Is Divine favor worth 8 Charisma?

[Muton]

So if you have charisma 8, 3/4 pf the way through the game you can pick divine favor and get 1 perk / 2 levels. But it takes a perk to get it, which means you miss out on one perk you can get something else with.. It comes at level 15...And I dont know how many levels I will gain during the remainder of the game... Just not thinking its worth 8 CH

[Johnny Casey]

In theory, if you have enabled Tough Guy mode(= doubles the XP gain), and did some grindings, it could be worth taking. I haven't legitimately tried it for myself, though.

I would rather pick the second rank of Lifegiver perk instead.

[PDK]

From my testing I will say if you really wanted to go for a 99 level character it would be a must have. Or just theory craft one. The base game I would say its close enough to not matter either way as 27 on tough guy seems to be the end level so at that threshold Divine Favor barely starts to break into true power gain. it starts at 17 no matter if taken at 14 or 15, it then goes 17 > 19 > 21 > 23> 25 > 27 >29 > and so on but thats about the main game length if you don't wasteland grind.
A second strategy to Divine Favor is its +1 Stat gain so you can get 12 EN or PE or anything I guess to 12. It focuses your highest stat and gives it +1. If tied stats, the stat first on the list SPECIAL is chosen. If PE is 10 and EN is 10 PE will be chosen to +1 to 11. With mutate strategies and traits and Divine Favor then 12's are possible.

Recruits and CH seem to work mostly on chunks of 4 (4, 8, 12) CH. 8 CH ensures you get all possible hub recruits at earliest possibility and higher gets the random add on recruits sooner too. I think theres also extra prestige in side quests and killing all enemies on a map possibly that can effect this too.

For a one and done and next game moving on Divine Favor might be too much finesse to work around. Just make a stronger combat main with all those CH points and dump CH and just do superb on all the missions.

I forgot what other testing I had done on Divine Favor.

[rompier02]

Hi. For me no. At level 15 is when a player gets the 'bonus rate of fire' perk.

[PDK]

From comments in here I wanted to say that perks can be saved - and skill points - so you can get both ranks of Lifegiver at level 12 by saving a perk spot from the previous levels.

With Divine Favor builds I was trying stuff like saving up all perks and then on level 12 spend all 4 perks. 2 on Lifegiver, 1 on GAIN EN and 1 on GAIN CH (7-> 8 for Divine Favor) and then at 15 getting Divine Favor itself.