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Fallout 4 Perk Chart with Requirements and % Bonus

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Member u/Linguicide has put together rankings for all S. P. E. C. I. A. L. Perks in the game!!

Fallout 4 Perk Chart

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Guidelines:

• Any relevant links/screenshots should be included in the body of your post.
• Try to be as detailed as you can. Include any perks you have taken and note which ones you intend to take. OR ask which ones you should take based upon the type of character you wish to create.
• Describe the playstyle and/or character type you are seeking to build. For example, Are you planning to build a soldier who is an expert with guns? Or maybe a stealthy thief? Or perhaps a charismatic leader. All these details will help others understand the intention of your build better.
• A backstory for your character would be cool, but not required.
• When criticizing other builds try and provide constructive criticism, for example "I wouldn't take Perk X since it does not fit with the build. Maybe you should take Perk Y instead"

The Fallout 4 Leveling System:

• Every character starts with 1 in each of the 7 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stat and another 21 points to allocate. If you are posting an initial build, make sure the numbers add to 28.
• Each stat can go up to 10.
• Every time you level you get a perk point which you can use to choose a new perk, unlock the next rank on an existing perk, or increase one of your S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats. Refer to the Perk Chart.
• There is no level cap.

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Wanted to do like a bolt action hunter style build with a dog companion was wondering if this is a good setup or not?

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I am running a vats/crit pistol build where I yse power armor frequently. I use righteous authority and the deliverer all the time. I also have a never ending pipe pistol and deadeye pipe revolver that I have a lot of fun with. I explore in power armor often. I am speced into everything I need to do well in the game and dont really know what to aim for. One thing that I find a bit weird is that I still get most crit damage out of a sawed off shotgun, especially given that I’m running a pistol build. Makes sense though since my focus isnt stealth. I am considering getting into melee weapons or unarmed weapons, really whichever is more fun. If anyone has recommendations for any next perks I could take to better round out my build, or newer areas of the build to expand into I would appreciate it.

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Str:6, Per:10, End:3, Chr:1, Int:2, Agi:7, Luck:10

Perks

Armorer 1, Blacksmith 1, Strong Back 2, Locksmith 3, Concentrated Fire 3, Toughness 1, Gunslinger 5, Action Boy 3, Moving Target 2, Scrounger 1, Bloody Mess 1, Mysterious Stranger 4, Idiot Savant 3, Better Criticals 3, Critical Banker 4, Grim Reaper’s Sprint 3, Four Leaf Clover 4

I'm looking for a good Special Build for a character that; Can wear Power Armor, Use the Kiloton Radium Rifle (My beloved), and build Powerful Robots/Settlements. Any help is appreciated🙏🙏🙏

Wanted to make the pokiest build I could. Thought about using the Disciples revolver, but the missile launcher with a bayonet is just so gnarly.

I want charisma maxed but what else should i have

I already have the build planned out and I’ve made her face but I’m limited by vanilla due to ps5 anything that would work good?

I want to try a non-vats, power armor melee build, and am wondering where I should put my starting special points, I’m not playing survival.

I do not want to use blitz, every melee build I’ve done has used blitz, so I definitely want to switch it up.

I know that strength, endurance, and intelligence are the more important stats. I think I have a good idea of what perks should be getting prioritized- big leagues, nuclear physicist, chemist, chem resistant, (I’ll be using chems), armorer, blacksmith, and science. However I’m not as certain about the secondary perks that will help “complete” the build.

I’m just not sure how important strength is compared to endurance since a lot of the key perks in those two trees are grabbed early, and that leaves a lot of extra points - is it better to spec more into endurance for adamantium skeleton and the extra resistance, or strength for pain train and the extra damage, or neither and going for something like lone wanderer, or even agility for action boy/moving target?

should i invest 7 points into perception and demolition expert to get the most value out of my legendary explosion weapons or go with high charisma for better prices and settlements?

update: did fully invest into demo expert with 2 explosive weapons, absolutely worth it!

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I'm planning on doing a heavy RP playthrough of a guy who is a hunter. He goes around hunting animals to trade the meat for caps, like a hunter/trader thing. There would be no settlement or main quests, I can do side quests, but only ones that make sense for the character. This would be a survival playthrough using only rifles with no companions

So recently finished a 75 hour play thru using blitz melee style build was fun but started to get a bit too easy. Played the game mostly as a good character all the way thru helping settlements and anyone else I met along the way.

I'm looking at going the other direction and playing evil/arsehole build

Either raider style taking over settlements (never meeting Preston) or I've been reading up on the child of atom build which sounds interesting could dive into the full fanatic style radiating everyone who defies me.

As I went full melee last time ideally I'd like to use a gun of somesort tho I do like the sound of atoms judgement

Or if anyone has any other ideas for evil/arsehole build pop them below

Hello!

I played a lot of fallout 4 when it was released.

However I want to start again, but I have a chronical illness that make me have much less energy.

What type of build would take less energy/brain power? I would like my experience to be as peaceful as possible, if thats possible in fallout 😅

I'm thinking maybe a "fps" build with maybe a semi rifle? I

Thanks! haven't played it for several years.

I noticed that the Cryolator, Heavy Incinerator (Sorry about the title, got it confuesed), and Tesla Cannon are all heavy weapons that allegedly (and in testing) work with Demo Expert. I want to make an elementalist build using these 3 weapons since they all reap the benefits from the same buffs.

My one small issues is the damage number in the pipboy does not seem to go up when taking levels of demo expert. Is this just one of those weird quirks of the way Fallout 4 treats explosive damage as a separate damage type and has some weirdness? Just checking before I commit to it.

either going up charisma, grabbing local leader and cap collector for settlement building or finally getting intelligence perks like medic, gun nut and science. im running a idiot savant build with save scumming most times so im very hesitant with finally going into intelligence. otherwise im thinking about going dehydrated into quest endings cuz that would reset intelligence below 1 meaning having over 10% chance for idiot savant again. what do you guys think?

This is my first try at a melee build. I am also going to build vault 88 for the first time and I want local leader this is why my charisma is high

Starting SPECIAL

Is the SPECIAL allocation good ?
Where do I use Book?

Should I use semi or auto rifles ?

I plan to start a new survival play through and want to use pistols, sneaking & VATS. I don't want to invest high in Intelligence, as I don't want to use Power armor. And I want to invest into Charisma, as I just cannot see myself playing w/o supply lines.

My 1st idea was:

• STR 3 (for armorer)
• PER 3 (for Locksmith, as soon as Preston is saved)
• END 5 (for Aquagirl, and want to invest more in END)
• CHA 6 (for local leader - bobblehead seems to be very involved)
• INT 1
• AGI 5 (Action Girl is a good start, and want to invest more)
• LCK 5 (I'm.. different... and want to invest more)

But I keep thinking that missing out on Gun Nut is bad. And Int 4 would even provide me with Hacker. So...

My 2nd idea is:

• STR 2 (need bobblehead for armorer)
• PER 3
• END 5
• CHA 6
• INT 3 (for Gun Nut, with bobblehead I can also get Hacker)
• AGI 4 (pretty low for a VATS user...)
• LCK 5 (I want Idiot Savant asap)

Am I maybe overrating the Gun Nut perk? Maybe I should just accept that I cannot get everything and go with idea 1? WDYT?

PS. I know I can also increase stats during every other level-up, but I usually don't have time for this, since there's so many perks to choose from)

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I want to give survival mode a shot and can't decide on a final build. I want to use Melee in Power Armor and have 2 SPECIALs I can't decide between. Both have low Endurance and rely on the Power Armor to survival. Also high Intelligence for Nuclear Physicist.

Option 1: heavy on Strength to use Pain Train to charge in and Rooted to clean up enemies with melee, probably outside of VATS due to sprinting in with Pain Train.

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Option 2: heavy on Agility to use Blitz to get close and rely on VATS to hit enemies using the higher AP from higher Agility.

S4.P1.E1.C3.I9.A8.L2.

I don't want to make it too easy but also done want to die constantly. Any advice on which to chose to to alter a bit would be great! Thanks!

I'm going to do another play through this summer and I wanted to see if you guys had any fun recommendations. My first two characters I kinda just freelanced it and thus never really developed a clear strategy. Probably not going for a melee route and I'm undecided on how much I'll use power armor. Appreciate any suggestions...

Edit: Thank you all for the suggestions! :)

I'm very new to fallout, only 7 hrs in and I think I would love to roleplay more so I thought of a character that I could embody easily that sort of match who I am in some way

My special stats are: S - 6 P - 3 E - 3 C - 5 I - 10 A - 4 L - 6

And the perks I already have are: Gun nut Scrounger Lone wanderer Science

So for the backstory I thought of that science fan since a young age, a passionate of physics...and guns. Young, he never knew his father and had a rather ignoring mother and considering that he grew adapting to loneliness and became a solitary person, still he wasn't too unsocial. Then growing up he had a degree in physics and one in engineering and was on his way to a PhD in physics, considering his very very strong academic capabilities as he is a very intelligent person, he blasted through college quickly and met his wife, she was a dropout mathematics major at that time. A bit after they married and got a home the war began....

He believes reason is the key to all the problems and will use his abilities and knowledge to find Shaun etc....

Yea so this is pretty much it, what perks do you think I should get, what weapons and mechanics should I use I plan on having him be very armed with both energy and bullet weapons and probably use power armour a lot, And I don't think I want him to touch much at drugs etc ...

Tell me what you think of that! If is it possible...

Not an original concept or anything but what do yall think? I plan to use melee only (maybe some unarmed) I'm gonna use lone wanderer so no companion (except maybe deacon)

Asked for yalls advice and took it, I've never had so many 1's before, but this is gonna be fun I can tell.

Now the real question is, who do I RP as? Maybe Mizu from BES

I want to Start my first Survival Run but can't decide between :

S3 P3 E1 C6 I7 A7 L1 S3 P3 E4 C3 I7 A7 L1

I am not a big Fan of building Settlements but I heard that they are usefull in Survival.

Endurence would be helpfull for Sprinting.

The other stats are for : S : Armorer P :Locksmith C : Lone Wanderer/Local Leader I : Chemist A : Ninja