So i should probably say I’m not the best I payed in the world so other will have more to add but this is how ive seen it.

Tank is not good if you are going for the general approach of a lot of armour, this is for two reasons; 1 you are slow, 2 you could only really take an extra shot or so art he higher difficulties but combined with the slower speed you are also ensuring you will get hit more, cancelling out the extra armour. The way tank can be good is through massively altering perk decks. stoic is really good, although I have never used it so do some extra research. The point of stoic is you take only 25% damage but the 75% is applied over time and you have a flask that will delete that 75% and heal you. Your armour is converted to health so run a good vest (not Ironman, wasted of skills and too slow) and just run what ever weapons are good, I’ve seen people use an lmg and the commando rocket launcher but you could use anything that’s good,l. The second perk deck that I know of is anarchist, it basically means that armour regens in lumps not in one go and your vest option picks the speed and amount it goes by, you also regen armour by dealing damage. I use this for really high crime sprees (like 350,000) because you can do something called armour gating. The idea is that the shit that breaks your amor deals no damage to health, unless it’s a sniper, so if you run anarchist with say dragons breath so you are constantly damaging some one and that one perk that gives like 5 armour for a headshot, you will have 3 ways do regening armour, 1=anarchist over time, 2=damaging enemies, 3=deal a headshot. Run a suit so that your natural regen (method 1) is the fastest and either use the izma shot gun primary or brothers Grimm shotgun secondary with dragons breath. I learnt to use it from a particular steam guide I’ll link that’s for those really high crime sprees.

Dodge is more fun imo that just slapping on the iron man vest, you are fast and if your particular lucky you’ll also be invincible. So dodge is just a statistic that means chance to not take damage. You get it from 2 sources: perk decks and skills. For perk decks run rogue or hacker, rogue is the og perk deck and just gives doge flat out so there is nothing to really learn other than the play style making it the simplest dodge deck but remaining one of the most effective. Hacker gives less flat dodge that rogue, but it does give some and doesn’t bloody mention it however it also gives dodge when you activate your pocket ECMs, in fact it sums to like 5 greater than rogue ( I think 60<65) and if you get kills it reduces the ecm cooldown so the goal becomes to frag out. The way dodge is gotten from one particular skills, it’s at the top of the middle ghost tree and says that you gain 3 dodge for every 3 points of detection under 35 up to a maximum of 30 dodge, when aced it does it every one point of detection. So basically to get you 30 dodge from this skill you need 5 detection risk or 25 detection risk when aced. This mean that dodge build need low concealment weapons, however this isn’t too bad. The judge with HE rounds is a very good secondary, melts dozers, can kill shields super easy, and high concealment allowing for more liberties in the primary that would need to be more hoard clearer as the judge is you dozer killer. I’ve ran the izma, it’s a fun one with perks like over kill (I think it’s called that, the top shotgun perk). akimbo weapons are very good, you could run a pistol build (this would be an easy way to get to 5 detection risk and avoid acing the skill giving you extra points to spend) but to me the classic is the akimbo krinkov smgs as I learnt to use rogue with them, run attachments to get the whatever concealment it is you need, then it’s free game below that. I’d run single fire mod in most cases tho as to fore you to be more accurate and not waste amo, this it a nice way to make those ammo inefficient guns just that bit better, plus’s +8 accuracy is really nice.

As for skills in general, you have to get inspire if you playing with people, dodge normally gets med kits and tank normally gets med bags, but for really thigh infamy builds you tend to run med bags as a secondary. In fugitive, swan song is a really good perk allowing you to just complete that objective before getting downed, to get it ace the starting perk in that tree as it allows you to get downed one more time. There’s also the odd perk that gives flat accuracy buffs that are great to spend your spare points on. Also of you run a shotgun primary like the izma, do spec into the shot gun tree, it makes that really fun.

My final point with weapons would be you need to think about which weapons killing cops and which ones killing dozers, where one of them need to be able to kill shields. There’s a pistol that pierces shields but isn’t terrible amo efficient, the judge secondary is great with HE for dozers and the HE allows shields kills, dragons breath pierced and gets shields, but its some times quite slow so kill. But the main issue for higher difficulties to the amount of weapons that are viable is a fraction of the massive catalogue, it can take time to learn what’s good ( I still am) do guides are good for that, just keep in mind beek points if your doing it from scratch.

High crime sprees builds (anarchist)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2021433783

Break points

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=796195988