Kingdom Come Deliverance 2: Best Perks to Get First

Mastering Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's perk system is key to a successful playthrough. While character builds are highly customizable, some perks offer significant advantages regardless of your chosen playstyle. This guide highlights the most impactful perks to prioritize early on.

Disclaimer: Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 allows for diverse character builds. Whether you favor brute force or diplomacy, many approaches are viable. However, certain perks provide broad benefits.

Main Level Perks:

• Opportunist: Mitigates reputation loss (10% reduction).
• Undaunted Cavalier: Boosts armor rating by 15 points with Charisma above 20.
• Burgher: Provides +1 bonus to Strength, Agility, Vitality, and Speech in towns and villages.
• Martin's Heritage: Increases Sword Fighting, Crafting, and Survival skill XP gain by 10%.
• Radzig's Heritage: Increases Heavy Weapon, Shooting, and Scholarship skill XP gain by 10%.
• Good Natural: Improves persuasion (+2 to Persuasion, Impression, and Presence).
• Blood of Siegfried: Provides a permanent 10-point armor bonus.
• Heroic Vigour: Each Vitality level grants an additional Stamina point (retroactive).
• Charming Man: Amplifies reputation gains (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 specializations.

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 carrying capacity perks; even stealth builds require sufficient carrying capacity. Heracles benefits speech-focused builds.

Agility Perks:

• Creeping Phantom: Increases sneaking speed by 15%.
• Finesse: Increases slashing damage by 5%.
• Viper: Increases piercing damage by 5%.

Agility perks are crucial. Creeping Phantom is highly recommended for faster stealth movement. Finesse and Viper enhance damage based on weapon type.

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 cooldown).

These perks enhance convenience and survivability. Prioritize to reduce the frequency of showering and hunger.

Speech Perks:

• Hustler: Facilitates selling stolen goods, granting Stealth and Thievery XP.
• Jack of All Trades: Provides +2 to skill checks and doubles XP gain from them.
• Partner in Crime: Allows selling stolen goods undetected.

Speech perks are exceptionally powerful. Hustler simplifies stolen goods disposal, while Jack of All Trades boosts skill checks and XP. Partner in Crime removes the risk of selling stolen goods.

These perks provide a strong foundation for any Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 playthrough. Consult additional resources like The Escapist for further game tips.