This build aims to help you concluding your missions the quiet way. It is compatible with solo or multiplayers sessions, along with any difficulty level. It has been designed for stealth and therefore doesn't allow any mistake. This build isn't compatible with any kind of loud attempt.
If the alarm triggers, you'd better start running.

N.B: This build doesn't substitute the training nor the skill of the player.

Virtual prerequisites:

• Be a member of the Payday 2 Steam official group
  
• Clover Character Pack DLC
  
• Gage Mod Courier DLC
  
• Gage Shotgun Pack DLC
  
• Gage Weapon Pack #01 DLC
  
• The Butcher's Western Pack DLC
  
• The Golden Grin Casino Heist DLC
  
• The Point Break Heists DLC

Each section features an alternative DLC-free version.

Personal prerequisites:

• A little bit of training if you don't really know the missions yet
  
• A microphone to be able to play as a team
  
• A decent anticipation and communication skill
  
• Lots of patience and perseverance

Now let's deal with the reason of your visit, the presentation of the build.

The central column, "Controller", is very useful to keep control upon a crowded room if you don't wish to slaughter innocent people.

• "Forced friendship" allows you to bring more ties and to use them faster.
  
  
• "Confident" enhances your voice and intimidates civs and opponents from a longer distance.
  
  
• "Stockholm syndrome" keeps civs intimidated for a longer period of time.

The central column, "Tank", provides an appreciable quality-of-life improvement.

• "Resilience" gives access to "Transporter".
  
  
• "Transporter" makes your life easier by improving your bag-throwing distance.

The right column, "Ammo specialist", is dedicated to the use of the OVE9000 Saw.

• "Scavenger" gives access to "Portable saw".
  
  
• "Portable saw" unlocks the OVE9000 Saw as a secondary weapon and provides one extra saw blade.
  
  
• "Extra lead" allows you to keep a decent management of the amount of ammo required by the OVE9000 Saw.

The left column, "Engineer", allows you to bring a second deployable.

• "Third law" and "Sentry targeting package" give access to "Jack of all trades".
  
  
• "Jack of all trades" is a very useful skill that lets you pick a second deployable: you will be able to use half of the usual value of the said equipment. Thanks to this you will be able to bring some mines or an ammo bag during the missions.

The central column, "Breacher", is an important drill improvement.

• "Hardware expert" improves drills speed, makes them silent and gives them a chance to automatically restart when they are broken.
  
  
• "Drill sawgeant" improves the efficiency of the drills.
  
  
• "Kickstarter" allows you to try to restart broken drills with a melee attack.
  
  
• "More firepower" provides 7 additional trip mines, along with 3 shaped charges.

The left column, "Shinobi", is indeed the heart of this build.

• "Chameleon" allows you to pick up keycards before masking up.
  
  
• "Cleaner" allows you a better management of your body bags.
  
  
• "Sixth sense" automatically marks your opponents around after a few seconds of immobility.
  
  
• "Nimble" enables you to temporarily jam a camera and to lockpick most of the safes.
  
  
• "ECM overdrive" lets you open some door with an ECM.
  
  
• "ECM specialist" adds a second ECM jammer to your inventory and increases its efficiency.

The central column, "Artful dodger", provides you some useful advantages.

• "Duck and cover" and "Parkour" increase your movement speed.
  
  
• "Inner pockets" improves your melee wepon concealment.

The left column, "Gunslinger", will let you spend your left points.

• "Equilibrium allows you to draw your gun faster and increases its accuracy.

Burglar (Clover Character Pack DLC):

• Corpse bagging time 20% faster
  
• Lockpicking time 20% faster
  
• Pagers answering time 10% faster
  
• Moving while crouching 10% faster

Crew Chief (The "Burglar" perk deck in still much more interesting though):

• Crew stamina 50% more important
  
• Shout distance increased by 25%

Two-piece suit

Primary deployable:
ECM jammer (x2)


Secondary deployable:
Trip mine (x7)


Alternative secondary deployable:
Ammo bag (x2), when you'll be bringing the OVE9000 saw with you.

Cost: 327,000$, unlocked at level 15, concealment: 30 up to 31.
Ammunition: Nothing
Boost: Concealment


Cost: 327,000$, unlocked at level 15, concealment: 27 up to 31.
Barrel ext: Low profile suppressor
Boost: Concealment
Foregrip: Appalachian foregrip
Gadget: Compact laser module (Gage Mod Courier DLC)
Sight: Nothing


Cost: 487,000$, unlocked at level 22, concealment: 22 up to 27.
Ammunition: 000 buckshot
Barrel: Short barrel (Gage Shotgun Pack DLC)
Barrel ext: The silent killer suppressor
Boost: Concealment
Gadget: Compact laser module (Gage Mod Courier DLC)
Sight: Flip-up sight (Gage Shotgun Pack DLC)


Cost: 43,000$, unlocked at level 0, concealment: 16 up to 17.
Boost: Concealment
Lower receiver: Silent motor
Magazine: Durable blade

Cost: 427,000$, unlocked at level 0, concealment: 29 up to 31.
Barrel: Threaded barrel (The Point Break Heists DLC)
Barrel ext: Size doesn't matter suppressor
Boost: Concealment
Gadget: Micro laser
Grip: Nothing
Lower receiver: Spike kit (The Point Break Heists DLC)


Cost: 847,000$, unlocked at level 27, concealment: 30 up to 31.
Barrel ext: Size doesn't matter suppressor
Boost: Concealment
Gadget: Micro laser
Grip: Blinged grip or Ergonomic grip
Magazine: Nothing
Slide: Milled slide


Cost: 95,000$, unlocked at level 4, concealment: 20 up to 31.
Barrel: Short barrel
Barrel ext: Low profile suppressor
Boost: Concealment
Custom: Nothing
Foregrip: E.M.O. foregrip (The Butcher's AK/CAR Mod Pack DLC)
Gadget: Compact Laser Module (Gage Mod Courier DLC)
Grip: Straight grip (Gage Weapon Pack #01 DLC)
Lower receiver: THRUST lower receiver (The Butcher's AK/CAR Mod Pack DLC)
Magazine: Vintage mag.
Sight: Nothing
Stock: Folding stock
Upper receiver: LW upper receiver (The Butcher's AK/CAR Mod Pack DLC)
(Credit: Sintag)

Cost: 305,000$, unlocked at level 14, concealment: 29 up to 31.
Barrel: Threaded barrel (The Point Break Heists DLC)
Barrel ext: Size doesn't matter suppressor
Boost: Concealment
Gadget: Micro laser
Grip: Nothing
Lower receiver: Spike kit (The Point Break Heists DLC)
Sight: Nothing


Cost: 135,000$, unlocked at level 6, concealment: 30 up to 31.
Barrel ext: Size doesn't matter suppressor
Boost: Concealment
Gadget: Micro laser
Grip: Ergo grip
Magazine: Nothing
Sight: Marksman sight
Upper receiver: The elite slide


Cost: 798,000$, unlocked at level 35, concealment: 29 up to 28*.
Ammunition: 000 buckshot
Barrel ext: The silent killer suppressor
Boost: Concealment
Gadget: Compact laser module (Gage Mod Courier DLC)
Sight: Nothing
*Using the silencer implies a concealment penalty: the concealment stat is decreased from 29 to 28, so you may read "29 down to 28 maximum" instead of "29 up to 28".

Unlocked at level 16, concealment: 30 up to 32.

Unlocked at level 12, concealment: 30 up to 32.

Unlocked at level 31

This is the end of this guide. I hope that it would have been useful to you and that it would help you a little during your next missions. If you have any questions after having read this, do not hesitate to share them with me in the comments below and I'll try to give them an answer quickly.

Please note that this is probably not the ultimate guide. Other guides offer different skilltrees structure or different weapons choices and yet they also allow you to reach a similar result in the end. People are free to pick whatever they want from wherever they want.

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2018/05/01:

• Skills: Technician: "More firepower" skill added.
  
• Skills: Fugitive: "Equilibrium" skill added.
  
• Deployables: Trip mines added, Body bag case removed.
  
• Primary weapons: Cavity 9mm added, Commando 553 removed.
  
• Primary weapon: DLC-free alternative: Akimbo Baby Deagle added, Akimbo Chimano Compact removed, Akimbo Crosskill Guard added.
  
• Secondary weapons: Locomotive 12G removed.
  
• Throwable: Throwing knife removed.

2019/02/16:

• Melee: Buzzer and Electrical Brass Knuckles removed, in order to avoid any confusion for you.