Grognak's axe - Bugs in modding it at the workbench

[Xenon The Noble]

I usually go for a low strength rifleman SS.
I picked up Grognak's axe. Meh. 25 Hp. I usually sell it. Still, Better than my tire iron axe for chopping up baby mirelurks, and I had plenty of caps from water farming.

Yesterday I took it to the workbench because I had Bug-zapper mod, i mean tesla coils mod on my PA arms and put some XP into the blacksmith perk.

HOLE-LEE-POOP! This thing has mod that make it formidable! I wished I had saved and not sold the Grognak outfit to see what can be done with that!

Anyway it won't let me mod at the workbench like other weapons. What am I doing wrong? Has the great Howard cursed me for poop-talking the BOS or what?

[Liquid Inc]

you can't mod it.

In my own game i can't and the only thing i can change on it is taking the legendary off (Which is entirely due to a mod for moving legendaries) Otherwise, i wouldn't be able to mod it at all, which is a shame.

A stun pack or a serrated edge would have made it a great Axe to carry about!

[Zes]

As far as i know, any legendary item which has a spesific name that sold to a merchant, stays in merchant's inventory and can be bought back again.

[Senor Cinco]

This is a common trait among most uniques in Beth games. Not sure why. It seems like plain oversight. ...or sheer laziness.

The end result is... the items are utterly useless, unless you play on easy mode and just RP the hell of your gameplay.

[Xenon The Noble]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2940812545

it doesn't have any mod slots, but it has mods... I have to fiddle with it just to see the mods. I once had it where I could see the requirements for installing the mods, and what the mods did, and they were awesome.

Is this some sort of un-used part of the game that bethesda backed out of, because these would be very useful aka "over powered".

Without these mods, the General Cho's sword at Trudy's Diner is a better melee weapon.

I don't have any melee weapons game mods installed.

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by Xenon The Noble:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2940812545

i've never seen that..

Cut content? hmm.. There was a cut content restored mod, but i don't think it did anything for the Axe....

[Stardustfire]

in Vanilla FO4 there is no option to mod the Grognak Axe.
If you want to mod this weapon, play 76...

[Senor Cinco]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

in Vanilla FO4 there is no option to mod the Grognak Axe.
If you want to mod this weapon, play 76...

It would take a hellofa lot more than... a Grogy Axe mod to get me to DL that trash again.

[Zekiran]

There are no vanilla mods for that item, so yeh that's a mod at work.

There IS however, some way of getting a 2nd Axe. I just archived and moved my grognax character but I ended my run with two of them. One is actually the legendary and the other is basically the same model but without the stagger and bleed damage. THAT one may be moddable vanilla but I don't bother as I have the real deal.

[Xenon The Noble]

I lost my axe. I think I sold it by accident.

[Zekiran]

Dood. :(