Importance of Body for Gunner Build?

[Milaal]

I’m returning for a gunner build, with my primary focus on Reflexes, Technical Ability, and Cool. The focus will be purely on Assault Rifles, Handguns, Sniper Rifles, and SMG’s: no Shotguns or Heavy Weapons.
When it comes to handling weapons like Sniper Rifles, is there any need for Body? I know there are Body Requirements to get the most out of weapons like the O’Five but I also read that Gorilla Arms completely negates any penalties there. Is that true? If it’s not true, would it be better to go Body, Reflexes, and Technical Ability as primaries? I just really miss the idea of having a high Cool (Crit benefits mostly, but some Cyberware as well).

 

[zviz]

Legendary arms ups body value only by 6 so you still need to have 14 body for some guns probably but I might be wrong.

 

[bauerkn]

So reflexes for the weapons, cool for crits, body as required, but why invest in tech? Will you be using Tech weapons? And if so, do you still feel the need for crit? Or do you go for riccochet with rifles and handguns? If so, I'd just drop the sniper stuff and go for mitigation and crit

 

[Milaal]

Apparently, per the wiki, any level of Gorilla Arms utterly negates the penalties for having a lower Body than is listed as being required. And in regards Tech, I simply want the Ultimate Crafted versions of all my guns for maximizing the damage. Legendary plus the Tech perk bonuses are very significant. Plus yes I will amongst other weapons be using Tech and Smart.
Edit: Again, that’s per the wiki, hence why I thought I’d post here as well. Supposedly the negation will still leave the red text saying Body X required but the handling won’t suffer. I think I’m going to need to test those weapons out with a low Body and then switch to Gorilla Arms to see the difference if any.

 

[Netrunner2go]

the mindset to integrate 18 tech to every build just because of legendary crafting is a 2 edged sword.... i can understand that people are unhappy with 2 iconics crafting specs require legendary skill... for me thats kinda bad game-design if nearly every other iconic comes as rare but those two as legendary in the first place. 18 tech just cut many builds for its high invest. maximizing dmg is false thinking, if you can oneshot everything in late game even with rare weapons. if you go with just 12 tech for epic crafting or 14 tech for epic mod crafting, you are still able to get 3 other attributes to 18 which in the end might be way more effectiv than dropping them for high tech....

18/18/18/14 or 20/18/18/12 are viable builds which can go nuts even without legendary crafting in consideration.

if someone goes for 18 tech, its for personal likings but not for effecitveness/maximizing dmg output - because you will reach one hit kills even without crafting at all.

in your case f.e.

20 cool / crit perk
18 ref / weapon cls perks & sandevista, kerenzikov, etc.
16 body / 2nd heart & max body with gorilla arms
12 tech / epic crafting

or

20 cool / crit perk
18 ref / weapon cls perks & sandevista, kerenzikov, etc.
14 body / max body with gorilla but no 2nd heart
14 tech / epic crafting & epic mod crafting

could work fine - if you personally can get rid of the legendary crafting desire.
just an opinion, maybe give it a thought. ^^

edit: and than of course there is this jack of all trades build with 18 ref, 18, body, 18, tech, 14 cool. every weapon cls, monowire, mantisblades, gorilla arms option, berserk & sandevista option, 2nd heart, -30% cyberware cooldown, buff enjoyer if hit by poison/emp/burn (14 cool to hit fingers elemental cyberware) and legendary crafting.

 

[Milaal]

I fully agree that the body Cyberware is awesome. I’d disagree with Cool though and put that at - preferably - 16, for both Cyberware and the perks. Reflexes with rifles at least has a perk that grants +35% damage when standing still and I’d be parking my butt a lot of times for both cover and the benefits of aiming.

 

[bauerkn]

By the way, the max-out-everything approach will not automatically increase your damage. Since DPS is locked per weapon, you'd have to make wise choices on what perks you use, because they could eventually make some weapons useless.

If you want max. damage output, you'd have to build towards a specific weapon. You don't want an increased rate of fire with a shotgun or SNR, but with assault rifle and SMG maybe.
Handguns are even more complicated, because with a revolver, you don't get a revolver feeling when you have a high rate of fire.. but you'd love that on a pistol.

So if you don't care about the details, just want to use every weapon there is, you don't need tech / legendary

 

[Netrunner2go]

Indeed. The Jack of all trades build just gives you the option to reinvest perks in whatever weapon tree you want to use via perkresets. Tho it‘s super flexible in vary your choice on the fly.

i didnt mean that this build covers everything at once - it just open ups the opertunity to focus on any weapon cls until you get bored. -> if thats the case just reroll and focus on another.