Unlocking Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's Potential: Essential Perks for Your First Playthrough
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 offers vast character customization, potentially overwhelming new players. This guide highlights the most impactful perks to prioritize early on, regardless of your preferred playstyle. While many builds are viable, these perks provide significant advantages.
Disclaimer: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 allows for diverse character builds—brute force knights or charismatic negotiators—most approaches are successful. These recommendations focus on generally beneficial perks.
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 in towns and villages.
- Martin’s Heritage: 10% increased experience gain in Sword Fighting, Crafting, and Survival.
- Radzig’s Heritage: 10% increased experience gain in Heavy Weapons, Shooting, and Scholarship.
- Good Natural: +2 to Persuasion, Impression, and Presence, facilitating easier dialogue choices.
- Blood of Siegfried: Permanent +10 armor rating.
- Heroic Vigour: Each Vitality level grants an extra Stamina point (retroactive).
- Charming Man: Boosts 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 skill specialization preference.
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 increased carrying capacity perks. Heracles benefits even stealth builds.
Agility Perks:
- Creeping Phantom: 15% faster sneaking movement.
- Finesse: +5% slashing damage.
- Viper: +5% piercing damage.
These are crucial for agility-focused gameplay, particularly Creeping Phantom. Select Finesse or Viper based on weapon preference.
Vitality Perks:
- Ascetic: Slows nourishment depletion by 30%.
- Well-Dressed: Slows dirt accumulation by 20%, simplifying cleaning.
- Marathon Runner: 20% slower Stamina consumption while sprinting.
- Diehard: Prevents death from fatal wounds, restoring 25% health (with cooldown).
These perks enhance convenience and survivability.
Speech Perks:
- Hustler: Easier stolen goods sales with Stealth and Thievery experience gains.
- Jack of All Trades: +2 bonus to skill checks and doubled experience from them.
- Partner in Crime: Allows selling stolen goods undetected.
Speech perks are exceptionally powerful, especially Hustler and Jack of All Trades, significantly improving gameplay efficiency.
These perks provide a strong foundation for your Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 adventure. Consult additional resources like The Escapist for further gameplay tips.
