Best melee weapon?

[Duke]

Hey.

I'm currently playing a melee character (no sneak build, just full frontal attacks) and I've been wondering what you guys think is the best melee weapon out there.

Using a modded Super Sledge at the moment, and it's pretty strong. I also have the Shishkebab in my inventory, but I don't enjoy it as much.

Any other strong melee weapons I should be looking out for?

Would be grateful if anyone could shed some light.

Thanks!

[Sempophai]

I personally grew very fond of the Rockville Slugger, low AP costs etc. As for best, I guess it depends if you're sneak melee, or not. Lot of people seem to like pickman's blade, and the tooth weapons. I've also seen it noted that a fully modded super sledge does a great one hit sneak attack.

[Duke]

Oh sorry, I should have included that in the OP, I'm not using a sneak build. I just run in and hit stuff.

[Orbweaver]

As soon as I had found my super sledge everything else became obsolete. Around level 50 I found an irradiated one, and now at level 61 I deal 360 base dmg, 50 from radiation and another 60ish from the upgrade + stun. I usually try to sneak up behind mirelurk queens, deathclaws or anything for that matter and one hit kill them.

[Sempophai]

Originally posted by Duke of Heresy:

Oh sorry, I should have included that in the OP, I'm not using a sneak build. I just run in and hit stuff.

I built a melee, that was far more agility based, but not sneak focused, with reasonable strength and quite low endurance. I focused on high damage and blitz, which seemed to work well and the rockville tied in with that effectively, due to the lower AP costs. I was eventually rapidly killing most critters, blitzing from opponent to opponent and as a side effect of being in vats a lot, I seemed to take a lot less damage.

[insolent1]

If you find a legendary machete with a good effect you can attach the kremvh's tooth mod to it.
This can potentially make it the best melee weapon in the game if the legendary effect of the machete is alreay good
Kremvh's tooth is the only legendary mod that can be removed and reattached to another legendary weapon(machete only)

[G-Man]

Power armor or no?

Do you use VATS much?

The Super Sledge is amazing, but all slow weapons have the problem you can be staggered mid-swing, so a faster weapon might be better. However, if you use VATS you won't be interrupted. Even without VATS you should still be fine so long as your armor can tank the hits.

In contrast, weapons like the Ripper seem to be better *without* VATS. The sheer speed of it staggers any enemy you can reach. The only exception is if you get one with "Wounding", which will trigger five times with each VATS attack.

The Shishkebab loses effectiveness at high levels because it doesn't benefit from perks and can't be upgraded beyond one small boost. A shame, because flaming swords are badass. Use it while you're low level, but eventually you'll have to leave it in storage.

If you also cross-over to unarmed weapons then try the Power Fist and Deathclaw Gauntlet. I personally think melee weapons are better than unarmed weapons, but others may disagree. I guess I just love the SMASH of the Super Sledge. That, and you can't use any of them with Power Armor.

[Khloros]

Originally posted by Brew:

If you find a legendary machete with a good effect you can attach the kremvh's tooth mod to it.
This can potentially make it the best melee weapon in the game if the legendary effect of the machete is alreay good
Kremvh's tooth is the only legendary mod that can be removed and reattached to another legendary weapon(machete only)

This, before i was useing grognaks axe, but then i got the tooth and it does a little mit more damage.

Side note, Lorenzos artifact can do the same thing for gamma guns.

[Emilio]

Originally posted by Brew:

Kremvh's tooth is the only legendary mod that can be removed and reattached to another legendary weapon(machete only)

There are two legendary gamma gun mods that can be attached to legendary gamma guns. So Kremvh's tooth isn't the only mod that works that way.

[Genosse]

what about those swords?i mean like the poisoners' revolutionary sword and the zao's sword.theyre great too

[artsybird]

I've got a plow and smash build for my main character, and I just had the most heart breaking experience with the Bloodletter in Far Harbor..

When I got the weapon I was stoked that it started at 700+ damage plus that beautiful bleed- and I pretty much wet myself when I upgraded to 1090 damage. I was unstoppable, but only for about four hours.. The damage stat reduced to less than 180 with the upgrade. :(

Now, I'm attached to my character on the ps4 so I've stuck with ps4. Does anyone on PC recognize this issue?

[artsybird]

Oh. Oh dear. I've noticed this on all my weapons since the dlc, and now I'm fairly sure it's my characters drug abuse- I've just never noticed the stats change before.

To contribute to the actual topic of this thread- I'm gunna say the Bloodletter is great if your willing to subject your char to Chems and boosts. It's ideal for bleeding out high numbers of enemies in swarms! And once you boost your melee with mags and follower affection this guy kicks some major one hit kills. :)

[Quackers]

Kremvh's tooth and Swan's Furious Powerfist are my favorites