Fallout: New Vegas character builds!

[Vaco Deus]

My main build is Guns, Sneak, and Repair

I usually snipe them and I have the Professional Perk so it does more damage for a sneak kill.

My, boredom account, is a walking powerhouse as I used the 28 perks glitch (with Honest Hearts its 38 perks) to just make him a walking terror

 

[Kevlar Eater]

Strength: 6
Perception: 9+
Endurance: 7
Charisma: 3
Intelligence: 9
Agility: 8
Luck: 4

...what exactly are tagged skills?

 

[CaptainTrilby]

My main build is medicine, energy weapons and science and I usually roll round in the Desert Ranger Armour set along with the YCS gauss rifle and the Matter Modulator. My side build is using Melee, Repair and Lockpick, using the Oh Baby! and a chainsaw.

I have Plasma Spaz, Laser Commander and Maths Whiz on my main, since I use VATS mostly.

 

[Museli]

I've made dozens of characters in New Vegas, and tagged every skill at least once, even Survival and Barter. If I were to make a serious character (to complete quests as quickly and efficiently as possible), Speech, Melee Weapons and Science would be my tag skills.

Strength would be high (duh) as would Endurance for implants. Charisma and Perception would be fairly low, maybe even 1. Even with 1 CHA, Boone can still wreck stuff. Intelligence would get a slight boost, and Luck. I'd take Four Eyes as a trait, and Small Frame or Good Natured (hardcore).

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

What is your Fallout: NV character build, level, and your opinion of their power level?
Mine is Gun, Speech, and repair based, and so far it's worked really nicely. I'm level 15 and have a perfect condition marksman carbine, as well as several other weapons in tip-top shape due to my repair skill

Just finished the game on "normal" mode with a pretty conventional character: guns and unarmed maxed out; science, survival, repair and barter increased to sixty - seventy percent each; speech and lockpick raised to exactly eighty (skill checks above that level are so rare that you can just use magazines for those skills). That's playing the "independant" path - allying with Yes-Man, etc. I started out as very much a "pacifist"-type character, which worked out surprisingly well; left levelling unarmed and guns until much later in the game. I used fairly high charisma, intelligence and endurance, and lower strength and luck.

But I have plans for:

- A hardcore survival player to align with the Legion (survival, explosives, melee, lockpick, repair, medicine, with high agility and strength but low charisma)

- A scientific player to align with the House (heavy armour and energy weapons, science, medicine, unarmed, repair, speech and barter, with high strength, perception and endurance but less charisma and agility)

As for aligning with the NCR, well, I'll think of something.

 

[SamtheDeathclaw]

My main is a level 30 gunslinger, with speech, repair and lockpicking thrown in. NCR path, very good karma, vilified by the Legion (Boone, Rex and I murdered everyone in Caesar's camp for giggles.) His main guns are the Mysterious Stranger's Magnum (had to kill the bastard to get it. Who ups BARTER?) a anti-materiel rifle, whatever the top-tier lever-action rifle is called, and a silenced 10MM.
He cleared the Deathclaw Promontory without taking a scratch. Whaddya think? I spend a lot of time mix-maxing to get a badass.

 

[trhshred]

My character is built around dispatching enemies as quickly and efficiently as possible through the use of critical strikes. Typically I use a shotgun for close-range combat (since each of the 7 projectiles can crit independently outside VATS, meaning its almost ALWAYS a 2-3 shot kill), and a silenced sniper rifle for ranged kills. I also always carry around a .45 AP silenced, for the casinos and when I'm sneaking in close range.

S 7(+)
P 7(+)
E 6
C 1
I 6
A 7(+)
L 10(+)

The skills I maxed out first were Guns, Lockpicking, Sneak, and Melee. Survival came soon after since this was a hardcore game.

The only trait I took was Built to Destroy.

Notable perks:
Finesse, Better Criticals, The Professional, Ninja, Light Touch, Shotgun Surgeon, And Stay Back!, Hunter, Travel Light, Hand Loader.

Notable items:
Weapons-- Riot Shotgun+ or Dinner Bell; Christine's COS Silencer Rifle; .45 AP+; combat knife.
Apparel-- Joshua Graham's armor; NCR 1st Recon beret; Lucky Shades.

Typically i craft hand-loaded ammo, or Magnum for the shotgun.

responses?

 

[godofallu]

I have a level 24 and a level 22.

The level 24 is Guns, Sneak, and Repair
The level 22 is Energy Weapons, Unarmed and Lock-picking

If you want my advice, Guns > Energy Weapons and starting with very high endurance + Unarmed is amazing. Every point put into endurance early becomes a free stat for implants later, so starting with anything less than 8 endurance is just wrong.

I also find repair to be useless, I would never tag it again.

I might make a new character which is Guns + Explosives + Melee Weapons and play the cowboy thing out. It might be fun to use only cowboy type weapons, the only problem I have with that is knowing strength based melee is way worse than endurance based melee.

 

[trhshred]

I also find repair to be useless, I would never tag it again.

Whaaaaaat? two words: "Jury Rigging." Its all about caps, my friend... How do you want to spend yours? I prefer to spend mine on stimpacks and water than on repair.

 

[Tallim]

You only need Speech and Sneak really, well not even Sneak but it's handy. You can finish the main plot with just speech and high luck. Not very good for a lot of the side quests though.

I tried speed running with that build and finished it in under 4 hours at lvl 9 (although jumped to 11 when finished the last quest)

 

[godofallu]

I also find repair to be useless, I would never tag it again.

Whaaaaaat? two words: "Jury Rigging." Its all about caps, my friend... How do you want to spend yours? I prefer to spend mine on stimpacks and water than on repair.

You get more caps/stimpacks than you could ever use without it, so why waste a perk and 90+ skill points when you could be slightly less rich but with a stronger character overall?

That's my reasoning for why I will never bother with repair again.

 

[DustyDrB]

This thread has been resurrected so many times. It's like the Ganondorf of the Escapist...

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Just started a new play through of New Vegas.

Currently level 5 specializing in Medicine, Guns, and Repair.

I mostly use a 9mm pistol with a scope and the cowboy repeater rifle at the moment.

Don't have particularly good damage yet, but it gets the job done. Haven't run into anything that I had too much trouble killing.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

My hardcore build:

STR: 8
PER: 5 (8 with implant + glasses + beret)
END: 5 (6 with implant)
CHAR: 2
INT: 9 (10 with implant)
AGL: 8 (9 with implant)
LUCK: 5 (6 with implant)

Guns, Speech and lots of crit multipliers, Finesse, Better Crits, Sniper etc.

Silenced Sniper Rifle owns everything.

Jesus christ, My character Breadbox would HATE to meet you...Maybe he can convince you otherwise.
Name: Breadbox
Age 26
sex: male
Race: African American
SPECIAL:
STR: 5
PER: 3
END: 5
CHAR: 7
INT: 4
AGL: 8
LUCK:10

Guns, Speech repair and science, damn good luck, better crits and Maria at his side.

I also think he's a cocky son of a *****.

Seriously, the poor kid is hunting Deathclaws with handguns, oh sure he laying down mines and going for the eyes but that just unhealthly.

 

[Lulzbringer88]

Name:Barry
Male
SPECIAL: 7,5,7,1,10,5,5 It's much higher now since I have all the implants from the New vegas medical clinic and some Intense training perks
Karma: Very evil
Level: 45

He just runs around in the wasteland slaughtering NCR and doing evil things and pissing people off and no one can stop him.
One time he replaced Ruby nash's casseroles with Human flesh! Also one time, he slaughtered a town full of innocent people.

Skills he's good at:
Melee weapons 100
Unarmed 100
Energy weapons 100
Science 100
Lockpick 100
Speech 100
Survival 100
Medicine 100
Repair 100
Sneak 100

Skills he's bad at:
Barter <20
Guns 15 or something I don't think this character has ever fired a bullet
Explosives 30

Weapons he uses: LAER, Plasma Defender, Shishkebab, Incinerator, Ballistic fist.
Armour he uses: Legion Praetorian armour, Sierra Madre reinforced armour

Safehouses: Abandoned Brotherhood of steel bunker, he also has another one near that NCR camp so he can occasionally toss grenades at NCR.

As you can tell, Barry is far superior than your character, so yeah.

 

[Captain Epic]

My special is like this. Can't remember exactly but...
S:3
P:8(Bandana)
E:7
C:9(implant)
I:4
A:6
L:7
Tag: Energy weapons, Speech, Lockpick, Unarmed(with TAG perk).
Oh, and my traits are wild wasteland and trigger discipline

 

[suker135]

Name: adam
Very good karma, i run around liberating the wasteland from the scourge that is caesars legion. i took on his entire camp with a 9mm pistol and NCR ranger combat armor. in freeside i killed a rat for small hobo children to eat. at the end of lonesome road, i nuked caesars legion.

I use an ultimate stealthy build. im lvl 44 and my special is roughly

S-7
P-1
E-6(+1 intense training)
C-1
I-10
A-8
L-8

i robbed the casinos with luck to get all the implants, and generally use stealth and when its necesarry(which is alot) christines COS recon sniper. because of its low durability, i leave raul in the lucky 38 as my companion (upgraded to 75% maintnence) or lily(for stealth missions that involve my stealth boys) and i use ED-E to compensate for my low perception, and also so he can repair my weapons at other times. my general speed stealth weapons is a basic 9mm pistol, scoped silenced and extended mags. to compensate for its low damage i use super stealth skills for sneak attacks and i took the grunt skill. for sniping i dont use my sniper, but rather my fully modded red glare. otherwise i maxed explosives, guns, sneak, lockpick, repair, speech, barter, survival and unarmed+ over 60 in all else but melee and energy.
still my favorite perk is the turbo implant. chemist+day tripper= 80 seconds of turbo if u use all 10 doses at once. it eliminates the need for stealth as i run in, minigun blazing while their smgs are reduced to 1 shot per second snails.

My bases are in big MT., cottonwood cove snipers nest so i can pick off stupid legioners with my red glare and the lucky 38.

i wanna fight this barry guy real bad, fckin NCR vs. legion montage would be sweet. i also find it entertaining that he uses the LAER(elijahs signature weapon) and i use Christines COS recon rifle, mortal enemys. next fallout better have multiplayer, cause i wanna face off with you so bad.

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

I have no idea what my numbers are seeing as I haven't played my main guy in ages, but he's at 3 or 4 STR and END, 6 or 7 PER, CHA, and AGL, and 9 or 10 INT and Luck. Probably with a generous amount of Intense Training. Mostly, I used a Gauss Rifle or the unique Plasma Rifle so I maxed out Energy Weapons. I also maxed Speech and Repair.

My favorite thing about the character is that I thought while making him, "Vegas? Prob'ly gonna want ten luck. I want to break every bank possible." And I did.

 

[Agemt_Smith_53]

Mine is Guns repair Sneak i have the assassins suit from Old world Blues DLC and a anti material rifle and i train in x-13 Center in old world blues for Sneak but the funny thing is the fact bad guys dont every see me even though my suits talks to me

 

[Charlie Bell]

str:9
per:1
end:8
Cha:1
Int:9
agi:6
luck:6
I'm only lvl 6 right now but I took a group of NightskinsO(4 reg and 1 Jailor) on with a machete and came out on top. Though I tossed a stick of dynamite in beforehand.

Melee is 90