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Rapid gatling laser with Charging Barrels is one of the deadliest weapons in the game due to the way how fire rate is calculated.

The bonus damage from Incendiary is added to all the shotgun's shrapnel. So, an incendiary combat shotgun is very strong. It's not the strongest, but it still one-shots quite a lot of enemies.

it is worth noting that two shot isnt effected by mods meaning late game it is better to look for something better

What's that coloring on the weapon? And where do I get it?

an unyeilding junkies build is amazing - the unyeilding offsets the down sides of most chems and you can get insane damage numbers- ive gotten like 6-10k dmg from a junkies gaus rifle

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junkie is very good, while generally inferior to twoshot, explosive and wounding it can dish out crazy numbers

I kind of don't like using criticals in this game. Mostly because it's VATS based and requires a manual input which really takes away from the luck stat. The only way to bypass those things is by using the overdrive chem which makes it a lot more fun. So yeah, critical based legendary effects to me are C tier at best.

I had an Irradiated Gatling Laser once, terrible on anything that wasnt human. But i used the perk that increases rad damage, every shot was doing like 100 rads. Legendary humans couldnt even regen health

I got a wounding combat shotgun early in my latest playthrough, it's like a cheat code, 3-4 blasts close up and the hp drains insanely fast off anything.

Funny that bloodied is top tier in fo76 😅

These tier lists could be much more helpful if the description of the perk stays up while you’re talking about them just saying

Wrong for the Ghoul's Slayer Gamma Gun, you need only the Lorenzo artifact and it does INSANE damage to Ghouls. I.e. 1 shots most :) yw

Kneecapper is crazy good on any automatic weapon, including pipe machine guns. You are virtually guaranteed to cripple anything you shoot at, including Behemoths and Deathclaws. Minimum A-tier, but I would rate as S-tier.

Deadeye - has some secret tech I've learned. If you swap off your Deadeye weapon fast enough, you can keep the effect for all your guns. You can turn it off by re-selecting your Deadeye weapon & using scope again. You can triple your jump length if you scope real quickly (only to proc slowdown) then sprint jump. Not the biggest help, but I've gotten to so many places & rooftops with this lol. Resolute on the otherhand, D for Dogwater, it's only good for reloading. Freezing w/ Overdrive - is probably my favorite experience in the game. Some enemies can't be frozen, but they will still slow down a little. Kneecapper - has to be engagement bait right? It procs no matter where on the body, you can down the strongest enemies in the game, then walk up & punch em to death, or stab em' with Pickmans like I do lol. Although some enemies can shoot while down, still a definite S-tier.

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So.... Me and some guys crunched the numbers on added damage effects and the list looked like this. 1: Explosive. This really doesn't need any explanation. baseline, explosive adds 15 aoe damage to each projectile... once you get all of the relevant perks, it's between 40 and 60 damger per projectile. explosive minigun and combat shotgun are, bar none, the strongest weapons in the game. 2. Furious. To my knowledge, this is only available on two ranged weapons in the game, but those guns trivialize everything after getting them so long as you can keep their magazines full. 3A. Irradiated. only applies to human foes, but anything with a fast fire rate and Irradiated is going to SHRED enemies 3B. Freezing. this one will be controversial. Freeze is better than it first appears because it's one of _TWO_ weapon effects with a _COMPLETELY UNRESISTED DAMAGE._ Bonus for the CC critical effect. IIRC, it also gets a slight boost from some weapon perks. 4. Wounding. the SECOND effect with unresisted damage. Bleed stacks can help mitigate damage loss from misses, but it still deals about 2/3rds as much as freezing does with no secondary effects. 5. Plasma infused. a small damage boost. adds a small amount of energy damage but energy is one of the most common resists in the game, thankfully gets boosted by several perks however. 6. incendiary. doesn't stack and it's considered energy IIRC. 7. poisoner's. absolute dogshit. less damage than incendiary, there are enemies that resist it, and it doesn't stack. literally just worse incendiary. side notes: Junkies' is the the only effect that can be completely _CRIPPLED_ by simply selecting perks. since the last levels of Party Boy/Girl and chem resistant remove the ability to become addicted (to booze and drugs respectively), they can make it impossible to power up the weapon. Lucky and Instigating share a niche for snipers, with the main difference being Instigating for realtime snipers and lucky for vats snipers Two shot is deceptive. The actual notation is P+1, _NOT_ P×2. This means a two shot shotgun fires 8 pellets instead of 14. still absolutely amazing on certain weapons (Overseer's Guardian is well loved for a reason). a Two Shot missile launcher is probably one of the strongest ACTUALLY RANGED weapons in the game (two shot mirv fatman doesn't count.) Violent is literally just worse Powerful. the enemy type specific effects are probably the strongest for their respective niches Kneecapper is great for a rapidfire weapon or shotgun. Statistically, you are going to proc every other shotgun blast. Charging syncs upmnicely with Ghoulish and Solar powered. with both at max level, you will heal STARTLINGLY fast. gimmick build, but still.

You look like the chick from Willy wonka after she ate the blueberry candy with that shirt

Wounding combat shotgun. Doesn't every pellet get the bonus? Sickening damage

I did indeed get a Ghoul slayer Gama gun one time. Straight to the scrap heap it went. My Instigating Minigun had the same fate.

Two shot has consistently been one of my favorite effects. It is rarely the best effect for a specific situation and/or enemy, but it is a consistently good effect against a lot of things. It's flexibility is part of what makes the Overseer's Guardian so popular, You can get it early it stays effective for a long time. It also helps that the list of weapons it is good on is a lot longer than the weapons it is bad on.

I actually love the deadeye effect on double barrel shotguns, time slows down just enough for two very well aimed shots in close quarters

Instigating on the Harpoon gun is a blast, Alan Lee sells on.

You can get Defiant on a fatman wich allways only has one single shot loaded.😁

Wounding is easily one of the best legendary weapon effects in the game. I have a Wounding Pipe Rifle that I still keeo on me because .38 is so common and the Wounding effect is so OP.

Never Ending is S Tier on one weapon: Aeternus from Nukaworld is a Gatling Laser that has Infinite Ammo because of a bug on how Fusion Cores and this legendary effect interact.

I keep telling myself I ought to learn to mod. A really easy weapon to make would be a knockoff Ratslayer, by giving a Hunting Rifle the M4 Carbine effect. A 5.56 bolt-action with a faster rate of fire would be incredible in the mid game.

Got a staggering gatling laser on my first playthrough. Absolutely, trivialized the game.

Love how any freezing gun makes me a overdrive addict

Sentinel pairs well with the Blitz perk for a VATS melee attack as you count as standing still when you actually do the attacks in VATS. Since you get a lot of resistance in VATS by default it can really increase your survivability.

A lot of these perks can be more useful with Overdrive giving critical hits outside of VATS; also Sentinel is S-tier because it stacks with armor and a VATS/Blitz build.

Enraging in 'D' is wild, such a fun perk and can be used practically in most builds

There is a version of never ending that is only on Aeternus/gatling lasers that just gives it unlimited ammo due to how fusion cores work as ammo. Specifically that version/weapon is really good. S+

Duelist has a bug where it effects all attackers on hit. Blocking isn't necessary. And on Playstation it may even effect an enemy in your vicinity without even needing to hit them. It's definitely S tier for me on a disarm build. My favorite thing to do is to Blitz in, cancel my attack and steal their gun before they can pick it up.

Relentless is clear S tier. For the love of God try a vats build.

fun video. thanks Ron!

there is a amazing interaction between bloodied and the children of atom perk from far harbor, combine that with the robes of atom chosen(which also accept balistic weave), not only you can get a immunity to rads, keeping your hp at a low for both damaga boosts, but its also bugged and when you reach that, the game considers your heavely irradiated hp bar as full and gives you your hp back, and keeping the immunity to rads from the robe and both damage boosts as long as you keep the outfit on, also survivors special from paladin brandis is a laser rifle with that legendary effect, its the only firearm that can have it as far as i know

Atom's is at least A. 100 extra damage. C'mon man!

so the Rockville swatter has vats enhanced. Home Run Boy disagrees with your tier level though. He says it's S tier. Sorry about that.

Nimble is actually decent. You can move rapidly while still shooting accurately.

Throwing in my two cents here. Irradiating (and the other Radiation type effects) aren't just "a little extra damage", they actively reduce the target's maximum HP. Which is really good against high level human enemies like Gunners, Trappers, and the Nuka-World Raiders. Especially if they're a legendary variant, as that's less health for them to recover when they mutate. Also, just like Kremvh's Tooth, Lorenzo's Artifact is a mod that you can take off and attach to another legendary Gamma Gun.

With that blue top you look like vault boy

nocturnal: how about using this at night and using a similar weapon during the day. Or are you some wuss who can't carry that many guns? lol

kneecapper against melee is S-tier but overall I agree with you. I recently got some boxing gloves with kneecapper on them. using them was so funny.

furious. I love the splattercannon but I could never work out the increase per shot, but thanks to you and this video, I can now. And yes, you are correct, the damage output is insane.

So, when are you diving into Fallout London ;D ?

our first disagreement is enraging. do a sneak crit on an albino radscorpion or similar monster and watch them tear every other enemy to shreds, it's funny! (and it's a B at least)

I can turn on the pip boy’s light?!?!

You can hit criticals outside of vats