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To quickly gain Body perk points in Cyberpunk 2077, collect Perk Shards found throughout the world, which grant one point each. For a faster gain, use the exploit of “learning” perk shards instead of directly taking them to double your perk points. While playing through the game and completing quests is the primary method, these methods allow you to accelerate your progression.

Quick Tips for Acquiring Perk Points:

• Find Perk Shards: Search for Perk Shards in specific locations, often on dead bodies. 
• Use the “Learn” Exploit: When you acquire a Perk Shard, choose the “learn” option instead of the “take” option to double the number of perk points you receive. 
• Play the Game: The core way to earn perk points is by leveling up and completing quests. 

What the Body Attribute and Perk Tree Offer:

• Increased Health: Each point spent in Body increases your maximum health by 2 points. 
• Weapon Proficiency: You’ll gain increased skill with Shotguns, Light Machine Guns, and Blunt Weapons. 
• Interactions: The Body attribute allows you to use intimidation dialogue options and force open doors. 
• Combat Abilities: Perks like Painkiller provide slow health regeneration during combat, while Quake allows you to damage enemies with a slam from a blunt weapon. 

To get the most from your Reflex perks in Cyberpunk 2077, focus on the core movement skills like Dash and Double Jump for unparalleled maneuverability, and pair them with the weaponry of your choice (Blades, SMGs, or Assault Rifles). Key perks include Air Dash for mobility and stamina regeneration, Lead and Steel to deflect projectiles with blades, and Submachine Fun to increase SMG fire rate and reload on swap. For quick combat, prioritize perks like Slippery and Power Slide to boost evasion and mobility, respectively.

Prioritize Movement & Maneuverability

• Dash & Double Jump: These are foundational for a high-mobility build, allowing for advanced evasion and traversal. 
• Air Dash: This is a must-have, letting you chain dashes and double jumps to “fly” through the map while remaining impossible to hit. 
• Stamina Perks: Perks like Tailwind significantly boost your stamina from Air Dashes and double jumps, keeping your mobility high. 

Enhance Your Chosen Weaponry 

• Blades:
  • Lead and Steel: Allows you to deflect incoming projectiles with your blades.
  • Slaughterhouse: Attacks apply a Bleeding effect, increasing the chance of dismemberment and priming enemies for finishers.
• Submachine Guns (SMGs):
  • Submachine Fun: Speeds up SMG swaps and automatically reloads them, boosting your fire rate.
• Assault Rifles:
  • Salt in The Wound: Rewards accuracy by delivering bonus damage on every seventh consecutive hit.

Key Perks for Combat & Utility 

• Slippery: Essential for your Reflex build, enhancing your dash and sliding abilities.
• Power Slide: Increases your slide distance, making it a more effective movement option.
• Muscle Memory: Allows you to reload your weapons while sprinting, sliding, and vaulting.
• Multitasker: Enables you to shoot while sprinting, sliding, and vaulting.

Tips for Perk Point Management

• Focus Your Build: Decide if you’re building for Blades, SMGs, or Assault Rifles to invest your perk points effectively. 
• Experiment: Don’t be afraid to try different weapons and perks to see what you enjoy most, IGN suggests. 
• Know Your Cyberware: Certain cyberware, like the reinforced tendons for double jump, synergize well with the Reflex tree. 

To get perk points, level up by playing the game and completing challenges, or find them by collecting perk shards. For faster Technical Ability progression, use grenades, tech weapons, and cyberware to earn XP, which is key to unlocking perks in this tree. Focus your points on utility, such as crafting, unlocking doors, or improving cyberware, as Technical Ability perks offer long-term benefits and are essential for bypassing obstacles.

Ways to Earn Perk Points

• Level Up: The most straightforward method is to play the game and gain experience points (XP) to level up your character. 
• Complete Challenges: Check the in-game menu under “Challenges” to find tasks that award perk points upon completion. 
• Find Perk Shards: These special items can be found throughout the world. When you acquire one, you can choose to “take” or “learn” it; selecting “learn” grants you two perk points, doubling the reward. 

Tips for Faster Technical Ability Progression

• Use Tech Weapons and Grenades: Actively use tech weapons and explosives during combat. Each hit and use will contribute to your Technical Ability experience. 
• Use Cyberware: Incorporating tech-focused cyberware into your build also grants Technical Ability XP, allowing for faster progression. 
• Crafting: The Engineer skill, tied to Technical Ability, progresses passively as you craft and upgrade components for your weapons and items. 

Recommended Perk Focus Areas

• Utility & Environment Interaction: The Technical Ability tree is excellent for interacting with the environment, such as opening locked doors, overriding devices, and disabling cameras. 
• Cyberware & Crafting: Invest in perks that enhance your cyberware, unlock new cyberware slots (like License to Chrome), or provide bonuses to crafting, as these are long-term investments that significantly improve your character. 
• Healing & Explosives: Perks like Glutton for War and those found in the Pyromania branch can offer instant health/grenade recharges and increased explosion damage. 

To quickly gain Cool perk points in Cyberpunk 2077, locate and learn the Perk Shards found throughout Night City, which grant one perk point each, and remember that the “Learn” option, rather than “Take,” doubles your gain from certain shards. Additionally, focus on the Cool Attribute’s Stealth and Cold Blood skill trees, as using those skills and the associated weapons like handguns or snipers will also level up the skill and grant more perk points.

Finding Perk Points

• Perk Shards: Search for Perk Shards (or Perk Shards), which are collectible items found in the game world. 
• Learn vs. Take: When you interact with a Perk Shard, choose the “Learn” option instead of “Take” to get more points. 
• Leveling Skills: Level up the skills within the Cool attribute by using them during gameplay. 
• Challenges: Check the in-game Challenges menu for tasks that reward perk points upon completion. 

Cool Perks to Prioritize

• Stealth: This tree focuses on enhancing your stealth capabilities, perfect for a sneaky playstyle. 
• Cold Blood: A separate skill tree under Cool that can offer powerful bonuses as you neutralize enemies. 
• Weapons: Cool improves proficiency with Precision Rifles, Sniper Rifles, Handguns, and Throwable Weapons. 
• Movement: Some Cool perks offer benefits for crouching and Optical Camo, which are excellent for stealth. 
• Dialogue: A point in Cool also unlocks more subtle or street-smart dialogue choices in certain situations. 

Effective Use of Cool Points 

• Playstyle Synergy: Align your perk points with your preferred playstyle, such as going for stealth and snipers or focusing on handgun combat.
• Crit Damage: Investing in the Cool attribute also directly provides a bonus to your Crit Damage.

To quickly level up your Intelligence in Cyberpunk 2077, focus on hacking access points, completing gigs and NCPD scanner hustles for Eddies, and using the crafting system to earn XP from components. Key perks for a quick build include Hack Queue for efficient enemy takedowns and Eyes in the Sky for easier access to hacking opportunities. Early in the game, prioritize the Ping quickhack and use stealth and silenced weapons to manage combat situations and avoid unnecessary combat.

Early Game Strategy

1. Prioritize Ping: Complete the “Gift” side quest as soon as possible to get the Ping quickhack, which is crucial for identifying access points and enemies. 
2. Farm Eddies and XP: Focus on finishing gigs, NCPD scanner hustles, and side missions to earn Eddies and experience points. 
3. Craft for XP: Use the crafting system to create and dismantle items like quickhacks and medicine to gain XP and attribute points at a faster rate. 

Key Intelligence Perks

• Hack Queue: Allows you to queue up multiple quickhacks on a single target, enabling you to deal devastating damage without revealing your position. 
• Eyes in the Sky: Automatically highlights nearby access points and cameras, making it easier to find targets for your quickhacks and reducing RAM cost for certain hacks. 

Combat & Stealth Tips

• Use Stealth: Stick to a stealth-focused playstyle by using a silenced pistol or revolver to take out cameras and enemies from a distance, saving RAM. 
• Utilize Quickhacks: Employ quickhacks like ContagionContagion Contagion is a quickhack in Cyberpunk 2077 that infects an enemy with a virus, dealing poison damage over time and spreading to other nearby enemies. It's particularly effective against closely grouped human enemies, as it can stack up to two times on a single target. The quickhack is ineffective against mechs, robots, drones, and turrets. and Overheat to weaken and eliminate enemies, especially robots, from a safe distance. 
• Hack During Chases: You can hack during vehicle chases to cause chaos with quickhacks like Reboot Optics. 

Other Helpful Tips

• Invest in a Good CyberdeckCyberdeck In Cyberpunk 2077, a Cyberdeck is a piece of cyberware that functions as a personal computer, acting as your primary interface for the game's hacking system, or "Netrunning". It allows players to use Quickhacks to remotely control devices, overload enemy cyberware, cause malfunctions, and even spread effects between enemies to deal damage, gain information, or distract them. Each Cyberdeck is designed for different playstyles and offers unique bonuses to RAM recovery, hack speed, or the spread and cost of Quickhacks.: A high-tier cyberdeck is essential to support your netrunning capabilities and manage your RAM more effectively. 
• Don’t Neglect Other Stats: Consider investing in Reflexes for weapon perks or Body for increased survivability to complement your Intelligence-focused playstyle.