as you asked for comments and additions - here what I have noted: 1:55 Adrenaline: one star already gives you 36% damage, for max damage you can go 5 star, but 1 star is already a good investment 4:48 Cannibal: fun fact - you get this card for free on Rose's quest if you don't have it already, gives you also unique dialog when dealing with the cannibals at Mountainside Bed & Breakfast 5:41 Contractor: also works on blueprinted crops in case you want to build a mega farm 7:58 Dodgy: great perk for Non-VATS builds as 30% damage reduction stacks with other percent based reductions 8:19 Enforcer: great perk for the peppershaker (counts as shotgun and heavy weapon) for making the queen land 8:33 Escape Artist: completly removes the penality for moving, no difference anymore between light/medium/heavy armor with this perk 10:18 Four Leaf Clover: if they haven't changed it the chance is calculated for each hit, so this is great for multi-hit weapons like shotguns 12:44 Ground Pounder: description is misleading, as it also works for non-automatic rifles 13:06 Gun Fu: you take it for the target switching not the damage, great for multiple targets, but as you don't leave VATS you can't regenerate AP between kills 14:59 Happy-Go-Lucky: needed for niche VATS power armor builds who want to crit every other shot as you don't have access to the Unyielding effect for stacking luck 18:43 Light Footed: useful for trap camps, just sneak and you can not trigger punji boards etc. 21:44 Mystery Meat: useful for carnivore melee builds as this gives you passively rare meats that you can cook for more damage/stats 24:05 Portable Power: good card for collecting scrip as most legendary enemies tend to drop power armor parts (atleast for me) 24:31 Pain Train: useful perk if you still have to do the "kill 1100 robots with no weapon" challenge as sprinting kills the respawning whitesprings robots with one hit 30:42 Sneak: actually not very useful for a Bloodied Sneak build as the extra Agility from Unyielding already gives you enough stealth making the perk somewhat obsolete 31:17 Squad Maneuvers: useless perk if you already have the Speed Demon mutation as the muatation already maxes out you movement speed 34:43 Team Medic: very good shared perk card as when you share this card everyone (including you) gets healed if any team member uses an stimpack 35:02 Tenderizer: great because its a debuff on the enemy, so the damage bonus gets calculated multiplicatively instead of additively making this better than other damage buffs 37:52 Good With Salt: great for preparing food or collecting flux, -90% spoil rate means food is 10 times longer fresh, the refrigerator in comparision only has -50% spoil rate so only doubles food freshness 40:34 Electric Absorption: great for doing silos or the encryptid event, with this perk laser turrets and assaultrons heal you instead of doing damage 41:07 Funky Duds: a wasted legendary perk, just getting two armor pieces with +25 poison resist is usually enough, became somewhat useless with the introduction of union power armor as it has innate poison resist

I don't really care if anyone disagrees but this video and alot of this guy's videos are SUPER helpful. And I just want to say thank you, this guy is very openly respectful of everyone's opinions

Also, I'm a Vats build, and I max'd my Mysterious Stranger. He not only kills, but distracts one or an entire mob. He appears more with single-shot weapons. Nice to have with the black powder pistol or rifle.

Thru Hiker “ Not really needed” - Me looking at my backpack with 600 lbs of water & food. 😐

This is less “Everything you need to know about perks” and more “the perks I personally use”

Party Boy is good for rifle builds. Sweetwater Special Blend is easy to farm or make. Gives me +12 perception for an hour.

Green thumb also works with collecting flux in case anyone was interested!

Grenadier perk also increases the explosion radius on explosive bullets too, not just grenades.

Great video, thank you for the time you put into this for us noobs. Always great to get any help from the community and this is great for those of us who have no idea what we are doing for a build :)

Awesome video I wanted to check out. I mostly agreed on 99% of the perks. I will say alot of the repair and craft perks mostly fit onto one build I usually swap out the max repair armor and weapon for either 5 point melee or guns one as necessary but if you can afford the slot or buy an extra it saves me an immense amount of time going between events having a dedicated build I can just swap in or out of and not waste too much time.

IMHO if you're using food of any kind, Good with Salt is essential _maxed._ No, you can't just use a freezer backpack mod. The reason? If someone joins your public team and shares Good with Salt 1, that will override the spoil rate of your freezer mod, and before you know it all your food has spoiled. So I never unequip Good With Salt 3.

I agree with most of this but I do have a couple of different opinions: 1) Master Infiltrator is great, but low level players are going to have difficulty getting it for a while, so the Hacker and Picklock perk cards will be necessary until a certain level (and can be scrapped later to get perk points, which are necessary to obtain legendary perk cards anyway). 2) Electric Absorption is awesome! It prevents you from dying as long as you are taking hits from energy weapons, if you are in power armor. I can just stand there and laugh at assaultrons while they try to incinerate me with their laser beams, which usually instakill me otherwise. Plus, it recharges your fusion core, making it last longer. You could potentially make one fusion core last forever with this card, and you don't even need the card maxed out.

Pain train is God tier! I can one shot basic super mutants with it and little creatures low to the ground that are normally annoying to aim at like ants, dogs, rats etc. They just get stomped into oblivion, I can basically ignore them. Great for saving ammo on my MG42. I feel like it gets overlooked a lot. Also I kept a 3 star legendary glowing deathclaw almost perma-stunned with it

Adamantium skeleton - handy for melee non-PA, mostly on some fights like Collosal Problem - constant limb damage... but you can mitigate with vampiric weapon, like automatic melee weapons. Cola Nut - can be used with increased cola availability now - can restore AP but also HP and or Rads but without the stimpak animation/lockout. Some use this and drop stimpaks / carrying most chems to have only food weight reduction or alike. Friendly Fire - fire modded bows, crossbows, chainsaw or autoaxe will also heal NPCs as well. Bow/Crossbow fire has some range to it so it can heal when you actually killing an enemy near NPC. Happy-Go-Luck - not related directly to this perk card but low health UNY builds tend to use very high luck to quickly fill VATS critical meter, like every second attack ;) Which is the key to DPS for vats critical build. Ironclad - if you have around 350 armor or more it's pointless :) Iron Fist - it applies to unarmed weapons and it's the only weapon category to have only one 3-perk card instead of three of 9 perk in total. Unarmed and 2h-melee are the most meta right now. Mysterious Strangers - really bad, but sometimes for the meme for other to see it :) Savior can trigger only if you don't auto-die (when you can call for help) while the other one deals nearly no damage. I'm waiting when we get a daily to take a picture of Mysterious Stranger. Psychopath - if you are low health UNY you get critical bar near instantly while Luck is taken by other better/essential cards Revenant - some use it pre-boss to do sweaty DPS, Scout Banners also give an effect to revive on your own so no need for a team to force-trigger it. It's niche. Ricochet - can be used for vampiric weapon builds as anything it triggers will also trigger weapon vampiric effect. Good for low health melee builds using auto-melee vampiric weapons. With some luck you can AFK and even few enemies won't kill you...

Ammosmith and ammo factory work together still.

Some of the perks aren't good by themselves but paired can be very beneficial. Cola nut and party boy both effect nuka dark which increases endurance for high health builds. Add nuka cranberry for the extra xp and it completely erases the need for aid as quantum completely heals, grape removes all rads with 1 use, orange for rad resist. Others like the rifleman depend on the type of weapon. Enclave flamer definitely compete with command builds but only have a range disadvantage. The other is the pepper shaker for heavy gunners as it uses both shotgunner and heavy gunner perks but to get the full effect needs a team to share the missing perks for maxed effect.

Great vid. This was exactly what I was looking for!

Very concise, and found the pace very reasonable! (Besides, I know how to pause and re-play 😁) Always tuning in to your vids Amigo, thank you and keep em commin!

My main character on PC is a carnivore high health boxing build with bonuses to VATS crit, extremely high mobility, and explosive fists. It took some work to get it just right, but it was worth it. Not only is it fun to play and extremely strong, but they visual of this guy zooming across the battlefield into a flying punch to a scorchbeast has gotten me several compliments on my build.

Love your video, it’s really clear and interesting to review all perk cards even if I got over 1.5k hours ingame 😊

I know I need to embrace Atom's glow and start playing with mutations. Sneak/stealth builds feel invisible to most random mobs outside of mutated events/Ops, love it.

I love Mysterious Stranger, not for the extra crit shot… but because He distracts things at a distance since he spawns next to them even if you are 200+ away. ;)

As a 2 handed melee build I run 3 1 star slugger (one of each type) the bonus is 30% as opposed to 25% for a 3 star single card. But pure das would definitely be 3 3 star slugger.

cola nut is preeeettty amazing if you managed to net yourself a collectron that can collect nuka cola for you, it basically replaces stims and radaway which you can then turn to caps.

Magnetic personality is really useful for me, since it helps with quests a lot, and also while trading

A year later I personally can confirm Sunkissd is extremely useful when running around with mutations even just having it at level one is extremely useful cuz during the times of like 6:00 to 11 all the radiation you've obtained throughout whatever you're doing will be slowly taken away without removing any mutations you have

So ghoulish can really come in handy with bloodied builds for sure. If ypur legendary slots are taken up and you can't use what rads. It came in handy for me a couple times for sure. And also food and water offer some pretty damn good bennies so I could see why food and water would be carried in big amounts

Great video thanks for the info!!

Great video! Was hoping you'd do one of these. What are your base s.p.e.c.i.a.l.s? Also do you have a power armor video made? If not, could you possibly do one? My friends would love to see one of those

I use Cola Fiend because it buffs, not only the hydration of Nuka Cola, but also the healing factor of it as well. for 2 points you can use soda as backup stimpacks.

Mysterious Stranger is good to take aggro off you if your sneak attack doesn't one-shot an enemy. Mysterious Savior is useless because you're revived right next to the mob that just killed you and it just kills you again.

Pharma Pharma is such a good one for me. I get so many stimpacks, super stims, antibiotic and disease cures, Cannibal as a herbivore is both funny and useful in a pinch.

I use luck of the draw for my gun, i love it. Makes your guns last soo much longer before needing to be repaired, i would say at least 3x longer, it's great if you are out and about alot.

Just hit level 50, imma try to go for a lever action or black powder build. This video helped me alot, thanks.

Sizzling Style is nice, but frankly outclassed by just getting an Asbestos Lined mod for your chest piece. Frankly it makes the most sense only when fighting Earle, where there's a lot of potential environmental damage, or Test Your Metal, with the flame throwers on the side.

I keep Professional Drinker around because we occasionally get those challenges to drink 10 Alcoholic Beverages or whatever. It's less bothersome than tracking down an addictol after binging a ton of pre-war beer you found lying in a ditch.

Electric Absorption is great when doing the missile silos while wearing PA, makes you immune to the turrets and most other attacks in there. Combined with a vampire weapon, it's a cake walk.

thanks this made it much more clear !.

I swung by your camp today. it looks great!

For melee, if you want to save perk points: take just one or two perk points per DMG perk, i.e. Slugger or Gladiator.

electric absortion for recharging fusion cores, i guess specially for low levels under 50 and slightly above. just get on top of something and wait til robots charge ur cores.

Good evening from south africa 🇿🇦 😀 MrWestTek hope you well your videos are so helpful and appreciate the time it took to do all of this for the community sure you not gonna see this but if you do I hope nothing but growth aswell as good faith and I'll be watching a lot more frequently myself considering I also just started playing fallout 76 just frequently.🎉🎉

Electric Absorbtion is great for nuke launch runs! Any enemy that uses laser weapons heals you and keeps your PA at full energy.

If and when you go to update this video, put all of the cards together in their various categories such as all the agility together, all of the perception together alln etc. This way you may save sometime by having the level 1/2 / 3 cards together and then have the option to compare what one will do versus the other in a particular category

I use Party Boy in my Carnivore builds. Since most drinks are plant based and therefore useless, chugging a whiskey for Str or a Hard Lemonade for the GIANT AP boost is a great trade off and keeps your thirst topped up.

Thanx for all your work&helpfullness

Lone Wanderer is useful maxed out when you are alone on a private server. Also Thru Hiker and Travelling Pharmacy can be removed with the equivalent backpack mods. Great video though !!

Watched this twice and will refer back probably. Thanks!

“ Are you really gonna go around punching stuff?” *Me looking at my Unyielding Ogua Claw in shame* …Yes.

How do you get legendary perk cards? Also how do you level up your weapon you plan on keeping for a while?

I use 3* thru hiker because I carry a lot of colas , toxic goo , and meats. I also use 3* traveling pharmacy because of all the berry mentats , psychos etc.

Hi! Thank you for this awesome video!! Do you have a video about rifleman builds? Thank you advance. 😊

Hey boss could we get an updated run through the perk cards? Irs been a while and I know you have learned a lot more and I've one who is still learning.

Lockpicking and hacking perksbare absolutely not useless, at least it wasn't up to level 200 for me since there are more useful legendary perks. Just swap them out if needed.

Made a goofy Basher loadout that makes use of the minigun’s shredder mod. Pair it with the Stabilized and One Man Army cards and you basically shred everything in your way with little resistance. Just keep Nuka Quantum or canned coffee on you if you don’t have high Agility for AP regen in a pinch.

Really need this. I need to know if there were perks I missed that would help. And I found 8. Thanks

One side note an cards the more animated cards you have the more laggy the menu will be, the animations all start at the same time killing fps in menu.

Mystery savior is a must in bloody builds

Thanks this is very helpful!

Lucky break is very good on a knife build running both rhe 50% faster swing speed legendary and the perk for 30% faster swing speed. Even with makeshift warrior and 50% slower breaking legendary, it will still break very quickly, this helps the high dps (hundreds a swing swiging nearly twice a second) be viable without carrying around alot of knives

I have to builds, Wanderer and Social/Crafting. Wanderer for fighting and missions, and I flip to Social/Crafting (high on Charisma and Intelligence) for vendors, repairs, scrapping and crafting.

Healing factor mutation is a contributing factor of the fast travel bug

The whole time im watching this drooling at the 2k perks points you have.. feels like earnibg perk points to level up legendary cards is going to take a long long time

Mr.Westeck@ ! Try a budget crit commando build.1 star on the 3 commando cards 3 star on the tank killer card and max the crit cards out...that with nuka colas are the way i defeated earl solo a few days ago!

Ty for this! Will help me a lot What are you special base points? Like at what strengh, intelligence etc ( all of them ) are at base stats?

Once again my friend you knock it out of the park thank you so much for your knowledge! For me it is priceless I am now going to become a member and join and become a nukaholic!!

Class Freak isn't really necessary if you run a full unyielding set and are bloodied. Having the 3 extra perk points are better than the negation of penalties.

I thing this was very helpful thankyou, coming from someone who enjoys the game but only at level 27 and still don't understand the cards! also thank you to all those that help us newbies in the game, am a girl running as a man and dying a lot lol lol

26:19 Psychopath: It might look good in theory, but there are too many variables for how low of a chance it is. Not only do you only have a max of 15% chance, but it only has the possibility to proc if the enemy dies while you are actively in VATS mode. This means if they happen to die right afterwards if you run out of AP or if someone snags the kill while you are reloading, the card doesn't even get a chance to be used. Since there are so many good perk cards under Luck, almost ALL of which are necessary for VATS crit builds, this card just falls far too short due to such a low percentage chance to proc.

Pain Train has one extremely specific use. Equip it at max rank and go do the Monster Mash event at Watoga high school.

Subribed!! Great video. It was long but well worth it, exactly what I needed. Now I can finally stop picking worthless perks

If you were around to get the Cold Shoulder, it's already *EXTREMELY* powerful with only 3 shotgun buff perks

Chainsaw and auto axe .. mixx Makeshift Warrior with Stable tools .. I honestly can't remember last time I needed to repair my chainsaw (and I main it)

Great channel man!

Ghoulish+what rads=immortal in most cases. You can even get toxic goo to drink to heal with instead of stims.

so, I can stack whichever Perk Cards I want to initialize and fill up each of the 7 slots? They don't have to stack in any particular order in their designated slot as long as they are in the slot I'm all good? Thanks (Level 6)

Does demolition expert perk card still work on camp turret’s?

Something I've noticed is that the Perk Cards are in alphabetical order.... until they're not. There's another section after that with another 2 dozen or so cards in sort of order. Bethesda never incorporated them into the original list then suddenly said, "Oh, crap - forgot about these!!". That can really throw you if you don't see a card you need. With all the patches you'd think they'd've fixed that by now.

Great Information! I have a question though, why do some cards say max rank but are only 1 out of 3 stars?

I don’t know if certain perk cards are rare or can only be obtain though the card packs, cause i finally got super duper and it was at around lvl 120 after getting it in a pack as I couldn’t find it during the normal selection after leveling up

I found a chainsaw at a point and it's become my standard weapon Couple that with Slugger (I have several sets of all 3 due to swapping them out for other things when necessary). Plug that with the one melee mutation and that thing is utterly insane. It currently has 3 legendary effects, 1 being ignoring 50% armor rating. If it had that and frenzied, vampirism or BOTH, I'd be unstoppable ♡♡♡ I love getting close to the fight. Things like melee and shotguns are my Forte and I love it ♡ I'm also a notorious pack rat so this game has forced me to curb that habit

Honestly, for some reason this whole perk card thing was so overwhelming and confusing to me. But you simply referring to having all those extra cards “in my back pocket” is all it took to make the whole thing make sense to me… God I have such a monkey brain! 😅

Is starched genes really needed if you collect Nuka cola grape? I thought it cleared rads but not mutations. I have a character that got a mutation and use grape soda to keep his mutation.

I know I'm late to this but I really respect your experience and opinion, can we get an S-tier style list from you? I'd be happy to design the graphic if you do a video or supply the data.

Gun fu and adrenaline is really good for a commando you need a quad weapon to work tho

New player here started a few days ago, I had an issue and looking for an answer to what might have happened. I joined a few expeditions mutations got some really good perk cards ended up merging a few to 2 star at one point did hit unequip all and the cards are all gone & ended up loosing them. What a bummer 😢 any idea what I did wrong? Can't find these cards what a waste. 14 levels worth of perk cards gone.

If I shared a level 3 Inspirational and my friend has one the same level equipped but not shared, do they stack?

I love quack surgeon. Saves my stimpaks since alwasy seem tk run out of them

Thank you! You mentioned several times how easy it is to get purified water but didn't say how/why. I can never seem to keep more than 8 or so of them. 😵

I play a Sniper build and the rifleman perk cards maxed out with Longshot and Sniper perks all maxed out. Sneek And Covert Operative.

i would like to know if someone shares hard bargain will it stack with your hard bargain card

Great breakdown. So I’m new and confused. I’m level 27 and my agility is maxed at 15 and I cannot pick anymore cards. But to my understanding I don’t even have all the perk cards unlocked? So once I unlock them how do I pick them and when do I unlock them all?

Your awesome and awesome video be safe out there dude

Home defense card let you build better turrets in your base.So for some player(and locations) is must have.And let you disarm traps and mines so you get free explosives and expierence.Iron Fist perk is for players using fist weapons-one more melee build.Lone Wanderer is for players who dont like play in teams-or even hate that

Home defense is just a crafting perk at this point. Keep a maxed out one in your deck and pull it out if you need it.

Magnetic personality is veeeery good, I don't have a lot of carisma, so i just slot that card when i gonna convince someone

when I used ammosmithmax out, super duper max, ammor factory maxxout for 100 flux glad me 50000 eounds of FCell ultracine rounds

Im in your Video. Now im a Popstar 🎉🎉🎉 Nice Video 💪🏼💪🏼

Everyone should always be on a team!!! lol no. That solo card is not worthless by any means, esp for fo1st players who like to do the majority of the game on a private server.

Wait is there a limit of S.P E C I A L points you get cause I want to make heavy gunner but I put 4 perception and if so what’s the limit?