Heat Shield

Heat Shield
Class	Technical Ability Perk
Attribute	Technical Ability
Tier	Phenom (15)
Levels	1
Requires	Pyromania

Heat Shield turns explosion stacks into protection. Every stack of Pyromania raises the chance that incoming damage is cut, so a build in the middle of a firefight full of explosions becomes hard to hurt. It sits in the explosives branch of the Technical Ability tree. Offence and defence come from the same source.

Effect

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Mitigation chance decides how often damage is reduced. At a full set of stacks this perk pushes that chance a long way up.

The stacks come from landing explosions on enemies, which means the protection arrives when V is already attacking. It falls away during a lull, so the perk rewards keeping the pressure on rather than pausing.

How to Unlock Heat Shield

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It sits behind the Phenom gate of the Technical Ability tree and is bought from Pyromania.

Perk Tree

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Heat Shield is bought from Pyromania in the Technical Ability tree.

Name	Image	Tier	Effect
Pyromania		Phenom (15)	+8% recharge speed for Health Items and grenades.

Character Builds

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The build is a grenade Technical Ability build that keeps throwing rather than pausing, since the stacks fall away during a lull.

Buy it at the Phenom gate from Pyromania, with Friendlier Fire already in place. Mitigation strength from cyberware or from the Body tree decides how much each mitigated hit is reduced by, so a build with armour implants gets considerably more out of the chance this perk raises.

Notes

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Friendlier Fire makes it safe to earn the stacks at close range, and Burn This City turns a full set into a grenade.

Mitigation strength, which decides the size of the reduction, comes from cyberware and from the Body and Reflexes trees.

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