How worth it are the Endurance skills?

[C2HGaming]

It doesn't seem alot of these skills are worth going deep in this tree. At most "Adamantium Skeleton" seems worth it but I've read on some posts that it's not that good. What about "Ghoulish" is that something worth getting deep in this tree? It sounds like it totally stops Radiation damage all together and if that's so, doesn't that make "Rad Resistant" a bit worthless on getting?

The only possible ones I see are worth getting and it's not even deep in the tree are "Toughness" and "Lifegiver". I know "Lifegiver" doesn't give out alot of health, it will at least make up for your lack of Endurance and the little self regen isn't that bad.

[Yhwach]

In the survival beta it's best not to focus on those until later on depending on what they are, otherwise, there are some great and notable endurance perks you can take at almost any level and feel the benefits, sort of.

- LifeGiver, free health regeneration, at least later on.
- Definitely Aquaboy / Aquagirl, makes getting through water a breeze
- Lead Belly, one of the more useful perls, more or less in the survival beta
- Solar Powered, a very good perk to use, especially with Life Giver
- Cannibal, avoid it at all costs on survival beta, otherwise it's decent

[PolecatEZ]

I have yet to put more than 1 point in Endurance in any of my playthroughs, all were on "Survival" difficulty in the regular game. There's just too many other goodies to grab in other trees. I always saw Endurance perks as something you take when you can't/won't savescum at all, and even then they're no replacement for just playing smart and prepared.

[Moarsuho]

Playing the survial beta, I thought I might use lead belly. But it's easy to cook enough food and stock up on water to get by so I doubt I'll ever put any points in it. I don't bother picking up radiated food unless it's produce that I can cook into something better.

[ghpstage]

I really can't understand the love for lead belly, theres heaps of rad free food to be found in the form of cooked meats and even if you do need to eat some mucky stuff, few of the radioactive food and water source actually give many rads, like 3-5 when it takes at least 50 to even be noticeable. Rather than using the heavily nerfed radaways we have refreshing drinks that are awesome and I find myself visiting doctors who can remove all rads for 40 caps quite often a a result of diseases.

Aqua is a very nice convenience perk, if you like going for a swim and don't have, or want to wear a hazmat suit or Rad-X then your going to need it.
Lifegiver doesn't seem to give enough of a boost to notice, even in the early game where its proportionally more significant. The auto healing you get later doesn't seem as useful any more as we need to regularly eat and drink.
Ghoulish is extremely misleading, you still get irradiated at the same rate, what it does is heal you while you are being irradiated at a rate proportional to it. Basically, its crap.

[Brandybuck]

Originally posted by Cody2Hottie:

The only possible ones I see are worth getting and it's not even deep in the tree are "Toughness" and "Lifegiver". I know "Lifegiver" doesn't give out alot of health, it will at least make up for your lack of Endurance and the little self regen isn't that bad.

Actually, those two don't matter much either. +10 damage resistance means nothing once you've got good armor and have hit the point of diminishing returns. And the extra health looks good when you're level 1, but not worth the perk cost when you're level 25 or higher. Much more efficient to put the point into endurance itself.

On the other hand, a lot of these perks are good for specialized builds, roleplaying, etc. They're just not for the general purpose non-roleplaying player. Aquaboy, for example, is awesome for a Manta Man playthrough :-)

[M0S5Y.ctn]

I feel with Endurance it's better to spend points to raise the special stat itself than get some of the perks in the tree. You end up getting pretty good HP bonuses.