Level perks

Level perks are permanent character enhancements that can be selected at specific experience point thresholds (called "levels") to expand or boost your character's capabilities.

Each level perk has two requirements: a minimum value of its corresponding SPECIAL attribute, and a minimum character level. Note that temporary boosts (from drugs, armor perks, blessings, etc.) do not count towards the required minimum. Most characters are able to gain one level perk every 3 levels, for a total of 9 level perks at level 27, but there are exceptions: for example, the Chosen One has a significantly higher limit.

Related level perks synergize with one another, allowing you to unlock additional bonuses; see perk synergies for details.

All level perks available as of Patch 6.5 are listed in the table below.

Level perk requirements and bonuses, and related perk synergies

Name	Lvl	SPECIAL	Bonus	Synergy #1	Synergy #2
Vital Shielding	12	Endurance ≥ 6	Grants +1% damage resistance for every 100 current hit points you have; your negative HP capacity counts as current hit points for the purpose of this calculation	Adaptive Barrier	—
Energy Deflection	6	Strength ≥ 8	Reflects 60% of incoming laser and electrical damage back to the attacker within a range equal to your Strength x 4 (PvP only)	Adaptive Barrier	—
Reinforced Endurance	9	Endurance ≥ 6	Increases your damage resistance cap by 10% and reduces resistance penetration of incoming attacks by 5%	Adaptive Barrier	—
Turret Mechanic	18	Intelligence ≥ 8	Allows you to set up a double minigun turret that lasts for 120 seconds (cooldown: 180 seconds); the turret is vulnerable to EMP damage and costs 10 Good Metal Parts to build	Architect	Tower Defense
Animal Friend	3	Charisma ≥ 6	Grants 40% extra hit points to all of your followers except humans and mutants	Architect	—
Engineer	12	Intelligence ≥ 6	Any objects you build deal 30% more damage; traps, sandbags, and turrets last 100% longer	Architect	—
Dodger	3	Agility ≥ 8	+150 AC Incoming damage is reduced by 50% if the attacker is 40+ hexes away	Armor King	—
Livewire	3	Agility ≥ 6	Doubles your AC Reduces your character size by 5% Reduces attackers' Lethality by 5%	Armor King	—
Quick Recovery	3	Luck ≥ 6	Halves APs lost via knockdowns/knockouts +8% AP Drain (critical effect only) resistance for each point of Luck Increases your attackers' attack delay by 30%	Armor King	—
Gain Strength	3	Strength ≤ 19	+2 Strength +5 Strength for class SPECIAL scaling calculation	Bonus HtH Rapid	—
Better HtH Criticals	15	Strength ≥ 8	+33% critical power when using melee weapons +75% critical damage when using melee weapons +20% critical chance resistance penetration when using melee weapons	Bonus HtH Rapid	—
In Your Face!	9	Agility ≥ 6	Lowers attackers' chance to hit you to 50% if they're standing on an adjacent hex Lowers opponent's bounty power by 1	Bonus HtH Rapid	—
Bonus HtH Attacks	18	Agility ≥ 8	Reduces the cost of melee/unarmed attacks by 1 AP +8 TB attacks (of any type, including ranged)	Bonus HtH Speed	—
Bonus HtH Damage	3	Strength ≥ 5	+10 melee damage Shortens battle timer by 30%	Bonus HtH Speed	—
Vampire	9	Endurance ≥ 8	Adds 25% lifesteal to your melee attacks	Bonus HtH Speed	—
Bonus Ranged Damage	9	Perception ≥ 6	+3 damage per bullet when using ranged weapons	Burster	Ammo Loader
Death Sense	6	Luck ≥ 6	Penetrates 30% of your targets' total DT if they're below 50% max HP Penetrates 20% of your targets' total DR if they're below 50% max HP	Burster	—
More Ranged Damage	15	Perception ≥ 8	+4 damage per bullet when using ranged weapons	Burster	—
Deadeye	6	Agility ≥ 6	Reduces aimed attack penalties: accuracy and attack delay by 50%, AP cost by 1 AP Improves critical rate by 500 ms	Deadly Momentum	—
Bonus Damage Multi	6	Perception ≥ 6	+17% damage multiplier +10% to minimum damage +10% to maximum damage	Deadly Momentum	—
Focused Striker	9	Perception ≥ 8	Grants +2% damage multiplier and +2% critical damage every second you don't attack (maximum stacks: 50) The usual rule that all incoming damage in PvP must be halved if it's above 350, and then halved again if it's still above 300, does not apply when delivering a fully charged (50/50 stacks) Focused Strike	Deadly Momentum	—
Iron Limbs (a.k.a. Iron Grip)	3	Agility ≥ 6	You never drop your weapon Grants +8% resistance to crippled limbs (critical effect only) for each point of Agility	Iron Man	—
Man of Steel	15	Endurance ≥ 6	+25% critical chance resistance +50% critical power resistance +8% resistance to armor bypass (critical effect only) for each point of Endurance	Iron Man	—
Unbreakable	12	Strength ≥ 8	Increases critical damage resistance by 20% You cannot be critically hit twice in a row	Iron Man	—
Living Anatomy	12	Intelligence ≥ 6	Adds 20 lethal damage to attacks against living organisms Adds 200 to First Aid's critical fail roll, effectively disabling critical fails if your FA ≥ 250%	Lethal Death	—
Gunner	3	Intelligence ≥ 6	Converts 10% of your base damage to lethal damage; critical hits convert double the amount Converts all bonus damage per bullet into lethal damage	Lethal Death	Ammo Loader
Weapon Handling	3	Charisma ≥ 6	+2 Strength for chance to hit calculation +25% lethal damage	Lethal Death	—
Better Criticals	12	Luck ≥ 8	+25% critical power Aimed attacks deal +50% critical damage	Marksman	—
Hit the Gaps	12	Charisma ≥ 8	Reduces your target's body armor's critical modifiers by 80%	Marksman	—
Spray and Pray	6	Luck ≥ 6	Removes critical chance cap	Marksman	Anti-Sneaker
Healer	3	Endurance ≥ 6	+50-100 hit points restored when using First Aid +10% movement speed when your health drops below 50% Using First Aid on a bleeding target removes one Bleed stack	Medicine Doctor	—
Medic	15	Intelligence ≥ 8	First Aid cooldown reduced by 75% +15-30 hit points restored when using First Aid Doctor cooldown reduced by 50% Doctor is able to cleanse negative action points from the target Being hit reduces Shield (Intelligence mastery effect) cooldown to 30 seconds	Medicine Doctor	—
Surgeon	3	Intelligence ≥ 6	+50 negative HP capacity Using First Aid or Doctor refunds 2 APs Your armor's condition loss is unaffected by attackers' Luck Teammates below 1 HP are automatically marked Doctor increases your accuracy	Medicine Doctor	—
Gain Charisma	3	Charisma ≤ 19	+2 Charisma +5 Charisma for class SPECIAL scaling calculation	Mysterious Stranger	—
Cult of Personality	3	Charisma ≥ 8	+100 party points Removes negative reputation effects Doubles reputation gains/losses +40% damage to targets whose Raider/Wastelander reputation balance opposes yours; if there's a tie, the bonus applies against other neutrals	Mysterious Stranger	—
Party Member	3	Charisma ≥ 6	Increases healing received by allies by 33% Reduces friendly fire damage by 80% Faction members/NPC companions on the same map as you gain 5% damage and 1% Damage Protection (this buff stacks if multiple allied characters on the map have the perk)	Mysterious Stranger	Tower Defense
Demolition Boy	6	Strength ≥ 6	Grants your AoE effects 10% more damage and expands their radius by 1 hex	Nader	—
Heave Ho!	6	Strength ≥ 6	Increases Throwing weapons' range by 6 Grants Throwing weapons +30% DR penetration	Nader	—
Hit and Run	9	Agility ≥ 6	Doubles movement speed for 3 seconds after a melee/throwing attack or using First Aid/Doctor on another character Reduces the duration of Slows applied to you by 50%	Nader	—
Gain Perception	3	Perception ≤ 19	+2 Perception +5 Perception for class SPECIAL scaling calculation	Ninja	Anti-Sneaker
Ghost	6	Perception ≥ 6	+100 Sneak if there's a wall within 5 hexes	Ninja	—
Silent Running	6	Agility ≥ 6	Back attacks always crit when you're unarmed, using melee weapons or firing one-handed guns Enables sneaking and running at the same time	Ninja	—
Bonus Battle Stats	6	Perception ≥ 6	+50 accuracy +12% damage multiplier +3 weapon range (ranged weapons only)	Pyro!	—
Firefighter	3	Intelligence ≥ 6	+15 DT against fire and explosive damage Reduces attacker's maximum melee power by 35% Grants immunity to Pyromaniac, Pyro!, and tier 3 Phoenix Module bonuses +8% Confusion (critical effect only) resistance per point of Intelligence	Pyro!	—
Pyromaniac	9	Endurance ≥ 6	+2% fire damage for every percentage point of character size difference when attacking targets smaller than you	Pyro!	—
Bonus AP Regen	3	Agility ≥ 6	+20% AP Regen Restores 20% of your action points on kill	Quartermaster	Bonus Rapid Fire
Earlier Sequence	3	Perception ≥ 5	+30 Sequence +25 to the AC MOD of your ammo	Quartermaster	—
Quick Pockets	3	Agility ≥ 5	Halves your reload cost -1 AP cost of using super stimpaks/bloodpacks Allows you to load your shotguns twice as fast (inserting two shells at a time) +15% healing received	Quartermaster	—
Cowboy	3	Agility ≥ 8	Grants +50 AP Regen if you have a one-handed weapon equipped Grants pistols 40% reduced attack delay and 10% higher range	Quick Fingers	Pistolero
Fast Attacks	9	Agility ≥ 6	Reduces attack delay by 200	Quick Fingers	—
Bonus Rate of Fire	18	Agility ≥ 8	-1 AP to ranged attack cost, except if throwing melee-class items	Quick Fingers	Bonus Rapid Fire
Awareness	3	Perception ≥ 6	Displays other characters' damage type, their DT/DR against your damage type, and their critical chance/resistances +5% maximum chance to hit +25 Sneak detection Displays players currently located in a given world map zone After a sneaker within 50 hexes of you fires a weapon, Awareness automatically marks their position	Ranger	Anti-Sneaker
Right between the Eyes	15	Perception ≥ 8	-90% to your target's helmet's critical modifiers	Ranger	Pistolero
Sharpshooter	6	Perception ≥ 8	+2 Perception for sight range calculation +1-10% DR penetration (randomized per attack) Doubles your accuracy	Ranger	—
Gain Luck	3	Luck ≤ 19	+2 Luck +5 Luck for class SPECIAL scaling calculation	Slayer	—
Even More Criticals	6	Luck ≥ 8	+10% to critical hit chance +1% additional critical hit chance for every critical hit chance bonus that currently applies to your character (from drugs, perks/traits, class-specific effects, etc.)	Slayer	—
More Critical	3	Luck ≥ 6	+6% critical hit chance +1% additional critical hit chance for aimed attacks per point of Luck	Slayer	Pistolero
Action Boy	12	Agility ≥ 6	+2 APs +50 AP Regen	Speedboy	Bonus Rapid Fire
Bonus Move	3	Agility ≥ 6	+2 TB movement-only APs +10% movement speed	Speedboy	—
Gain Agility	3	Agility ≤ 19	+2 Agility +5 Agility for class SPECIAL scaling calculation	Speedboy	—
Gain Intelligence	3	Intelligence ≤ 19	+2 Intelligence +5 Intelligence for class SPECIAL scaling calculation	Stealth Master	—
Phantom Presence	18	Luck ≥ 8	+10% Lethality while sneaking Your unaimed attacks gain +30% critical power and +60% critical damage while you're sneaking	Stealth Master	—
Undetected	3	Charisma ≥ 6	+15 Stealth Reduces opponents' sneak detection by 33%	Stealth Master	—
Adrenaline Rush	3	Charisma ≥ 6	Grants a DT/DR bonus based on the missing percentage of your maximum HP: Total HP loss Total DT bonus Total DR bonus ≥ 25% 1 5 ≥ 50% 2 10 ≥ 75% 3 15 Grants +8% Slow (critical effect only) resistance for each point of Charisma Increases character size by 0.2% for every 1% of missing HP	Tank	—
Lethal Protection	12	Perception ≥ 6	Lethal damage doesn't bypass your DR Reduces the "Death" effect damage by 8% per point of Perception	Tank	—
Toughness	6	Endurance ≥ 4	+4 normal DT +12 normal DR Lowers 1-hex burst damage by 25%	Tank	—
Cybernetic Eye	6	Perception ≥ 6	Grants fire, normal, and explosive DR penetration to your aimed attacks that scales with your opponent's armor's condition (+1% pen for every 2% of condition missing) Your aimed attacks deal 1% extra damage per percentage point of character size difference against targets bigger than you	Technician	—
Gain Implants	3	Charisma ≥ 6	Increases SPECIAL implant limit by 3 and grants +5 Charisma for the combat implant limit calculation	Technician	—
Synthetic	18	Charisma ≥ 8	Transforms you into a robotic entity, reducing your EMP DR to 0 Allows installation of EMP Shield implants +10% Laser, Plasma, and Electro DR penetration +10% Laser, Plasma, and Electro DR penetration resistance	Technician	Ammo Loader
Lone Wanderer	3	Charisma ≥ 6	If there are no players or NPCs from your faction/team within 20 hexes, you get +10% to all damage resistances and +30% to healing received	Undying	—
Providence	9	Luck ≥ 8	You have a chance equal to your critical chance to gain 75% Damage Protection whenever you're hit	Undying	—
Stonewall	9	Strength ≥ 6	+8% chance to avoid knockouts and lost turns (critical effects only) per point of Strength Grants knockdown (critical effect only) immunity -4 to the distance of knockbacks targeting you (if the resulting distance is ≤ 0, you're effectively immune) Reduces enemy Scouts' Luck by an amount equal to your Strength for the purpose of Scout's Strike knockout chance calculation	Undying	—
Baiter	6	Charisma ≥ 6	Grants immunity to taunts Allows you to taunt all enemies within 30 hexes by using the Traps skill on yourself (Cooldown: 120 seconds)	Vanishing Act	—
Crasher	15	Luck ≥ 8	Your criticals ignore 50% of the target's melee power defense and bypass their melee DR penetration protection	Vanishing Act	—
Long Arms	15	Strength ≥ 8	Extends your weapon's range by 1 (regardless of type) Your 1-hex bonuses now also apply at the range of 2 hexes	Vanishing Act	—
Atomic Savant	9	Endurance ≥ 6	Allows normal DR to reduce Bleed damage, plasma DR to reduce Poison damage, and fire DR to reduce Burn damage +8% plasma DR	Vigor Boost	—
Coolheaded	3	Charisma ≥ 6	+8% Shock (critical effect only) resistance for each point of Charisma Shortens the duration of Shock, Slow, Taunt, Mark, and Bewilderment by 30% +4% laser damage resistance	Vigor Boost	Tower Defense
Muscular Physique	18	Endurance ≥ 8	Reduces enemy damage multiplier by 14% +5% Damage Protection when your battle timer is active +6% electrical damage resistance	Vigor Boost	—
Faster Healing	3	Endurance ≥ 6	+15 healing rate -5 healing rate cooldown +25% healing received	Vitality	—
Gain Endurance	3	Endurance ≤ 19	+2 Endurance +5 Endurance for class SPECIAL scaling calculation	Vitality	—
Lifegiver	12	Endurance ≥ 5	+6 Endurance for HP per level calculation (capped at 20; best case scenario: +128 HP) Drugs that restore hit points have their attack delay reduced by 50%	Vitality	—

Perk synergies

Perk synergies are powerful bonuses that activate when their three associated level perks are acquired.

If your build already includes 2 out of 3 perks required to unlock a synergy bonus, it is always worth considering if getting the third, perhaps unappealing on its own, perk, and thus activating the synergy, wouldn't increase the build's power level more than picking a good perk that doesn't contribute to any synergy.

Name	Perks	Bonus
Adaptive Barrier	Energy Deflection Reinforced Endurance Vital Shielding	If your damage resistance (DR) is higher than your attacker's, you gain a damage multiplier equal to the difference between your DR and theirs. If your attacker's DR is higher than yours, you reduce their damage multiplier by the difference instead.
Ammo Loader	Bonus Ranged Damage Gunner Synthetic	Ammo placed in your second hand slot is fed into your weapon automatically at no AP cost
Anti-Sneaker	Awareness Gain Perception Spray and Pray	When a sneaking player attacks you, their position is automatically marked You receive 75% less incoming damage from attacks performed by players that are sneaking You receive a 150% additive bonus to your damage multiplier against characters that are sneaking You are restored to full health on killing a player character with the Sneaker class role
Architect	Animal Friend Engineer Turret Mechanic	Reduces turret building cooldown to 60 seconds and upgrades the weapon to a heavy double minigun. Explosive barrels are built 10 hexes ahead of the player, and the build cost is reduced to one advanced gunpowder and one good metal part. Sandbags are built three at a time, covering the player's frontside hexes. Land mines always cripple legs.
Armor King	Dodger Livewire Quick Recovery	-25 to attackers' AC MOD +5% Damage Protection +10 DT cap -15% character size
Bonus HtH Rapid	Better HtH Criticals Gain Strength In Your Face!	+5 Strength for Heavy Handed calculations +100 AP Regen when using a melee weapon
Bonus HtH Speed	Bonus HtH Attacks Bonus HtH Damage Vampire	+10% movement speed +0.3% movement speed for every 1% of character size above 100% -10% attack delay
Bonus Rapid Fire	Action Boy Bonus Rate of Fire Bonus AP Regen	Attacking/reloading costs 1 AP less
Burster	Bonus Ranged Damage Death Sense More Ranged Damage	+75% chance to deal +100% damage when attacking a target on an adjacent hex (a.k.a. "1-hexing")
Deadly Momentum	Bonus Damage Multi Deadeye Focused Striker	When Focused Strike is fully charged (50/50 stacks), your damage is doubled
Iron Man	Iron Limbs Man of Steel Unbreakable	+30% critical chance resistance and critical roll resistance -20% critical damage received
Lethal Death	Gunner Living Anatomy Weapon Handling	+25% more lethal damage when the target is below 50% HP +10% Lethality (hitting targets with max HP % below your Lethality % adds 2137 damage to your attack)
Marksman	Better Criticals Hit the Gaps Spray and Pray	+3% additional critical chance for aimed attacks per point of Luck (this stacks with the regular +4% bonus for a total of +7%) 150% critical power when the target is less than 30 hexes away Critical rate improved by 200 ms
Medicine Doctor	Healer Medic Surgeon	Healing others also heals you for 50% of the amount +20% DT penetration protection when below 50% HP +30% DR penetration protection when below 50% HP
Mysterious Stranger	Cult of Personality Gain Charisma Party Member	All NPC companions gain 30% increased Damage Protection Whenever you enter a new location, an NPC companion spawns: their gear tier matches yours; their build is randomized; their power level scales with the current patch number Whenever you re-enter the battlefield during War Events, two NPC soldiers spawn to fight alongside you; the effect has a 30-second cooldown
Nader	Demolition Boy Heave Ho! Hit and Run	Grenades gain weapon perks based on your armor perks, see Weapons#Grenade perks for details +1 AP drained from your targets per hit
Ninja	Gain Perception Ghost Silent Running	+20 Stealth +20 Stealth when next to a wall (stacks with the unconditional +20 for a total of +40) -50% AP cost of activating sneak
Pistolero	Cowboy Right between the Eyes More Critical	Hitting a player or an NPC target with an SG pistol applies one stack of a Pistolero-exclusive debuff that causes SG pistol attacks from any Pistolero to ignore 2% of the target's armor (or 5% on crit) per stack. The debuff lasts 5 seconds; adding stacks refreshes its duration, but if it expires, all stacks are lost. Several Pistoleros can apply and benefit from the stacking debuff as if they were one character.
Pyro!	Bonus Battle Stats Firefighter Pyromaniac	50% of Pyromaniac's and Phoenix Module's fire damage bonus gained as extra lethal damage -10% to your targets' lethal damage defenses +40% character size
Quartermaster	Bonus AP Regen Earlier Sequence Quick Pockets	All tools function directly from inventory Tool efficiency increased by 100% Can use two medications at once Carry weight is doubled Motion sensors and armor require only 1 MFC to fully charge The cost of discharging armor is halved Swapping armor does not consume action points
Quick Fingers	Bonus Rate of Fire Cowboy Fast Attacks	-50% attack delay for single shots (excluding melee and throwing) +17% damage multiplier against targets larger than you
Ranger	Awareness Right between the Eyes Sharpshooter	+5 range for throwing and ranged weapons +50% critical chance resistance penetration when the target is 60+ hexes away +50% critical power resistance penetration when the target is 60+ hexes away Critical rate improved by 200 ms
Slayer	Even More Criticals Gain Luck More Critical	+40 to critical roll -80% to target's armor's critical roll protection Critical rate improved by 500 ms
Speedboy	Action Boy Bonus Move Gain Agility	+25% Bonus AP +10% to movement speed bonus caps -50% attack delay from using items that restore hit points -50% reload cost
Stealth Master	Gain Intelligence Phantom Presence Undetected	Standing still and performing no actions for 5s after manually activating sneak mode out of combat while wearing leather armor lets you become completely invisible. There will be a purple # icon displayed next to your name tag to indicate that "ultra sneak" mode is active Activating Sneak reduces combat timer to 5s Whenever your HP drops below 0, you enter sneak mode automatically
Tank	Adrenaline Rush Lethal Protection Toughness	+10 to all defensive rolls -30% to attackers' melee damage Minimum damage multiplier capped at 80% +10% to damage multiplier against targets below your character size
Technician	Cybernetic Eye Gain Implants Synthetic	You can pick an additional level perk that can be changed at any time using the ~technician, or ~tech for short, command. Note that picking a perk you already have will have no effect.
Tower Defense	Party Member Turret Mechanic Coolheaded	Your turrets spawn with 10 seconds of damage immunity Your sandbags spawn with 3 seconds of damage immunity
Undying	Lone Wanderer Providence Stonewall	When you die, you are automatically revived with 50% HP and given 5 seconds of damage immunity (Cooldown: 180 seconds)
Vanishing Act	Baiter Crasher Long Arms	When hit by a player, you gain +500 Stealth for 1 second and automatically enter Sneak mode (Cooldown: 3 seconds)
Vigor Boost	Atomic Savant Coolheaded Muscular Physique	Whenever you take damage, you have a chance to gain 1 second of immunity based on your HP % after the hit. Your remaining hit points >90% 76–90% 51–75% 26–50% 11–25% 1–10% <1% Chance to gain immunity 0% 10% 15% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Vitality	Faster Healing Gain Endurance Lifegiver	Healing rate increased by 50% Poison reduces your healing received multiplier by only 20% (down from 50%) Bleeding reduces your healing received multiplier by only 20% (down from 50%)