Any way to decrease the amount of AP used when firing automatic weapon?

[Tesityr]

AP seems to go really, really fast when firing an automatic weapon / gatling / etc - I've picked some Agility Perk cards that have to do with AP - but these are all for 'regenerating' AP, and while they help recover Action Points faster, they do not seem to reduce the amount of AP that is getting eaten-up when firing an automatic weapon (even in VATS), it all just goes ZOOM GONE lol

Is there anything in the game that can reduce the amount of AP that is being used up, so that it lasts a bit longer?

[uni790]

There are some weapon attachments that reduce their AP used, like the reflex sight on a rifle, I tend to not use vats, so I can't help more then that, the weapons show how much AP is used in their stat card now while customising them, so shouldn't be too hard to locate the pieces that reduce AP usage.

I don't think there are any perk cards for it though.

[[2]Friendly]

Hmm, I think the only perk to increase the AP is Thirst Quencher. Indirectly still Rejuvenated - with active buffs. Otherwise, 1 point in agi gives 10 AP or various buffs to increase the regeneration or reduce the ap costs (here e.g. the weapon mods).

Edit:
Forgot the mutations that still push your ap:

- Herd mentality
- Bird Bones
- Herbivore or Carnivore

Class Freak + Strange in Numbers. What you can easily loot is tea and coffee from the player camps.

[LT2483]

Yep, between weapon parts and the 3* -25% AP cost legendary mod (which has some super funky math that makes it way more that that), you can reduce the AP cost of many weapons to a fraction of what it is normally. For example, my Fixer goes from 25 a shot, down to 3. I basically can't run out of AP at that point.

Also consider getting the herbivore mutation and a company tea machine. You'll regen to full in two or so seconds.

[Weyond]

use Canned coffee... 10 = 30s non stop vats with gatling plasma

[Tesityr]

Thanks for all the helpful info!

(I especially forgot just mods changes, I tend to find what i like and never change it again per-weapon :P )

[Vic Evicerator]

I know you asked about AP reduction, not increasing the AP pool, but don't overlook light/ultra-light armor mods instead of pocketed. Every little bit helps.