This short article contains our best and updated Starfield Builds for different playstyles and the best weapons and damage combinations.
Builds are updated for the new patch: Starfield Update 1.11.33, which arrived in May.
Starfield is set in 2330, when humanity has reached beyond our solar system, expanding throughout the galaxy. This game features many mechanics, nearly all influencing your character, build, and story. Read on to know how builds and playstyles will look in Starfield!
This page lists our guides for all known skills, multiple playstyles, companions, and weapons. We create our builds after countless hours of playtesting and build crafting to provide the best possible setups.
Our Builds
Every Starfield build below contains the information you need to create powerful characters, whether you are a beginner or an advanced player. In short, our build Guides explain playstyle, skills, and gear to help you understand the class’s strengths and weaknesses so that you can play the build at its full potential.
Each Starfield build lists the following:
- Character Creator: in the character creator, you can pick a background and trait that influences your starting skills, dialog options, and quest outcomes.
- Level: each level gives you a skill point.
- Skill trees: five trees in total Social, Tech, Physical, Science, and Combat. Each has 16 or more skills to select.
- Skill rank: each skill you select, including your starting skill, has ranks you can increase.
- Weapons: three different types: physical, energy, and electromagnetic. You can modify Shotguns, Heavy Pistol, Submachine Guns, and Assault Rifle.
- Armor: including damage reduction and resistance to environmental effects and even airborne efficiency.
- Crew & Companions also have up to four skills aiding you inside combat.
And the list goes on and on, and you can see the complexity unfold. But let’s break this down and give you a glance at how each of these systems could work.
Best Starfield Builds List
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Beast Hunter
The Beast Hunters will excel at planetary exploration on the ground and controlling Alien creatures. The build focuses on Ballistic Weapons, Xenosociology for Alien Control, and close-range weapons and hunter armor to complete your missions.
Bounty Hunter
The Bounty Hunter build is your space-faring mercenary for hire with the objective of taking down targets for credits. The build focuses on Spaceship Combat, Jet Packing for mobility, and simple weapons and armor.
Demolition Expert Build
The Demolition Expert is your area-based damage dealer with high-yield explosives. The build focuses on 40MM Grenade weapons, Jet Packing for mobility, and armor with high resistance.
Melee Build
The best background for a Melee build in Starfield is Chef. The Chef background will have you start with Gastronomy, Dueling, and Scavenging, providing benefits to melee weapons. Melee, brawler, and close-quarters-combat style build need to rely on speed and skill passives to increase damage and strike with deadly force.
Sniper Build
The Sniper build is your prototypical ranged marksman with precision and patiences. The build focuses on Ballistic Weapons, Stealth movement, and Sniper Rifles damage.
Soldier Build
The build focuses on Ballistic Weapons, Jet Packing for mobility, and simple weapons and armor. You will use a combination of medium to long-range weapons with an emphasis on combat through force. This build will focus heavily on the Combat skill tree with a plethora of weapon choices.
Speech & Persuasion Build
This build emphasizes non-combat options to progress through quest and main story missions. You will be emphasizing the need to fight, along with some heavy role-play options using speech, persuasion, intimidation, and influence to complete dialog options.
Stealth Build
The Stealth build is your prototypical burst damage dealer. The build focuses on Ballistic Weapons, Concealment skill for a damage multiplier, and stealth to complete your missions. You will use a combination of medium to long-range weapons with an emphasis on burst damage while hidden.
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