Diamond City

[Jornovic]

What level do you go to diamond city?

[DEMON 340 SIX PACK]

Iam level 58 not been there yet

[kkitts]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von SkinGravel:

Go when you're ready. No wrong way to play. Lots of good stuff there for sure.

This.

On the way there, you will face a number of different types of enemies, but mostly raiders and ghouls. If you stay out of the POIs that come up on the compass, you bypass most of the enemies, and head straight there at level 3 if you want. I don't bother going there until I have the fast travel perk at level 30 (STR 6 perk level 4), because it is a looooooooooooooong walk from Sanctuary to Diamond City and back. Besides, once you get Preston and the gang back to Sanctuary, you have to actively avoid getting anywhere near Preston, or he'll automatically assign you another task, some of them being time-limited.

Playing it safe, grind those first 30 levels, get fast travel, get lockpicking and terminal hacking as high as the level limits let you raise them, along with armor / weapon crafting and level 14 CHA 6 perk level 2 building of traders in your settlements, and you'll be ready to head to Diamond City and the hustle and bustle of downtown Boston.

It's up to you, though, whatever you think you can handle. And if you can't, reload from a save. Just remember to avoid anything with the skull icon, because the difference in levels means you probably won't be able to kill it early on - the game scales damage down when the enemy is higher level than you are.

Note: just a short walk southwest of the Diamond City entrance, there is a crossroads, and deathclaws can spawn there. You can find enemies that can wipe you out right from the beginning. Upgrade your Power Armor ASAP to mitigate some of this.

[XC3758]

Over level 100, finished all DLCs and still have not been to diamond city to continue the main quest.

[Goof]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Jornovic:

What level do you go to diamond city?

i was around 95 when I first entered diamond city

[The Inept European]

In my first playthroughs I waited much too long to go to Diamond City. It is a useful place to go and you can get there at a single-digit level if you are careful.

But generally I agree with the answer "go when you want to". I have done it at L1 in Survival. That is exhilarating but far from impossible.

Among many benefits of going to Diamond City early:
- medical care as mentioned above
- plenty of caps on offer for your unwanted junk
- access to a suppressed pipe weapon sold by Arturo
- access to a Hazmat suit sold by Becky Fallon
- an extremely lucrative quest (if you play your cards right) from the upper stands tavern
- free armour that is around level 10-15 grade (from DC Guard corpses near the mutant fight)

In addition to this there are loads of side missions that you can take or leave according to your character's ability, and plenty of cool lore.

[The Inept European]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Mr Fred:

Pretty much depend on how fast I want to go to Far Harbor in a given playthrough since you need to do Valentine quest first. Usually I also go there late but for example I rushed it on my Child of Atom character.

You don't actually need to trigger Far From Home with Nick Valentine to go to Far Harbor. You can just walk there at L1. Not recommended as Far Harbor is very tough for low level characters (particularly on Survival, I would say nearly impossible in that case). It's metagaming, of course, but it can be done. In fact all the DLC can be triggered just by walking to them, right out of Vault 111. Not always advisable but always possible.

[NecroMaster]

Level 10 is usually prime to go to diamond city.

Any character should have some perks that would up their survivability enough to reach the gates.

[DouglasGrave]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von The Inept European:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Mr Fred:

Pretty much depend on how fast I want to go to Far Harbor in a given playthrough since you need to do Valentine quest first. Usually I also go there late but for example I rushed it on my Child of Atom character.

You don't actually need to trigger Far From Home with Nick Valentine to go to Far Harbor. You can just walk there at L1. Not recommended as Far Harbor is very tough for low level characters (particularly on Survival, I would say nearly impossible in that case). It's metagaming, of course, but it can be done. In fact all the DLC can be triggered just by walking to them, right out of Vault 111. Not always advisable but always possible.

All except for Automatron, which does have a level-based trigger.

[Ismo Laitela]

about the same level you do a quest

[Grace1957]

After Concord and doing what I can for Sanctuary I head straight for DC to get Piper for her perks, double xp for speech challenges and discovering new locations.

[The Inept European]

Nick as a companion is another usual benefit of going to Diamond City. Though it is possible to metagame and go straight to his actual location.