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I agree with ditching Virgil if you go Tech, unless you go master of persuasion route and gather a million followers. Best background I enjoy for melee/firearms is Raised by Monks. It's the only background that gives you a point without taking away an attribute. You just sacrifice money in the beginning, but you can make that up if you know how to steal/make money. Also going tech is great because if you go through the electrical discipline you'll be able to get +4 dex with the rings and route to the Telsa Gun. That with the mysterious dwarven gauntlets, velorien's blessing, therapeutics, and trapmaker spectacles and you have a dwarf you never spent any points for dexterity.