Skills and Skill Trees - PayDay 2 Guide - IGN (2024)

Introduction

Just like in almost any other game PayDay 2 makes use of skills and skill trees. There are fiveskill trees can be distinguished:

• Mastermind
• Enforcer
• Technician
• Ghost
• Fugitive

Skill Points

Gaining Skill Points

Skill points can only be gained by leveling up your character. Every time you go up 1 level you will also receive 1 skill point. You will gain 2 extra skill points everytime that you reach a level that is a multitude of 10 (10,20,30...90,100).

Spending Skill Points

The only way to spend your skill points is by purchasing skills in the Skills menu. Here the player can choose to spend it in one of four skill trees.

On the first 3 tiers it will cost the player 1 skill point to buy a basic skill and 3 points to buy an aced skill. After tier 3 it will cost the player 4 points to buy a basic skill and 8 points to buy an aced skill.

Skill Trees

Tiers

The skill trees in PayDay 2 have tiers to them. As you level up you will be able to get into higher tiers with often better skills. Every tier has 3 skills in them and upon unlocking a tier, the player will receive a tier bonus. Every skill tree has 6 tiers and the first tier can be unlocked by buying the first skill in that tree. From that point on the tiers will be unlocked at certain amounts of spend skill points in that tree:

But when the player has gone infamous and spend his infamy perk on this skill tree he will need 10% less spend skill points to gain access to a tier: