Dread

Dread

Class	Body Perk
Attribute	Body
Tier	Phenom (15)
Levels	1
Requires	Spontaneous Obliteration
Affects	Only affects Shotguns, LMGs and HMGs

Dread strips armour from everything V shoots, and then spreads that weakness through a crowd. Dismembering an enemy who is already affected passes the reduction to the others standing nearby. It is a heavy weapon pick in the Body tree. Rooms full of armoured enemies are where it earns its place.

Effect

The armour reduction lands on anything hit by a ranged attack, which with these weapons means it lands constantly. Less armour means more damage from every later shot, so the effect compounds through a fight.

The spread is what makes it a crowd perk. One dismembered body hands the debuff to the group, so a squad that was shrugging off fire a moment ago is suddenly soft.

How to Unlock Dread

It sits behind the Phenom gate of the Body tree and is bought from Spontaneous Obliteration.

Perk Tree

Dread is bought from Spontaneous Obliteration in the Body tree.

Name	Image	Tier	Effect
Spontaneous Obliteration		Phenom (15)	+12.5% Crit Chance at low Stamina.

Character Builds

It belongs to a heavy weapon Body build facing armoured enemies, which is most of the later game. A light machine gun suits it best, since the perk applies on every hit and an automatic weapon lands a great many of them.

Buy it after Spontaneous Obliteration at the Phenom gate. Breakthrough lower in the tree strips armour with a melee swing, so a build carrying both reduces armour whichever hand it uses, and Shock Value in the Technical Ability tree ignores it entirely if the build spreads that way.

Notes

Breakthrough lower in the tree takes armour off with a strong melee attack, and the two work on the same defence from opposite ends.

Shotguns, light machine guns and heavy machine guns are the weapons it applies to.

All Body Perks

Every body perk in the game is listed below.

Name	Tier	Requires	Effect
Army Of One	Rookie (4)	Painkiller	+10% Health Regen Rate for each nearby enemy.
Comeback Kid	Rookie (4)	Painkiller	+1% Health Regen Rate for each percent of missing Health.
Dorph-Head	Rookie (4)	Painkiller	When using Blood Pump cyberware or a Health Item: +100% Mitigation Chance for 2 sec. Mitigation - grants a chance to reduce incoming damage by current Mitigation Strength (default 50%).
Fury Road	Rookie (4)	-	In vehicle collisions: +50% damage to enemy vehicles and their occupants. -50% damage to your vehicles. You take no damage as a vehicle occupant in collisions.
Painkiller	Rookie (4)	-	Unlocks slow Health Regen in combat.
Speed Junkie	Rookie (4)	Painkiller	+60% Health Regen Rate while sprinting.
Breakthrough	Pro (9)	-	-40% enemy Armor for 7 sec. after hitting them with a strong attack.
Bullet Ballet	Pro (9)	Die! Die! Die!	-25% bullet spread when moving.
Clapback	Pro (9)	-	+100% Knockdown chance with defensive attacks. Cooldown: 10 sec. +100% Stun chance with counterattacks.
Die! Die! Die!	Pro (9)	-	+12.5% Crit Chance at low Stamina.
Don't Stop Me Now	Pro (9)	Die! Die! Die!	When below 33% Stamina: +15% Mitigation Chance,. +5% Mitigation Strength.
Fly Swatter	Pro (9)	-	-40% incoming ranged damage when blocking with Blunt Weapons.
Kinetic Absorption	Pro (9)	-	Blocking an attack gives +10% Stamina and +30% damage with Blunt Weapons for 5 sec.
Like A Feather	Pro (9)	Die! Die! Die!	No movement speed penalty with Shotguns, Light Machine Gunes and Heavy Machine Guns.
Wrecking Ball	Pro (9)	-	-15% Stamina cost for attacks with Blunt Weapons.
Adrenaline Rush	Phenom (15)	Painkiller	+35 max Health
Aftershock	Phenom (15)	Quake	+30 Stamina for each enemy hit with Quake.
Bloodlust	Phenom (15)	-	When Adrenaline Rush is active: +50 Adrenaline on dismemberment of a nearby enemy.
Calm Mind	Phenom (15)	Adrenaline Rush	When Adrenaline Rush is active: +3 sec. delay before Adrenaline begins to decay.
Close-Quarters Carnage	Phenom (15)	Spontaneous Obliteration	Increases chance to Obliterate enemies with ranged attacks at close range (max. 10%).
Dread	Phenom (15)	Spontaneous Obliteration	-15% enemy Armor when using ranged attacks. Dismembering spreads the effect to nearby enemies.
Epicenter	Phenom (15)	Quake	When Quake is performed from the midair (a Superhero Landing), its area of effect and damage scale with your fall speed and fall distance.
Juggernaut	Phenom (15)	Adrenaline Rush	When Adrenaline Rush is active: +20% movement speed,. +10% damage.
Quake	Phenom (15)	Wrecking Ball	-15% Stamina cost for attacks with Blunt Weapons.
Ripple Effect	Phenom (15)	Aftershock, Calm Mind	+15% Health for each enemy hit by Quake.
Rush Of Blood	Phenom (15)	Spontaneous Obliteration	+20% reload speed for 8 sec. after dismembering an enemy.
Skullcracker	Phenom (15)	Spontaneous Obliteration	Increases damage of Quick Melee Attacks as Stamina decreases (max. +200% at 0 Stamina)
Spontaneous Obliteration	Phenom (15)	-	+12.5% Crit Chance at low Stamina.
Unstoppable Force	Phenom (15)	Adrenaline Rush	When Adrenaline Rush is active: Gain immunity to movement penalties and non-damaging Status Effects such as Knockdown, Blinding, etc.
Finisher: Savage Sling	Legend (20)	Quake	Unlocks a Blunt Weapon Finisher. Can be used when an enemy's Health is low. Enemies affected by Stun are more susceptible. Restores 20% Health. Holding down the button allows the enemy to be thrown instead, killing them and damaging other enemies where they land.
Onslaught	Legend (20)	Spontaneous Obliteration	+20% ammo refill after neutralizing an enemy with a Light Machine Gun.
Pain To Gain	Legend (20)	Adrenaline Rush	When Adrenaline Rush is active: +20% Health Item recharge after neutralizing an enemy.
Rip And Tear	Legend (20)	Spontaneous Obliteration	+100% damage for the next Quick Melee Attack after shooting an enemy with a Shotgun. +100% damage for the next Shotgun shot after hitting an enemy with a Quick Melee Attack.