Scrapper perks worth getting?

[POGGERS!]

The vague perk desc. doesn't help or tell me anything.

[ImHelping]

I would say it depends on how much you like customizing energy weapons and power armor. Because those basically need you to craft to get the parts you like, while ballistics you can put together readily enough just by eventually looting mods.

Using Scrapper 2, to scrap nonstandard lasers you don't care about, is the most common source of fiber optics and crystals you can get without outright buying them for thousands of caps per shipment.

Scrapper also only matters on nonstandard weapons.

For example:
Normal laser pistol. 4 plastic.
Normal laser pistol with scrapper 2. 4 plastic, 1 screw.

But if it has nothing but an automatic barrel on it, you're gonna get circuits, fiber optics, crystal. all the good stuff is from scrapping nonstandard weapons.

As for the "highlights objects" part of scrapper 2. Components you have flagged with the magnifying glass icon are what will glow (as well as containers with them inside).

If you don't care about energy weapons, power armor, or the mentioned below settlement building stuff. Then scrapper is mostly a luxury.

If you DO like those things, Scrapper is very useful. Institute lasers are a treasure trove of high value components with scrapper 2.

"But I can just buy as shipment because I have so many caps!"

Look, one shipment of 25 won't even cover the fiber optics needed a pair of arm stablizer mods for your armor.

[Nite69]

Yes it is, cause Fibre Optics and Copper were the hardest for me to find, always using them in power and laser turret building

[Fried Noodles]

It helps... Slightly.
Like most perks.
There are only a few really essential perks. Others are situational or for fun. I still have like 18 unspent perk points in my current game. <.<

[Rhazes]

I think they are worth it and pretty much every place you go will have crafting stations to you can scrap everything that can be looted.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Dolphin Kind:

It helps... Slightly.
Like most perks.
There are only a few really essential perks. Others are situational or for fun. I still have like 18 unspent perk points in my current game. <.<

Very true, it is 100% a luxury perk. But sometimes it's nice to take some luxuries instead of nothing but building your lol stealth vatscrit slumlord build.

Since I liked upgrading lasers and plasma weapons and multiple suits of powwr armor to whatever my whims were at the time (ran out of ceramic, of all things), I'm glad I got it. Could have gotten by without it to be fair, but it helped with what I wanted to do.

[-Na Shagul-]

I -love- the scrapper perk, both ranks.

It makes finding uncommon things like screws and gears and nuclear material so much easier by just snatching every weapon you find and breaking it down.

[GoblinEngineer]

Let me put it this way: After getting scrapper 2, and figguring out how to properly utilise it by tagging items as you run low on them(go to the "junk" tab in your inventory, pressing "C" and then pressing "Q"(que) on any component one of your junk items will break down into, you will have very little issue finding matterials ever afain. Just make sure you ALWAYS have companion with you to lighten the load

[POGGERS!]

Originally posted by Mizati13:

Just make sure you ALWAYS have companion with you to lighten the load

I've always got Cait in a frame and when I come back to my base after an hour or two and 'take all' off her I usually have 1000+ weight so yeah I don't leave a single item behind EVER. Not a single item.