Anarchist Basics

Breakpoints and stuff for anarchist builds. Won't have any builds here, go do your own or find others' and take reference.

DS(OD) Basics

Death Sentence damage numbers are high so you have to minimize the amount of time you will be exposed. You will have to work on your positioning on the heists and killing cops. You can play fast by armor gating but it's better to take it slow and work through the cops by carving space with anarchist builds.

Slow peek around corners to gradually clear cops off areas so that you won't be taking fire from 5 cops at once even with the 0.35 seconds grace period.

Armor Setups

Suit is the optimal choice for Anarchist, fastest armor chunk regen at 2 seconds so you will be able to gate shots more frequently to protect your low health. Another pro for suit is concealment, enabling Low Blow as an option if you can meet the requirements.

The most cheapest skill point you can spend on Anarchist is Jokers Partners in Crime aced.
This will give you 2 shot protection against heavies and snipers that can break your armor in 1 hit when it's full.

You will have to play cautiously at the start but Jokers are great for distracting cops.

If you are lazy to get a Joker, Iron Man Basic and Frenzy Aced will give innate 2 shot from the start of the heist. This is more expensive than taking PiC aced so you won't have many points to spend

LBV Anarchist can get you a 3 shot setup by having Die Hard aced with the setup of Iron Man Frenzy. LBV take 1 second longer to regen a chunk so do be mindful about it.

Zerking

Bay1k uploaded a video for every zerk setups for anarchist here.

Grenade Launchers are finnicky when you are a client due to lag/ping to the host. It will be consistent if you are hosting a game.

Using Berserker Lives Matter is basically saying you are too lazy to zerk and/or don't wanna sacrifice the throwable slot for mollies. Don't be a BLM user.

[Eo-Lia]

Do that and people will call you cheating scum and kick you instantly. Welcome to pd2

[labagama]

PP

[Shtoparrik]

Yes I suppose I should have said that part as well. It is a very confusing and odd way of programming the skill/perk's interaction but I am certainly not complaining.

[NotYourAvStalin]

The PiC bonus is somehow applied both before and after, you get the full health increase (115 + 69 = 184) while also getting the armour increase from it

[Shtoparrik]

As an anarchist main myself, a very well done write up on the deck. This isn't really super important info but in your section on choosing suit over any other armor/the section on armor regen times I'd also add in that all armors below CTV regen at an average rate of 5 armor per second while CTV and ICTV regen at 8.5 armor per second. When explaining how the deck works to people in public lobbies I like to throw that stat out to better inform on why the timer being shorter is of greater importance than the total armor amount. Also AFAIK the PiC aced health bonus is applied before the anarchist deck's halving of health. To get the most accurate final numbers on health and armor calculations, I'd suggest using a HUD mod like Void UI that has an option to display actual health/armor values, though that can be easier said than done sometimes. Overall though, very well written!

[MarkoDerp]

Alright good to know about the zerker stuff, and with all these new poison gas grenades i would've loved that poison could also crit... oh well

[NotYourAvStalin]

None of the damage over time effects are touched by zerk, however fire can benefit from crits

[MarkoDerp]

Ahhh so Partners in Crime - Aced health bonus does increase the armor on anarchist!

I kinda assumed it didn't because even if it makes sense it can be hard to tell what stacks/combines and what doesn't (for example fire can crit but poison can't);

On a side note is incendiary damage affected by zerk?

[RuntyFlame]

tip: if you are using a weapon that only needs 40% zerk or just dont want to babysit a joker: combine iron man basic and frenzy aced(even then you can still use 1 molotov for zerk, going to 91% zerk from full armour)

[NotYourAvStalin]

I meant non cc reductions like QF or something, but maybe that's for 2 shot not assuming max 4 hostages at all times. I honestly don't remember health anar breaks. Also if you are going to include health anar it seems odd to skip over 3 shot lbv.