Is there a perk for better laser rifles damage?

[Zeev]

I was sure there is, but I could not find any. I am using mainly these type of rifles, the damage is nice but is there a perk to get it better to do higher damage and spend less ammunition?

[Death Approaches]

no, not as such. rifles are rifles, autos are autos, pistols are pistols, heavies are heavies... whether they're shooting energy or ballistic. any given weapon will apply to the relevant perk, depending on stock and receiver installed. the outlier is radiation damage, with it's own perk.

[Chumby]

commando if you use an automatic, rifleman for semi auto.

[socialmediaaddress3]

There is a mod to fix an enerygy weapon issue.
You see the game calculates penetration based only on base damage and does not take into account increased damage due to your updates.
This slightly nerfs energy weapons despite their good penetration numbers below what noe would otherwise think.
This only affects laser rifle u have modded for increased damage in some manner

This is the mod, to unnerf them
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/75565

It is compatible with the unupdated version of FO4.
It depends on address library which I am sure will soon the updated , I expect it to work with the new FO4 as long as the new address for the updated FO4 is out and you have the new F4SE installed for the updated game.

I currently run unupdated.

[bill.russ]

Go to Nexus Mods and download the mod called Cheat Terminal; among the many things you can do with it you can enable One Shot Kill, in addition you can level up your Science Level Perk which will allow you to do higher level energy weapon mods. Yeah, the weapon damage done in the standard game is pretty low. The best damage mod for lasers is boosted excited photon agitator which sets the target on fire and all that's left of them is a pile of colored ash. Now THAT'S the kind of damage I expect from being hit by a laser weapon. The mod I mentioned isn't dependent on f4se either.

[BlackIronSeamus]

There is the energy weapon bobblehead that will increase damage by 25%!

[The Inept European]

There are perk magazines that increase energy weapon critical damage but this does not increase standard damage.

As @socialmedia alluded to above, energy weapons in general are bugged and so it would cost you (in terms of DPS) to commit to an energy weapon character. So actually it's good there are no specific perks for energy weapons.

The implications of the energy weapons bugs are that they are (relatively) most effective when you have no perks and no weapon mods. For example, NPCs with standard energy weapons don't suffer relative to NPCs with standard ballistic weapons. They are generally more effective in fact because of the generally slightly higher base damage of energy weapons. But as a player character is different. Ballistic always wins. Irritating but true.

[steventirey]

Originally posted by Seamus:

There is the energy weapon bobblehead that will increase damage by 25%!

Only with critical hits, which are something you can only occasionally do when using VATS. The same applies to the issues of Tesla Magazine, only those don't actually do anything because they apply to weapons with a certain keyword, and no weapon in the game actually uses that keyword. Though the Unofficial Patch fixes that one.

[The Inept European]

Ah interesting I didn't know that. Thanks! Always learning.

[Heimdall313]

GECK / Creation Kit, you can make an OP Laser Rifle if you like, or edit the multipliers for the perks, or adjust the effects of receiver mods to increase damage, or combinations of the above.

It's a rare day when someone fixes something to be the way I'd want it to be, for example, so I just fix stuff myself. Place Everything for settlement building, a few extra objects to place, and one mod to add actually visible sights to the .44 Magnum because the default irons are atrocious and I have no idea how to make graphics mods like that.