Unyielding - I am doing something wrong

[zephyrillo]

Appreciate any help. I have 4 of 5 Unyielding buttressed SS. Using perks Fireproof, Dodgy, Serendipity, Blocker, Refactor and Ironclad to the max/ I have 10 mutations including the healing one but I think I am missing an important one for Unyielding. My endurance is only 9 and I am thinking I need that higher. Everything else is in the 20 to 30 range.

Anyway, I never died as much fighting Earl before this new build.

Thx.

[MBK]

Since Unyielding doesn't give you an endurance boost you might wanna use Fireproof and/or Nerd Rage

[zephyrillo]

OK, just added Adrenal Reaction which is perfect for the build. I just don't understand how to keep my heath from falling like a rock during Earl event.

[StormX]

you want % reduction like Posion reduction (2star) legendary or Fireproof (Endurance Card) for high effective HP. You want the Int card "Nerd Rage 3" for extra Damage and Def. With your mutations you also want the neccesary Mutation Cards for more stats and less negatives.

[zephyrillo]

Ok, great, I like the Nerd Rage idea the best, I already have Fireproof maxed. Lvl 2 "Nerd Rage" and will get another slot soon.

Thx

[zephyrillo]

I must say though, with all the protection cards needed for this build it seems to limit you to one type of attack. I am going with auto-rifles but miss my heavy gunner cards. Maybe some of the unyielding perks with still give them a punch with the right mutations.

[StormX]

Heavy Weapons are best played with Power Armor. The unyielding armor player tends to use Vats oriented Rifles or shift to melee in some way

[andrew8j4brown]

nerd rage is a must with low health builds and if your auto stiming either from perk cards or from wearable gear if your health is always below the 20% health ive noticed it can glitch after a period of time(or from receiving x? amounts of hits ) to start proccing constantly or just stop working so its best to keep just above 20% so the hits you receive proc correctly when ever it goes past its proc point.
playing below 20% works best when your a pure stealth player with all the bonuses from gear perk cards and silly high agility and just not getting hit but a problem with pure stealth when your in a party with others who are present at whatever combat your in and they dont stealth it can break your stealth as well and this can also happen outside of events and your party members are not present whenever opposing npc types start fighting each over during your combats

[zephyrillo]

Originally posted by andrew8j4brown:

nerd rage is a must with low health builds and if your auto stiming either from perk cards or from wearable gear if your health is always below the 20% health ive noticed it can glitch after a period of time(or from receiving x? amounts of hits ) to start proccing constantly or just stop working so its best to keep just above 20% so the hits you receive proc correctly when ever it goes past its proc point.
playing below 20% works best when your a pure stealth player with all the bonuses from gear and silly high agility and just not getting hit but a problem with pure stealth when your in a party with others who are present at whatever combat your in and they dont stealth it can break your stealth as well and this can also happen outside of events and your party members are not present whenever opposing npc types start fighting each over during your combats

Yes, I was using auto-stim card with no problems but went into Earl event and went through 45 super stims and 40 stims in maybe 3 minutes. It was crazy because I hadn't had any problems like that before. Perhaps I had my health a bit too high and need to make sure it is below 20% in the future.

Thx

[SleipnirS]

What's killing you? If it's melee damage, consider adding that STR card which reduces incoming melee damage by a huge %. You don't have to permanently add it to your build, you just have to add it when it's needed.

Also, how many legendary perks do you have? Those are incredible at transcanding the old SPECIAL limit. You can pretty much max out a couple of stats thanks to them. The % poison one is also super important (even at 1 star) because things that can poison you will likely kill you without that perk.

I play a unyielding power-fist build which is quite tanky but definitely not invincible when a lot of enemies (like during Earl event) are involved because the perk that reduces incoming damage for a portion of your stam will turn into a curse -> you'll get down to 0 stam quickly/often. In that case, you must rely on the LUK perks to chain-kill things in VATS to replenish your Stam as often as you can. (my game is in french so I can't tell you all the card's name, sorry ... something to do with the reaper?)

BTW Do not get fooled by your high DR/ER amounts. Past a certain point, those have diminishing results. If you're running the barbarian perk (the one that gives you DR depending on your STR), considering you play auto-rifles, you certainly don't have much SPECIAL points to spare so you should really ditch that one for the one I mentionned earlier. Same for ironclad/refractor. What about life giver? It gives you a lot more survivability than any flat DR/ER bonuses.

One last thing, you do not have to always be below 20% to be efficient. Below 30% is preferable during boss fights and it's less of a struggle to manage your HP.

[zephyrillo]

It was just the environment, nothing around and I was using Fireproof maxed.

I thank you all, I really feel good about the build now adding "nerd rage" and making sure my health is below 20% so I don't use up all my stims. I learned a lot.

[YΛҠ SĤΛ√ƐŔ]

do you have stimpaks on you?
only keep the super stimpaks

[YΛҠ SĤΛ√ƐŔ]

Originally posted by zephyrillo:

OK, just added Adrenal Reaction which is perfect for the build. I just don't understand how to keep my heath from falling like a rock during Earl event.

one of the endurance perks is very interesting
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Life_Giver_(Fallout_76)
you basically stretch the zone higher (making it more lenient) to become bloodied

[insert food here]

At Earle, are you getting hit by the falling burning ceiling in the mine? Fireproof does not make you immune to this. You need the torso mod "Asbestos lining" for your chest armour piece.

I have been playing unyielding commando on my main for a long time now. Can do all game content with little worry. I don't use the Born survivor auto stim perk at all. It's buggy at times and i have never needed it. I only ever use diluted stims as the amount of HP i need to heal is very small due to playing bloodied. Trying to heal HP i don't have is pointless. I do use the perk Field surgeon to make them work faster without the usual delay.

Health at 19.9% or there about. 80 HP i think from memory. Full set of unyielding SS armour. Nothing special. Mix of 1, 2 and 3 star and some have bad rolls. Given up on wasting my time trying to get anything better.

Ricochet, fireproof, serendipity, blocker and dodgy for damage reduction.

Perks like refactor and ironclad that increase DR or ER are not optimal as the benefit they give is far less than any perks that straight up reduce incoming damage. You also see diminishing returns past a certain point with DR and ER.

I also use Life giver perk at max and Rejuvenated in endurance for some extra HP and other benefits when fully fed. You don't have a lot of HP when bloodied so the more the better.

Adrenal reaction, Scaly skin, speed demon, bird bones, talons, healing factor, egg head, eagle eyes, carnivore and marsupial are my mutations.

I only use nerd rage at rank 1 just for the visual cue to stop taking any more rads as i am in my HP sweet spot. At rank 1 you are getting 50% of the damage bonus and 100% of the AP regen for only 1/3 the cost of rank 3 of the perk. The extra DR gain is so small as to be a moot point. Damage output of a build like this is never an issue so the extra 10% you are missing for the next 2 perk points is tiny.

[zephyrillo]

Wow, thanks insert food here, I did pick up the last unyielding piece. Thanks very much for the info especially on "field surgeon" and perk cards "iron clad" ,"refactor" . Will add "Ricochet" and get asbestos lining with an adjustment to "nerd rage". Everything else I have and will remove "Born survivor" add "life giver and Rejuvenated.

Well got my work cut out for me and should have everything in about 50 levels do a a change to "Field surgeon" and missing cards.

Thx, what I was doing just wasn't working very good so I really appreciate your detailed post.

[insert food here]

Originally posted by zephyrillo:

Wow, thanks insert food here, I did pick up the last unyielding piece. Thanks very much for the info especially on "field surgeon" and perk cards "iron clad" ,"refactor" . Will add "Ricochet" and get asbestos lining with an adjustment to "nerd rage". Everything else I have and will remove "Born survivor" add "life giver and Rejuvenated.

Well got my work cut out for me and should have everything in about 50 levels do a a change to "Field surgeon" and missing cards.

Thx, what I was doing just wasn't working very good so I really appreciate your detailed post.

Rejuvenated is great to use with the tons of perfect bubble gum we seem to accumulate from seasons and other things. Pop one and for one hour you will be getting the full benefit of rejuvenated without needing to maintain eating and drinking. For general gameplay i cook and eat my own food and save the perfect bubblegum for stuff like Earle. Rejuvenated is not 100% needed as i did not add it in permanently until fairly recently as i did ok without it. However that little bit more hp can be very needed sometimes and the other benefits are good also. I would say definitely get life giver before rejuvenated.

If your interested I can post a pic of my build for you. I am doing commando build but have almost all perks selected so i can do almost any build i like to try out. Another great thing about playing bloodied is you can pick up any weapon, even ones you are not spec into, and still deal great damage. Stops me from getting bored using same weapons over and over.