Your calculation for damage reduction sounds inconsistent with your own definition. If it’s a chance to ignore damage then you either ignore the 50% damage or receive full damage. The 15% implies that it’s no longer a chance but is always applied.

​@@redeye259welcome to math

@@bentaro9743 This math ain’t mathing tho…

@@redeye259 The 15% is average damage reduction. If you have a 30% chance to ignore half damage or 15% chance to ignore all damage they are mathematically the same on average

⁠@@redeye259What he said is perfectly consistent. Armor and mitigation are 2 separate systems. They can and do stack. Armor is a damage reduction on all incoming damages (likely in differing percentages based on the type of damage). So if your armor is x you will reduce incoming damage by x%, on every hit. Mitigation on the other hand is like your character semi-dodging a blow. It makes it a glancing blow so you don’t take full damage. So mitigation chance is how likely you are to “dodge” a blow and strength is how much the dodge reduces the blow. If you do the math this guy explained you get the “average damage reduction” over a number of attacks but it doesn’t reduce every attack like armor. It’s like saying if you flip a coin 1000 times you’re most likely going to end up about 50%/50% heads and tails.

I mean it's your game play how you want

@Ccubed92 ?? Lol im asking for an opinion not telling someone how to play, learn to read

I think throwing axes would be alot of fun especially as a chromed up pyscho! Might give it a try on my own time. Especially going full stealth with throwable weapons and playing a "ninja" sorta build.

But hatchets don't have as high headshot modifier

I just picked them as they were the first legendary knife at the knife vendor, lol. But also because that way I'm using a "normal" knife that doesn't have special stats of buffs that could effect testing the build.

@SWIFTMEDIAOG ah okay thanks!

That's a very good question, I think the build would be pretty competitive against adam smasher, but you are right about running out of juice and having the possibly to become vulnerable. This is where I would personally bring netrunning into this build and unlock "queue mastery / Spillover" and their supporting perks.

​@@SWIFTMEDIAOG yeah! sounds like the most reasonable synergy for this build, would also make the most-badass stealth setup possible! On another hand if we forgo netrunning completely for this run and use Sandy exclusively I'd go for 15/15/15/20 of STR/DEX/TECH/COOL for max survivability + mobility and insane damage potential, or something "jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none" like 15 INT for netrunning, 15 body and 15 tech for max survivability, 9 reflexes for mobility (dodging massively helps with survivability on very hard it seems, much more than all the mitigation, HP and armor 15/15 STR/COOL provides). 15 cool should be somewhat fine because losing the last perks in the cool tree doesn't hamper us much since we already have almost max crit - 5% DEX +15% +25% cyberware +40% Sandy active Shinobi skill lvl 60 bonus + last bits from cyberware passive bonuses... That would be extremely flexible and playstyle-tunable for whatever task you wanna do the way you wanna do it, on top of that 50->60 level cap raise from DLC would allow us to get some last lvl 20 perks in a couple of stats aswell to "specialize" the build, that's really cool

​@@SWIFTMEDIAOGHow would you go about bringing netrunning into this build, would you stop using a sandevistan? I already have 20 Int, 20 Cool, and 20 Tech rn with 15 reflex so I'm trying to make this build work right now

Throwing knifes do almost 10 times the damage of a mid range pistol or rifle shot…. Only close range shotgun obliterate can match throwing knifes or melee now

“Why do I need to shoot 10 bullets when I can throw one knife?” Is basically my mantra.

@@51914-m it just doesn’t make sense, I’m not arguing with you that this is how the game works, I guess I have to try it.

@@timothypricesr5953 which is silly, and I guess that’s how the game works now. Knives don’t have good range IRL. I throw knives and axes from time to time with two very devoted hobbyists.

@@somekindadragon3414 if you apply real world logic to a game you’ll come undone, agreed in this sense, if *I* get shot in the head once or a knife in my head then yes, I’m not getting back up. In game however, it’s down to the weapons power. There are iconic guns with more power where you can snipe and one-shot mobs. But guns have clips, they have more DPS, for balancing purposes, a knife is a one-time use with a cooldown. They have higher DPH (damage per hit) to compensate for the fact they have a cooldown after being thrown. Obviously this is removed with perks and good aim as shown in this video. I keep wanting to make a build which is “assassin” like, but I personally can’t move away from thrown knives as my primary weapon of choice for stealth take downs as it’s just so satisfying!

I'm not sure how it fairs in the Edo boss fight, I mainly test with enemies that don't require tons of missions or story to interact with, Though If I have access to cyberpyschos or other "bosses" I will use them, as testing would take days on days too complete and result in video taking forever to make.

Man it kinda feels like the mantis blades suck in comparison to ANY of the katanas

I know that with Phantom Liberty Mantis blades have a brand new buff that can be found in the relic perk tree called "Jailbreak" This "perk" effects "Mantis Blades, Gorilla Arms, Projectile Launch System and Monowire" Giving all these cyberware new and different buffs But "Jailbreaks" Mantis blade specific buff is as follows Dismembering an enemy or performing a Finisher with Mantis Blades will charge the next Leap Attack. "You can hold your Attack Button down and then release to perform a Long-Range Leap Attack A charged Leap Attack with Mantis Blades has +30 M. longer reach and deals massive damage with a wide slash that hits the target and other nearby enemies Killing an enemy with this attack also dismembers them.

@@gavinsylvester3527I loved jumping around with mantis blades… but katana style points are hard to beat. Who am I kidding I use both of them anyways

@@You0nlyLiveoncecan u share the build bro?

@@babyyyz7948 I haven’t played since 2.0 came out… ill throw it out there once I have a chance to set it up again. Although I am tempted to do a dashing shotgun build this time around lol.

Good question, I've yet to test if melee perks effect throwable weapons. I'm going to assume that they don't, but I could be wrong.

You put it in the slot where grenades usually go. And hit RB to activate it.

I would say yes. I tested it on phantom liberty's increased criminal activities on very hard, and was able to defeat them.

You should be able to head to any ripper doc location on the map to obtain the cyberware I used in the video.

You can consume food to get character buffs and if you sleep in V's apartment you will have an xp boost for 60 mins irl.