Is scrapper worth it if I only want to upgrade my weapons

[Cemetery Man]

I'm not the biggest fan of building settlements, but I want to use energy and plasma weapons, both of which require a lot of rare components to upgrade. Would the scrapper perk be worth it in that case?

[Heimdall313]

Most people just stomp raiders, gunners, etc. that have the weapon type you want, then just grab the randomly upgraded laser pistols/etc and pull useful mods off it to save perk points by not picking Gun Nut and such.

I prefer crafting over "sure hope I get that overcharged capacitor drop" and if you like crafting / have the perks yeah Scrapper is useful.
Or just batch script all the building components, its single player who cares lol

[Halcius]

If you’re doing settlements, make some water farms, sell the purified water to general traders and buy out their rare components. Should make things renewable.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

It is tbh. You also get more out of them.

Best thing to do is get an empty settlement, dump all your armor or guns you dont use or want, ~scrapall, then get the parts from the workbench.

[darinbob]

In the You Only Live Once playthrough in survivor mode (Many A True Nerd videos), he want with scrapper because he felt he needed to get his guns modded up quickly to survivable levels. (also he uses a rule to not use legendary gear that's guaranteed to be there, only random stuff from loot.) Screws and aluminium were things that in short supply early on whereas pipe pistols are everywhere. In mid game the need for such things possibly drops quite a lot.

I think in a default or hard difficulty it isn't so bad as it's a lot easy to go exploring when you can save anywhere and so finding the junk you want is easier.

It may matter also if you're going to be heavy into settlement building, lots of lights and machines, without using mods or console to get your materials.

[The Inept European]

The more you're going to be crafting the more useful it will be.

However I'm strongly of the belief that the best (most efficient, most effective, fastest) way to get weapon and armour mods is to loot them from the bodies of your enemies.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

Originally posted by darinbob:

In the You Only Live Once playthrough in survivor mode (Many A True Nerd videos), he want with scrapper because he felt he needed to get his guns modded up quickly to survivable levels. (also he uses a rule to not use legendary gear that's guaranteed to be there, only random stuff from loot.) Screws and aluminium were things that in short supply early on whereas pipe pistols are everywhere. In mid game the need for such things possibly drops quite a lot.

I think in a default or hard difficulty it isn't so bad as it's a lot easy to go exploring when you can save anywhere and so finding the junk you want is easier.

It may matter also if you're going to be heavy into settlement building, lots of lights and machines, without using mods or console to get your materials.

or you know just put down a couple of scavenger posts and let your settlers pick up random items. Empty the workshop bench and soon you'll have a pretty sizeable amount of scrappable junk items to get all your ♥♥♥♥ from.

Feel like the whole point of the scrapper perk is to melt down modded guns with scopes and attachments to salvage a bit of the nuclear material, fiber optics, and aluminum / gears which are always 100% in short supply only rivaled by adhesive and oil.