

Easily acquired early on in the game if you’re following the breadcrumb trail left behind by your Overseer, with stats starting at level 10, Metal Armor is a sturdy bit of equipment that will carry most players relying on crafted armors as they level. It’s not the Apocalypse if you’re not strapping random bits of metal to your person. One man’s rusted mess is another one’s treasure. Legendaries can sometimes be looted from end-area chests found in certain areas, often in slightly-more-than-obvious containers that they contain better than normal loot. They’re often tougher hombres who will not relinquish their loot without a fight. They can drop from enemies tagged with the Legendary label in their name when targeted. Legendaries are rewarded to the player sometimes for completing certain events that spawn in the world space.

It requires a decent amount of thinking ahead and planning your leveling carefully until you get ahold of the Legendaries you desire for the build you’re making.
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Legendaries are best used if you are utilizing a specialized build that is meant to take full advantage of the effects you are looking to utilize and the Mutations you are planning to acquire. Legendaries are ranked by stars, the more stars, the more traits or effects are applied to them. Stats vary by armor type and player level. Legendaries come in all flavors of armor, from Wooden to Marine sets and more, and come with special perks such as bonus damage versus specific enemies, or buffs to player stats or damage output if certain key conditions are met.įor example armor with the Junkie legendary effect only comes in handy if you are in the middle of massive withdrawal from in-game recreational drug use, and the Bloodied effect shows it’s teeth when you are a Smurf’s eyelash away from death. It wouldn’t be an armor list for Fallout 76 without at least a nod to the highly coveted Legendary Armors, which puts it at number sixteen on our list. She knows what we want, but it’s gonna cost us. Legendaries (Best for Specialized Builds) Like always, we will be presenting the armors in their most basic forms, and in their earliest iterations, the player can obtain before perks and stats come into effect.ġ6.

Today we are diving headfirst into a pile of scrap metal and polymers to fish out sixteen of some of the best armor in Fallout 76 that isn’t Power Armor. So what do you do when Power Armor just isn’t feasible? Naturally, you’ll need to rely on the armor of the non-powered variety.

Fusion Cores can sometimes be looted from generators found across the world map, but there is only one place in Appalachia to get a decent supply, and that is camping the Poseidon Energy Plant and using the Workshop there to generate Fusion Cores.This can be time and resource consuming, assuming someone else hasn’t capped the Workshop and surrounded it with a dozen turrets to make players think twice about taking their turf. While Power Armor is the top name in protection in Fallout 76, it comes with the drawback that using it requires a resource that for some players may be hard to come by.
