Best Builds for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

Female netrunning/pistol/stealth corpo. Im thinking it's a spy thriller, so this build fits.

Stealth Assassin (silenced pistol/ trowing knife →Corpo

Assault Focussed→ Streetkid

For Nomad I don't know yet

It’s somewhat pointless to ask this before we know what the overhauls of patch 1.7 exactly bring.

In terms of character, I’m gonna be a Fem V nomad for the first time with a hero complex. She’s gonna be the dark avenger of Night City whose heart breaks because she can’t save everyone; the hero Night City needs but doesn’t deserve.

Good ol’ fashioned Sandy with handguns route.

Fishmonger with double specialisation in underwater welding

Thread 542 with the same title.

Stealth netrunner with pistol/throwing knives build. You even get snipers in this if you want.

Reflex for dashing, tech for cyberware, then maybe projectile launcher for moments you need it since you can use relic points to upgrade it in PL.

Tech because the tech checks in-game are far more frequent than the cool checks.

Cool doesn't need to be maxed out to be super stealthy, but tech does simply because it gives you access to doors that allow you to be stealthy more effectively.

If you prefer stealth then cool, if you prefer to go guns in then tech.

Staying at 3 of reflex is deciding to be crippled, I can't imagine not being able to dash in this game

Body, tech, reflex all the way

Most (or maybe all) of the best builds have Technical Capacity at 20 for the 50 points of max cybercapacity given by the Edgerunner advantage

I went with a classic Netrunner build. High intelligence with some bitchin tech. I ain't got time for that stealthy bullshit, so I am getting my reflex up to 9 and getting some sweet rifle and blade skills.

Reboot Optics gives you a higher head shot damage, and cripple movement increases melee damage. So even though Netrunning is my bread and butter it is not the way that I flatline chooms. I am just rounding out to level 20 so I am starting to get some cool cyberware to maximize my 15 tech ability. I plan on using tech to fill in the gaps of the build like increasing my melee damage or gun perks.

If a Netrunner is a wizard build, I am building a War Wizard.

I changed my original character into net gunner since they got the synergy with smart weapons built in. PLUS, I the launcher is viable now so when things get dicy, just blow 'em up! Putting some points into reflex though because I still want to leap off a bike, launch a blast, then hack whoever's left...😂

Going for a Body/Tech build. Big gun and explosions. Gonna try Very Hard.

Sandy + optical camo slicing everything with a katana. I play aggressive stealth.

Full Body and Tech. Beefy enough to survive very hard especially swapping between blunt and an LMG

Fairly early on in the game (got other stuff taking my time), but I'm loving... let's call the build "Surprise Borg Pyromaniac."

Max tech with a bit in body and cool. Get tech as high as reasonably possible as early as possible. You really want as much armor as you can get and several skeleton pieces give extra armor from high Tech (mine was over 500 before i got Johnny's Chip). Put points in cool and body depending on weapon focus, although you probably want some of both.

Combat loop goes as follows: the ganggoons are walking along, patrolling the area, and they come across a body. Gasp! There must be a ninja around! They start searching and what do they find? A borged out solo with more armor then god, wielding a shotgun/pistol, while hearing the tink of a grenade at their feet. After that, things start to get messy.

This build allows the sneaky that people love from stealth builds, along with the action of high explosives going on every few second. If you get cool high enough to make pistols good, use Comrades Hammer and blow stuff up while you wait for grenades to come off cooldown. If you prefer focusing on body, grab a tech shotgun, max your health and Regen, and laugh maniacally while standing in a hail of bullets while you throw explosives with abandon. The Pyromaniac perk seems BUILT for this play style, where you blow up everyone, including yourself, while being too heavily armored to CARE.

Blunt/gorilla arms is dope now. Basically its 20 Body, 20 Tech Ability, 9 Reflex (for Dash) If youre playing on console and can only respec once, make sure to save reflex/dash for last, i respeced cause i wasnt using it, but i can see it being useful at later levels. Prioritize getting body to 20 then boosting medkits with the left tree of the tech ability stat second. Protip: the character creation screen doesnt let you make a stat more than 6, but you can just make body 6 at character creation, leave the rest unspent, then immediately put them into body when the game starts. They dont make this clear, but you have to get the blood pump cyberware that gives you a special type of medkit, the entire middle tree of Body is kinda based around it. The game is very generous with money now so right after the end of act 1 I just did a couple NCPD blue blips and had enough to immediately get gorilla arms, double jump legs, blood pump, beserk instead of quickhacking, and some armor.

Beserk makes you invincible, then when thats over, normal mode fught until you need to heal, then when you heal with your blood pump you go into adrenaline mode, with 100% mitigation and higher crits, and the guys you kill during this mode make your blood pump recharge faster. During this youre crashing into people, jumping on the ground making shockwaves, and throwing bodies to kill them as well as the people youre throwing them at. Im only like level 13 and I already have all this ability. Its a lot of fun.

Im using the katana and sandy build, but you can add some more flavor to it now.

My build lets me use the kereznikov when jumping from my motorcycle, I can deflect bullets, dash and air dash, the finishing moves restore health... Had some points left to invest in the Dead Eye skill (best one for silenced pistols), and the Body skill tree, giving me the ability to grab someone and throw them across the room.

Lastly, added the projectile launcher for crowd control.

For me, it's what makes practical sense in-universe.

I'm V, a merc by profession who does odd jobs here and there to make money but still has to get around town. Sure in-game mechanically I have Hammerspace and can carry a melee weapon, an assault rifle, shotgun, a sidearm, infinite ammo, throwing knives and grenades. But what would make sense in the real world for the variety of scenarios I could run into and find myself in?

Needing to be inconspicuous as I walk into areas to take out a target, have meetings with people, ride around on my sweet Akira motorcycle, walk around Night City, and just shoot the shit with my choom Jackie at the bar. I need to be reasonably armed in the dangerous Night City but not draw attention to myself by open-carrying any longarms. So a pistol/revolver it is. Better to be armed even if I'm disarmed so some sort of cyberware weapon. What has utility to me outside being a weapon though? Gorilla arms. I can open doors, carry more, etc. and my unarmed brawling is still lethal if I find myself in a pinch or having to give up my pistol to meet with a fixer or contact.

Basically, the David Martinez/Spike Spiegel build. Gorilla arms & pistols all day. If I know I'm walking into a situation needing serious heat, I'll take my car and bring along a primary firearm or melee weapon stashed in the trunk or back seat depending on the situation. But for my day-to-day it's what I can practically carry and conceal on my person.

Knife throwing with katana for backup, combined with all the mobility / stealth perks available. Makes fights frantic and fun - and sometimes quite hard even at higher levels (looking at you, Ribakov ;).

All of them, honestly! Right now I'm running a throwable blade aggressive stealth build. Once you get the movement down everything works like a dream.

an overclock/smart weapon build with synapse burnout as your main weapon and yinglong to speed up the upload time with the Militech Paraline is super fun

the 100% quickhack crit chance cyberware from phantom liberty makes it so even one synapse burnout can kill an armoured minotaur solider in one shot

another build i loved was with the chainsword xmod 2 and the chimera core melee weapon mod (both phantom liberty) with the apogee sandevistan, that obliterates Maxtac

Netrunner and smart weapons, especially smart smg’s

Shadowrunner with Arasaka cyberdeck + with smart weapons for when shit hits the fan. Or semi stealthy throwing knives with cyberdeck.

Quick hacks, and Blades with a preference to Throwing Knives with Monowire implant. Ninjitsu for staying out of sight.

i’m just gonna keep using the malorian idk what my build is lol i just picked up whatever looks the most badass

Motoko Kusanagi build: quickhack based (focused on blinding, deafening and paralizing quickhacks), optical camo, smart submachinegun .... and katana for flair. Katana is actually not a Kusanagi thing, I just simply like using it for finishing off enemies after paralizing them.

Putting points into Body will help with both of those builds. All the shotgun perks are in there for the sandy build and since they added overclock, extra health from the level 15 Body perks will give you more ram for the netrunner build

About to do the same what build did you go for? Struggling to find one I can make without being level 60.

Could you share what mods you're using for the jacket/pants in the first pic?

Amazing! These clothes are all mods right? It pisses me off so badly that apparently there isn’t a full-chest body vest like this in game. Can’t even work a tacticool outfit properly lol

Hey look more great V outfits.......... and it's mods.

For fucks sake.

Cool pics but not a build....

what's up gurl?

what time you start your shift at Jig JIg?

I tried berserk once but honestly I just didn’t vibe with it. The game in its current iteration really doesn’t allow for tank builds. I’m optomistic that will change though. Looking at some of the footage from Phantom Liberty I couldn’t help but notice that the numbers seem to have gone down drastically and that the player was getting hit frequently without sustaining significant damage with their cool/reflexes build.

Don't you lack damage on headshots with sniper rifle ?

i came up with a better one with one different cyberwear

I want to do this. What cyberware have you installed?

This is real Cool, but I cant look at a build without a generic intro song and an ad for Manscaped. Can you put a couple of extra slides at the beginning?

Yup. this is pretty pretty similar to my build, but I went full in on projectile launcher skills instead of grenades

Plenty of ways to do a stealthy netrunner/sniper type build. Are you actually wanting to do a lot of hacking z or just use the deck for utility?

This is just my opinion, but I think INT naturally pairs with BODY, because of Overclock. Overclock borrows Health points to use as RAM for hacks. So, I want to have lots of health and quick health regen if I’m dependent on Quickhacks. Also, you need some survivability, and body helps with that. I’d consider this a tanky netrunner build with INT = 20, BODY = 20, and other points divided among TECH, COOL, and REFL depending on whether you want to maximize armor or critical chances and damage. Pair this with Monowire arms and Smart weapon perks if you want to just barge into fights to hack and spray smart gun fire at enemies,

You can use a Cyberdeck with a stealth build, but for most stealth play you don’t need higher INT or Overclock, because you have plenty of time to regen RAM while you maintain stealth. I’d prefer to max COOL and Reflexes for a stealth build, because (1) reflexes help you move fast and air dash to maintain stealth, get to vantage points and cover, (2) COOL and REFL boost your critical damage and critical chances, respectively, so they pair naturally. BODY and TECH both help you get into inaccessible areas by opening doors and gates, but I’d lean towards TECH to fire tech weapons from behind cover, so maybe COOL = 20, REFL = 20, TECH = 20, INT = 18, and BODY = 3? Or INT = 15 and BODY = 6? I’d probably go with Gorilla arms for the stat check boost to force open some doors, or projectile launch system for when you break cover. Then perk up for tech weapons over smart weapons, because neither smart nor tech weapons can be silenced, but I find it easier to use tech weapons behind cover. You can use smart weapons to bend bullets around cover, but only after you expose yourself to get target lock.

Not trying to be a dick, but if you're playing on Normal your build does not matter at all. Pick whatever you want, you'll cake walk through. The game is far too easy on anything other than VH for a build to matter. In fact it's the only time your build must be well put together to succeed.

You can get through 100% of the content with a silenced pistol and no skills whatsoever in pistol or stealth on a Normal playthrough.

You’re overthinking it. Go with the flow. When it gets too easy, up the difficulty.

handcannon/revolver build. sandy + kereznikov headshot machine

It's fun for just a little bit to spec into stealth pistols and time-warp cyberware (Sandevistan, Kerinzikov, and Kerinzikov boost system) and just headshot your way through an entire gang before they even realize you're there. It also gets boring really fast because it's pretty OP. Put gorilla arms on and you can RP as David from the anime.

I did a knives only build. It was fun. But after about 45 hours or so now I just play like a wild man. Sometimes axe, sometimes knives, sometimes explosive pistol, and sometimes suicide.

Gotta keep it fresh

I played a lot with maphack (ping) and tech snipers for easy game. The "fun" factor might be debatable

Literally anything, they're all strong

What's better, high dps but low dmg or low dps but higher dmg?

I love strength builds. I start engagements with the shotgun for the bonus speed but usually do most of the work with my fists. Even on very hard beserk + speed bonus means most enemies go down with a single punch.

Still weaker than my 300% crit chance with 1000% crit damage I kill everything in one swing including smasher

I think lower dps = more fun. Fighting gets boring at high levels, so if you deal less damage it becomes slightly more challenging.

Is the color modded? Haven't seen a red and black version.

I always go for balance and the only question is which attributes get to 9 and 15 first. After that, sure, one or two of those get to 20, I can't even remember. Those level 20 perks are really specific and generally not that useful when I play

Even if you go balanced you are sacrificing some perks. Not enough to spread around. Mostly the center trees and maybe better in an area or two. Builds let you have multiple saves and you can load up stealth killer or Rambo

Min/Max-ing can take the fun out of things, i say play how you want to...but dont waste perks in stuff you don't need. Usually every build has some sort of gun stat included though.

I sneak kill cyberpsychos

Correction, sneak debilitate until I talk to the fixer then go back and head shot.

One of the builds of all time, easily.

My recent build is based on a Chaotic Arson V with a fire based arsenal (Errata, Thermal Projectile Launcher, Psalm 11:6, Fenrir, pyromaniac perk maxed, etc). I might get a Berserk Sandy to add to the chaos but I’ll wait until after I rescue Saul because it’s easier to stealth rescuing Saul with quickhacks.

right at the top of my head i would go either with a techtronica build, trying to use most of those weapons.

or maybe a tech run, given that we get very cool tech weapons in the DLC, raiju, rasetsu, reeds weapon, etc.

For blades, I found Berserk to be more effective and just don’t sneak. Slap a cyclone mod on a Katana and grab the Cyberware that reduces cooldowns on kills. There’s another blade mod that’s really good but I don’t know how to spoiler tag. It’s a really fun build.

Apogee sandy with sword and axolotl is pretty busted. Pair in the frontal lobe thing that refills a cyberware charge and you almost never have any down time. Heal on kill with biomonitor and adrenaline makes you nigh invincible.

Hey im using your build but i dont really wanna go with katanas because my first playthrough was with them and they are kinda lame for the roleplay... i want to use pistols but i specifically wish for a pistol that melts through max-tac like byakko does cuz im a bit of tryhard... do you have any idea if there is something at least close to that in the game aside from PL guns?

I dunno my builds pretty much the same since before 2.0. Actually feels abit weaker since instead of skills buffing overall damage we just get alot of skills increasing weapon effectiveness. I've just gone with all the skills that better my healing, cyberware capacity and increasing smart gun effectiveness.

I run around with the arasaka smart submachingun that uses explosive rounds. Activate my sandy and shoot everyone and watch them explode into little pieces. I don't play on the hardest difficulties but I don't really like that side of games. Someone being a bullet sponge doesn't entertain me. If there's no reasonable explanation for them being extremely tanky then they shouldn't take 4 mages to die.

Basically what I'm saying is on normal difficulty my build makes me feel very powerful whilst also not making the enemies obsurdly hard to kill. People explode Infront of me. I'm zipping around crowds of enemies with ease. I can run super fast and It takes a very strong enemy to take me down eventually.

But from my previous experience before 2.0 when I did a netrunning build. Because you can do it all from stealth most of the time it seems the best way to go. You don't need loads of armour or health and you don't need to heal much because noone knows you're there and they die pretty easy to quickhacks

Hey im using your build but i dont really wanna go with katanas because my first playthrough was with them and they are kinda lame for the roleplay... i want to use handgun but i specifically wish for a handgun that melts through max-tac like byakko does cuz im a bit of tryhard... do you have any idea if there is something at least close to that in the game aside from PL guns?

headhunter + hansen’s knife and gun, combine with maxed out cool and middle tree reflex and sandy and optical camo for basically a ninja that kills everything in a blink of an eye before being detected, but can also melt bosses

First run, I did a katana and smg run.. Enjoyed it, but this time through, I'm doing no-guns on purpose; nothing but quickhacks and monowire. Having a blast.

Nehan + satori, use chrome compressor and kerenzikov or you can also make a netrunner blackwall build (endgame stuff though)

I just wish you were able to get that smart shotgun earlier on in the game.

Build. Looking for feedback and improvements. Tanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFXfJh84YB0

But, what about monowires!

You'd do far more damage just dropping berserk and abusing short circuit on crit.

There’s a perk that lets you add random modifiers to your cyberware (it’s in the cyberware tree and looks like a mad scientist). Best taken early as every upgrade lets you reroll the modifiers.

You can get close to 90% reduction in reload speeds, increase stealth damage modifiers and greatly reduce how quickly enemies spot you.

As I said in another post my favorite build is the sandy kitana with double throwing knives for more range.

It takes some getting used to but dashing in between enemies and either deflecting bullets with your kitana or popping sandy and cleaning out an entire room is very satisfying.

It might not seem it at first, but a Sandevistan build is still very good for stealth if you want to/need to for a gig. A Sandevistan really enhances optical camo because, obviously, it stretches out the time that it's active, plus since time is slow, NPCs don't react to you as fast, so you can scoot past someone with camo + sandy active that would have normally detected you with just optical camo. The big thing is cameras which you can no longer just shut down by being in line of sight. However, if you get your repair up, you can manually shut them off when you run up to them. You can do it without sandy active if you're quick enough, or with sandy active if you want to make it easy.

a Recon Grenade does wonders especially at T5 as the radius is tremendous, Honestly don't care much about the other nades when I can just run up and shotgun everything to bits

Become V! The master of steath and ambush fisting! Sneak up behind your opponents and fist them to death! Ram your gorilla arms deep into their bodies before sneaking away before they figure out what happened to them!

Dash, from reflex, is so much fun. I just love the hyper mobility. I utilise dash and kereznikov never feel I need a sandy. Oh, And don't forget the fast vehicle exit perk.

Tech way into edgerunner is basically a must have. And since you're now deep in tech, highly recommended throwing a few points to the health usage perks on the left. And tech weapons while you're at it, the 'dont auto fire when charged' perk is outstanding.

P s pretty sure I've seen a mod on the nexus to restore Malorians bullet penetrating. Take a look!

Bloodpump.

Dash/Air Dash perks. And Reinforced Tendons.

20 points in reflex is a must have for every build for the super fun air dashes. Reinforced tendons is also a must have. Get it asap. Best cyber ware in the game next to sandevistan.

If you’re playing on pc, I highly recommend the cyberware-ex mod on nexus website that allows you to install a cyberdeck and sandevistan at the same time.

Blunt weapons got some love and I've always found them to be very fun to use. You can get a 'finisher' where you pick an enemy up over your head and throw them at other people for massive damage and a very satisfying splat sound.

The best build is the one I have the most fun with, which varies. I like to mix up different things so it doesn't get stale.

Smartguns using contagen and the shingen is ridiculously fun. 

Sometimes I like to go stealthy, because knives are cool (see what I did there?) 

Other times (like now) I bonking things with blunt weapons. Not a fan of berserk, but sandevestan or chrome compressor is fun. 

There is no shortage of builds, so I tend to pick up a theme or skill or weapon I want to build it around, see what others have done, then modify as I see fit. 

If you want a versatile build, I'd leave int at 3, then 15 in reflex (and maybe cool), put as much as you want in the others. You don't get overdrive, but you can play around with high body, tech, reflex, and maybe cool builds.