

Never underestimate the importance of bleed effects, stuns, and additional limb damage, it’s like free damage and free damage is good. Not only that, make sure that these weapons have the best mods you can get attached to them. I also keep the 2076 World Series Baseball bat from the Jamaica Inn treasure vault with me as well, because the sheer joy of ‘knocking someone out of the park’ is almost impossible to beat. You’ll need something slow and heavy like a Super Sledge, Grognaks Axe fills my medium speed slot and a Ripper for the very fast weapon are the three I would recommend.

GearĪs you would with your fire-arms, make sure you have a number of melee weapons on you of different types, or to be more specific different speeds. Especially, the Lifesaver perk of course. Don’t ignore these just because they are more passive than other perks, they’re quite literally lifesavers. You will want to invest at least 4 perk points into the Big Leagues perk, which will give you 80% damage increase, the chance to disarm opponents and much more importantly you’ll now hit every opponent in front of you with each swing.Įndurance is full of useful perks, AquaBoy / Aqua Girl removes the danger from water, Ghoulish makes radiation actually heal you and Adamantium skeleton lowers the damage you take. Endurance dictates the amount of sprinting you can do and the amount of damage you can take. Endurance is also very useful, as it is for any build.

For a melee fighter you want to focus on strength, which increases your melee damage and rather handily also means you can carry more stuff as well. So, I feel I should impart to you my guide to creating a melee fighter in Fallout 4… Perksįirstly, as it is with all builds it’s very important to make sure you pick the right perks. I am getting close to completing my first play through of Fallout 4, and rather than going down the pistol-firearm route, this time I chose to take the more dangerous but to me infinitely more satisfying route of building myself a melee fighting head-case who prefers to wade in and beat super-mutants to death with bats, blades, knuckledusters or anything else he can swing around his head.
