Volkodav
| Volkodav | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Melee Weapon |
| Weapon | Machete |
| Tier | Iconic |
| Armor Pen | 25% |
| Weight | 6.5 |
| Location | Dogtown |
Volkodav is an Iconic machete from Techtronika's banned weapon series, found in Dogtown during Phantom Liberty. Its hits can apply a unique burn. Every hit on a target suffering that burn is a guaranteed crit. The more enemies burn at the same time, the more crit damage V deals. Volkodav is a melee weapon that gets stronger as more of a crowd catches fire. V sets a few enemies on fire, then keeps swinging. It sits in a storage room during Mr. Hands' gig Waiting for Dodger, an easy pickup on the way through. Volkodav is a Phantom Liberty find in the old NCPD precinct in Dogtown, during the gig Waiting for Dodger for Mr. Hands.
Combat
Volkodav is a machete, one of the Blade weapons. Blades are fast and sharp, made for quick series of hits. Each hit has a chance to apply Volkodav's unique burn. Once a target is burning, every hit on them is a guaranteed crit. A burning enemy therefore dies quickly.
Volkodav is strongest against a group. The more enemies are burning at once, the more crit damage V deals to each of them. V should spread the burn across a crowd with quick strikes, then finish the enemies one by one. The Iconic text warns that the effect lowers accuracy. Accuracy matters less on a blade than on a gun.
How to Get Volkodav Guide
- Take the gig Waiting for Dodger from Mr. Hands in Dogtown, with Phantom Liberty.
- Meet Stella, then enter Dodger's base in the old NCPD precinct.
- Find Bill and Charles in the basement.
- On the way to the garage, search the storage room and open the cargo container to take Volkodav.
- If it was missed, buy it from Herold Lowe at the black market in the EBM Petrochem Stadium, Dogtown.
Volkodav Map Location and Quest Guide
- Take the gig Waiting for Dodger from Mr. Hands.
- Meet Stella, get in her car and take her access card.
- Enter Dodger's base in the old NCPD precinct.
- Take the elevator to the basement and find Bill and Charles.
- On the way to the garage, search the storage room.
- Take Volkodav from the airdrop cargo container.
Volkodav map location:
Map credit by Map Genie.
Upgrades
Volkodav is an Iconic weapon, so it can be raised through the tiers in the Upgrades tab of the crafting menu. Each step costs crafting components, and the machete must be in V's inventory to appear in the list.
The table shows what each tier step of Volkodav costs.
| Upgrade | Components | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 to Tier 1+ | 75 Tier 1 components | - |
| Tier 1+ to Tier 2 | 40 components | - |
| Tier 2 to Tier 2+ | 75 Tier 2 components | - |
| Tier 2+ to Tier 3 | 40 components | - |
| Tier 3 to Tier 3+ | 75 Tier 3 components | - |
| Tier 3+ to Tier 4 | 40 components | - |
| Tier 4 to Tier 4+ | 75 Tier 4 components | - |
| Tier 4+ to Tier 5 | 40 components | - |
| Tier 5 to Tier 5+ | 75 Tier 5 components | - |
| Tier 5+ to Tier 5++ | 200 Tier 5 components | Phantom Liberty |
Character Builds
Blades use the Reflexes tree. Lead And Steel lowers blade Stamina costs and lets V block bullets. Bullet Deflect sends blocked bullets back where V aims. Flash And Thunderclap turns strong attacks into leaps, which helps V reach burning enemies. Seeing Double adds damage and Stun chance to counterattacks. Finisher: Bladerunner raises blade attack speed and adds a finisher that heals V. Flash Of Steel boosts movement and attack speed after each finisher. Slaughterhouse makes every attack apply Bleeding as well as the burn.
For cyberware, the burn already guarantees crits, so crit damage is the stat to raise. The BioDyne Berserk adds a large crit damage bonus and removes Stamina costs while it is active. Sandevistan models add crit chance and crit damage while time is slowed. Microrotors raise melee attack speed, which spreads the burn faster.
Select a Build
Dashes carry the character behind enemy lines to cut groups apart with blades. Finishers restore Stamina, so the Sandevistan is turned off before each one. High Mitigation from Countershell, NeoFiber and Spring Joints cuts most incoming damage.
Attributes: Body 18, Reflexes 20, Technical Ability 20, Intelligence 3, Cool 20.
The perks, cyberware and weapon mods for this build are listed below.
| Name | Image | Level | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Painkiller | 
|
Body 4 | Slow Health regeneration in combat |
| Adrenaline Rush | 
|
Body 15 | More Health and the Adrenaline Rush mode |
| Juggernaut | 
|
Body 15 | More speed and damage during Adrenaline Rush |
| Calm Mind | 
|
Body 15 | Adrenaline lasts longer before it decays |
| Slippery | 
|
Reflexes 4 | Harder to hit while moving fast |
| Dash | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Unlocks the Dash and makes it cheaper |
| Mad Dash | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Double Dash range toward enemies |
| Lead And Steel | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Block bullets with Blades |
| Bullet Deflect | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Blocked bullets fly back at the aim point |
| Seeing Double | Reflexes 9 | Counterattacks hit harder and can stun | |
| Flash And Thunderclap | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Strong attacks leap to nearby enemies |
| Air Dash | 
|
Reflexes 15 | Dash in midair |
| Finisher: Bladerunner | 
|
Reflexes 15 | Faster Blade attacks and a Blade Finisher that heals |
| Flash Of Steel | 
|
Reflexes 15 | Faster movement and attacks after a Finisher |
| Opportunist | 
|
Reflexes 15 | Stunned, staggered and bleeding enemies are easier to finish |
| Going The Distance | 
|
Reflexes 15 | Double Finisher range |
| Slaughterhouse | Reflexes 20 | Every Blade hit applies Bleeding | |
| Tailwind | 
|
Reflexes 20 | Stamina back from Air Dashes and double jumps |
| Glutton For War | 
|
Technical Ability 4 | Kills recharge Health items and grenades |
| Health Freak | 
|
Technical Ability 9 | One more Health item charge and faster recharge |
| All Things Cyber | 
|
Technical Ability 9 | Stronger cyberware stats |
| License To Chrome | 
|
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biomonitor | 
|
Circulatory System | Uses a Health item when Health runs low |
| ThreatEvac | 
|
Circulatory System | Faster movement at low Health |
| Newton Module | 
|
Frontal Cortex | Kills cut cyberware cooldowns |
| Stabber | 
|
Nervous System | More crit chance with Blades and throwables |
| NeoFiber | 
|
Nervous System | More Mitigation Chance and Strength |
| Militech Apogee Sandevistan | Operating System | Slows time by 85% with crit bonuses | |
| Dense Marrow | 
|
Skeleton | More melee damage |
Lore
Volkodav belongs to a special Techtronika weapon series that was banned over humanitarian concerns. Its sister weapon from the same series is the Taigan revolver, and both have the same unique burn. The machete's own line is short and grim: it is not up to date on its rabies shots.
Waiting for Dodger is a rescue gig. Two NCPD officers, Bill and Charles, made a deal with Dodger, one of Kurt Hansen's men, and the deal went wrong. The two end up stuck in an abandoned precinct that Dodger uses as his base. Bill's fiancée, Stella, hires V to bring them out, and she would rather nobody gets killed. V slips into the station, finds the officers and has to get them out to their squad car. In a storage room on the way to the garage, Volkodav lies in a cargo container.
Notes
- Volkodav is the Iconic variant of the Razor.
- Rosco, another Iconic, drops from Dodger if V fights and kills him in the same gig.
Weapon Categories
All Melee Weapons
Every melee weapon is listed below. The Iconic weapons come first, then the standard ones.
Iconic Melee Weapons
| Name | Image | Weapon | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agaou | 
|
Axe | +125% | 25% | Dogtown |
| BFC 9000 | 
|
One-Handed Club | Rancho Coronado | ||
| Baby Boomer | 
|
Two-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Baseball Bat x-MOD2 | 
|
Two-Handed Club | Dogtown | ||
| Black Unicorn | 
|
Katana | 25% | ||
| Blue Fang | 
|
Knife | +150% | Badlands South | |
| Butcher's Cleaver | 
|
Knife | 25% | Coastview | |
| Byakko | 
|
Katana | 25% | Little China | |
| Caretaker's Spade | 
|
Hammer | 25% | Corpo Plaza | |
| Claw x-MOD2 | 
|
Axe | |||
| Cocktail Stick | 
|
Katana | 25% | Japantown | |
| Cottonmouth | 
|
One-Handed Club | 25% | Japantown | |
| Crowbar | 
|
One-Handed Club | |||
| Cut-o-Matic x-MOD2 | 
|
Chainsword | Dogtown | ||
| Errata | 
|
Katana | 25% | Arroyo | |
| Fang | 
|
Knife | +50% | ||
| Gold-Plated Baseball Bat | 
|
Two-Handed Club | 25% | North Oak | |
| Gwynbleidd | 
|
Sword | |||
| Headhunter | 
|
Knife | +150% | West Wind Estate | |
| Jinchu-Maru | 
|
Katana | 25% | Japantown | |
| Murphy's Law | 
|
One-handed Club | 50% | Dogtown | |
| Nehan | 
|
Knife | +150% | Arasaka Waterfront | |
| Sasquatch's Hammer | 
|
Hammer | 75% | Coastview | |
| Satori | 
|
Katana | 25% | Arasaka Waterfront | |
| Scalpel | 
|
Katana | 25% | Northside | |
| Sir John Phallustiff | 
|
Blunt | 25% | Kabuki | |
| Stinger | 
|
Knife | +150% | Badlands East | |
| Tinker Bell | 
|
One-Handed Club | 50% | Badlands East | |
| Tsumetogi | 
|
Katana | 25% | Japantown | |
| Volkodav | 
|
Machete | 25% | Dogtown |
Standard Melee Weapons
| Name | Image | Weapon | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseball Bat | 
|
Two-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Chef's Knife | 
|
Knife | +150% | ||
| Claw | 
|
Axe | +125% | 25% | |
| Cut-O-Matic | 
|
Chainsword | 50% | ||
| Electric Baton Alpha | 
|
One-Handed Club | Rancho Coronado | ||
| Electric Baton Beta | 
|
One-Handed Club | 50% | ||
| Electric Baton Gamma | 
|
One-Handed Club | 50% | ||
| Hammer | 
|
Hammer | 25% | ||
| Kaiken | 
|
Knife | +150% | ||
| Kanabo | 
|
Two-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Katana | 
|
Katana | 25% | ||
| Knife | 
|
Knife | +200% | ||
| Kukri | 
|
Machete | 25% | ||
| Machete | 
|
Machete | 25% | ||
| Neurotoxin Knife | 
|
Knife | +150% | ||
| Punknife | 
|
Knife | +150% | ||
| Razor | 
|
Machete | 25% | ||
| Steel Pipe | 
|
One-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Tire Iron | 
|
One-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Tomahawk | 
|
Axe | +125% | 25% |