No-DLC Stealth Build

A simple, No-DLC Stealth build that will get both low levels and F2P Players through the toughest of stealth missions in Payday2.

This is a No-fluff, Barebones stealth guide. It can serve as a fantastic base for an even more personalized stealth build, but is also more than sufficient on its own.

Overview

Skills

The skills found in Ghost are most important, and as such are listed first (and should be bought first if the player is lower level).

Ghost

ECM Specialist enhances the player's ECM's so that Pagers will not BEGIN to countdown when their ECM is active. NOTE: This does NOT stop Pagers that are already requesting a response (Body is highlighted in yellow). It also grants an additional ECM.
Nimble speeds up our lockpicking, and allows us to lockpick small safes (Not Vaults) without drilling them (takes about 45 seconds). Nimble also allows the player to disable a security camera for a period of time, which can be quite useful.
Inner Pockets grants us 2 bonus concealment via our melee weapon (or lack thereof).
Optical Illusions enhances our silencers by reducing their concealment penalty by 2, and then giving our build +1 concealment for each silenced weapon we bring.
Cleaner Grants us an extra body bag at the start of each day, increases our max body bags carried from 2 to 3, and allows us to place 2 body bag cases instead of 1.
Sixth Sense gives us access to mission assets, Reduces our Cleaning Costs (Incurred by killing civilians) by 75%, and allows the player to highlight nearby guards by standing still for a few seconds. This is an exceptionally useful skill, especially for new players who need to take it slow.
ECM Overdrive increases the duration of ECMs, and allows them to open electronically locked doors.




Technician:

Jack Of All Trades is an excellent skill to pick up, allowing the player to bring a secondary set of equipment. Trip Mines (AS MARKERS), the Body Bag Case, and the Ammo Bag (for Silent Saw) are the most likely secondary equipments to pick up with this.

Enforcer:

Transporter will make moving bags much easier, but it is not a critical part of the build.

Mastermind:

The only critical skill here is Forced Friendship which allows us to carry extra zip-ties. Very useful on civilian heavy maps.

Weapons

There are a plurality of options available, but the following are the easiest weapons to modify for concealment.

Primary Weapons
The CAR-4 Rifle is very versatile, and is easy to modify for concealment, even without DLC.


Barrel: Short Barrel

Barrel Ext: Low Profile Suppressor










Secondary Weapons
The Chimano 88, being the starter weapon, will feel very familiar to new players, starts with amazing concealment, and requires little modification.

[rst]

please bring the judge for stealth

[DaBaby]

perk??

[Unknownspy]

dude even though this post is like 2 years old you are a saint for posting this guide it has helped for every stealth raid but i still wanna get a different pistol would you recommend on other than the chimano

[SenhorPadre]

theres no perk for no dlc accsualy what you could use is rogue in case your stealth gets rekt

[76561198138663473]

perk ?

[defse]

this.Is what i call a good guide,i have been looking for these and i was like but finnaly i found one,thank you.

[lemit]

why not bring a judge? shotguns are very helpful in stealth.

[Lawyer Rune]

@TastyBlue - It's also the case that there are times when the game IS free to play for periods of time. This was actually specifically released on one of those "free weekends". You don't need to be so unyieldingly pedantic.

[FlatBread]

no its not obvious because we arent f2p players if we havent bought any dlcs

[Lawyer Rune]

@TastyBlue it means people who didn't buy any DLC. Pretty obvious i thought