Annabelle the Special missile launcher had it's base damage raised from 20 to 120! And with splash damage and demo expert (2) it does up to 500+ Damage with High Explosive missisles. Which is better then Fat Man Pre-Patch. Has anyone else been enjoying killing huge amounts of enemies with a single Missisle from this bad boy since the patch?

*fixed.

It's a girl? O.o

She is named "Annabelle."

yeah annabel works great now have you checked out mercy it got a huge health boost and with the damage increase to 40mm grenades it has become ridiculously powerful

I Don't have the patch Can't wait to use it Though:D

Mercy is finally as bad-ass as something you had to mow down an entire nesting site of Deathclaws to get.

My current PC has almost no explosives skill (energy mostly), but after Veronica died on the way to do the last quest for the BOS, Ed-e was stuck down the hill trying to fight his way up to me, and I had just used my last charge from the Tesla cannon to clear the mountain top, I had to do something or Ed-e was gonna follow Veronica to the great vault in the sky. All I could hear was automatic weapons fire, Super Mutants bellowing and poor Ed-e's pitiful little laser pfzzzting away. I had just killed the nightkin sniper so I ran up the platform to grab any weapon I could find. Annabelle! Three rockets and two dead SMs later, Ed-e is in the clear and on his way up to meet me on top of the mountain, a little worse for wear, but safe and sound. Annabelle saved Ed-e's life. I only wish I'd gotten to her earlier and saved Veronica, too.

-Gunny out.

My only question is this: Is Thump-Thump finally a viable combat option?

:toughninja: hey guy，annabelle is great weapon after patch，for it's low ap，high damage and low spread.but i saw the demo expert perk in geck after the new patch,found that annabelle、missile launcher、fatman were not affected，and after i pick the perk，i can not find the difference of damage.how can you get the 500+ DMG?can anybody confirm that?

Those weapons are not included on the form list for the demo expert perk. I see no other way for the perk to work on them.

-Gunny out.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news - but Annabelle/Missile Launcher are actuallly weaker post patch! The base 120 - dmg does not kick in unless you use VATS. Freefiring will result in no base damage being applied just the explosion damage. A bug.

The blast radius was nerfed from 1300 to 1000.

Demolition Expert has no impact on Missile Launchers/Annabelle.

Now, Mercy and the GMG are a totally different story. Absoleute Beasts!

Even the Grenade Launcher is powerfull with Demo Expert 3. With a 100 skill level that is 160 points of dmg per shot. Easy to crank out 300-400 dmg in no time.

Mercy?! Mercy will kill anything under 2 seconds with Demo Expert 3. Full auto doing 160 a hit>

i just want to build a explosive character，do you think in VH，demo expert 3，useing mercy will kill yourself？mercy‘s damage can up to 160，but it’s attack range is not so far，i don't got it yet but i think it is a two-edge sword

Mercy has decent range. I personally think it is a little short. But, an explosives character needs another skill to kill things. That is the bottom line. The best choices are either guns or melee. Because Explosives, Melee and Guns are not super crit oriented.

But with any explosive character you just have to get a feel for what the blast radius is. So you know when to switch to something else. But not much is getting close to you with Demo Expert 3 and Mercy unless you get careless!! LOL, just make sure your companions are not set to melee. Cause they will die.

i want to make a character good at ew、gun、expolsive and melle，with Dead Money ,holorifle is obvisously superpower.but what confused me now is wether choose demo expert or not.demo expert doesn't affected missile and fatman,and i few use generade and c4,i often use vats to head shot .should i use demo expert for mercy?i need to think about it

Mercy will destroy everything you run into so sure, take all three ranks. There's a reason somebody sprayed "Hei Gui Bye Bye" on the weapon: it dominates everything else outside its weapon class, and for practicality of ammunition it beats the Fat Man as well. I think it's the best weapon in the game.

Isnt that good for me. I just recently created my first explosives character but I didnt invest in a lot of AP or any VATS perks like Commando. Is Mercy not a good VATS weapon? I didnt think it's range would be far enough.

i don't think mercy is a good vats weapon,it cost 50ap and just shoot one 40mm geneade.annabelle is much better in vats in my opinion,with fast shot,kamalize,math warth and action boy 2,you can shoot 3 times in a vats round,nothing can stand this after the patch

What is your agility set at?

after the new patch ,i think the mini gun can be super power ,for it's -25 dt effect,magazine is larger than cz57,and damage is just 1 point lower.with all mod,and turbo,it will do extremely high dps.most important ,it won't hurt yourself,not like mercy~~

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8 6 5 1 4 10 10(after implant)
and i use rad child to regen my hp

Do you suffer any negative effects from being irradiated?

yes,with critical radiation ,en-2 st-1 ag-2,but if you wear PA,you still got 8 st,can handle most heavy weapon in the game ,and the ap will be 129.but you hp can regen 6/s,this is 60 times better than the expensive perk you buy from usnagi

If you take steady a lot it can work at the same range as any other non-missile weapon in VATS.

I never use VATS with Mercy or the GMG. Just hold the fire button down and watch things die. Fast!

Same goes with Grenade Rifle/Launcher - use out of VATS.

Now the Missile Launcher/Annabelle you want to use those in VATS for the extra 130 hit dmg on a direct hit. In my tests Steady + Annabelle was giving VERY high hit percentages from far out. Like max VATS distance.

Also, Frag/Plasma/Dynamite should be used exclusively in VATS, unless you are trying to toss it around the corner.