Is the laser musket any good?

[Lazytophat]

its garbage in the beginnning but with mods later does it get better?

[Mansen]

It's pretty decent - Imagine it as a super soaker laser gun. With the biggest mods, you can crank it up to six times for some serious sniper shots.

It's a perfectly decent deathclaw sniper rifle. Or similar long range targets. I have never bothered with in once combat starts though. Cranking takes too long.

[RunicPagan]

Yeah a six-crank musket can vaporize just about anything.

[ImHelping]

Totally. Even with only 3 cranks (what you can upgrade it to with no Scienc perks), it's very good for burst damage.

Every crank of the gun stacks the damage stat for the single shot you take. So one crank is always "terrible laser rifle". But the more cranks you put in, the more ridiculous your sneak or criticals are.

Even before I put any points into rifleman, my 4 crank Laser Musket would let me one hit kill power armor wearing raiders if I used a VATS crit, while my normal laser rifle would just hurt them a lot on a vats crit.

If you are fighting multiple enemies or needing to take a lot of shots, use something else if you don't have the luxury of cranking it for every shot. But definitly keep one handy because (especially in the early game), it is your most ammo efficient "big gun".

[SuperL0rtie]

Laser musket with 6 crank = bye bye deathclaw!

[Dasher]

It's never garbage... You realize presseing reload cranks it up again, right? Even with two cranks, you can push out major damage. You can mod up to 6 crank, and on a legendary Two Shot musket, that's a maximum of 600+ damage.

[The_Pastmaster]

I have a six crank laser musket sniper rifle. Sneak headshop = Dead dethclaw.

[Jork]

its actually a great weapon if you invest some advanced mods into it.

[snak]

Yea I was lucky to find a short barral 6 crank one early on, i dont like lazer weapons much but yea it definitly can ♥♥♥♥ up anything.

[Tyrant]

i would say the laser musket is only good at the beginning since later you replace it with a gauss rifle for sniping duty and combat shotgun for close quarters

[VladK02]

its a fantastic weapon but not for you, for your companion preston. Upgrade the musket to the max, give it to preston, equip it on him, and because he has unlimited musket ammo, its ideal for him.

For you, stick with .50 cal rifles and combat shotguns :))

[Mansen]

Originally posted by VladK02:

its a fantastic weapon but not for you, for your companion preston. Upgrade the musket to the max, give it to preston, equip it on him, and because he has unlimited musket ammo, its ideal for him.

For you, stick with .50 cal rifles and combat shotguns :))

Nope - Companions only have unlimited ammo with their original weapon, not others. If you mod their weapon it ceases to have unlimited ammo.

[OH]

I have a fully upgraded one, 6 cranks and you're doing about 170 damage at least
sneak attack is X5.3 isn't it?
170*5.3=901

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by Doctor Krister:

I have a fully upgraded one, 6 cranks and you're doing about 170 damage at least
sneak attack is X5.3 isn't it?
170*5.3=901

Basic sneak attack at range is x2.

[Machripe]

Just aim manually with it and go for the head, 4 cranks and if you hit, off with their head. It's better than my sniper rifle in damage, range, and accuracy.

[Hicky Mori]

Laser Muscet is one of the strongest (if not the strongest) rifles in the game. I recommend you focus on one weapon type and max out that perk, it's really game changing on higher dificult.