LOW BLOW!?!?!?

[UnBeastable]

Can anyone please explain how the hell low blow works and if its worrth the skill points for a dodge build. My detection risk is 14 is this worth to use low blow??

[Sir Duckyweather]

Low Blow typically synergizes well with dodge builds to offset the fact you have to gimp your weapons to get a low detection risk. I guess it's up to you whether or not it's worth it at 14 DR but it's worth looking at the chart here to see its effects.
http://payday.wikia.com/wiki/Low_Blow

[X-SR71]

Well color me stupid, but I find it real fun to play around with possible weapon combinations and mods to get that DR under 5 for Low Blow basic. In fact, it's a game on its own finding the correct balance for the full Low Blow bonus at a measly 6 points.

It's one of the best skills around. 'Oh pftt 30% chance' your might say, but I tell you sir it makes a whole difference if you know what you're doing. Just think that feeble 40dmg weapon can suddenly do like 450dmg per headshot to a tan on DW. Or that 100dmg fire dot tick suddenly becomes 300dmg. It helps alot.

You don't need dodge for Low Blow. In fact, Anarchist with LWBV can go up to 270armor at the SAME concealment you can with suit with the right skills. In fact, it's fun when you join a lobby and you're modded for concealment and your LWBV has less DR than someone playing with a suit and dodge.

[∞]

low blow op, low blow op, low blow op. it makes my goliath good. 30% chance to crit is godlike, a crit is adding headshot damage ontop of the damage you inflicted. So a headshot + crit is the damage of two headshots in one

[Duck]

Low blow is OP and is almost a must for dodge player on higher difficulty since you can score double headshot multiplier if you got critical headshot; eg. let's say you're playing on OD, where dozer headshot multiplier is 7.5. If manage to score a critical on dozer's face (w/o the visor) with a, let's say, 80 damage weapon, the damage output would be 7.5 x 7.5 x 80 = 4500.

For basic low blow, try to get det risk less than 7 (which is at 27% crit chance). If you get aced low blow, you get max critical chance when your det risk is less than 25.

Additionally, Unseen strike (which adds crit chance) looks good on the paper, but is pretty rubbish in practice since the effect cancels out once you receive damage.

[X-SR71]

Originally posted by Pak RT:

Low blow is OP and is almost a must for dodge player on higher difficulty since you can score double headshot multiplier if you got critical headshot; eg. let's say you're playing on OD, where dozer headshot multiplier is 7.5. If manage to score a critical on dozer's face (w/o the visor) with a, let's say, 80 damage weapon, the damage output would be 7.5 x 7.5 x 80 = 4500.

The critical multiplier is actually capped at 5x for dozers! Also, in practical terms, the 1.25x bonus of helmet popping changes that 7.5x into something like 9x for the actual headshot dmg.