Massacre and Smash skills affect light and heavy attacks of on-perk melee weapons respectively.
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Though your main forte is melee weapons, you are not entirely useless against long-ranged ZEDs. Parrying is essential to keeping your health high enough to stay in the fight longer, and outright mandatory with the level 15 Parry skill, as its bonus damage reduction and damage increase will make bringing ZEDs down much easier.Īvoid Bloats, Sirens, and Husks if you can: Bloats have high health and their bile will make effectively hitting and blocking near impossible, Sirens are difficult to approach without them screaming and bypassing your parries, and Husks can use a devastating kamikaze attack when low on health. Your tankiness and high damage potential will carry you over them as they fruitlessly attempt to whittle your high health down.
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Focus on Scrakes, Fleshpounds, and ZEDs at a small-enough checkpoint you can bodyblock with.