Netrunner build tips

[Hundinger]

My last V was basically Doom girl, annihilating foes with a shotgun and her bare fists and healing of it. Now I'd like to try a netrunner build, but I'm unsure what kind. All I know is that I never used monowire and really would like to try. Would that funnel me in a specific direction, like close combat? Or would it work well with a stealth or shooting from a distance build as well?

[palathas]

It seems a good build is to stay with Intelligence. Quickhacks, smart guns and monowire. Bolster this with a high Tech stat and cyber implant boosts and a healthy dose of Body and the middle path of perks. It works well for me so far. This build is what I'm using, you could probably customise it to match your play style.

https://www.cyberpunk.net/build-planner?a=hkkk4&b=101010000000000000000311&r=01010120012000100000310100000000001&i=11011111211111211101211310113111301111&t=000000000211000000000310010000001&c=01010101&e=003000131

[senrign]

Originally posted by palathas:

It seems good build is to stay with Intelligence. Quickhacks, smart guns and monowire. Bolster this with a high Tech stat and cyber implant boosts and a healthy dose of Body and the middle path of perks. It works well for me so far. This build is what I'm using, you could probably customise it to match your play style.

https://www.cyberpunk.net/build-planner?a=hkkk4&b=101010000000000000000311&r=01010120012000100000310100000000001&i=11011111211111211101211310113111301111&t=000000000211000000000310010000001&c=01010101&e=003000131

no relic ?

[Crimsomrider]

Monowire is just a tool for Netrunners IF you wish to participate in close-quarter combat as well while Netrunning, so the two are not mutually exclusive.

You can dynamically go close-quarter combat or ranged stealth Netrunning or both in any situation, depends on how you wish to play.

For example I have a Monowire installed, but basically never use it since it's lethal;
https://youtu.be/VJCQIoXpd7A

But if I wanted to use it, all it takes is just taking it out and start whipping enemies ^^

[valium]

If you are going with monowire, I would recommend getting adrenaline rush, that is ridiculously good. If you are going for smart weapons, reflex and the mobility to keep yourself safe that way. Maybe some cool for crit damage and sneak.

[Hundinger]

Monowire can also be used to upload a hack, right? What's the advantage? Is it just one more quickhack that you can equip, or is there more to it?

[Monocaine]

Originally posted by Hundinger:

Monowire can also be used to upload a hack, right? What's the advantage? Is it just one more quickhack that you can equip, or is there more to it?

You can only equip control quickhacks on monowire, so stuff like cripple movement and disabling cyberware, or the reboot optics. And yeah, it's only one quickhack on the monowire.

[Crimsomrider]

With the Phantom Liberty perks yes.

The advantage is you can pretty much spam upload crowd control quickhacks while whipping away. Personally I'd put Cyberware Malfunction on it and permanently cripple enemies just for fun.

[palathas]

Originally posted by sensory overload:

no relic ?

It should be. They appear when I go to the link. Jailbreak, Data Tunneling, Vulnerability Analytics and Machine Learning are selected.

[Chief Spreading Bull]

Originally posted by Hundinger:

My last V was basically Doom girl, annihilating foes with a shotgun and her bare fists and healing of it. Now I'd like to try a netrunner build, but I'm unsure what kind. All I know is that I never used monowire and really would like to try. Would that funnel me in a specific direction, like close combat? Or would it work well with a stealth or shooting from a distance build as well?

Well the Attributes themselves do not affect weapon damage beyond unlocking Perks, so you can dip into other forms of combat alongside netrunning and I dare say the former can enable a lot of crazy damage numbers due to the debuffs they bring to the table. Point of fact my netrunner is Body, INT and TECH 20, Cool 4 and Reflex 3 I mix it up with a Yinglong, Breaktrhough, Baton and Monowire just fine.

Now in my experience in Patch 2.0, the Monowire is the Netrunner's boss boxing weapon. If you note, virtually all the RAM restoration perks are contingent on your neutralizing an enemy. Essentially it blood magic.

But what happens when you go up against a cyber psycho and have no mobs to fuel your RAM recovering. You fire off Overlock and try to overwhelm them with blood bump fueled RAM.

But what if that isn't enough; Enter the Monowire. With the correct perk, you regain 1 RAM per hit, not kill. So rather than having to retreat from say Adam Smasher, you can stand and trade with him to recoup RAM or wait for Overlock to cool down, then start your quick hack rotation again. Though in my experience, if you drop the correct debuffs on him, like Cripple Movement and Cyberware Malfunction, he's unlikely to survive the first rotation.

Monowire is not a dead end but rather a useful part of the Netrunner's kit; Its the fallback option when you've burnt through all your RAM.