Help with my last trait

[Zopenco]

Hi everybody, I have just registered

I am currently in Arke Power Station with a knife armed high critical chance level 23 character

My stats are 3 - 15 - 9 - 3 - 3 - 5 - 7, I have maxed melee and stealth and have good throwing, traps, lockpicking, hacking and crafting

The traits I have chosen so far are recklessness, skinner, sprint, interloper, quick-tinkering, vile weaponry, weaponsmith, crippling strike, cheap shots, fancy footwork, ripper, cut-throat, critical power.

I cannot decide what trait to choose in level 24

Expose Weakness seems the obvious choice for the final boss, but is it really neccesary? A two turn debuff with a four turn cooldown for a single enemy doesn't seem like a bargain.

Grenadier... I haven't found any grenade cases in Deep Caverns so far and the low end grenades you can find/buy don't cut the mustard

Expertise doesn't seem a good choice for a critical based character

Opportunistic... I don't stun enemies often

Power Management is a possibility only because the Caverns seem rife with high quality electronic stuff

Eviscerate seems logical for a knifeman, but I am not sure it's effective so far in the game

Taste for blood, ditto

Can anyone help, please?

[Megaost]

I have no idea what the right choice for you is, but here's my thoughts on some of the traits you mentioned.

Grenadier sounds like a nice damage supplement if you can craft, but your post doesn't exactly make that clear and I assume you can't for whatever reason.
Otherwise I agree that it's really not worth it for grenades you find.

Expertise can be a nice damage supplement even with crit build. It is added at the very end though, so it doesn't get taken into the crit damage multiplier. Still, 25 extra damage on very fast attacks is not to be scoffed at imo. This would be my choice if I had no idea what to pick. I have never finished DC with a knife build though.

Remember that Opportunist gives 15% increased damage on slowed or snared targets as well, not just 25% on stun. And with cheap shots at the very least it is a 15% chance for 25% bonus damage on one attack. But yeah, that's nothing to write home about really.

Power Management would probably not be my choice for a last talent to help you with boss fight. I can get behind your reasoning for it though.

I have no idea about whether or not Eviscerate is a good choice.

[Kachajal]

Welcome to the forum!

Take this with a grain of salt, as I've yet to play a knife specialist myself.

Out of the things you've listed, I'd personally take Power Management. However, this is assuming that you can make use of it - do you have high electronics and all of the required materials? I'm not sure if you'll find the crafting materials for a new energy shield if you don't have them already (as in, I can't recall if Deep Caverns has anything like that).

Also, personally I'd consider Paranoia. With your high dexterity and agility you already have a very high initiative, with another boost of five you would very rarely have to worry about enemies going first. This is assuming that you ever lose initiative in the first place, but if I understand the mechanics correctly you should still have a decent chance to do so.

[hilf]

I'd pick Expose Weakness but i'm biased towards resistance reductions.

[Zopenco]

I have no idea what the right choice for you is, but here's my thoughts on some of the traits you mentioned.

Grenadier sounds like a nice damage supplement if you can craft, but your post doesn't exactly make that clear and I assume you can't for whatever reason.
Otherwise I agree that it's really not worth it for grenades you find.

I could craft top quality grenades if I had a supply of grenade cases. So far I have found none (it seems that Leo only sells explosives, not cases)

[Zopenco]

Welcome to the forum!

Thanks

Out of the things you've listed, I'd personally take Power Management. However, this is assuming that you can make use of it - do you have high electronics and all of the required materials? I'm not sure if you'll find the crafting materials for a new energy shield if you don't have them already (as in, I can't recall if Deep Caverns has anything like that).

Yes, there is top quality stuff lying around

[Zopenco]

I'd pick Expose Weakness but i'm biased towards resistance reductions.

But is it necessary to kill the final boss, I wonder?

[Yonaiker]

I'd pick Expose Weakness but i'm biased towards resistance reductions.

But is it necessary to kill the final boss, I wonder?

I'd say it will make the fight much less stressing due its nature.