You should avoid direct combat wherever possible, and seek cover whenever a firefight breaks out.
That said, there are certainly perks worth grabbing in the other attribute trees.
Here’sa rundown on where to spend your perksunder each attributefora level 50 build.
For suggestions towardsa level 60 Lucy build,check out the Relic Perkssection below.
Intelligence
Here’s where Lucy’s build will invest the bulk of her perks.
Carhackerlets you hack cars.
Embedded ExploitandSystem Overwhelmimprove quickhack damage, whileSpeculationandIcepickimprove your RAM economy.
Don’t worry–your quickhacks will do plenty of damage.
All Things Cyber,Driver Update, andChipware Connoisseurimprove your cyberwares overall stats and reduces their capacity cost.
Start withJailbreakto unlock the ability to administer a control quickhack through your monowire.
Then grabData Tunnelingto make that quickhack effect enemies you incidentally hit with your wildly flailing monowire.
Vulnerability AnalyticsandMachine Learningunlock special weak points on enemies.
Phantom Liberty also gives you ten more attribute points and more perk points.
These can greatly improve your overall survivability.
The choice is yours.
Explore the Cynosure facility during the Somewhat Damaged quest in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty!
Frontal Cortex
Bioconductor
Add a critical hit chance to your quickhacks at the cost of some RAM.
Upgrade to the COX-2 Cybersomatic Optimizer when possible.
Ex-Disk
Increase the upload speed of your quickhacks.
Essential for fast quickhacking.
Newton Module
This reduces the cooldown of your Overlock ability as well as several other cyberware.
Upgrade to Axolotl when possible.
Arms
Monowire
Lucy’s signature weapon.
Skeleton
Bionic Joints
Cheap way to get additional armor.
Dense Marrow
Adds extra damage to your monowire and makes it cost less stamina.
Nervous System
Adrenaline Converter
Helps get you into monowire range quickly.
Upgrade to Adreno-Trigger when possible.
Neofiber
Improves both your damage mitigation and strength, improving overall resilience.
Reflex Tuner
Helps get you out of combat when things turn bad.
Upgrade to Revulsor when possible.
Countershell
Keeps you alive when taking unexpectedly high damage.
Works well with Reflex Tuner.
Subdermal Armor
Cheap source of armor.
Wear and upgrade always.
Operating System
Cyberdeck
The key to hacking.
More on that below.
Face
Kiroshi “The Oracle” Optics
The best cyber eyes eddies can buy.
Highlights turrets, explosives, enemies, and traps.
Hands
Tyger Claws Dermal Implant
Costs nothing and can give you bonuses when upgraded past tier 2.
Circulatory System
Biomonitor
Automatically uses health item to keep you alive.
Great with Blood Pump.
Blood Pump
The best health item in the game.
Vastly improves your durability, especially with Biomonitor.
Microrotors
Improved monowire attack speed.
Legs
Jenkin’s Tendons
The girl can run, and Jenkin’s Tendons makes you better at running.
But for Lucy,there’s really only one option, and that’s theBiotech cyberdeck.
4
The Biotech Mk.
4 providesextra duration to combat quickhacks,extra damage over time, and once fully upgraded to the Mk.
4 version,25 percent more damage to your monowirefor every enemy affected by a damage-over-time effect.
Once youoverclock, you alsoreset the timers for all damage-over-time effects.
Which Monowire To Choose
When it comes to yourmonowire,you’ve got a few options.
There’s no evidence to suggest Lucy used anything other than a regular monowire in Edgerunners.
Grab it when you could.
In Night City, you might find a few people offering special services.
Quickhacks For Lucy’s Build
In the show.
Lucy is portrayed as someone who can basically do anything.
Here’sa few recommendations, but feel free to experiment and see what’s right for you.
Contagion
Great for eliminating crowds of enemies.
Combine with Overheat later in the queue for an explosive finish.
Cyberware Malfunction
The easiest way to take down a cyberpsycho is to make their cyberware cease functioning.
Hack the same enemy repeated for a powerful damage-over-time effect at higher levels.
At higher levels, it can even stop an aggressive enemy dead in their tracks.
Overheat
Added thermal damage for unarmored enemies.
This damage-over-time quickhack will be your bread-and-butter for dealing with high-health enemies.
Ping
An essential quickhack for scoping out a connection and determining where all the pitfalls and enemies are located.
double-check this quickhack gets upgraded as soon as possible.
Short Circuit
For when you need something dead, now.
This is your essential damage-dealing quickhack, which deals bonus damage to mechanized enemies.
Sonic Shock
Another essential quickhack for covert operations.
Place Sonic Shock first in the queue and every quickhack afterward won’t raise an alarm.
Stack this quickhack to take down bosses with ease.
Make contact with Alt Cunningham during the Transmission quest in Cyberpunk 2077!
So let’s give the character her appearance!
