Atom's Judgement Damage

[Echo]

I've seen this a few times on Reddit and some people on YT video comments; their Atom's Judgement damage being extremely "low" compared to specific videos or even information on the wiki.

Mine doesn't do over 200 ballistic/500 radiation damage, even with 10 strength and all the perks for it. Do you seriously need "17" strength ( 6 armor pieces and bobblehead ) to get its maximum capacity, or is this just a bug with it?

[Herrius Le Crabe Québécois]

you have to destroy Far Harbor with the turbine killswitch for the children of atom to get the crusader perk. And yes,maybe its not the best perk for a melee character, bacause having less hp probably s*ck for them (unless them use power armor). But for a sniper kind of character, less health is not an issue if they never see you coming, but now i'm wandering away from the subject of the hammer...

[Nocelight]

dude you still wonder about that? i already fixed the problem. i told you how to get the damage so high. my one deals 1152 rad damage. thats all i ever wanted.

[Nocelight]

引用自 Tundra：

引用自 Gamagosh：

DUDE, I FINALLY, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ FINALLY!!!! FOUND OUT WHAT MAKES OTHER PEOPLES AJ SO STRONG. Go ahead. Try it. Make a save (if you dont like cheating which you probably dont.) and then type in player.setlevel 200 (or more if youre above 200 already) so you get some points. then take the perk ROOTED (all points) in the strength tree, and look at the damage. you will not be disappointed.

That can't be it, because some of these were on consoles I believe, so they had no chances to even use any console commands. If "Rooted" shows the damage bonus while you're in your inventory, then technically you are NOT MOVING, so it will always show the increased damage.

i meant cheat yourself the perk if you dont have it. you can level up and put points in it but it will end in the same result. why dont you trust me dude? the damage will be the one you desire.

[Alucard †]

PSA: Atom's Judgement deals radiation damage instead radiation poisoning
which means it deals 100 extra damage unaffected by any kind of resistances and can be further buffed with Nuclear Physicist and other damage perks.

So yea there is a reason why its called best melee weapon in the game.
Idk if its overlook on Bethesda side or intentional but those 100 extra rads on that weapon are not affected by rad resistance or immunity.

LET ME EXPLAIN there are 2 types of radiation damage in the game "dtRadiationExposure" which is raw dmg unaffected by resistances and "DamageRadiationWeapon" which adds radiation poisoning instead direct damage and its affected by rad resistances / immunities

Atom's Judgement legendary effect uses "dtRadiationExposure" for some reason unlike other weapons with Irradiated prefix which use correct radiation poisoning effect.

So remember kids just because it uses radiation dosen't mean that it will suck against ghouls or mutants ^^ it all depends which kind of "radiation" it deals.

[Wanderer]

Late comment. The reason why your AJ might be so low is because you don’t have lone wanderer active(increase damage by 25%) and the perk from Nuka world called pack alpha(increases damage by 25% for all melee and unarmed weapons. Before I got those perks. My AJ did 396 ballistic damage with 12 strength big leagues, and bloody mess. with stun pack it did 62 energy damage and 689 rad damage with nuclear physicist . After I got pack alpha. I increased my strength to 14 but my ballistic damage went up to 449. My energy damage went up to 74 and my rad damage reached 862. Note that this is not with chems, I also have companions so the long wanderer effect is not active. With lone wanderer active. My rad damage would exceed 1000 even without chems.

[Echo]

引用自 bwatt95：

Late comment. The reason why your AJ might be so low is because you don’t have lone wanderer active(increase damage by 25%) and the perk from Nuka world called pack alpha(increases damage by 25% for all melee and unarmed weapons. Before I got those perks. My AJ did 396 ballistic damage with 12 strength big leagues, and bloody mess. with stun pack it did 62 energy damage and 689 rad damage with nuclear physicist . After I got pack alpha. I increased my strength to 14 but my ballistic damage went up to 449. My energy damage went up to 74 and my rad damage reached 862. Note that this is not with chems, I also have companions so the long wanderer effect is not active. With lone wanderer active. My rad damage would exceed 1000 even without chems.

You do realize Nuka World wasn't out at that time right? There were no Nuka World perks from this.

[Wanderer]

Oops. I didn’t realize that. After nuka world was ur damage the same as mine or was it still different?

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Atom's Judgement isn't really the best Melee weapon in the game anyway, not since Nuka World. An instigating or berserker's Sledge/Baseball bat with the final Nuka World perks outpace the damage considerably. Though for Atom's Judgement, you don't need perks to unlock its full potential, as even the Stun Pack can be found fairly often as loot.

There's also a case to be made for the Throatslicer, since if you don't use VATS/Blitz for Melee, attack speed is much more important. (Enemies can inturrupt your melee on slow weapons pretty readily)

[i0n]

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