One of the biggest things added with Phantom Liberty was the new Relic Skill Tree which gives you a whole new tree full of wonderful abilities. Unlike normal skill points that you earn from leveling up, relic skill points are acquired by progressing the expansion’s story and finding them in the wild. Read below to find out what new abilities have been added to Cyberpunk, and what the best skills are.

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You’ll unlock the Relic Skill Tree during the first mission of Phantom Liberty.

When do you get the Relic Skill Tree (2023)?¶

The relic skill tree can be acquired as soon as the first mission in the expansion. During the mission, a story event will happen and Songbird, a highly-skilled Netrunner from NUSA will give you new Militech Combat software that gives you access to the tree along with three skill points which allows you to unlock your first new ability. From this point forward, you’ll be free to search Dogtown for the hidden Militech restricted data terminals that will grant you a skill point every time you hack into one. If you want to max out the skill tree as soon as possible, visit our All Militech Relic Skill Point Locations page as these are well-hidden.

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Other than the two story missions, the rest of the relic skill points will be obtained by hacking these machines.

Relic Skill Tree Abilities¶

Here is a list of all the abilities you’ll be able to acquire from the Relic Skill Tree starting from bottom to top.

Icon	Ability	Description	Cost (Skill Points)
	Emergency Cloaking	Improves Optical Camo cyberware. Activating Optical Camo during combat will cause enemies to lose track of you, giving you a chance to escape combat. Optical Camo must be equipped to use this ability.	3
	Vulnerability Analytics	During combat, you can now detect Vulnerabilities in enemy Armor and Cyberware. Hitting Vulnerabilities gives you: 100% Crit Chance, +25% Armor penetration, Weakspot damage bonuses. Dealing enough damage to a Vulnerability will cause it to explode, generating an EMP blast that damages enemies within 3m.	3
	Jailbreak	Unlocks new abilities for Arm cyberware: Mantis Blades, Gorilla Arms, Projectile Launch System, and Monowire. Read the ability for more details.	3
	Sensory Protocol	When crouched, becoming detected by an enemy will temporarily slow time. Dodge or Dash out of the enemy’s line of sight to immediately exit combat. Cooldown: 120 secs.	1
	Machine Learning	Destroying an enemy’s Vulnerability grants: +10% frequency of new Vulnerabilities, +5% Crit Damage against Vulnerabilities. Duration: 25 secs. Effect can stack 5 times. Reaching max stacks doubles these effects.	1
	Spatial Mapping	All Leap attacks with Mantis Blades now cripple enemies and increase dismemberment chance against the same enemies for 10 secs.	1
	Limiter Removal	The shockwave from a charged Gorilla Arms attack now knocks down all enemies within range.	1
	Launch Capacity Override	+ 1 charge for the Projectile Launch System.	1
	Data Tunneling	When an enemy is affected by a Monowire-uploaded quickhack, normal Monowire attacks which hit that enemy and other enemies simultaneously will spread the quickhack to them.	1

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(1 of 3) The main abilities in the Relic Tree are Emergency Cloaking for a stealth playstyle.

Best Starting Relic Ability¶

This choice is subjective as it depends on your playstyle. If you are the sneaky type, go with Emergency Cloaking as this will improve your Optical Camo allowing you to make enemies lose track of you and exiting combat. However, if you like to beat things to a pulp with melee attacks, Jailbreak is a fantastic ability. This will give you a new ability depending on what melee weapon you use such as Mantis Blades, Gorilla Arms, Monowire, and the Projectile Launch System. Finally, Vulnerability Analytics is the best for any playstyle where you will use a gun. It is particularly strong against bosses, especially when you get Machine Learning after it. You will be able to get all abilities eventually, so it’s all down to what you want first. Note that Emergency Cloaking, Jailbreak, and Vulnerability Analytics cost three relic skill points while the rest only cost one.