What's the best legendary rolls for auto-axe or chainsaw?

[greathero]

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[Mooman]

Vampire... no... just, no...

Reasoning: Adrenal Reaction mutation.
Adrenal Reaction is ridiculously powerful, even with only a small amount of health loss. Stimpaks and other health options are plentiful. Dying has no real penalties, especially in events.

Combine that with any of the 50%+ damage increase types and your dps will increase dramatically.

Auto melee weapons are currently bugged to hit much faster than intended in first person view. Once the fixes are in place the vampire effect will begin to show it's flaws as dps drops.

Take damage as melee, use that damage to increase dps via adrenal reaction and/or unyielding strength boosts, heal when near death.

[Eriskumma]

Originally posted by Mooman:

Vampire... no... just, no...

Reasoning: Adrenal Reaction mutation.

What do you mean? I run vampire's chainsaws and auto-axes on my low health toons and have no issues.

[Mooman]

Originally posted by Eriskumma:

Originally posted by Mooman:

Vampire... no... just, no...

Reasoning: Adrenal Reaction mutation.

What do you mean? I run vampire's chainsaws and auto-axes on my low health toons and have no issues.

That's fine as your getting the nerd rage/adrenal reaction/unyielding boosts, but often the buzz around the vampires effect is from full health players.

[gatedFUZZz]

furious chainsaw is my current vote. at this moment in fallout 76 update history, its basically an instant kill for anything (mole miner and lower) and works wonders on the belly of a scorchedbeast. if youve scrapped enough of them to be able to craft the dual mod that is... i dont think ive even used a single bar chainsaw now that i think of it. ive also found that the dual mods tend to pop up pretty regularly and cheap at train stations. flaming mod should be obvious at this point.

Vampire is cool and can totally work with a low health buff build type, seeing as how the health regen follows the same rules as the others and cant overrule the radiation line. i havent got the hang of a full on bloodied build yet though, so maybe theres an aspect to its quick regeneration that keeps something else from working proper.

secondary and third perks dont really matter, but i feel like i prefer the ones that buff the AP in someway just to keep it going in those "all you can kill" moments.

does anyone know if theres any way to get area damage from a chainsaw outside of the legendary perk card that adds it to all melee attacks?

now what im currently grinding for is some more stamps to try all the auto axe mods, because i dont think its possible to gain access to them by scrapping an auto axe, mainly because ive never gotten a mod unlock from scrapping crafted weapon. is there a trick to doing that?

[greathero]

Originally posted by tedgrundy:

does anyone know if theres any way to get area damage from a chainsaw outside of the legendary perk card that adds it to all melee attacks?

now what im currently grinding for is some more stamps to try all the auto axe mods, because i dont think its possible to gain access to them by scrapping an auto axe, mainly because ive never gotten a mod unlock from scrapping crafted weapon. is there a trick to doing that?

No and no. Plans are not aviable so we can't caft and scrap

[Eriskumma]

Originally posted by Mooman:

That's fine as your getting the nerd rage/adrenal reaction/unyielding boosts, but often the buzz around the vampires effect is from full health players.

Well, vampire's does let you tank and solo tough bosses even if you don't have tanky character. Chainsaw/auto-axe is so ridiculously OP that it really doesn't matter if it has no extra damage buff and vampire's makes sure you won't go down easily.

[Mooman]

Originally posted by Eriskumma:

Originally posted by Mooman:

That's fine as your getting the nerd rage/adrenal reaction/unyielding boosts, but often the buzz around the vampires effect is from full health players.

Well, vampire's does let you tank and solo tough bosses even if you don't have tanky character. Chainsaw/auto-axe is so ridiculously OP that it really doesn't matter if it has no extra damage buff and vampire's makes sure you won't go down easily.

And that creates a bunch of clueless players, never bothering to learn advanced game mechanisms and interactions.

I know I'm in the minority with this thinking but with players expecting everything to be easy mode by just pressing 1 button limits actual interesting content.

[RMPyro]

Vampire is good if you just need it for healing yourself. But for damage its one of the worst. Bloodied, anti-armor or aritstocrats is best.

[Eriskumma]

Originally posted by RMPyro:

Vampire is good if you just need it for healing yourself. But for damage its one of the worst. Bloodied, anti-armor or aritstocrats is best.

When you have really good build and lots of damage buffs from other stuff like low health, armor penetration, stealth etc differences between prefixes become pretty small. I run with vampire's stuff a lot, solo ops and Pitt to max rewards etc and have absolutely no issues with their damage.

[PotatoBasket]

I do agree Vampire's is most valuable in regards to keeping yourself alive; as Mooman mentioned, if you are running a bloodied build the problem comes in with staggering from larger enemies, in particular if they get one in before your Vampire's can get a backup of health regen going. Even blocker reducing melee by 45% and top armor, two hits and you're toast. A bloodied build *needs* high dps, the glass cannon is only effective if you're killing things faster than they kill you. Is being unkillable or killing everything your end goal?

Most desirable depends on your build but AP regen is a must in my book, since the weapon uses AP. Better bashing damage is excellent too. If you're going auto-melee for dps, the only advantage to a flamer is that your AP is rechargeable. If you're going for DPS then it's far better to get a standard flamer (or plasma/enclave) and only switch to an anti-armor auto when you run out of fuel(with the assumption you don't have incisor equipped). Personally I've given all my god-roll mechanical weapons to others, with the exception of my Nocturnal Flaming Chainsaw and Assassin's Ripper; like flamers I just find them a little too OP for extended use.

[Eriskumma]

Originally posted by PotatoBasket:

if you are running a bloodied build the problem comes in with staggering from larger enemies, in particular if they get one in before your Vampire's can get a backup of health regen going. Even blocker reducing melee by 45% and top armor, two hits and you're toast.

Yes, getting staggered is a problem, and it's the most common reason why I end up dead. But it doesn't happen that often thanks to Serendipity. Also having active healing from stims or vampire's weapons is usually enough to counteract slap or two from most enemies while you're staggered. Some enemies do hit harder though.
I use maxed incisor with chainsaws and by my tests for example Furious or Aristocrat's chainsaws don't kill significantly faster than Vampire's.

[morikaane]

My main has a Furious + 40 Attack Speed + 90% Weight Reduction Auto-Ax; it trashes everything. Any universal damage buff + attack speed is pretty awesome I think.

[THOTSLAYER8742]

Vampire, The legendary perk for gaining ap on kill, and furious/juggernaut (full hp) or bloodied (low hp) ive noticed that perks and legendary effects that effect swing speed dont do anything at the least very miniscule so dont bother with those

[Grendalcat]

Vampire's, Dual Bar, Flamer mod. Painted Red White and Blue of course!

Yeah I'm a full-health guy, it's just so fun to grind on anything with no worries.