Early intelligence clothing

[Jowersman]

I'm starting a permadeath build with 0 specials so I focus more on agility for stealth. On the side I would like some good intelligence clothing (lab coat, goggles and hat). I know sometimes the lab coat and hat will spawn in sanctuary, but is there a guarantee place to find such apparell?

[oldrotorhead1]

Doesn't look like there are too many available. The Fallout 4 section on this page:
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Intelligence
has links to the items and their location.

[ZarahNeander]

The easiest way to get a guaranted lab coat is enter cambridge polymer labs and answer mollys question with 'researcher'. Then you can either do the quest or bail out

Hat is hire Piper and borrow her press cap

Road googles on Zoe's body during 'Mechanical Menace'

[Jowersman]

Thanks fellas

[The Giving One]

I have found several ushanka hats very early on in my last few games :

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Ushanka_hat_(Fallout_4)

EDIT..A few found in Sanctuary and some on settlers, too.

[Stardustfire]

for Hat destroyer combat armor helm in coveneant from pennys shop

[deidian]

Lab Coat and ushanka hat can be found from lv1 anywhere. Sometimes you are lucky and you loot both in Santuary Hills.

Going to DC early is too a good way for buying them.

Doing "Story of the Century" allows you to have Piper as companion after entering DC, so you can borrow her "Press Cap" by trading with her.

Glasses are the hard of everything, probably you'll get ones +1INT after doing "Mechanical Menace" which will always start at lv15, since it's the 1st quest from Automatron DLC.

[The Giving One]

I am guessing you are doing this to maximize your XP rewards, due to the intelligence clothing.

Are you aware of the Idiot Savant "workaround" for XP ? Actually, it works better the lower your intelligence, but you do need to have 5 points in Luck to get the perk :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFltAE3mR-Y

I realize it's probably too late now for this game you have created, but just so you might be aware in the future.

I do this sometimes in my games and I can tell you, that even with intelligence of 5 or 6, the perk still triggers quite a lot, especially for crafting and building in settlements.

If I am off here, just ignore all this please, if your intentions are otherwise.

[deidian]

Statisctically is more or less the same: you can go 2/3INT, 5LCK and 2 points on idiot savant or go 9/10 INT. Then use in both cases +INT gear to round a little and even Mentats or Berry Mentats for further INT.
It boils down to the usefulness of the skills for you(INT branch or LCK branch) if any, after all +++EXP earned is not really that important, you'll make it far anyway and by the point where +++EXP starts giving you an edge you probably are already quite comfortable even on survival.

Both cases average around 40% extra XP and in both cases you can always gain even more by boosting INT further.

Another thing to take in account is that even quest XP rewards are scaled to player level when taking the quest they have a minimum XP reward, so lower levels take more XP than higher relative to required XP to next. So all in all extra XP is more or less useless unless you are shooting to make a brutally high level character that masters several things.

[The Giving One]

@ deidian

That's all very true and good points. Thanks. It's somewhat of a moot point in that you can level really fast by any means but the game levels with you anyway, basically.

EDIT.....

@ OP

Oh, almost forgot. You won't get this one very quickly, but it will boost INT, AGI, and END :

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Acadia%27s_Shield

There are the sharp armor pieces also, but they are legendary and of course, randomly found, unless a vendor might have one for sale (Lucas the armor vendor). +1 INT and CHA