Tech/crafting worth for a satori katana melee build?

[Buurt]

I wanna do a katana satori blade build with some handguns and that's it. Mostly putting points into reflex, cool and around 9 into body for 20% more melee weapon damage

I was always a fan of the iconic weapons and upgrading gear but I heard it was nerfed with 1.5
So is it worth to go into 18 tech just for legendary satori or should I just go 12 tech for epic and more into body or drop tech completely and go to 20 body for more survivability ?

Body seems "useless" when you do slow mo build and one shot everything with satori so that's why legendary crafting felt more usefull to me. But I don't know if that's true since I don't know how much crafting has changed.

[HealthBar]

Based on your description, I would go 20 Reflexes, 20 Cool, 18 Tech, 10 Body, and 3 Intelligence. I would usually go with 20/20/20/8/3, but Steel and Chrome is the most efficient Perk for melee builds so it's difficult to pass up.

I tend to view Body, Reflexes, and Intelligence as main damage attributes while considering Tech and Cool as support attributes. Body and Reflexes already cover 3+ weapon types for your 3 weapon slots, while Intelligence builds stop shooting guns once their quickhacks reach their power spike. Thus, Investing in more than 1 damage attribute tend to be a waste.
If you do the above, you'll have to forgo either Tech or Cool, which maximize the power of your choice of weapons via Crafting or Cold Blood.

10 Body with Steel and Chrome will net you +35% melee damage, while 18 Tech adding + 10% damage to crafted weapons and allowing you to craft Legendary Satori.

Going above 16 Tech also makes it possible to extract mods from looted/crafted items. Even though CDPR has removed Legendary mod crafting specs from Clothing Vendors, it's still possible to get +4 Critical Chance mod, +0.5 Move Speed, +25% all resistance mod by disassembling Legendary Items you crafted - they are now difficult to acquire, but useful for any builds. It also keeps your mods when editing your ranged weapons.

Finally, Sandevistan and Optical Camo can be your main tool of survivalbility, in lieu of Body Perks. I suggest Qian-T Sandevistan MK.4 and 3 Legendary Heatsinks to lower the cooldown to 3 seconds, so it can be used multiple times during combat.

[NorthernDavid]

Not quite true on the heatsinks. They are like crunch and armadillo mods. The rarity you can craft is based on your crafting skill, (not the tech ability but the actual skill), as you level it up you will get the ability to craft higher rarity versions. No new recipe needed.

[HealthBar]

Originally posted by NorthernDavid:

Not quite true on the heatsinks. They are like crunch and armadillo mods. The rarity you can craft is based on your crafting skill, (not the tech ability but the actual skill), as you level it up you will get the ability to craft higher rarity versions. No new recipe needed.

I edited my post. The Ripperdoc in Arroyo hadn't offered the Uncommon Heatsink crafting mod until I exhausted conversation with him and skipped time for 24 hours. Sorry for the misinformation, but I blame the obscure mechanics/bugs.

[NorthernDavid]

Originally posted by HealthBar:

Originally posted by NorthernDavid:

Not quite true on the heatsinks. They are like crunch and armadillo mods. The rarity you can craft is based on your crafting skill, (not the tech ability but the actual skill), as you level it up you will get the ability to craft higher rarity versions. No new recipe needed.

I edited my post. The Ripperdoc in Arroyo hadn't offered the Uncommon Heatsink crafting mod until I exhausted conversation with him and skipped time for 24 hours. Sorry for the misinformation, but I blame the obscure mechanics/bugs.

No problem, and yes it's not well documented, yet, but I was mostly trying to get the knowledge out there about them.