Luck-Related Perks

Luck Training

Luck is a measure of your general good fortune and affects the recharge rate of critical hits. While searching for loot, your Luck determines the (random) likelihood of receiving a rare item, mod, or high-value item. In combat, critical hits help remove targets in quicker, more violently impressive ways, and decreasing the time it takes to inflict such pain is obviously helpful.

To your good fortune! Spend a Perk Point and instantly gain 1 point of Luck to a maximum of 10.

There are no requirements for the training in this attribute.

Level 01: Fortune Finder

You’ve discovered the Wasteland’s hidden wealth, and this can certainly help you amass greater fortune. But there are other methods to make money (such as scavenging ammo and other equipment and selling it), too. “Containers” refers to any searchable piece of scenery.

Level 02: Scrounger

You know just how to scavenge to keep the fight going, and unlike the Fortune Finder perk, all that extra ammunition you find in the various containers of the Commonwealth can be employed in combat as well as traded for Caps: This means extra flexibility, depending on your ammo and money reserves.

Level 03: Bloody Mess

Watch out for flying eyeballs! Though more of an aesthetic at the initial rank, this becomes increasingly more potent, especially as the damage bonus is available to any weapon you’re wielding. Spectacular gore-balls are also a real treat to watch explode.

Level 04: Mysterious Stranger

Who is he? Why does he help? Who cares! This odd fellow is most helpful if you’re trying to conserve every Action Point and bullet you can, especially at higher difficulty levels. Remember he’s only appearing during V.A.T.S. combat, so spend a Perk Point if you favor this method of foe removal.

Level 05: Idiot Savant

You’re not stupid! Just...different. The main advantage is the accrual of XP at a faster-than- normal pace, which allows you to level up, receive a Perk Point, and gain more levels and perks with haste. If you’re going the Idiot Savant route for huge XP bumps, make sure you scour merchants. Since you’ll never get Gun Nut or Science, you can still find mods for sale at pretty reasonable rates. Intelligence-reducing apparel also helps, too.

Level 06: Better Criticals

Advanced training for enhanced combat effectiveness! Although you won’t score criticals more frequently, they inflict a truly splendid amount of extra damage. If you favor this way of killing foes, this is a truly helpful perk.

Level 07: Critical Banker

You’re a patient battlefield tactician and can wait to unleash a torrent of additional damage. But why save your criticals? During a protracted or difficult fight, you usually meet more dangerous enemies as you encroach farther into their territory, so keeping a couple of criticals just for a Raider boss, Glowing One, or Legendary enemy is just good combat sense.

Level 08: Grim Reaper’s Sprint

Death becomes you! If you use V.A.T.S. and like your odds of clearing out a chamber full of foes without giving them a chance to respond, this is the perk to take.

Level 09: Four Leaf Clover

Feeling lucky? You should! If you enjoy the different (and usually gore-filled) methods of taking down foes using critical hits in V.A.T.S. and want to ensure this happens every time, employ this perk. Naturally, combining this with Better Criticals and Critical Banker results in massive damage potential with increasing regularity.

Level 10: Ricochet

What goes around comes around! Though it won’t come around if your foe isn’t using a ranged weapon, so be mindful of this fact. Don’t worry about the “closer you are to death” part; there’s still a chance of a ricochet when you’re relatively unscathed, and leaving some enemies to kill themselves with their own projectiles frees you up to concentrate on other foes.