Starfield Skills Guide: Mastering the Essential Skills for Success

Skills in Starfield are passive bonuses divided into five core groups: physical, social, combat, science, and tech.

To unlock higher tiers of skills, you need to spend a certain amount of points in each category.

When choosing your skills, consider your character's gameplay goals and prioritize accordingly.

🔑 There are 16 skills in each of the five categories that can be upgraded to maximize with four points each.

🚀 The piloting skill improves ship handling and allows for piloting better ships.

💪 The weightlifting skill provides extra carry weight.

🗣️ The persuasion skill proves useful in quests and determining the required effort.

🔫 The ballistics skill provides a boost to various types of weapons.

⏱️ The research methods skill saves time and reduces crafting costs.

🎒 The boost pack training skill improves exploration and is required for some quests.

🔒 The security skill allows for certain abilities to be used.

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🔒 Skills like Digipicks and Doris are essential for looting and exploring.

🎯 Physical skills like Fitness, Stealth, Pain Tolerance, and Concealment are recommended for stealth gameplay.

🗣️ Social skills are important for interacting with NPC characters.

🔑 Persuasion is a useful skill for most situations in the game, while bribery is not necessary.

💰 Commerce skill can help players earn credits quickly if they want to buy expensive items.

🏴‍☠️ Stealthy Outlaw players may find the Theft skill useful, but it's not necessary for others.

👥 Leadership skill is beneficial for increasing companion Affinity and carry capacity.

🏰 Outpost Management skill is essential for players who want to delve into the Outpost system.

🚢 Ship Command skill allows players to have up to eight active crew members.

⚔️ There are various combat skills available based on personal playstyle.

🎯 Marksmanship is recommended for non-automatic weapon users.

🔄 Rapid reloading skill allows for faster reload times.

👀 Targeting skill improves accuracy when shooting from the hip.

🔍 Scanning skill enhances planet and ship scanning capabilities.

🧪 Spacesuit design skill is important for optimizing armor.

🔧 Weapon engineering is a must-have skill for effective weapon use.

🔑 Astrophysics skill allows for planet scanning from afar.

⚙️ Outpost engineering skill is necessary for outposting and offers construction discounts.

🔬 Special projects skill enables unique experimental research in crafting.

🚀 Tech skills focus on spaceship and robotics, including cargo capacity increase and ship upgrades.

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🚀 Certain skills provide defense boost, repair improvement, and damage mitigation for ships.

👥 Companions and crew members also have skills that provide passive bonuses to improve ships and outposts.