Demolitionist (Killing Floor 2)

Killing Floor 2 perk
Demolitionist
General Information
XP Objectives
• Dealing Demolitionist weapon damage.
• Killing Fleshpounds with Demolitionist weapons.
Starting Loadout
HX25 Grenade Pistol			9mm Pistol
Utility Knife			Medic Grenade
Perk Information
Role
• Fleshpound killer.
• AOE control.
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Strength
• Massive explosive damage.
• Good AOE coverage.
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• Dynamite stuns big ZEDs.
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Weakness
• Vulnerable in CQC.
• Has to reload quite often.
• Self-inflicted damage from explosives.
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Target Priority
					HIGH
					MEDIUM
					LOW
SURVIVALIST EFFECTIVENESS AGAINST ZEDS IS DETERMINED BY THEIR SKILL AND WEAPON CHOICES
Technical Information
Related Achievements
Reach Level 5 Demolitions Reach Level 10 Demolitions Reach Level 15 Demolitions Reach Level 20 Demolitions Reach Level 25 Demolitions Normal Demolitionist Hard Demolitionist Suicidal Demolitionist Hellish Demolitionist Perked Up Mr. Perky 5 Mr. Perky 10 Mr. Perky 15 Mr. Perky 20 Mr. Perky 25
PS4 Trophies
Mr Perky 5 Mr Perky 10 Mr Perky 15 Mr Perky 20 Mr Perky 25 Platinum

The Demolitionist is the raging storm that destroys masses of small and medium ZEDs and causes devastating damage to big ZEDs by explosives.

General Information

Armed with a variety of explosive devices, Demolitionists wield an immense amount of destructive potential and can quickly turn around an entire battle with a few well-placed shots. Demolitionists can supply your squad with additional grenades while in the field and add explosive traps to any welded door, allowing them to unleash explosive hell even when they are elsewhere.

Demolitionist skill choices let them focus on either taking down big lone targets like Scrakes and Fleshpounds by landing precise devastating blows or to unleash a hailstorm of explosives with improved AOE coverage and massive crowd control intensity.

Weapon List

300	4	HX25 Grenade Pistol
650	3	C4 Explosives
650	6	M79 Grenade Launcher
1500	9	RPG-7
1200	6	M16 M203 Assault Rifle
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---	---	9mm Pistol
150	2	Dual 9mm Pistols
---	---	Utility Knife
40	---	1/2 Stick of Dynamite

Bonus Experience

Demolitionists receive bonus XP for killing Fleshpounds with on-perk weapons.

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Perk Bonuses

This table represents the passive stat bonuses the Demolitionist receives.

Perk Weapon Damage	max. 25%
( Perk weapon damage increased by 1% per level )
Explosive Resistance	max. 50%
( Increase explosive resistance by 2% per level plus 10% base )
Extra Explosive Ammo	max. +5
( Increase amount of explosive ammo per weapon by 1 per 5 levels )
+Grenade Supplier
( Provide grenades to teammates )
+Door Traps
( Setup explosive traps )
+Reactive Armor
( Once per wave escape the death by emitting explosion around you )

Perk Skills

This table represents the active abilities the Demolitionist has access to. You have the option of choosing one per tier.

Technique
Bombardier		5	Shock Tropper
Increase damage of explosive perk weapons by 25%.				Reload perk weapons faster and increase their knockdown and stumble power by 25%.
Explosives
High Impact Rounds		10	Extra Rounds
Increase direct hit damage with explosive weapons by 25%.				Increase the maximum ammo for explosive perk weapons by 5.
Advanced Techniques
Sonic Resistant Rounds		15	Fragmentation Rounds
Your explosives are immune to the siren's scream and will always explode.				Increase area of effect of explosive perk weapons by 50%, but decrease damage by 30%.
Weapon Techniques
Armor Piercing Rounds		20	Concussive Rounds
Increase damage of direct hits to critical areas with perk weapons by 50%.				Increase reaction, stun, stumble, and knockdown power of perk weapons by 50%.
Advanced Explosives
ZED TIME - Destroyer of Worlds		25	ZED TIME - Mad Bomber
During ZED Time, your explosives dish out massive radiation damage, poisoning ZEDs, and explosive rounds will explode at any range.				During ZED Time, you shoot and reload in near real-time, the area of effect of perk weapons increases by 25%, and explosive rounds will explode at any range.

Actual Stats

Perk Notes

• Damage modification (passive + skills): Passive damage bonus, Door Traps, Bombardier, High Impact Rounds and Armor Piercing Rounds skills affecting damage of all on-perk weapons (including Knife) or on-perk damage types. Damage ROUNDED.
• Skill (Armor Piercing Rounds): Any hit zone that has damage scale multiplier higher than 1 is "critical". Due to their nature, explosions do damage only to the body health and does not trace hit zones so this skill will apply additional damage only through the ballistic impact.
• Skill (Concusive Rounds): Skill increases knockdown / stun / stumble / gun hit / melee hit power for all on-perk damage types. Knockdown power multiplier of this skill stack with the Shock Trooper as a sum, total multiplier = 1 + 0.5 + 0.1 = 1.6.
• Skill (Destroyer of Worlds): Initial explosion does x1.5 more damage and has x1.35 wider radius than the weapon's base damage and radius values. For the duration of radiation cloud its damage drops down to 20 points of toxic damage. Radiation cloud has radius of 3 meters where it does damage for total of 8 seconds within 1 second intervals. Additionally ZED start suffering from the toxic DOT: duration - 5 seconds, interval - 0.3 seconds, damage scale of radiation cloud - x1.
• Skill (Extra Rounds): C4 Explosives and Dynamite Grenades does not recieve additional ammunition.
• Skill (Fragmentation Rounds): Explosion radius multiplier of this skill stack with the Mad Bomber as a sum, total multiplier = 1.5 + 0.25 = 1.75. This skill decreases not only explosive damage but also ballistic (impact) damage of the projectile.
• Skill (High Impact Rounds): Only ballistic part of the projectile does additional damage.

On-perk Weapons

Following weapons and damage types are associated with the Demolitionist. They are getting damage bonuses and buffs to their attributes from the respective skills:

AssaultRifle_M16M203 (bullet damage is NOT affected by skills)
DynamiteGrenade
GrenadeLauncher_HX25
GrenadeLauncher_M79
Knife_Demolitionist
RocketLauncher_RPG7
Thrown_C4

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Ballistic_HX25Impact, Ballistic_HX25SubmunitionImpact, Explosive_HX25, ExplosiveSubmunition_HX25
Ballistic_M16M203, Ballistic_M203Impact, Explosive_M16M203
Ballistic_M79Impact, Explosive_M79
Ballistic_RPG7Impact, Explosive_RPG7, Explosive_RPG7BackBlast
Explosive_C4
Explosive_DoorTrap
Explosive_DynamiteGrenade
Explosive_Sacrifice, Toxic_DemoNuke

Strategy

Keep your eyes on the small ZEDs like Crawlers and Stalkers - as a "big ZED hunter" you are quite vulnerable to sudden close range attacks. Getting M16 for self-defense purposes is a wise choice.

Don't forget that Scrake resists to explosive damage but extremely vulnerable to ballistic impact of the RPG-7 rocket.

Boost the Dynamite's stun power by picking up Concussive Rounds. This will let you stun Scrakes and unraged Fleshpounds for a safer kills.

Work together - combine the passive ability to set up door traps with Support's ability to repair destroyed doors. For better effect don't forget to keep the door "alive" until it would have enough ZEDs behind it.

Despite the fact that Fragmentation Rounds skill actually decreases the damage done by explosives it still improves the lethal (kill) radius of the projectile if you use it against small ZEDs like Clots, Crawlers and Stalkers. On the other hand these Sirens could be a real problem without Sonic Resistant Rounds.

As a Nuke Demolitionist if you are being surrounded by ZEDs and ZED Time occurs, shoot under your feet - not it just kill and poison all nearby ZEDs but also will not harm you whatsoever. But don't try it with the Mad Bomber, it will hurt you badly.

Trivia

• According to the character's favourite weapon lines, Anton Strasser, Ana Larive and Lt. Bill Masterson and Hayato Tanaka are the Demolitionist of the team. Although Ana Larive is the only character that has 4 explosive weapons among her favourites.
• Oddly enough the Demolitionist gains no damage bonuses towards the M16's bullets at all. For the reference the HX25's pellet impacts (which counted as "ballistic shotgun") are actually being affected by passive bonus and by Bombardier, High Impact Rounds and Armor Piercing Rounds skills.