RPGs tend to have a huge number of items within them. Ranging from armor to weaponry to consumables, upgrades, and perhaps even more miscellaneous items, at least depending on the game. Such games are filled with items to use and collect that it might seem overwhelming, and for first-timers to Night City, that can certainly be the case inCyberpunk 2077.
A lot of the items found inCyberpunk 2077can be seen as junk items with no use, but there also exists a huge amount of weaponry, cyberware, attachments, and consumables. Some of these items are incredibly good. These can be so good that they are always worth keeping, be it for certain scenarios that might occur where an item would be extremely useful, or due to just being amazing items worth carrying in general.
14Kanetsugu Scope
Improving A Gun’s Visibility
Players will do a lot of shooting inCyberpunk 2077. Well, aside from those that only delve intomelee builds. Regardless, with all the gun combat, possessing sights and scopes is useful, as they can help identify and spot enemies more easily, as well as grant bonuses.
TheKanetsuguscope is a great scope to carry, as it is a clean sight to see enemies with. It also comes with a 10-12.5% range, 3-5% crit chance, and 10% crit damage, making for a worthwhile item to keep in V’s inventory.
13Biomonitor
Cyberware To Help With Healing
There are numerous cyberware that help with survivability. Between cyberwarewith armorand mitigation chance, some cyberware can help players stay alive via their healing capabilities.
TheBiomonitoris a cyberware that heals players once they lose enough health. Once players fall under a certain amount of health, the Biomonitor will automatically heal them via their currently equipped healing item. It also comes with the bonus effect of increasing how effective healing items are, anywhere from 2-16%. Paired with other healing cyberware, such as the Blood Pump and Second Heart, it will be difficult for enemies to defeat players.
12F-GX Frag Grenade
An Easy Way To Dispatch Enemies
WhileCyberpunk 2077offers a huge amount of weapons for players to use, there are other ways to defeat enemies outside of guns and melee armaments. There exist different cyberware weapons, as well as various grenades to use.
Some of the grenades are more deadly than others, with different abilities. There are some extremely strong grenades, such as Ozob’s Nose and the GASH Antipersonnel Grenade, but the F-GX Frag Grenade is a simple and easily obtainable grenade that is also able to deal harsh damage. TheF-GX Frag Grenadecan severely harm enemies, either outright killing them, or punishing them enough for other weapons to finish the job.
11Headhopper Smart Weapon Mod
A Way To Make Smart Weapons Even Stronger
Of all the different weapons and weapon types inCyberpunk 2077, some are already strong on their own and make for useful acquisitions.Smart weaponsare a powerful weapon type, but can be further improved with the addition of a mod.
TheHeadhoppermod provides a few enhancements with multiple increased stats. It lets smart weapons lock-on to 1–2 targets, gives a 20-30% lock-on speed bonus, and provides a 10-20% improvement in headshot damage.
10Kneel! Shotgun Mod
An Item With An Extremely Powerful Effect
Cyberpunk 2077has a lot of weapons to offer players. Between the range of guns and melee weapons, which can be deadly with the right builds, there are some that are more powerful than others.Shotguns are very strongon their own, but extra additions can be taken to increase their lethality.
TheKneel!mod is an item that anyone who frequently uses shotguns should keep. This mod gives a 25% chance to dismember and instantly kill an enemy when shooting their legs. It isn’t the easiest to obtain, but should absolutely be kept when found.
9A Silencer
Always Handy For Stealth Situations
WhileCyberpunk 2077can be played as a guns-blazing action game, it offers stealthy ways for players to take down enemies. Take-downs can be used while in melee range to instantly incapacitate an enemy, and guns can be equippedwith silencersto quietly kill enemies from range.
Having a silencer always allows players to equip it for any situation where they want to sneakily complete their objective. Silencers can be quite easy to find: via vendors, from enemy weaponry, or just out in the world. Silencers that give high stealth damage bonuses would be ideal, with theXC-1- Cetusbeing a solid choice, especially at Tier 5 when it gains a 100% critical hit chance guarantee for undetected headshots.
8Smart Link
An Item That Enables Smart Weapon Usage
Cyberpunk 2077offers a lot of weapons for players to use. Between firearms andmelee armaments, there is a vast array of selection. To go even further, there are different weapon types, such as power weapons, blunt weapons, tech weapons, smart weapons, and more.
Out of these, smart weapons can be ridiculously powerful, easily defeating enemies. However, certain cyberware is required in order to use such weaponry. This is where theSmart Linkcomes in, allowing the use of smart weapons, which can be a useful item to carry, as players could find a strong smart that they can use as soon as they equip it.
7Kerenzikov
A Cyberware Great For Combat
Movement is a powerful way to fight inCyberpunk 2077. There are various ways to move around quickly, but dashing and sliding can be strong when utilized while in combat.
TheKerenzikovfurther increases the viability of such movement abilities, as it allows players the ability to aim and shoot when dashing, dodging, or sliding. Even further,the Kerenzikovwill slow down time for a brief period when aiming during a dodge, dash, or slide, making for a solid piece of cyberware to equip.
6Second Heart
A Item To Save Players From Death
With all the dangers present inNight City, players are going to be using healing items often. While there is a range of healing items that can be used, theSecond Heartcyberware gives users a second chance.
When the health of a player reaches zero, the Second Heart will instantly restore this amount back to max, keeping players in the fight. This does have quite a long cooldown, so it is most likely the effect will only happen once per battle, but it is nonetheless a powerful item to keep equipped no matter where.
5Axolotl
An Item To Keep Uptime On Cyberware
Cyberware can be extremely powerful items inCyberpunk 2077. With a range of different items with various effects to use, some of the strongest come with cooldowns on their abilities.
TheAxolotlis another piece of cyberware that can help reduce these cooldown penalties. Whenever a player defeats an enemy, the Axolotl reduces the cooldown of all cyberware pieces, varying from 5 and 7.5 seconds. When used with other powerful cyberware, such asa sandevistanor a berserk, it turns into a crucial item to keep equipped.
