Wasteland Survival Guide Perk... DR or Critical Hit Chance improvement?

[WickedRequiem]

6% DR or 3% CH improvement?

I always went with DR, but I've been wondering in my current playthrough if CH wouldn't be the better choice.

[EolSunder]

doesn't matter that small amount really doesn't factor into anything by the time you are level 30/super killer/all skills welding your gatling laser chopping up enclave troopers like butter, etc. Its a sidenote in the list of abilities you have.

DR is basically useless unless your playing on easy/normal mode, at higher levels DR is halved in usefulness, plus many creatures have attacks that bypass your DR or just outright outdamage it. DR really means nothing if your playing very hard mode, i wear ligher combat armor so i can move around easier than trying to wear heavy DR power armor which is just as fragile. Overlord tri lasers cut through your 50 DR power armor like paper, point lookout foes do bonus non-dr damage, etc.

So offense or defense, even on normal mode that 6%/3% isn't nothing when your character is already strong. At very hard mode it means much less than nothing when you do 50% less damage and enemies do 2x damage, including dr-ignoring attacks for some of them.

[Slinky]

Depends on your character build. I like to play on Luck - 10 and high Int with 4s on strength, end, and perception initially and then add points to those with perks until better perks become available. So for me, an increase in CH is more important than DR.

[Improper Use]

You could also start with 10 endurance.

[Slinky]

Punch all the things? Yeah

[Improper Use]

Armor is effective health, it essentially increases your heath pool.

Take the shortcut if you are going to be extreme and max your potential health pool.