Maximize Your Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Experience: Essential Perks for Early Game Domination
Building your character in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's expansive open world can feel overwhelming. This guide highlights the most impactful perks to prioritize early on, regardless of your preferred playstyle. While the game allows for diverse builds – from brute-force knights to charismatic negotiators – these perks offer significant advantages across various approaches.
Important Note: The effectiveness of any build depends on your playstyle. This guide focuses on generally beneficial perks for a smoother early game.
Main Level Perks:
- Opportunist: Mitigates reputation loss, reducing the penalty by 10%.
- Undaunted Cavalier: Provides a +15 armor boost when Charisma exceeds 20.
- Burgher: Grants a +1 bonus to Strength, Agility, Vitality, and Speech within towns and villages.
- Martin’s Heritage/Radzig’s Heritage: Boosts experience gain by 10% in specific skill trees. Martin's focuses on Sword Fighting, Crafting, and Survival; Radzig's on Heavy Weapons, Shooting, and Scholarship. Choose based on your preferred skill specialization.
- Good Natural: Enhances persuasion skills (+2 to Persuasion, Impression, and Presence).
- Blood of Siegfried: Increases armor by 10 points, significantly improving survivability.
- Heroic Vigour: Each Vitality level grants an additional Stamina point (retroactive).
- Charming Man: Amplifies reputation gains by 10%.
Prioritize Opportunist and Charming Man to maintain a stable reputation. Choose between Martin's and Radzig's Heritage based on your intended skill progression.
Strength Perks:
- Hard-Working Lad: Halves the weight of sacks and carried 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 the carrying capacity boosts (Hard-Working Lad, Pack Mule, Strong as a Bull) for efficient looting and transport. Heracles benefits even stealth builds by boosting Charisma.
Agility Perks:
- Creeping Phantom: Increases sneaking speed by 15%.
- Finesse: Boosts slashing damage by 5%.
- Viper: Boosts piercing damage by 5%.
These are crucial for stealth and combat effectiveness. Creeping Phantom is highly recommended for faster movement during stealth. Choose Finesse or Viper based on your weapon preference.
Vitality Perks:
- Ascetic: Slows nourishment depletion by 30%.
- Well-Dressed: Slows dirt accumulation by 20%.
- Marathon Runner: Reduces Stamina consumption during sprinting by 20%.
- Diehard: Prevents death from fatal wounds, restoring 25% health (with a cooldown).
These perks enhance convenience and survivability. Ascetic and Well-Dressed significantly reduce the need for constant maintenance.
Speech Perks:
- Hustler: Facilitates selling stolen goods, granting Stealth and Thievery experience.
- Jack of All Trades: Provides +2 to skill checks and doubles experience gained from them.
- Partner in Crime: Allows selling stolen goods undetected.
Speech perks are exceptionally powerful. Hustler aids in disposing of stolen items, while Jack of All Trades significantly improves success rates in skill checks. Partner in Crime removes the risk associated with selling stolen goods.
These perks provide a solid foundation for a successful playthrough in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Remember to consult additional resources like The Escapist for further game tips and strategies.
