So after looking at a few threads about legendary weapons..I realized I'm missing out on a lot of good stuff..mostly explosive and 2-shot legendary..

I have only come across one 2-shot weapon..a laser rife..and I bought Spray n Pray, and have only seen one other dropped, a lousy pipe pistol (suppose I could of modded it to a full auto rifle..but eh, I got the Spray n Pray)..

I have never got a legenday Gauss rifle of any kind..(stole the one at Prydwen the only Gauss I have)

I have over 100+ hours spread out between 2 characters..(haven't played much lately tho)

I was just wondering..am I just that unlucky?..I know difficulty settings determines the frequency of legendary enemies, but does difficulty have anything to do with how good of a drop you get from them?

I played on normal..and I see plenty of legendary enemies, except most of the drops have been useless crap..a lot of legendary vats related stuff, and worthless leather armor pieces..

I could definitely switch to higher difficulty setting if it matters..

I just want an explosive combat shotgun...or at least some better 2-shot weapons..I have read about the Overseers weapon, haven't gotten it yet, but probably will..

The best 2 shot sniper rifle you can buy from vault 81. Otherwise just go for enemies that drop certain weapons and hope.

so I am just unlucky? Do you know if difficulty has anything to do with what gets dropped?

You said it.... "your unlucky". How to increase "luck"?. "Luck" do counts alot or choose more difficulty gamescale. Increase luck alot, find better items when open safes and drops from npcs. "Luck" also works in other ways as well.

Cheers,

-Klevs

My character has a low luck score and I rarely get decent legendary drops. I've never seen anything with the "explosive" modifier and the best I have received is a legendary 2-shot laser gun that I have modded up and given to Curie (she is really decent with it).


I may raise my luck and see if that changes things.

On Survival mode, Legendary items drop like candy. At level 50 and every settlement attack has at least one, often two Legendary enemies.

'The last minute' Gauss rifle that you buy after finishing the armory at the Castle mission if modded does 552 damage, with the damage perks. A two shot one does even more, but do you really need more ?

Legendary farming takes some hours, I've been farming for that 2 shot Gauss but didn't had any luck (any actual luck cause my luck stat is at 10).

Difficulty affects the Frequency of Legendary Drops. The Exploding Weapons can be good if it is an Automatic or Shotgun variant, and Your character has a high enough Perception and extra Perks to improve Explosive Weapons. If You are unwilling to spend Perks to gain stronger Explosive Weapons then I prefer a Two Shot.

My Favorite is a Neverending Double Barrel Shotgun, I have to say the Automatic Laser Musket is My least Favorite (My current character has been cursed with two of the things). The Automatic Laser Musket is cranked like a Gatling Gun and only holds twenty shots before needing to reload.

I used to think this too until I started farming legendaries. Got everything I wanted within about 2 hours. There are several great guides on how to do it if you just google search it, so I'll spare the extra details. Basically, you just need to find an indoor space (so it autosaves once you're inside) and quicksave outside. Turn it up to Survival. Don't do anything that overwrites your auto save from when you entered. Kill the legendary enemy. If you don't like the item, reload the quicksave. Re-enter, repeat. If you like the item but not the effect, reload the autosave instead. Repeat.

Basically, for my sniper character, I ended up with an Instigating Hunting Rifle (2x damage to enemies at full health) and pieces of Assassin's heavy leather armor. With all the right perks, there is very very little that can survive a shot from my rifle at full health. (And now that I know the Sandman perk increases damage from suppressed weapons, there may be nothing left.) x4.2 sneak shot damage, doubled when the enemy is at full health. Can't beat that for a sniper rifle.

Also, I don't think your in-game Luck has anything to do with what you find. How would the devs know what you're looking for to program in "better" or "worse" items to drop?

Totally agree. When the difficulty was normal, the best I had was a combat rifle sending an extra bullet. Now I play survival and things are getting better, except the risk of getting killed any minute.

Step 1 kill a legendary enemy.

step 2 ??????????

Step 3 Profit!

This.

I got my Instigating Hunting Rifle the same way!

It is just the best possible weapon for a sniper. First time I blew head off of a Deathclaw with one shot felt like I had truly conquered the Fallout universe.