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!

Tips on How to Level Up Engineer

Craft and Upgrade Equipment

Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty - Crafting for Engineer Skill

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.

Crafting Guide

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
Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty - Tech Weapon Build.pngTech Weapons Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty - Adam Smasher BuildAdam 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!

Best Builds for 2.0

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.

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