Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: Prioritizing Perks for Optimal Gameplay
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 offers extensive character customization, potentially overwhelming new players. This guide highlights essential perks to acquire early, streamlining your gameplay regardless of your preferred playstyle (brute force or diplomacy).
Table of Contents
- Best Perks in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
- Main Level Perks
- Strength Perks
- Agility Perks
- Vitality Perks
- Speech Perks
While character builds are flexible, certain perks offer significant advantages. This guide focuses on those universally beneficial options.
Main Level Perks
- Opportunist: Mitigates reputation loss (10% reduction).
- Undaunted Cavalier: (Charisma > 20) Provides a +15 armor bonus.
- Burgher: Grants +1 to Strength, Agility, Vitality, and Speech within towns and villages.
- Martin’s Heritage: Boosts Sword Fighting, Crafting, and Survival skill experience gain (10% increase).
- Radzig’s Heritage: Enhances Heavy Weapon, Shooting, and Scholarship skill experience gain (10% increase).
- Good Natural: Improves persuasion (+2 to Persuasion, Impression, and Presence).
- Blood of Siegfried: Increases armor by 10 points.
- Heroic Vigour: Each Vitality level grants an additional Stamina point (retroactive).
- Charming Man: Amplifies reputation gain (10% increase).
Prioritize Opportunist and Charming Man to maintain a stable reputation. Choose between Martin’s and Radzig’s Heritage based on your preferred skill specialization.
Strength Perks
- Hard-Working Lad: Halves the weight of sacks and unconscious bodies, increasing carrying capacity by 8 pounds.
- Pack Mule: Increases carrying capacity by 12 pounds.
- Strong as a Bull: Increases carrying capacity by 20 pounds.
- Heracles: Grants +1 Charisma for every 5 Strength levels.
Focus on increasing carrying capacity (Hard-Working Lad, Pack Mule, Strong as a Bull). Heracles benefits even stealth builds by boosting Charisma.
Agility Perks
- Creeping Phantom: Increases sneaking speed by 15%.
- Finesse: Boosts slashing damage by 5%.
- Viper: Increases piercing damage by 5%.
Agility perks are crucial. Creeping Phantom significantly improves stealth. Finesse and Viper enhance damage based on weapon type.
Vitality Perks
- Ascetic: Slows Nourishment depletion (30% reduction).
- Well-Dressed: Slows dirt accumulation (20% reduction). Allows full dirt removal by washing.
- Marathon Runner: Reduces Stamina consumption during sprinting (20% reduction).
- Diehard: Prevents death from fatal wounds, restoring 25% health (with cooldown).
These perks enhance convenience and survivability. Prioritize Ascetic and Well-Dressed for a smoother experience.
Speech Perks
- Hustler: Simplifies selling stolen goods, granting Stealth and Thievery experience.
- Jack of All Trades: Provides +2 to skill checks and doubles experience gain.
- Partner in Crime: Allows selling stolen goods undetected.
Speech perks are highly effective. Hustler facilitates theft and skill progression. Jack of All Trades significantly aids skill checks. Partner in Crime removes restrictions on selling stolen goods.
These perks provide a solid foundation for any Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 playthrough. Consult additional resources like The Escapist for further game tips.
