Author's Notes

Having DLCs is a must , after all this build does need the required DLCs at all infact, but this build needs you to be atleast INFAMY IIII and you should place the infamy points to(Set of the Corrupted), (The Slaughterhouse Set), (The Assassin Set) and (Set of Ingenius) I find this build effective for Loud taking cover and dealing high DPS on each enemy, and as we progress to the builds im going to explain each why i aced or basic the skills anyways let's start shall we?

The pros
- High Armor
- High DPS
- High Ammo Pick Up
- High Survivability
- Flashbangs is not effective against you

The cons
-Low Stamina
-Mediocre speed

Required DLCs
-Gage Weapon Pack #1
-Wolf Pack
-Gage Shotgun Pack
-Yakuza Pack

Maintaining your armor and ammo(optional) and deployables are your priorities. The best defense is a good offense, i guess? let them get through you first before you strike why?, because this build focuses on staying on a single place via: defensive, i mean you could be aggressive but you should be careful you may have a tough armor but that doesnt mean you can't bleedout

And now let's talk about specials and how do you handle them on this build:

- Cloakers well ofcourse they kick you
- Tasers/Tazers aren't a threat to you at all infact, just don't get tased while theres a millions of cops shooting at you
- Shields might be a bit of a problem why you ask?, well first of all this build is about armors and the speed is mediocre enough, and the shield sometimes errr won't let you look at his back.
- Snipers do what they do they snipe at you but don't worry theres weapons to fight them back right?
- Bulldozers well let's say they can be a problem or a easy peasy lemon squeezy with a Smg at your side it can tear the dozers well i guess

Your playstyle should be playing defensive and waiting for the enemies to go near you before you strike, you can go play a bit aggressive but take caution(on deathwish) sometimes who knows a cloaker might kick you right?

TL;DR play defensive, wait for them to go through first and strike

Endurance
Why basic you ask?, well first of all this build does not focus on run and gunning and 100% bonus stamina is enough already

(apologies for my hud though)

Oppressor(Basic)
Good to make threaten enemies (ya don't say), why i chose this build is because one of your weapons are good enough to threathen enemies why don't i ace it ya ask?, i have two reasons
1. Lack of Skill points 2. Smgs is enough to threathen enemies

Bulletstorm(Basic)
This one is a odd one, considering your deployables are not ammo bags but let's say its to unlock the other tiers and you can use the ammo bag if you like and ace ammo specialist and sacrificing the tech skills for trip mines and sentries its optional but i don't recommend it

Transporter(ACED)
Well this is self-explanatory this is one of the most useful skills considering this is Bag throwing simulator everyone

Diehard(ACED)
You can use your primary when bleedout and i gurantee its one of the most useful skills when aced on this build when acing diehard your armor recovery rate increases to 15% which is useful because this build focus on armors

Underdog(ACED)
Acing this skill is really useful mostly on deathwish when you are surrounded by three or more you recieve 15% more damage and 15% less damage which is incredibly useful for surviving enemy attacks

Pumping Iron(ACED)
Why ace this skill you may ask?, well the melee weapon is handy to knockdown enemies you'll see what i mean later

Stun Resistance(ACED)
Well considering that flashbangs can turn the tide of the battle this skill will save your skin alot on deathwish

Tough Guy(ACED)
It reduces the camera shake when you are damaged by enemy fire, so you can fight back to say atleast and the 25% bleedout health can help change the tide of the fight

Fully Loaded(ACED)
Adding more reserve ammo for your weapons is a good thing, and increasing the ammo pool rate at 175% is really incredible and useful when reloading sentries

Iron Man
This is self-explanatory your going to need this skill very much

If your thinking "Hey why don't you take berserker?"
well first of all i would actually ace the berserker if its not for the "Negates regenerating effects" i have already tried it out and the ex-president perk deck seems to not regenerate once i entered the Berserker State

What about the shotgun skills?
This build solely focuses on Rifles not shotguns

now time for the fun part


Rifleman(ACED)
adding 100% snap zoom to assault rifles and sniper rifles is a nice skill to have to counter snipers and acing this skill will have 25% more zoom

Demolition Man(Basic)
Adding a single trip mine to your inventory is a nice thing to have why not ace it?, well the 20% reduction deployment time isnt that useful if i do say so myself.

Nerves of steel
Really useful when fixing the thermal drill, or drills, or hacking the computer the 50% damage reduction is something really useful and by far one of the most useful skills out there


Sharpshooter(ACED)
gives 20% more accuracy to rifles(semi rifles included) which is really nice and acing this skill increases stability by 25% and is another good thing to have since this build uses Rifles

Combat Engineer(Basic)
Having the ability to turn trip mines on and off is really useful if you don't want a single mob to go through it

Hardware Expert(Basic)
Really useful because you can fix drills and saw 25% faster, deploy tripmines 20% faster

Sentry Gun(ACED)
Unlocking this skill in basic unlocks the sentry gun and acing it gives your sentry 150% more which means your sentry can survive more

Tactical Mines(Basic)
This skill means just One thing.... EXPLOSIONSSSSS


Sentry Targeting Package(Basic)
So your sentry won't be a complete idiot when shooting at enemies

Jack of All Trades(ACED)
Well this skill means another thing... MORE EXPLOSIONSSS and acing this skills also let's you carry both trip mines and sentry guns


Sentry Combat Upgrade
Gives you the ability to reload sentries which is good since sentry can easiliy eat up ammos fast and upon reloading your sentry it eats almost through your ammo thats why we aced fully loaded from the enforcer skills to increase ammo pickups by 175%

Shaped Charge(Basic)
Adding 3 more trip mines to your deployables is really good and in total you will have 6 trip mines 2 unlocking the first tech skill, +1 from the demolition man skill and shaped charge +3


Sentry Tower Defense
Adding another sentry to your deployables is really good and acing it makes the sentry deals 300% more damage which is good for defensive capabilities

Bulletproof
Self-Explanatory 50% more armor for your ICTV

Sprinter(ACED)
Litteraly one of the most useful skills in the game you increase stamina by 25% and gain more speed which is good for running away/


Fast Hands(ACED)
Self Explanatory one it increases interactions when picking up lootbags by 25% acing it up 50%(Note: both basic and aced stacks so the interaction speed is 75%)


Shinobi(Basic)
It just increase both walk speed and crouch speed to 25% and i really recommend it

SMG Specialist
Its always good to have a 35% faster reload speed for smgs and this build also focuses on SMGS

About the shinobi skill you can remove it and replace it with the cat burglar its people's preference anyways.

Hidden Blade(ACED)
the +3 Concealment for melee is always useful but you can change it the hidden blade to Thick Skin Aced


Run and Gun
Its self Explanatory it increases your speed by 10%

The perk decks that suits well for this build is the


Why you may ask?, well on each kill the President Gauge(The health gauge) restores 4 health but with the other upgrades a single kill restores to 12 health and upon destroying your armor and losing some health the President Gauge quickly restores your health depends on how many health the President Gauge got

Don't like the Ex-President?, well no fear i also have some other recommendations other than the Ex-President

Maniac

This perk deck suits more on aggressive fighting and not defensive its much more of a "strike before they strike you" thing but beware you need to keep killing to keep the hysteria meter if you can't manage that i recommend for you to use the Ex-President

Muscle

This perk deck is another alternative for aggressive fighting and this perk deck offers more health compared to the Ex-President and also regenrates 20 health on 4 seconds its a good one but it only regenrates 20 health per 4 seconds compared to the ex-president it regenerates 60 health but i do recommend it for the people that doesnt wan't to use Ex-President 0r Maniac and wants more aggressive fighting.

M308 Rifle

The M308 Rifle doesn't seems to be meh for you?, but let me tell you that this beast can one tap DW Tan soldiers and the ones with the Helmet and Brown Armor and 2 taps from Gensec Soldiers
and has a good ammo economy and high damage this weapon excel in every aspect starting from Damage, Accuracy, Stability and this is the weapon good for picking off snipers

The Mods
-Fire Breather Nozzle
-Accuracy Boost(Optional)
-Laser Sight
-Jaegar Body


Platypus 70 Sniper Rifle

The Platypus is a alternative for the M308 if you wan't to one tap the gensec soldiers then this gun is a good choice and if you are willing to sacrifice speed and stability in exchange of more damage then this gun is for you.

The Mods
-Iron Sight

Why Iron sights you ask?, well remember the skills for the technician that adds 25% zoom to rifles and assault rifles?, acing that skill is like applying a eotech sight for the M308 or the Platypus and i find myself hitting enemies more with iron sights but if you want to put a sight on it well im not stopping you.

Specops Submachinegun

The reason why i picked the spec-ops is because of its fire rate and high ammo efficiency, it can mow down a group of enemies with ease and the SMG Specialist 35% reload speed bonus makes this gun even better and the stability of 80 on this submachine gun is a nice touch.

The Mods
-Fire Breather Nozzle
-Extended Magazine
-Unfolded Stock

Ding Dong Breaching Tool

This weapon deals low damage yes, but the knockdown is so high that it can knock out Tan soldiers, Gensec Soldiers and Tazers this weapon is essential when it comes to 1v1 that's why i personally prefer the Ding Dong Breaching Tool

Don't like the breaching tool because of its slow swing speed and low damage well no fear, i have alternatives to melees to if that's the case such as

The Katana

The perfect Weaboo weapon a fast swing speed and a reliable 105 Damage and no knockdown this weapon is perfect for people who wants to deal quick and strong damage to enemies

Don't have the DLCs for the melee?(thanks Almir) well fear not!, i have a alternative that doesnt even need a DLC at all! and its the....

Lucile Baseball Bat

Much stronger than the Ding Dong Breaching Tool with a damage of 45 while DDB is 30 this thing has a High knockdown yet Ding Dong Breahing Tool still shines on Knockdown and how do you get this? simple!, just join the Payday 2 Community Group and enjoy bashing people's head with a barbed wire bat.

This thing is the one whos going to protect you from Bullets to anything except for Sam Fisher and his Hax Kick with a the ICTV has a mediocre 170 Armor but with Basic Bullet proof the armor of ICTV is now 295 which is so tough Cops can't even shoot at it(i think)

For the Deployables


How can you bring both Trip Mines and Sentry Guns you ask?, well simple the Aced jack of all trades gives you the ability to bring both Sentry and Trip Mines and also did i mention that both trip mines and sentries can add health to your President Gauge and also the Hysteria(Maniac perk deck)

Throwables


Why molotov?, since this build is mostly for defensive, aggressive too the Molotov can be good for "Area Denial"

This build is basically the same but his Mastermind, Ghost and Fugi differs from my build

And im just going to show his Mastermind, Ghost and Fugi since our Enforcer and Tech is the same

Ghost

Mods In it
Barrel Extension- Tank Compensator
Boost-Stability Boost
Custom - Auto Fire
Extra - Scope Mount (Dlc i think )
Gadget -Led Combo (Dlc i think Butcher Mod Same with Scope Mount ?)
Sights - Specular Sights
Stock- Jaegar Body
This is a mod now btw Vertical Grip


Mods In it
Boost - Your call on this Stability or Accuracy ^^

That Is All for this build you can modify the Part in fugitive like not ace thick skin and put some basic duck and cover or ace duck and cover up to you ^^

-Big thanks to Nagisa Shiota for Joining me make this Build

-Big thanks to my Neighbours for not being a complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

-Big thanks to my co-workers on my job for being a person i guess?

-Big thanks to Eugen for being my Onee-Chan

-Big thanks to Babyforce for making a beautiful Hud