Best Black Ops 6 Beta Perk Combinations

Perks are, as they’ve always been, one of the cornerstones of building a class in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. There are some additional wrinkles in this new title, but if you pick the best perk combinations, you’ll be more effective in a fight, likely get more streaks, and generally do better in a match.

The Best Perks to Use in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

The create-a-class system in Black Ops 6 is a bit like the one in Cold War, with Wildcards modifying some part of the class, but it’s otherwise a lot like classic Call of Duty systems.

You can choose three Perks per class, or four with the Perk Greed Wildcard. A solid upgrade, to be sure, but the real power comes from Combat Specialties, a new mechanic that only activates when you have three perks of the same category active. The categories are Enforcer (red), Recon (blue), and Strategist (green) and each perk slot has at least one of each. Combat Specialties are so powerful it’s hard to recommend not using them, so the best perk selections almost always use Perk Greed to give a little extra flexibility. The setups look like this:

The Silent Enforcer

The core of this Perk loadout is Ghost and a suppressed weapon, as well as Perk Greed. You can put Ghost in either your first slot or use whichever red Perk you like from slot one, then put Ghost as your Greed Perk. You then use Dexterity and Double Time as your next two perks This setup has two effects:

1. The Enforcer Specialty grants immediate healing and movement speed whenever you get a kill, so if you get a kill in every fight, you’ll always have full health and will always be where your enemies don’t expect. Dexterity ensures jumping, sliding, and diving don’t have nearly as much of an effect on your weapon handling as otherwise. Double Time gives you a bonus to your tac-sprint time, helping you get where you need to go faster than your enemies expect.
2. You’ll be off the minimap as long as you’re moving. Radar dominance has long been a massively powerful concept in Call of Duty, and Black Ops 6 is no exception. Combining Ghost and a suppressed weapon all but ensures you’ll be off the radar as much as is humanly possible and will always keep your enemies guessing.

The Streak Quartermaster

This setup combines Flak Jacket, Dispatcher, Quartermaster, and Bankroll to make you as resilient as possible (against explosives, anyway), and ensure you have as many Scorestreaks online as you can. Dispatcher makes non-lethal Scorestreaks at least 150 Score cheaper to call in, and with the likes of the SR71 Blackbird (or whatever indestructible radar streak we get) as well as the UAV and Counter UAV in the game, the Perk pays for itself a thousand times over.

Quartermaster is an odd one, as it gives your lethal and tactical equipment a cooldown between uses rather than being single-use. If you always run the Assault Pack, or your teammates do, you’ll likely always have a lethal and tactical to hand. However, as we get more Field Upgrades and players use fewer and fewer resupply options, suddenly Quartermaster giving you passive equipment regen becomes much more valuable. That’s especially true if you like to use Stim Shots, as health regen feels like it takes ages in Black Ops 6.

Lastly, Bankroll is here to stack with Dispatcher, getting your UAV and Counter UAV up faster and the rest of your streaks. The Perk’s effect is simple: you get 150 Score at the start of every life. For free, no questions asked. It’s not a ton, but it can be the difference between a helicopter or missile and not having them.

The Strategist Combat Specialty provides some additional tools for getting streaks and being effective. Destroying enemy Field Upgrades and equipment grants an additional 50 points per item destroyed, and you’ll be able to see deployed equipment and Field Upgrades through walls. You’ll also be able to use those items about 50% faster.

You can swap out Bankroll for Ghost in this setup if you want a stealth approach, though doing so removes one thing you might actually want: people coming to you to kill. Call of Duty players are notorious red dot chasers (I should know), and you can use that to your advantage.

The Traditionalist

We’ll forgo the Combat Specialty here for three different categories of Perks that still add a lot to your kit. Ghost does what Ghost does: keep you off the minimap so long as you’re moving and using a suppressed weapon. Dexterity reduces the detrimental effects of sliding, jumping, and diving, and Quartermaster ensures you have a ready supply of lethal and tactical equipment regardless of which Field Upgrade you use.

The lack of Combat Specialty is definitely a detriment to this setup, but it does open up lots of opportunities for using other Wildcards, which is liable to be a huge deal when we get our hands on the full game. If more perks from the three categories enter the pool, more Specialty setups are liable to pop up, as well, but the combo of Ghost, Dexterity, and Quartermaster makes for a nice rounded loadout that can carry you through most matches.

Those are three of my favorite Perk loadouts in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. More are bound to come up as the game evolves and the full release comes, but in the meantime, check out our guides hub for the game for more.