DAMAGE ABSORPTION is now a thing and would be an excellent idea to work into a concept that requires you to be near dead to work. The obvious answer is to use FRENZY, but that makes the play style useless as the deck offers little to no defense to complensate. Armor recovery RATE is pointless when the entire concept of a Yakuza is a mad frenzy of bullets and blade in point blank combat, so having it RECOVER faster is a waste when you have to be <50% health and in the midst of combat. It's conditional, and all you get is mediocre passives. That being said, the Yakuza deck is completely pointless as a result.

Its a one skill load that requires shooting to work.

There is literally no need to take Berzerker, Frenzy, or even Pumping Iron. The entirity of the tree is now loaded into BLOODTHIRST. Its got nearly NO cohesion, sure you can double the damage to 60, but its not enough, and it's not lending to a Melee ONLY play style.

It's like you guys have a confused idea on how exactly you want the Brawler tree to work. Getting hit with a FIRE AXE =/= getting hit with FISTS. It's to the point where literally every weapon has nearly the exact same stats with knockdown being the ONLY difference. So you guys keep nerfing the everloving ♥♥♥♥ out of melee weapons.

Borderlands 3 overkill perk, melee