How do you level up perks?

[+Tooterfish]

I thought you needed duplicates, but I have x2 Picklock and x2 Expert Picklock but I can't upgrade them. I feel like I'm wasting my level ups trying to figure it out. Can anyone help?

[Percello]

Originally posted by +Tooterfish:

I thought you needed duplicates, but I have x2 Picklock and x2 Expert Picklock but I can't upgrade them. I feel like I'm wasting my level ups trying to figure it out. Can anyone help?

Some perk cards upgrade and some cards can't. Picklock isn't upgraded since it is a 1 star card. You have to equip all 3 to get the max effect. Gun Fu, for instance, can be upgraded by getting multiple cards and combining them.

[Voden]

Look at the stars in the bottom right of the card. That'll show you if/how many times it can be upgraded. Like Percello said, some cards will only have 1 or 2 ranks, some go up to 5. And many (like lock picking, shotguns, etc.) will need to be stacked in order to get maximum effect.

[+Tooterfish]

Originally posted by Percello:

Originally posted by +Tooterfish:

I thought you needed duplicates, but I have x2 Picklock and x2 Expert Picklock but I can't upgrade them. I feel like I'm wasting my level ups trying to figure it out. Can anyone help?

Some perk cards upgrade and some cards can't. Picklock isn't upgraded since it is a 1 star card. You have to equip all 3 to get the max effect. Gun Fu, for instance, can be upgraded by getting multiple cards and combining them.

Oh gotcha, so the stars mean how many times it can be upgraded. Thanks!

[Percello]

Originally posted by +Tooterfish:

Originally posted by Percello:

Some perk cards upgrade and some cards can't. Picklock isn't upgraded since it is a 1 star card. You have to equip all 3 to get the max effect. Gun Fu, for instance, can be upgraded by getting multiple cards and combining them.

Oh gotcha, so the stars mean how many times it can be upgraded. Thanks!

Yeah. When you look at the cards, the white stars is the "rank" of the card and the black stars is how many times it can be upgraded. So, if theres 1 white star and 2 black stars, that card can be combined 2 times.

[迪亚哥]

Lockpicking and hacking are no longer useful because there is a legendary perk

[tbloyzz]

Originally posted by 迪亚哥:

Lockpicking and hacking are no longer useful because there is a legendary perk

Depends. If you really want to maximize your build, you might just equip them when needed and safe your legendary for something more substantial. Opening doors and containers might be rewarding early game, but at some stage, you do not need to bother unlocking them.

[迪亚哥]

Originally posted by tbloyzz:

Originally posted by 迪亚哥:

Lockpicking and hacking are no longer useful because there is a legendary perk

Depends. If you really want to maximize your build, you might just equip them when needed and safe your legendary for something more substantial. Opening doors and containers might be rewarding early game, but at some stage, you do not need to bother unlocking them.

Yes, more bullets are available.

[tbloyzz]

Originally posted by 迪亚哥:

Originally posted by tbloyzz:

Depends. If you really want to maximize your build, you might just equip them when needed and safe your legendary for something more substantial. Opening doors and containers might be rewarding early game, but at some stage, you do not need to bother unlocking them.

Yes, more bullets are available.

That requirement is quite exclusive for gauss minigun users, I suppose. For all other weapons, ammo should not be an issue.

[Helios]

Originally posted by +Tooterfish:

I thought you needed duplicates, but I have x2 Picklock and x2 Expert Picklock but I can't upgrade them. I feel like I'm wasting my level ups trying to figure it out. Can anyone help?

3. You need Masterlockpick you can only get it after level 40 but i also picked masterinfiltrator legendary card at 50 that gives +3 lockpick and +3 hacking .

[spoggie]

Originally posted by +Tooterfish:

I thought you needed duplicates, but I have x2 Picklock and x2 Expert Picklock but I can't upgrade them. I feel like I'm wasting my level ups trying to figure it out. Can anyone help?

Your question has been answered but also:
The game gives you a pack of cards periodically. Some of those cards might not be of any use to you.
You also get to pick your own cards so after a while you might own cards you don't want or need.
At some stage you will most probably be scrapping cards to get perk coins which you can spend on upgrading or changing legendary cards in the legendary card slots that progressively become available.
If you are like me you might scrap the wrong card and have to level up a few times to get it back.
You might have your cards set for fighting but when you go to the shops you might swap cards to get better prices then swap back.
Same for repairing weapons and armour and crafting things, you might keep some cards to be able to fix things good, make more durable armour, make double chems and etc. and when finished reapply your owned fighting and surviving cards.

Don't be like me and forget to change back all the time.

[lordoftheapes79]

Lockpicking and hacking perks are different than other perk cards, hence your confusing. To get higher level of these, you need to use the different versions, Standard, Expert, and Master together. Everything else is answered in previous posts.

[Jeff Kaos]

One more thing to consider when upgrading perks: You have to have at least one upgraded to max before you an upgrade another.

This rarely comes up but if you're like me and experiment with builds it would be really great to take a perk that can go up to level 5 and have one at level 3 or 4 for one build and one at level 2 for another. This isn't possible. When you upgrade perks it automatically makes one of your selection your highest perk and you can't change it.

[Prussian_Dude]

Originally posted by 迪亚哥:

Lockpicking and hacking are no longer useful because there is a legendary perk

Unless your using, Different Legendary perks. "Ammo Factory" only good when making ammo. "Master Infiltrator" is only good when Hacking, or Lock-picking.

I just, now take off my Level 3 Tank killer, for Lock Picking Perk cards. Or my Level 3 "Demolitions Expert"/"Stabilized" for the Hacking Perk Cards. I'm thinking of taking another, Legendary Perk Card, but I guess, I will try after Legendary Crafting gets redone.

But, some Perk Cards, either had different levels at one time, or you could have an animated perk card, and non-animated one. So, Click X for inspect, and see if the card can be upgraded, and to how many stars. You can up grade some, cards to level 5.

But do you have the Level of Special slot left to use it?
Are you trying to share, Perk cards?
Do you have the natural Level of Charisma, to share it?
Its every 3 levels of Charisma, one star of perk card can be shared. So 5 star card, of which there are not many, would need 15 Charisma.

[Lynchburg]

I need help too. I have 2 of these but it wont let me equip both or level them up. Now I cant unlock this door. Such a dumb leveling system that makes absolutely no sense. But hey, at least they added a bunch of gay pride flags to the game

https://imgur.com/a/wI66iCV

[spoggie]

Originally posted by Yaraslav Hunka:

I need help too. I have 2 of these but it wont let me equip both or level them up. Now I cant unlock this door. Such a dumb leveling system that makes absolutely no sense. But hey, at least they added a bunch of gay pride flags to the game

https://imgur.com/a/wI66iCV

There are three related non legendary perk cards. Picklock, expert picklock and master picklock.
You don't upgrade them as they are one star each. You equip them all for level 3 locks or two of them for level 2 locks.
You could scrap one of the normal picklock cards and get a perk coin that you can eventually spend.