Bloodied Two-Handed Melee Legendary Power Armor Build Guide - FalloutBuilds.com (2024)

Intro

Welcome to Bloodied Bludger! This is a Bloodied Two-Handed Melee Legendary Power Armor build guide for low and high level players. Bloodied works by using a Legendary weapon with the Bloodied modifier, which increases our damage the lower our health is. Also works well with Instigating or Anti-Armor weapons. Since the One Wasteland update, this is now less of a 1-hit build and more of a 2-5 hit build, depending on the enemy.

This guide focuses on low maintenance. Melee needs no ammo or reloading, just an occasional weapon repair. Power Armor degrades slowly, even without Power Patcher. We use a myriad of defenses to make sure we don’t die (often), and we use rads to keep our health low. This build is capable of soloing all Daily Ops mutations in under 8 minutes and completing any event or expedition solo. However, team-based events like Project Paradise or the Scorchbeast Queen, while technically possible, are pretty miserable to do alone.

Want to use a gun instead? Swap nearly seamlessly between this one and my Chambered Assault build! Just change your perk cards and weapon and you’re good to go.

Optional S.P.E.C.I.A.L.

• PERCEPTION
• Exterminator is good if you aren’t picking many locks. If you eventually buy Master Infiltrator, you can move these points anywhere.
• ENDURANCE
• Revenant is fun if you have a team member willing to help out.
• CHARISMA
• Suppressor, Hard Bargain.
• INTELLIGENCE
• Hacker until you buy Master Infiltrator.
• This is admittedly an annoying one for this build. You’ll want at least 5 intelligence so you can use all the crafting cards. We only really need Nerd Rage, so if you want, you can move those 2 extra points elsewhere and create a “crafting” S.P.E.C.I.A.L. loadout later.
• AGILITY
• Dodgyif you feel like you need more defenses, but you’ll always have 0 AP
• Born Survivorif you feel like you need more defenses, but you’ll always have 0 Stimpaks

LEGENDARY PERKS

Listed in order of importance for acquiring and upgrading.

• Funky Duds: More defense. More info on Funky Duds in the Defenses section. You only really need 2 stars in this one for it to be useful. Then you can buy other Legendary Perks.
• Legendary Strength: More strength = more damage (and carry capacity). SPECIAL is capped at 15
• Taking One for the Team: More damage
• Collateral Damage: More damage
• Power Armor Reboot: When fully upgraded, it activates a lot and is useful in harder Daily Ops
• Flex slot – I like Master Infiltrator.

WEAPONS

• Non-Legendary Weapons
• Fire axe, Baseball Bat, Grognak Axe, Super Sledge, Sledgehammer, War Drum, Bone Club, Auto-axe, any other strong 2-handed weapon

• Legendary weapons (in order of importance)
• Bloodied, increased Swing Speed, +1 strength
• Bloodied, increased Power Attack, +1 strength
• Bloodied, 25% damage when standing still, +1 strength
• Instigating, Anti-Armor, and Vampire are good replacements if you can’t find a Bloodied weapon

Instigating and/or Swing Speed are my favorite mods on an otherwise unlucky melee weapon. Instigating often feels better than Bloodied when playing solo. Bloodied is still better for all around combat. Feel free to try other mod combinations, if the damage feels good then you’re good! It’s rather difficult to find well rolled melee weapons in the wild since everyone else plays with guns.

LEGENDARY POWER ARMOR

Fallout 76 has lots of different Power Armor sets that do different things. Your main interest early on will likely be with these, as you get them during quests:

• Excavator Power Armor: The most useful feature is its +100 carry capacity bonus. Perfect if you hoard. Easily attained.
• X-01/Ultracite: Most people will be happy stopping here. No crafting required to obtain these.
• T-65: This is among the strongest Power Armor in the game, but it’s one heck of a grind to unlock.

MODS

• Chest: Emergency Protocols. Vital for the build. Huge damage mitigation.
• Head: Internal database. +2 intelligence, completely offsets a mutation drawback. Low priority.
• Arms: Optimized Bracers. Reduces AP cost for power attacks.
• Legs: Calibrated Shocks. Adds +100 carry capacity. Sometimes this mod is glitched and doesn’t work…
  Also consider… Kinetic Servos (increased AP regen when moving) or Optimized Servos (reduced AP cost while sprinting). Mix and match if you want.

Unlocking T-65

• T-65 can only be bought with Gold Bullion. You obtain Gold Bullion from events, Scoreboard, or trading 40 Treasury Notes for 400 Bullion per day at vending machines in Crater or Foundation.
• You need 6,900 total Gold Bullion to buy the plans for T-65. That could take 18 days! With mods, you might be nearing the 10,000 Gold Bullion cost. 25 days!
• Between Excavator and T-65, we’re talking single-digit damage reduction for PvE play. That doesn’t sound like a lot, but when you’re running on ~80 health, reducing hits from 3 damage to 1 damage is very strong. T-65 is well worth it. If you dislike time-gated grinds, X-01/Ultracite is just fine.

Legendary Power Armor

• Overeaters
  +1 Strength
  Burning/Electrified/Frozen/Toxic/Sentinel’s
• DO NOT USE: Dissipating. It heals your rads.

+1 Strength (2-star minimum rolls) are your goal for max damage. Besides Dissipating, there’s not a useless mod for us.

Legendary Power Armor is crafted with Legendary Cores (dropped from events and Daily Ops) and Legendary Modules (bought from Purveyor Murmrgh with Legendary scrip).

MUTATIONS

• The important ones:
• Twisted Muscles, Adrenal Reaction, Grounded, Scaly Skin, Healing Factor
  • Healing Factor seems to cause the fast travel glitch but I still like it.
• The less important ones:
• Carnivore, Marsupial, Speed Demon, Herd Mentality
• Considerations:
• Electrically charged, Plague Walker. Any other mutation either reduces our Strength or isn’t very helpful.

DEFENSE

Since we exist at low life for maximum damage, we are at constant risk of dying. Luckily, you’ll still have high defenses.

OTHER NOTES

You can level this entire build with only melee if you want to. I recommend transitioning to low-life when you have a Bloodied weapon, all the important mutations, Starched Genes, Nerd Rage, and the Emergency Protocols mod for one of your sets of power armor. Once you’re setup, jump in a lake until your rads are about 75% of your health and try it out.

Do I have to use Power Armor?No but it’s definitely easier to start with power armor. If you really want to use normal armor, look for high level Unyielding, +1 Strength armor from vendors or drops or lucky crafts. There may be some defensive perk cards you would want to use to increase survivability.

Can I add even more damage? There are many methods to temporarily stack strength and, as a result, damage, but the One Wasteland changes really killed the once sky-high damage output of this build. I don’t think it’s worth the effort anymore.

In power armor, I have around 30 strength, and tend to 1-5 hit enemies. With Unyielding SS armor and some temporary boosts, I can get around 60 strength, and tend to … 1-5 hit enemies.

The other sources are: Cooking, bobbleheads, magazines, drinks, sneak attacks with sneak perks, VATS crits with related perks, perks with team-combos, and chems.

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