Why is "Travelling Pharmacy" a strength perk?

[Tyler McRae]

Thru-Hiker is basically the same perk, but it's Agility. I don't think Traveling Pharmacy fits in Strength. It should be Endurance or Agility.

[Mooman]

Or ignore it and get the backpack mod from Crater or roll aid weight reduction on armour.

I personally think any of the weight reduction perks that have alternative means are a waste of perk points.

[AbsynthMinded]

Have you seen how heavy a Super Stimpack is?

[steventirey]

The same reason the perks that boost shotgun damage are Strength and Charisma having perks that boost your healing, That is where Bethesda put them.

[Tyler McRae]

Originally posted by steventirey:

The same reason the perks that boost shotgun damage are Strength and Charisma having perks that boost your healing, That is where Bethesda put them.

See, the shotgun perks being strength makes sense. Shotguns are very strength-y weapons. But most healing perks are in Intelligence. Why not make Travelling Pharmacy an Intelligence perk? It would make more sense.

[steventirey]

Originally posted by Tyler McRae:

Originally posted by steventirey:

The same reason the perks that boost shotgun damage are Strength and Charisma having perks that boost your healing, That is where Bethesda put them.

See, the shotgun perks being strength makes sense. Shotguns are very strength-y weapons. But most healing perks are in Intelligence. Why not make Travelling Pharmacy an Intelligence perk? It would make more sense.

No, it doesn't make sense. Its still the same exact shotgun you had before. Making yourself stronger won't make your shotgun do more damage. Unless you are swinging it as a club. At least with Rifleman, Commando, and Archer being Perception, you could argue its improving your aim and you can better hit more vital spots. But Strength being the score for shotguns does not make sense.

[Mooman]

Originally posted by steventirey:

Originally posted by Tyler McRae:

See, the shotgun perks being strength makes sense. Shotguns are very strength-y weapons. But most healing perks are in Intelligence. Why not make Travelling Pharmacy an Intelligence perk? It would make more sense.

No, it doesn't make sense. Its still the same exact shotgun you had before. Making yourself stronger won't make your shotgun do more damage. Unless you are swinging it as a club. At least with Rifleman, Commando, and Archer being Perception, you could argue its improving your aim and you can better hit more vital spots. But Strength being the score for shotguns does not make sense.

It's a round about way to make the game more like the older games. In the older games some weapons had a minimum strength to use.

Here they allow you to use any weapon at any special stat. Having strength cards boost damage is instead of a hard lock out. You still need strength to 'use' the weapon effectively, but now it's a sliding scale.

[NIkto Barada]

get the back pack isntead

[Traveler]

Because they needed thee number of perks in each group to be roughly equal.