Skullcracker

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

Skullcracker makes V's gun into a club once the stamina has gone. Quick melee attacks hit harder as the stamina bar falls, and at the bottom of it the bonus is enormous. It is a heavy weapon pick in the Body tree. The branch spends the whole fight at low stamina, so the condition is always met.

Effect

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A quick melee attack is the shove or the swipe with whatever V is already holding. It is normally a way to make room rather than a way to kill.

With the bonus running at the bottom of the stamina bar it becomes a real attack. A heavy weapon build that has just emptied its stamina on a burst can finish the enemy in front of it with the gun itself rather than reloading.

How to Unlock Skullcracker

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

Perk Tree

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Skullcracker 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 suits a heavy weapon Body build that empties its stamina and then finishes the enemy in front of it with the gun itself. A heavy machine gun suits it, since the bar runs down fastest there.

Buy it at the Phenom gate from Spontaneous Obliteration, and take Rip And Tear at the Legend gate if the build carries a shotgun. The two read the same quick melee attack and the bonuses land together, which is enough to kill an ordinary enemy outright.

Notes

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Rip And Tear further up the tree pairs a quick melee attack with a shotgun shot and raises the damage of both, so the perks run together.

The low stamina condition is the same one Die! Die! Die! and Don't Stop Me Now read.

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