Deacon perk order?

[Ryan]

So i can get deacon perk right now, but ny friend said his perk have a bug, which i need max specific skill first to make his perk work. But he forget what skill order to make it not bugged. Maybe anyone in here know this?

I googled i need take sandman 3 + ninja 3 first before take his perk. Is this correct?

[Chaosium]

Check the "order of operations" section here

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Cloak_%26_Dagger

[Ryan]

Originally posted by Chaosium:

Check the "order of operations" section here

https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Cloak_%26_Dagger

guide from wiki make me confused. it mean i need get perk first then up ninja to 3 and sandman to 3?

[Nitemares]

The 1.4 patch lowered the spread and max of multipliers:

Ninja 3, Cloak, Sandman 3 = 4.8x
Cloak, Sandman 3, Ninja 3 = 4.8x
Cloak, Ninja 3, Sandman 3 = 4.8x
For all of the above, this means Cloak does modify Ninja and Sandman.
Ninja 3, Sandman 3, Cloak = 4.7x
Sandman 3, Cloak, Ninja 3 = 4.7x
For either of the above 2, this means Cloak does modify Ninja but not Sandman.
Sandman 3, Ninja 3, Cloak = 4.4x (!)
This means Cloak does not modify Sandman or Ninja - all 3 perks stack additively.


What this is telling you is that if you want the max bonus of 4.8x damage, you can do about it multiple ways...
HOWEVER: if you get sandman and Ninja to max ranks BEFORE you get the cloak perk you will only get 4.4x damage.

Note that the testing was not universal and only was tested with max ranks and not lesser variations.