Engineer Skill and How to Level Up
The Engineer skill increases your armor and cyberware effectiveness in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. Learn more about this skill, its progression and how to level up Engineer in this guide!
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Tips on How to Level Up Engineer
Craft and Upgrade Equipment
To level up your Engineer skill, simply craft weapons, clothing, ammo, quickhacks, and upgrade Iconic weapons. Take note that crafting quickhacks will simultaneously level up your Netrunner skill.
You'll only be limited by how many crafting components you have in your inventory, which may be scarce if you're crafting or upgrading rarer items, but you can constantly get some points to level up this skill if you keep crafting ammo for all your guns.
Equip Tech Weapons and Grenades
Killing enemies with Tech Weapons and throwing explosives like grenades also count towards leveling up your Engineer skill.
Both of these rely on perks found under the Technical Ability tree, mainly with Bolt and Pyromania perks. If you already have high points in your Tech attribute, you can temporarily get these perks to have an easier time leveling up your Engineer skill.
Use Builds That Focus on the Tech Attribute
| Builds to Use for Engineer Skill | |
|---|---|
 Tech Weapons |
 Adam Smasher |
You can also easily level up the Engineer skill by investing your attribute and perk points in the Technical Ability attribute tree. This will make leveling up the skill faster while also making your damage more powerful!
Engineer Skill Progression
Skill Upgrades Per Level
| Engineer Skill Progression | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Increases Armor by 15. | 35 | +1 Perk Point |
| 10 | Increases Cyberware Capacity by 5. | 40 | Increased Shock chance from charging a Tech weapon or electric baton. |
| 15 | +1 Perk Point | 45 | +15% Health Item effectiveness. |
| 20 | +10% grenade damage and explosion radius. | 50 | +30% to all cyberware stat modifiers. |
| 25 | Increases Armor by 25. | 55 | +10% damage and +40% Burn chance with Bolt shots. Chain Lightning now also sets enemies on fire. |
| 30 | Increases Cyberware Capacity by 10. | 60 | When Fury is active, you occasionally release an EMP blast. |
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Related Guides
All 2.0 Skills
| 2.0 Skills | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headhunter | Netrunner | Shinobi | |||
| Solo | Engineer | ||||
