Need some help with legendary weapons

[Marty Chonks]

I desperately try to get ANY legendary .38 pipe weapon, but since i'm almost lvl 40 they seem not to spawn at all. Instead i get tons of imba combat rifles, shotguns, plasma and other higher tier weapons (exploding wounding, you name it) mixed with some useless armor and melee items.

It's not even a matter of a special mod (although freezing'd be my favourite), i just never got any .38 legendray pipe gun at all, even in early game (it was easy to control, since i don't sell legendaries, just put the useless ones in a special container).

Finally, ive fallen so low as to farm legendaries for hours just for this one, but .38 guns NEVER come up. Is it just impossible to get them past certain lvl? (the same way it is impossible to get high tier stuff early on). Maybe if i lower the difficulty, i'd get worse stuff from drops? (not sure it affects it this way but who knows).

What about the special lvl 4 trader, which supposedly sell random legendaries? Might he have something like that at the somewhat late time of the game? Can someone tell from experience? I'd really hate to use cheats if the lvl 4 trader might work, (ididnt invest perks in this ths direction currently, so it would take a lot of time to set it up to test it).

[owen8964]

I've not seen a legendary .38 pipe rifle in my current playthrough. Did in my last iirc. Perhaps they are just very rare?

[Herrius Le Crabe Québécois]

If your on pc, you can manually add a legendary effect on a item via console command.
Here the instruction for how to do it. (copied from the fallout wiki)

Legendary effects can be added to items by the following process:
1.Drop the item on the ground.
2.Pick up the item in the air by holding E (how you would normally drag ragdoll and other objects around).
3.Open console and enter "GetPlayerGrabbedRef". This returns the RefID of the item you're holding in the air.
4.Take note of the returned RefID.
5.Look up the ModID below for the desired legendary weapon effect, note it as well.
6.Enter the following in the console (substitute the appropriate RefID and ModID): [RefID].amod [ModID]
7.For example, you would enter in something like this: "f00726b.amod 001cc2ac" (minus the quotes).
8.The item will drop to the ground, and when you go to pick it up, you will get an overview similar to the one you get when you pick up any given legendary item for the first time.


And here, the id of the freezing legendary effect: 001f5479

I've done this to try out a junkie pipe revolver and it worked just fine. Hope it help you.

[chris.boney]

legendary modification
www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/4042/
www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/1652/

[chris.boney]

Originally posted by Herrius Le Crabe Québécois:

If your on pc, you can manually add a legendary effect on a item via console command.
Here the instruction for how to do it. (copied from the fallout wiki)

Legendary effects can be added to items by the following process:
1.Drop the item on the ground.
2.Pick up the item in the air by holding E (how you would normally drag ragdoll and other objects around).
3.Open console and enter "GetPlayerGrabbedRef". This returns the RefID of the item you're holding in the air.
4.Take note of the returned RefID.
5.Look up the ModID below for the desired legendary weapon effect, note it as well.
6.Enter the following in the console (substitute the appropriate RefID and ModID): [RefID].amod [ModID]
7.For example, you would enter in something like this: "f00726b.amod 001cc2ac" (minus the quotes).
8.The item will drop to the ground, and when you go to pick it up, you will get an overview similar to the one you get when you pick up any given legendary item for the first time.


And here, the id of the freezing legendary effect: 001f5479

I've done this to try out a junkie pipe revolver and it worked just fine. Hope it help you.

Legendary Weapon Mods/Effects

Drop Weapon, Open Console
Click on Weapon, "attachmod <ID>" or "amod <ID>" -

"removemod <ID>" to remove

or drop weapon, pick it up, open console, type
getplayergrabbedref
press enter
then type
prid (+ the code it shows for the weapon)

eg -
getplayergrabbedref
prid ff123456

then type amod (+ any of the following codes).
eg -

getplayergrabbedref
prid ff123456
amod E6846

Assassin's E6846
Does 50% more damage against humans.

Automatic A4739 Automatic fire mode.

Berserker's 1EF5D7
Does more damage the lower your Armor Resistance. (Up to
200% at 0 resistance)

Bloodied 1EC036
Does more damage the lower your health is.

Crippling 1E6D6B 50% more limb damage.

Enraging 1F6AD4
Critical hits cause target to frenzy.

Explosive 1E73BD
Bullets explode on impact doing 15 points area-of-effect
damage.

Exterminator's 1F81EB
Does 50% more damage against Mirelurks and bugs.

Freezing 1F5479
Does 10 points cryo damage and will freeze targets on
critical hits.

Furious 1EF481
Increased damage after each consecutive hit on the same
target.

Ghoul Slayer's 1E6847
Does 50% more damage against ghouls.

Hunter's 1E6845
Does 50% more damage against animals.

Incendiary 1E7173
Sets target on fire for 15 points of damage.

Instigating 1F04B8
Does double damage if the target is at full health.

Irradiated 1CC469
Does 50 points additional radiation damage.

Junkie's 1EB99A
Does increased amounts of damage the more withdrawal

effects you are suffering.

Kneecapper 1F1048
20% chance to cripple the target's leg.

Lucky Weapon 1CC2A6
Critical shots do double damage and the critical meter
fills 15% faster.

Medic's 1F109C
Heals target instead of hurting them.

Mutant Slayer's 1E6848
Does 50% more damage against Super Mutants.

Never Ending 1CC2AC
Unlimited ammo clip capacity
2x barrel shotguns, powerful weps with tiny clips by
default

Nimble 1EBABD
Provides 75% faster movement while aiming.

Nocturnal 1E8174
Does increasing amounts of damage as the night grows longer
and less damage during the day.

Penetrating 1F4426
Ignores 30% of the target's damage and energy resistance.

Plasma Infused 1F9B4D
Adds 10 points of energy damage and can turn enemies into
goo.

Poisoner's 1F31B9
Target is poisoned for 10 seconds.

Powerful 1CC2AB
Provides 25% more damage.

Quickdraw 1F1026
Costs 25% fewer Action Points.

Rapid 1EC56D
25% faster fire rate, 15% faster reload.

Relentless 1ED37E
Refills your Action Points on a critical hit.

Staggering 1E81AB Chance to stagger on hit.

Stalker's 1F04BD
If you are not yet in combat, increases V.A.T.S. accuracy
but costs more AP.

Troubleshooter's 1F81EC
Does 50% more damage against robots.

Two shot 1CC2AD Fires an additional projectile. * w/
single shot snipers.

VATS enhanced 1CC2AA
Improved V.A.T.S. hit chance, 25% less Action Point cost.

Anchor
00144A6C
VATS enhanced 40% less Action Point cost.

0012E2CA
Violent 1F7B8A
Deals +25% damage and limb damage, but has more recoil.

Wounding 1E7C20
Targets bleed for 25 points of additional damage.

[xSOSxHawkens]

Ugh... Chris... You didnt have to copypasta all that trash into the forums...

@OP, if you just want a powerfull .38 weapon with legendary effect, mod down a legendary combat riffle to a .38 reciever. It will be more pwoerfull shot for shot than a .38 pipe weapon, and makes a great weapon to give to a follower. Semi-auto but still low enough rate of fire to prevent wasted ammo.

If you just want one to finish out your collection, see the instructions above.

[chris.boney]

Originally posted by xSOSxHawkens:

Ugh... Chris... You didnt have to copypasta all that trash into the forums...

@OP, if you just want a powerfull .38 weapon with legendary effect, mod down a legendary combat riffle to a .38 reciever. It will be more pwoerfull shot for shot than a .38 pipe weapon, and makes a great weapon to give to a follower. Semi-auto but still low enough rate of fire to prevent wasted ammo.

If you just want one to finish out your collection, see the instructions above.

i like how you call it trash and the then Tell the OP to use 1 of the codes if he fancies 1 from off the list...
gg.

any question about command consoles get an extensive list from me.
"copy&pasta" makes it easy for ppl to make a quick "re-copy&pasta" into a txt file or even a bat txt file.

(granted, the OP was trying to avoid cc codes, but now he, and everyone else who passes by gets the chance to "copy&pasta" a quick list or bat file).

(go tell the moderators to put up a modding/cc sub forum if you dont like reading through long lists of "trash")..
in your opinion.

[Bankstercide]

I don't like farming stuff and praying to RNGesus, but it's your call. The legendary drops I have gotten have ranged from ridiculously OP (Initiating Missile Launcher? And here I thought rifles were the best sniping weapon) to the useless (Cavalier's Hunting Rifle) to the bizarrely effective (Freezing Flamer, anyone?). What really pisses me off is when I find a good Legendary effect... on a craptacular weapon, like a Rolling Pin.

[Herrius Le Crabe Québécois]

i often find good legendary but on the wrong character, like a two-shot laser musket on my melee guy or a furious chinese officer sword on my gunslinger girls, its frustrating sometime ^^

[Demonic Goddess]

>playing as a rifle character
>need a better gun because Im at level 5
>"♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I can find a single good piece of loot in this entire game adhasdklajsdha"
>find legendary raider
>kill it
>exploding .38 pipe rifle
>laugh for 10 minutes

As for OP, why would you want a pipe weapon when you found great legendary weapons?

I get it that there's completionists who want a legendary variant of every weapon, but it seems kind of worthless. You cant scrap them, so the only thing you end up doing with unwanted legendaries is sell them or store them.

[Marty Chonks]

Thanks for the replies, i think i'll just add the modifier via console after all...

@Sir Gentleman Ostrich: believe it or not but i'd like to use a freezing auto .38 gun to have a bit more balanced automatic weapons experience (on survival) plus i like the sound of that gun and would like to burn through my vast .38 ammo stock some day. Also, why the hell should anyone need a full clip to the face to kill some barelly armored ppl (...like gunners).

Ironically, i' havent been using any legendary weapons found but the overseers gun i bought and moded to full auto (that thing has over 100 dmg). It's hard to use on long bursts/long range but very rewarding....and way too powerfull sometimes. Then again, it's just beyond me to use a weaker combat auto rifle since it would mean to waste ammo potential.