Generally, the Edgerunner Perk means that you can push your physique previous its cheap limits by putting in extra Cyberware than you in all probability ought to. Along with having the ability to take pleasure in extra (and extra highly effective) Cyberware, this Perk may also often grant you an absurd injury bonus that means that you can immediately kill most issues in your approach. The draw back is that you simply sacrifice extra most well being the additional you push your character previous their pre-determined Cyberware restrict.
That being the case, it’s possible you’ll be questioning why you’d need to deal with melee and close-range assaults for a construct that has to sacrifice max well being. Well, there are two major causes.
The first is Gorilla Arms: the guts of this construct. With the suitable mixture of Perks, you may flip Gorilla Arms into arguably probably the most highly effective melee injury possibility within the recreation. Most of your Gorilla Arms strikes will flip enemies into piles of goo, which is clearly a perfect consequence for any blunt melee technique. However, Gorilla Arms additionally boast unbelievable Shockwave AoE stun talents (particularly when you unlock Relics), and will let you truly throw enemies at different enemies for devastating injury bonuses. Of course, selecting up Gorilla Arms and constructing round it implies that you’re inherently “spending” fairly a number of Cyberware factors. At the very least, Edgerunner means that you can make up for these spent factors.
That’s the opposite large good thing about selecting up Edgerunner with a melee-focused construct. The largest draw back to Edgerunner is dropping your Max Health, and probably the greatest methods to achieve further well being advantages is to spend money on the Body tree. Well, the Body tree additionally occurs to comprise some unbelievable melee talents. The synergy between Edgerunner, Body, and powerful close-range/melee assaults is simply too good to cross up. Investing closely in Body means which you can decide up all that additional Cyberware while not having to make sure that all of that additional Cyberware is simply there to compensate for taking Edgerunner within the first place.
Admittedly, going that route does make the remainder of this construct barely awkward. For occasion, you’ll discover that I invested fairly a number of factors into the Cool tree with out truly taking any Perks in it. Well, that’s as a result of I’m opting to go together with Shotgun-based Perks as an alternative of selecting up Pistol Perks. That’s largely as a result of it’s simpler to make use of Shotguns within the shut ranges that we’ll often be working in. If, nevertheless, you’d fairly have further ranged choices, then I do suppose that selecting up Pistol Perks is your finest wager (which is why these additional factors are going into Cool within the first place).
I suppose you might additionally take away some Perk factors from the left facet of the Technical Ability tree, however I wouldn’t advise sacrificing that a part of the construct. Not solely do you get some improbable Health merchandise buffs from that part, however the quantity of Cyberware you’ll be taking mainly turns Ticking Time Bomb right into a nuclear weapon.
