Cyberpunk 2077 Crafting Perks Tier List

The Cyberpunk 2077 Crafting Skill is influenced by leveling your Technical Stat. The Crafting skill improves your ability to Craft Unique and more powerful new items. When you level up this skill from Crafting items and Upgrading items. You will gain access to Crafting Perks that Gain more components when disassembling, and or Allows you to craft rare items.

Crafting

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Best Perks
How to level
Level Rewards
Best Builds

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How To Level Up Crafting Skill in Cyberpunk 2077

The Crafting skill is leveled up by Crafting and Dismantiling Items.

How To Gain XP	Skill XP
Crafting items and Upgrading items	Varies with item crafted
Disassembling items	5

Best Crafting Perks in Cyberpunk 2077

List of the Best Crafting Perks in Cyberpunk 2077, you can view what each perk does and how we rank them in our Crafting Tier List.

S Tier - (Best) The Strongest Perks You can choose in this Cyberpunk 2077 Crafting Tier List.
A Tier - (Strong) Very strong choice, but not on the same level as S Tier Choices.
B Tier - (Good) Solid Choice and can be viable with the right Builds.
C Tier - (Average) The middle of the pack neither good nor bad.

Rank	Level	Perks	Effect
A	1	Mechanic	Gain more components when disassembling
A	5	True Craftsman	Allows you to craft rare items
B	5	Scrapper	Junk items are automatically disassembled
B	7	Workshop	Disassembling items grant a 5% / 10% / 15% chance to gain a free component of the same quality as the disassembled item
A	9	Innovation	Effects from crafted consumables last 25% / 50% longer
A	9	Sapper	Crafted grenades deal 10% / 20% more damage
S	11	200% Efficiency	Crafted clothes gain 2.5% / 5% more armor
S	11	Field Technician	Crafted weapons deal 2.5% / 5% more damage
A	12	Grease Monkey	Allows you to craft epic items
A	12	Efficient Upgrades	Grants a 10% chance to upgrade an item for free
A	12	Ex Nihilo	Grants a 20% chance to craft an item for free
A	14	Let There Be Light!	Reduces component cost of upgrading items by10% 20%
A	14	Cost Optimization	Reduces component costs of crafting items by 15% / 30%
S	16	Waste Not Want Not	When disassembling an item, you get attached mods back
A	16	Tune-Up	Allows you to upgrade lower quality components into higher quality ones
S	18	Edgerunner Artisan	Allows you to craft legendary and iconic items
S	20	Cutting Edge	Crafted legendary weapons automatically get one stat improved by 5%
A	20	Crazy Science	Increases the sale price of crafted items by 10%

List of Crafting Skill Level Rewards

These are the level up bonus effect you will receive from simply leveling up the Crafting skill.

Level	Reward
1	-
2	1 Perk Points.
3	Reduces Crafting Cost by 5%.
4	Reduces Crafting Cost by 5%.
5	1 Perk Points.
6	Unlocks new Crafting Specs for consumables, weapons, and clothing.
7	Increases Chance to Acquire Component From Crafting by 5%.
8	1 Perk Points.
9	Unlocks Crafting Specs for Rare weapons, weapon mods, and clothing.
10	1 Perk Points.
11	Reduces Crafting Cost by 5%.
12	Increases Chance to Acquire Component From Crafting by 5%.
13	Unlocks Crafting Specs for Epic Weapons, Combat Gadgets and Cyberware
14	1 Perk Points.
15	Increases Chance to Acquire Component From Upgrading by 5%
16	Reduces Upgrade Cost Reduction by 15%.
17	1 Perk Points.
18	Unlocks Crafting Specs for Iconic Weapons and Clothing.
19	Reduces Upgrade Cost Reduction by 15%.
20	Unlocks the last perk in the Crafting Skill Tree.

Cyberpunk 2077 Crafting Builds

List of what we consider to be the Best Crafting Builds in Cyberpunk 2077.

B-Tier

Tech Engineer Crafting Build

15 Body	20 Reflexes	3 Cool	3 Intelligence	20 Technical Ability

The Best Weapons we recommend for this build

Name	Stats
WIDOW MAKER Tech M-179E Achilles	Stats 27-33 Damage 12.41 Attacks Per Second + 21-25 Chemical Damage 1.90 Charge Time 0.20 Charge Multiplier + 33% Poison Chance 1.50 Headshot Damage Multiplier Effects Fires two projectiles per shot and deals chemical damage, with an increased chance to apply Poison. Charged shots deal more damage.

The Best Cyberware we recommend for this build

Name	Price	Effect
Limbic System Enchancement Common Frontal Cortex	3,000	Increase Crit Chance by 7% Int 6
Limbic System Enchancement Rare Frontal Cortex	9,000	Increases Crit Chance by 15% Int 9

The Best Mods we recommend for this build

Name	Type	Effect
Threat Detector Rare	Kiroshi Optics Fragment	Enemies that detect you are automatically highlighted.

Need a cyberdeck to complete this build? You should check out our Best Cyberdeck Guide.

You should check out our Best Quickhacks Guide.

Tech Engineer Crafting Best Perks You Should Use

Lvl	Perks	Effects
1	Eagle Eye	Quickens Rifle and Submachine Gun aiming by 10% / 25% / 50%
7	Bullseye	Increases Rifle and Submachine Gun damage while aiming by 10%
1	Gunslinger	Reduces reload time for Pistol and Revolver by 10% / 15% / 25%
1	Rio Bravo	Increases headshot damage multiplier with Pistol and Revolver by 10% / 20% / 30%
1	Mechanic	Gain more components when disassembling
11	200% Efficiency	Crafted clothes gain 2.5% / 5% more armor
11	Field Technician	Crafted weapons deal 2.5% / 5% more damage
14	Cost Optimization	Reduces component costs of crafting items by 15% / 30%
18	Edgerunner Artisan	Allows you to craft legendary and iconic items
20	Cutting Edge	Crafted legendary weapons automatically get one stat improved by 5%
9	Up To 11	Allows you to charge Teach weapons up to 75% / 100% capacity
12	Lightning Bolt	Increases crit chance with Tech weapons by 3% / 6% /10%
12	Tesla	Increases the charge multiplier for tech weapons by 15% / 35% / 55%
14	Gun Whisperer	Fully charged Tech weapons do not shoot automatically
14	Ubercharge	Fully charged Tech weapons deal 50% more damage
16	Fuck All Walls	Tech weapons discharge 50% faster
18	Lickety Split	Tech weapons reload time is reduced by 15% / 30%
20	Superconductor	Tech weapons ignore armor
20	Revamp	Increases damage from Tech weapons by 25&, Increases charge damage from all chargeable weapons and cyberware by 10%