Drill Technician

Mechanics
Players can deploy drills to vault doors or safes by interacting with them. The basic version of this skill reduces how long it takes to deploy a drill to 50% of it's default. The aced version of this skill lowers the time required to drill through a vault door or safe by 10%.

Strategy
The basic version may have little actual application in gameplay, outside of speedrunning where shaving off even milliseconds is helpful and many safes are present which require to be drilled.

However, the aced version is much more useful, substantially decreasing drilling time allowing for heists that require you to drill through a vault door to be completed much faster. In a team, points can also be optimized to have only one person have drill skills, which include this skill, IT Department and Drilling Expert. This way, a team is able to free up some points allowing for them to be spent on other skills.

For safes, drilling may not be the best option as they can be pick locked silently with Nimble aced and opened with Trip Mines with Shaped Charges, this option opening almost instantly. However, this option requires the player to have much more expensive skills and also money in order to open safes with trip mines.

For newer players, this skill may be more useful as their only option in the way of opening a safe is drilling and is also low cost.