However, I do recommend running Ironclad (5) for 50-50 DR. Endurance is honestly not the most needed stat for tank build so you don't need that much health (though I recommend having over 300 health). If you are running shotguns, then this will be 10. If you're not running shotguns, this will be at 12.

Then you need 3 Perception for Skeet Shooter so that you have actual range on your shotguns. Perception is useless for this build unless you're running shotguns. It gives you a maximum of 80-0 DR based on your Strength, and it does require higher than 15 Strength to reach that max so you will be need +1 Strength effect on your armor to max this or two pieces with Enclave under armor with +3 Strength, but combining this with two other cards and two mutations is very helpful to give you much needed base armor rating (I'll go into detail about this later). Do I need to say more?īarbarian (3)… This is the first, of three, armor related perk cards I recommend using.

This is literally a flat 45% DR to everything that doesn't use a gun… Which is basically everything except for Humanoids and Robots. The first and most obvious one is Blocker (3). Obviously for a melee tank build, you need as much Strength as possible but there are two extremely helpful cards you may want to maximize your actual DR while outfit of Power Armor to even be arguably better than Power Armor. Now personally, this is a melee tank build but it can be adjusted if you wanna use Heavy Guns, Shotguns, or Pistols (This build uses 15 Strength and 15 Agility). So, wanted to share it and see what others think. we were friends for a minute.So, my main and highest level character has been running a nice tank build and it honestly has been very effective for PvE stuff (like raiding the Nuclear Silos and fighting the Scorchbeast Queen head-on). Also their attention span is worse than my own, so they might end up flying off to get tragically butchered by a bunch of robos.

be careful if you try this though, sometimes they just convert enemies to scorched instead of softening em up for you. Sometimes I'll just adopt one because I'm fairly immune to poison/ice/radiation and use it as my air support as I roam the wastes. that's the most important part, actually. Honestly it's more comical that anything to see purely melee against a Scorchy Bat, so I'm always sure to throw up plenty of grognak-ax-shaking emotes. Also, their are some objects you can climb on in stealth to smack em a few times or jump after em and nail em at least once. *Be sure to apply the relevant grenade-perception (fire in the hole) perk for an aiming arrow and boosted distance on all thrown weapons. Tomahawk (or meat cleaver, sheepsquatch shard, etc) or a nuka/plasma grenade gets em, but usually when they can't hit you for long enough they'll land on their own.

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