Blades Skill Tree And Perks

The Blades Skill includes held bladed weapons like Knives and Swords but also involves perks that focus on poison and bleed damage effects. The Blades Skill is linked to the Reflexes Attribute.

How To Level Up The Blades Skill

The Blades Skill levels up based on how often you use Bladed Weapons to inflict damage on enemies.

Blades Skill Tree Perks List

All Perks available for the Blades Skill Tree are listed below. Perks can be unlocked at specific levels and are either Passive or Active.

LEVEL 1
NAME EFFECT
Roaring Waters Strong Attacks with Blades deal (10% | 20% | 30%) more damage. (3 Ranks)
Sting Like A Bee Increases attack speed with Blades by (10% | 20% | 30%). (3 Ranks)
LEVEL 4
NAME EFFECT
Crimson Dance Combos with Blades have a (15% | 30%) chance to apply Bleeding. (2 Ranks)
Slow And Steady Moving while wielding a Blade increases Armor by (15% | 30%). (2 Ranks)
LEVEL 6
NAME EFFECT
Flight Of The Sparrow Reduces the Stamina cost of all attacks with Blades by (30% | 50%). (2 Ranks)
Offensive Defense Defensive Attacks with Blades deal (75% | 150%) more damage. (2 Ranks)
LEVEL 8
NAME EFFECT
Shifting Sands Dodging while wielding a Blade recovers (15% | 20% | 25%) Stamina. (3 Ranks)
Stuck Pig Increases Bleeding duration by (3 | 6 | 10) seconds. (3 Ranks)
LEVEL 10
NAME EFFECT
Blessed Blade Increases Crit Chance with Blades by 10%.
Unbroken Spirit Successful Counterattacks with Blades restore 25% Health and Stamina.
LEVEL 12
NAME EFFECT
Bloodlust While wielding a Blade, recovers (2% | 4%) Health when hitting an enemy affected by Bleeding. (2 Ranks)
Float Like A Butterfly Dodging increases damage with Blades by (25% | 50%) for 5 seconds. (2 Ranks)
LEVEL 15
NAME EFFECT
Judge, Jury And Executioner Increases damage with Blades by (50% | 75% | 100%) against enemies with max Health. (3 Ranks)
Fiery Blast Increases damage with Blades by (1% | 2% | 3%) for every 1% of Health the enemy is missing. (3 Ranks)
LEVEL 18
NAME EFFECT
Crimson Tide Bleeding applied with Blades can stack 3 times.
Deathbolt While wielding a Blade, defeating an enemy restores 20% Health and increases movement speed by 30% for 5 seconds.
LEVEL 20
NAME EFFECT
Dragon Strike

Increases Crit Damage with Blades by 40%.

+1% per Perk level.

 

Skill Tree Progression Rewards

Every Skill Tree in Cybepunk 2077 also comes with a built-in Skill Progression Rewards System. As you level up any Skill Tree in the game you gain bonus rewards, ranging from extra Perk Points to unique bonuses and stat modifiers. Below are the Skill Progression Rewards for the Blades Skill Tree:

SKILL PROGRESSION REWARDS – BLADES
LEVEL REWARD
1 —
2 Increases the Attack Speed of your Katanas, Blades and Mantis Blades by 10%.
3 + 1 Perk Point
4 +10% Stamina Cost Reduction while attacking when using Katanas, Blades or Mantis Blades.
5 +2% Effective Damage Per Second (DPS) when using Katanas, Blades or Mantis Blades.
6 +15% Crit Damage when using Katanas, Blades or Mantis Blades.
7 +2% Crit Chance when using Katanas, Blades or Mantis Blades.
8 +1 Perk Point
9 +1 Perk Point
10 +1 Perk Point
11 Increases the Attack Speed of your Katanas, Blades, and Mantis Blades by 10%.
12 +10% Stamina Cost Reduction while attacking when using Katanas, Blades or Mantis Blades.
13 Increases the Attack Speed of your Katanas, Blades, and Mantis Blades by 10%.
14 +1 Perk Point
15 Increases the Block Damage Reduction of your Katanas, Blades, and Mantis Blades by 25%.
16 +1 Perk Point
17 +1 Perk Point
18 Increases Stamina by 5.
19 +3% Effective Damage Per Second (DPS) when using Katanas, Blades or Mantis Blades.
20 Unlocks the last Perk in the Skill tree.

Builds That Feature The Blades Skill Tree

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