MaxTac Mantis Blades
| MaxTac Mantis Blades | |
|---|---|
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| Class | Arms |
| Tier | Iconic |
The MaxTac Mantis Blades are a Phantom Liberty variant of the Mantis Blades, taken from the NCPD unit that hunts cyberpsychos. They slash and leap like the standard blades, and they deal Physical damage with a strong chance to cause Bleeding. Their special edge is healing. Killing an enemy who is bleeding restores a share of V's Health. That makes them a natural fit for a Reflexes blade build that wants to stay in the fight longer. The MaxTac Mantis Blades are a late game reward that Mr. Hands leaves in V's apartment at the end of Reed's route in Phantom Liberty, and Melissa Rory can also drop a pair after the side job Bullets.
Effect
The MaxTac Mantis Blades work like other Mantis Blades. Normal attacks are fast slashes. Holding and then releasing the Melee Attack button performs a Leap Attack at a target within range.
Every hit deals Physical damage and has a chance to cause Bleeding. The blades start at Tier 4. When V kills an enemy who is affected by Bleeding, the blades restore a portion of V's Health.
The MaxTac Mantis Blades are attuned to Reflexes. Each point of Reflexes adds 0.5% damage with the blades.
How to Get MaxTac Mantis Blades Guide
- In Phantom Liberty, choose to help Reed capture Songbird during Firestarter.
- In Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos, hire Mr. Hands' netrunner Yoko Tsuru and agree to her proposal.
- Send Mr. Hands the coordinates of the convoy ambush.
- Finish Leave in Silence, then collect the blades from V's apartment.
- Or finish the side job Bullets at Jinguji in Downtown, then neutralize Melissa Rory, who can drop a pair.
MaxTac Mantis Blades Map Location and Quest Guide
- In the Phantom Liberty main job Firestarter, choose to help Reed capture Songbird.
- In Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos, call a netrunner to get intel on the MaxTac convoy that holds Songbird.
- Pick Mr. Hands and pay him €$ 15,000 for his netrunner, Yoko Tsuru.
- Meet Yoko in Kabuki and talk to her.
- Listen to Yoko's proposal and agree to it.
- When the new objective appears, send Mr. Hands the coordinates of the ambush.
- Ambush the convoy with Reed and defeat the NCPD escort and the MaxTac squad.
- Follow Reed's route through Somewhat Damaged and finish Leave in Silence.
- Wait for Mr. Hands to call about a gift left in V's apartment.
- Pick up the MaxTac Mantis Blades in the apartment and install them at a ripperdoc.
The map shows V's apartment in Megabuilding H10, Little China, where Mr. Hands leaves the blades as a gift.
MaxTac Mantis Blades map location:
Map credit by Map Genie.
Upgrades
The MaxTac Mantis Blades start at Tier 4 and can be raised through Tier 5 at a ripperdoc with the matching item components. Each tier raises the damage and the Bleeding chance. Each implant costs Cyberware Capacity. V gains capacity with each level and from Cyberware Capacity Shards. The Edgerunner perk lets V go over the limit by up to 50 points, at the cost of some max Health.
The table shows what each tier step of MaxTac Mantis Blades costs at a ripperdoc.
| Upgrade | Components | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 4 to Tier 4+ | 75 Tier 4 components | - |
| Tier 4+ to Tier 5 | 37 Tier 5 components | - |
| Tier 5 to Tier 5+ | 75 Tier 5 components | - |
| Tier 5+ to Tier 5++ | 200 Tier 5 components | Phantom Liberty |
Character Builds
The MaxTac Mantis Blades belong in a Reflexes build with the blade perks, since Mantis Blades count as Blades. Slaughterhouse makes every attack apply Bleeding, which sets up the healing effect. Opportunist makes bleeding enemies easier to finish. Finisher: Bladerunner lowers the Stamina cost of Blade attacks, raises attack speed and unlocks a Blade Finisher that restores Health. Lead And Steel lowers the cost again and lets V block incoming projectiles. Flash And Thunderclap makes every Strong Attack leap to enemies in range.
The Relic perk Jailbreak lets the blades charge their next Leap Attack by dismembering an enemy or performing a Finisher. A charged leap reaches 30 meters further and hits nearby enemies with a wide slash. Spatial Mapping makes every Leap Attack cripple enemies and raise dismemberment chance for ten seconds.
Microrotors raises melee attack speed, and Dense Marrow raises melee damage at a higher Stamina cost.
Select a Build
Mantis Blades are the main weapon, so both weapon slots stay free for guns. Dashes and the Mantis Blades leap reach enemies fast, and Finishers restore Health. A Sandevistan slows time when a fight gets crowded.
Attributes: Body 20, Reflexes 20, Technical Ability 20, Intelligence 3, Cool 18.
The perks, cyberware and weapon mods for this build are listed below.
| Name | Image | Level | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Army Of One | 
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Body 4 | Faster Health regeneration for each nearby enemy |
| Comeback Kid | 
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Body 4 | Faster Health regeneration at low Health |
| Dorph-Head | 
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Body 4 | Brief full Mitigation after using a Health item |
| Painkiller | 
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Body 4 | Slow Health regeneration in combat |
| Adrenaline Rush | 
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Body 15 | More Health and the Adrenaline Rush mode |
| Calm Mind | 
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Body 15 | Adrenaline lasts longer before it decays |
| Juggernaut | 
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Body 15 | More speed and damage during Adrenaline Rush |
| Unstoppable Force | 
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Body 15 | Immunity to knockdown and blinding during Adrenaline Rush |
| Blind Spot | 
|
Cool 4 | Slower enemy detection while crouched |
| Feline Footwork | 
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Cool 4 | Faster and harder to hit while crouched |
| Killer Instinct | 
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Cool 4 | More damage with knives, axes and silenced guns outside combat |
| Quick Getaway | 
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Cool 4 | Faster movement after an unseen kill |
| Parkour! | 
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Reflexes 4 | Faster climbing and vaulting |
| Slippery | 
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Reflexes 4 | Harder to hit while moving fast |
| Bullet Deflect | 
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Reflexes 9 | Blocked bullets fly back where the reticle points |
| Can't Touch This | 
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Reflexes 9 | Full Mitigation Chance while Dashing |
| Dash | 
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Reflexes 9 | Dash replaces the dodge |
| Lead And Steel | 
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Reflexes 9 | Blades block incoming bullets |
| Mad Dash | 
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Reflexes 9 | Double Dash range toward enemies |
| Aerial Acrobat | 
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Reflexes 15 | Better control in midair |
| Air Dash | 
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Reflexes 15 | Dash in midair |
| Finisher: Bladerunner | 
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Reflexes 15 | Faster blade attacks and a finisher that restores Health |
| Flash Of Steel | 
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Reflexes 15 | Speed and attack speed after a finisher |
| Going The Distance | 
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Reflexes 15 | Double finisher range |
| Opportunist | 
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Reflexes 15 | Easier finishers on stunned, blinded or bleeding enemies |
| Slaughterhouse | Reflexes 20 | Every attack causes Bleeding | |
| Tailwind | 
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Reflexes 20 | Stamina from air dashes and double jumps |
| Emergency Cloaking | 
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Relic | Optical Camo can break enemy tracking in combat |
| Jailbreak | 
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Relic | New abilities for every Arms cyberware |
| Machine Learning | 
|
Relic | Crit damage builds on enemy Vulnerabilities |
| Sensory Protocol | 
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Relic | Time slows when spotted while crouched |
| Spatial Mapping | 
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Relic | Mantis Blades leap attacks cripple enemies |
| Vulnerability Analytics | 
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Relic | Hits on enemy Vulnerabilities always crit |
| All Things Cyber | 
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Technical Ability 9 | Stronger cyberware stats |
| Chrome Constitution | 
|
Technical Ability 9 | Less damage taken with full Skeleton and Integumentary slots |
| Renaissance Punk | 
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Technical Ability 9 | More cyberware capacity for each attribute at 9 or higher |
| Extended Warranty | 
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Technical Ability 15 | Cyberware effects last longer |
| License To Chrome | 
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Technical Ability 15 | Stronger cyberware, more armor and a Skeleton slot |
| Edgerunner | Technical Ability 20 | Cyberware past the capacity limit for a small Health cost |
| Name | Image | Slot | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mantis Blades | 
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Arms | Arm blades that slash and leap at enemies |
| Biomonitor | 
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Circulatory System | Uses a Health item when Health runs low |
| Blood Pump | 
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Circulatory System | A Health item that heals over time |
| Optical Camo | 
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Integumentary System | Near invisibility for a few seconds |
| Reinforced Tendons | 
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Legs | Double jump |
| NeoFiber | 
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Nervous System | More mitigation chance and strength |
| Stabber | 
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Nervous System | Crit chance with blades and throwables |
| Militech Apogee Sandevistan | Operating System | Slows time by 85% with crit bonuses | |
| Dense Marrow | 
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Skeleton | More melee damage for a higher Stamina cost |
Lore
MaxTac is the NCPD division that deals with cyberpsychos. Lieutenant Melissa Rory, the MaxTac officer V meets in the side job Bullets, fights with Mantis Blades herself. In Phantom Liberty, MaxTac captures Songbird and moves her in an armored convoy. Mr. Hands wants the location of the ambush on that convoy. The blades are his gift once V passes it on.
Notes
- Siding with Songbird during Firestarter closes the Mr. Hands route to the blades.
Cyberware Categories
All Arms Cyberware
Every Arms implant is listed below. The Iconic ones come first, then the standard ones.
Iconic Arms Cyberware
| Name | Image | Attribute | Capacity | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MaxTac Mantis Blades | 
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Standard Arms Cyberware
| Name | Image | Attribute | Capacity | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electrifying Gorilla Arms | 
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Technical Ability | 8 | |
| Electrifying Mantis Blades | 
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Intelligence | 8 | Northside |
| Electrifying Monowire | 
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Reflexes | 8 | |
| Electrifying Projectile Launch System | 
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Cool | 8 | |
| Gorilla Arms | 
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Body | 8 | |
| Mantis Blades | 
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Reflexes | 8 | |
| Monowire | 
|
Intelligence | 8 | |
| Projectile Launch System | 
|
Technical Ability | 8 | |
| Thermal Gorilla Arms | 
|
Reflexes | 8 | |
| Thermal Mantis Blades | 
|
Body | 8 | |
| Thermal Monowire | 
|
Cool | 8 | |
| Thermal Projectile Launch System | 
|
Intelligence | 8 | |
| Toxic Gorilla Arms | 
|
Cool | 8 | |
| Toxic Mantis Blades | 
|
Cool | 8 | |
| Toxic Monowire | 
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Technical Ability | 8 | |
| Toxic Projectile Launch System | 
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Body | 8 |