You can even toss Finesse too or Educated but the latter can be avoided if you spend your skill points correctly and take perks in a proper sequence (TAG Repair and take Light Touch at lvl 2).īottom line, you get a guy with only a handful of necessary skills, and for self defense can only exel unarmed/melee, but in that field you won't be just the average good who can handle himself, but who basically maxed out the potential that this game offers as you will be the PERFECT hand-to-hand combatant possible minimizing weakness and maximizing the advangates even more than what other routes (like ranged or explosives) makes possible. Paralyzing Palm is not that much of a help. Go and get the necessary unarmed perks like Super Slam, Stonewall, Piercing Strike, Ninja (use the patch-mod that fixes this perk), Slayer, and Purifyer as they are all essential. But usually if you get within arms reach (using stealth and speed), then you basically won the fight. You're melee, you have to get close as soon as possible and if your target backs off you don't want him to outrun you. It's way better to be light and fast than being a slow heavy tank as what somehow everybody suggests. Go Light Armor, take Light Touch, Travel Light, Tunnel Runner as these combined grants you enourmous speed when you sneak with Silent Running. Get Chemist too and the involved chem duration extending achievable perks. And Implant GRX (since you got 8 END anyway) as it ROCKS. MedX, Psychos, Turbos and stuff with the latter combined with Slayer perk will allow you to send people flying around you in a blink. And since you go with half HP anyway, you might as well take Ferocious Loyalty too for your companions.Īnd as somebody previously mentioned: chem use will be involved. And with all the Endurance even at half HP you'll be good and the extra 10% (which is actually 15) in damage will prove more and more useful with better weapons and higher skills. Thus you can take Hot Blooded since the negatives does not affect you at all as you don't rely on either Agility or Perception. What am I talking about? You should have a lot of Endurance for more HP and skill points in Unarmed + for additional implants.

The best thing to do is get all those perks and traits that synergies together.

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