Good Melee Build?

[Eyeless]

Hey all, just wondering if this could be possible. I met a random in a lobby when getting a newby friend of mine acquainted with a run at Mall Crasher. This guy joins with the new Yakuza heister and is telling me about a melee build that gives ya health for X amount of damage ya do and damage stacks with every hit on enemies and-

TL;DR He makes a melee build sound fun and viable for at least something below Overkill.

As a guy who hasn't changed his reliable Mastermind-Hybrid of remaining trees build in months and still swears by his Rogue deck and Mosin-Nagant..

What would I need to make a decent melee build? Point / Deck-wise?

[Slowpork]

It's called Infiltrator perk deck, Dragan DLC.
For melee build you need one skill - pumping iron from enforcer. That's all. On DW you can also slap berserker but on lower difficulties it's not needed.

[Eyeless]

Seriously? I need to buy yet another character pack just so I can get the most out of another character pack?

[Slowpork]

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Seriously? I need to buy yet another character pack just so I can get the most out of another character pack?

Some of the perk decks come with character packs. Been here since Wick release.

[Eyeless]

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Seriously? I need to buy yet another character pack just so I can get the most out of another character pack?

Some of the perk decks come with character packs. Been here since Wick release.

Yeah, but is there any other perk deck I could use that'd make melee a little more viable?

[Slowpork]

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Some of the perk decks come with character packs. Been here since Wick release.

Yeah, but is there any other perk deck I could use that'd make melee a little more viable?

Not really. Sociopath and Infiltrator are from DLCs.

[Eyeless]

I think I have Sociopath, Jacket DLC right?

[Slowpork]

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I think I have Sociopath, Jacket DLC right?

Yea, it comes with HM 2 deluxe edition.

[Eyeless]

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I think I have Sociopath, Jacket DLC right?

Yea, it comes with HM 2 deluxe edition.

I'll have to give that deck a go then!

[lexilogo]

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Yea, it comes with HM 2 deluxe edition.

I'll have to give that deck a go then!

Yeah, Sociopath will regen 10% of your health per melee kill. Honestly it's debatably better than Infiltrator for melee builds, despite the fact Infiltrator is meant to be more melee-orientated.

As for other tips, the only real melee-related skills are Beserker (Won't work well at all with Sociopath), Pumping Iron which works nicely with the Katana, and Martial Arts which is only worthwhile with the Katana if you tend to take a LOT of melee damage from other enemies.

[PlecixZ]

The katana is hands down best melee in payday2. Good damage, range and attack speed. Withouth pumping iron you only need 3 hits... with pumping iron basic you need 2 on heavy swats ( or hold it for 1 sec and you 1 hit most of them ) I myself switch from psycho and infiltrator alot.

Psycho perk deck is nice. Really recommend to use the aa-12 with that perk deck on.
Really liked that they buffed a couple of the perk decks.

[NoFlu]

http://pd2skills.com/#/v3/mSoLhIjEFgDa:eEgDa:ghCDa:froKiEfGbCDa:ibcdea:pR8o8::w83-7-19-20:s49-10:a1 My melee build for the Axe/Katana. Go either with Rogue or Crook. If you choose Crook (or want to play it risky with Rouge) you can go and get Berserker basic with the rest of the Skillpoints. If you want to play it more safe go and get Hostage Taker aced. The reason why I take a non-melee perk deck (Sociopath/Infiltrator) is that they are more on the armor side equipment wise and I want to run around and stab everyone not be weight down by my armor (I know that you can play Sociopath with Light-Armor but why not play it safe?)

[Wolf]

Berserker+Pumping Iron+Counter Strike+Sociopath

If someone can say me how the bonus works, but i think it's 250% of 450 + 100%