammo on crits is needed if you really don't want to melee.

[Atrophus]

"Damage - The scoreboard never lies, Kerillian players are usually the ones with the most damage dealt in the match, this is not just related to the weapons but mostly because of her special skill"
Except the pyromancer can deal much more damage than any kerillian and any decent bounty hunter with the van helsing x-bow leaves even the pyromancer biting the dust.

Natural bond is quite cool up to champion, but legendary... Nah, really not. Rather have a 30% increase of healing efficiency which not only affects healing items but also Amaranthe.

[x_Neversoft_x]

"The scoreboard never lies" Except for the fact that it clearly does.