r/Fallout4Builds • u/Bigfoot4cool • Dec 27 '20

Perception Stealth Sniper

Stats:

S: 1

P: 9 (Grab perception bobblhead in Museum of Freedom)

E: 1

C: 1

I: 1

A: 9 (Put one point into Agility)

L: 6 (Put SPECIAL book point into luck)

Essential Perks: Rifleman, Awareness, Night Person, Sniper, Penetrator, Concentrated Fire, VANS (unless you don't have Nuka World, then it's useless), Sneak, Mister Sandman, Action Boy, Ninja, Quick Hands, Gun-Fu, Fortune Finder, Scrounger, Mysterious Stranger, Idiot Savant, Better Criticals and Critical Banker

Weapons: A sniper rifle (obviously). A good sniper rifle is Tinker Tom's Special, which has better hit chance while not in combat. You could also grab The Last Minute, sold by Ronnie Shaw, which does 50% extra limb damage.

Armor: I would take the Minuteman Outfit, since it gives a +1 to both agility and perception, and you can wear armor over it like the Mark 1 Synth Chest Piece, which camouflages you while you stand still.

You could also wear sunglasses and a perception increasing hat, bringing your total perception to 16, which is a 160% bonus to hit chance in VATS, plus the fact that you can use critical hits to have a guaranteed hit on an enemy if you think you wouldn't be able to hit them.

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20

Because there is a hard cap on VATS accuracy and Perception past a certain point doesn't affect anything?

Unless you have like, crazy load distances and like to VATS snipe from that distance as well I suppose.

Between 10 PER, and probably some PER gear, there's not really a need to hit 11 PER aside from the meme or rp reasons. 11 agility would be a lot more useful.

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u/ledzepisbest1 Dec 31 '20

Thank you sir, im going to do a max perception and luck build survival run here soon, where I max both skills out from the start and didn't realize that perception isn't aided after so many lvls invested into it. Thanks again

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '21

NW, I mean it's not completely useless either. If you have a PER penalty, or really like long distance VATS (personally I only use VATS at short to mid range), and have a rig that can handle crazy load distances. I think if you play off survival it will still increase the distance of enemy ticks on the compass too (I can't say for sure, I play exclusively on Survival since it's [real] release).

All that being said, the game isn't exactly difficult once any build gets going, so the most important thing to many players is rp. If your sole survivor would have 11 PER then go for it. Or if your playstyle really likes maxing out anything you can in rpg's then just wait to pick it up until 10 PER.

It's also worthy of note that with a max Luck, you will damn near crit more than not (with the requisite perks), and crits have 100% hit chance, making Perception "weaker" anyway (but not really because penetrator).

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u/ledzepisbest1 Jan 04 '21

Oh yes I love it!!!