Spiked Knuckles will be your primary weapon for a long time. That said, Med-X will be very useful for tougher fights, and Jet + Purfied water can be combined via the Survival Skill (which also gets a score bonus from Endurance) to significantly boost your attack speed. New Vegas is not a game where you need to be 100% optimized in every concievable aspect.

I'd recommend going with Unarmed over Melee.įor one Endurance is a most for any close-combat character, and Unarmed also gets a score bonus from it, which will be helpful early on.ĭrugs are completely unnecessary. Med-x Slasher, Battlebrew is 85% damage resistance. 3.) take a fixer followed by an antidote. 'I've never actually used chems regularly because of addiction and side effects mostly.'Īddiction is ignorable, either 1.) take more chems. I guess a laser rifle would be what I'd pick if I wanted a ranged weapon. Shouldn't be using guns if you want to melee though. The issue with Beams is there aren't cool unique beams. and Energy is great with Max Charge rounds for taking out hard targets, like radscorpions and legion hit squads. I mean Guns are great with like a 9mm SMG and JHP rounds for taking down soft targets. I usually do optimized rounds for the reduced weight and weapon degradation, but the max charge rounds are preferable if you are going up against DT targets which is kinda of the point of energy weapons. Regular laser rifle is great at all ranges.Īmmo's slightly heavier but what else are you carrying? Never understood why people would use the Ballistic weapons except they don't understand how to make energy weapon ammo? just go to a workbench take your ammo and switch it to what you need. the Unique one does less damage per second but more damage per beam. The Gatling laser does ALOT of damage per second. The Tribeam laser shoots 3 beams with reasonably close spread for 'close' encounters (the multiplas has more spread if you want more spread) Lasers are obscenely powerful with ED-E giving beams +5 damage.

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