Rip And Tear

Rip And Tear
Class	Body Perk
Attribute	Body
Tier	Legend (20)
Levels	1
Requires	Spontaneous Obliteration
Affects	Only affects Shotguns

Rip And Tear makes a shotgun and a shove into one attack. A shotgun blast doubles the damage of the quick melee attack that follows, and a quick melee attack doubles the damage of the next shell. It sits at the top of the Body tree and applies to shotguns alone. The rhythm it rewards is shoot, strike, shoot.

Effect

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Each half of the effect sets up the other, so the bonus never runs out as long as V keeps alternating. There is no cooldown and no stacking to manage, only the order of the two attacks.

The practical result is that the gap between shotgun shots stops being dead time. A pump action's slowest moment is now the window for a doubled melee hit, and that hit pays for the shell after it.

How to Unlock Rip And Tear

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It sits behind the Legend gate of the Body tree, so nearly all of V's points have to go into Body. Spontaneous Obliteration must be fully bought first.

Perk Tree

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Rip And Tear 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

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It belongs to a shotgun Body build and nothing else. A pump action with a slow cycle gains most, because its dead time is exactly where the doubled melee hit goes.

Buy it at the Legend gate once Spontaneous Obliteration is fully bought, and pair it with Skullcracker from the same branch. Both read the quick melee attack, and a build with the stamina bar near empty is hitting for several times the usual figure with the gun in its hands.

Notes

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Skullcracker raises quick melee damage as stamina falls, and the two bonuses land on the same attack.

Shotguns are the only weapon class this applies to, and the Body attribute is what improves them.

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