Starfield How Weapon Legendary Effects Work - Rules and Actual Effects. 

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- Titanium also increases fire rate slightly, apart from reducing weight. - Instigating can be bad if you're travelling with companions - they may hit an enemy before you do and you'll lose the bonus. - Explosive is super OP on fast firing large magazine weapons like microgun or magstorm (although not as crazy OP as an explosive minigun was in Fallout 4). It staggers the enemy and deals area damage. The only downside is that any small objects that you wanted to loot are now scattered all over the entire room.

I think burning enemies does % damage to enemies based on their max HP or something. It's crazy strong.

Concussive is actually amazing against large aliens and terrormorphs. My kodama knocks them down and they take forever to get back up.

If I did my math right, the hand loading results in a net 1.5% increase in damage at the 2-Star level.

lacerate used to be really strong in fallout 4 because the bleeds could stack and in shotguns for example every pellet could proc a bleed, but i dont think it works the same in starfield, although i think the Incendiary effect can stack now so if you can put a lot of them on enemies it will melt their health, and probably with shotguns every pellet has a chance to put it on

I've been playing Starfield for well over 100 hours and have yet to see many of these best effects.

10:02 I believe it turns the weapon into a shotgun like spread so it’s shooting multiple projectiles, but it doesn’t reduce the damage of each projectiles. like it would, if you switch the shotgun from slugs to normal rounds, or a semi automatic to automatic.

Been waiting a month for this video... 👍👍 EDIT: I have an Advanced/Superior Magshot that rolled Double Mag, Crippling, One Inch Punch, and the interaction with the Shock Charge Band mod is creating interesting results.

Some weapons like the A-99 and Drum Beat can be modded to have explosive rounds. A One Inch Punch A-99 would probably be fun to use. Or I wonder if the explosive rounds would carry the incendiary effect too.

TLDW: Instigating, Hitman and Shattering is the god roll on any semi auto weapon (and pretty much any weapon in the game). While on shotguns and no semi auto weapons, you're basically trading in instigating for space adept if in space, exterminator for creature xp farming or furious/cornered for both space and land. And for shotguns, one inch punch is basically a 100% increase in damage.

Tip for those making their own weapon via console commands: Extended Magazine and Rapid can both be applied to the Cutter. I have tested them individually and combined, and they both appear to work as intended. On a Burn Cutter character build, that equates to more chances to proc Burn per full charge, and applying those chances faster. I am currently trying to find a 3 Star effect that can actually be applied to Cutters (Elemental wouldn't "stick" for me) *AND* doesn't mess with Followers while mining normally (Read: Don't add Tesla).

Explosive and One Inch Punch are absolutely lethal with automatic weapons like Magshear, Magstorm, Kodama, and others as long as your recoil is little to none and have a high fire rate.

Turtle, have you tested the whole 'superior' weapon thing yet? The effect is clearly in the game files but I haven't seen anyone actually prove it procs within the game. Yes, there are some base damage inconsistencies (Advanced magshears on the shelf at Hopetown vendor for example) but nobody has actually proven anything yet. Maybe there are simply some inconsistencies or maybe superior weapons do exist and are just labeled as advanced. Be interesting to know for sure

Titanium also increases attack speed

Possible bug: Handloading can be found on melee weapons. Name clashes, but the description still works.

I have now very nice weapons for my wife. She like the furious effect on Malestrom with burning effect to make good dead space raiders and the killing of pirates. It's nice.

Also titanium build increase the FireRate for the weapon like 5% - 7.5%

People that come from the Elder Scrolls side of Bethesda games always had to deal with lighter equipload better for sneaking. The fact that equip weight affects stealth is only new for people that started with Fo4 or Starfield ... if i remember correctly , even FO3 / FNV had differentiated between light medium and heavy armor / clothing. Anyways , it matters only if you actually want to sneak shoot poeple in closed cells , if you can take them out from far away it matters not. So the top priority for Titanium Perk here i think is a good EM weapon for the Ryujin quests where you dont want to kill your targets. For every other sneak / stealth situation i would prioritize Shattering Perk for additional DMG and Armor Piercing Effect.

I've got a Legendary Advanced Razorback with Instigating, Staggering, and One Inch Punch, hits like a truck. I have suppressor on it as well as having the stealth and concealment skills. It usually one shots. Love it.

Dream weapon right now: Va'ruun Rifle >Extended Mag> Incendiary> Elemental. Maybe Lasers perk buffs fire damage both from particle beam weapons & legendary effect? P.S. If you have the time and the means please look into the "missing powers" bug and see if you can figure something out. People have all the Artefacts but Vlad stops giving the Power From Beyond quest. The ones that are usually missing are Life Forced and Supernova. Cheers!

There's a mod where you can change these on a weapon work bench, i used that and a free crafting mod to experiment around, Titanium for example reduces some weapons especially melee down to 1% of weight, some heavy weopons down to 1/6 or 1/3, some rifles just ~1/2, also there was a pistol i think the ratler that barely had a difference. Advanced EM weapons also show a bugged damage stat that sometimes fickers when hovering over common weapons before. Incendiary is also very powerful because the fire tick damage stacks on top of each other dealing insane amounts of DPS, making the cutter with level 4 laser perk the best short range DPS weapon of the game, because the cutter stacks the fire tick damage on top of each other massively.

I was running a legendary Tombstone with Furious, Lacerate and Tesla... and for whatever reason, it would periodically cause my companion to get REALLY angry with me... (capturing a crimson fleet ship... or running a rescue mission)

Instigating is pretty much mandatory for a good Sniper weapon IMHO. FYI, Skip Shot is terrible because the additional bullet will not be muzzled and reveal your position.

Poison, in my opinion, is useless. There is a mine that you canbget that has a poison effect and I think it works best there. Made the red Mile a cake walk. Having a weapon do that effect just seems like a waste.

I’d like to know what the Tesla effect drop percentage is because I literally went over a thousand legendary drops from a level 70 - 87 legendary enemies and not one time did that effect attach to a weapon. Finally after 30 plus level and over 1,100 drops it was attached to an advanced Beowulf.

Man, they gave bloodied the shaft in this game.

My starshard tripled in damage with one inch punch and has cornered and crippling. It's a beast with extended msg and overcharged

Is the shattering effect useless on a weapon that has armor piercing rounds?

I got crippling early on an explosive grendel, that thing is amazing on full auto. everything getting staggered and falling all over the place.

How does one inch punch affect shotguns? My main is an extended mag Coachman with explosive ammo and few things survive a single hit. How would "shattering" affect that? I think skip shot is completely useless, it probably just adds a single pellet in the 4th shot.

So… farming for legendaries in Starfield is somewhat pointless when compared to prior Fallout games.

Those rocky type creatures on Sarah's planet cassiopeia were quite tough and shattered had little effect

Magshot + One Inch Punch + Shock Charge Band = Enjoyment You're welcome

Anti personnel isnt bad since 90% of the game is humans

Can you do a video on repairing spacesuits... I am getting all kinds of armor beeping and stuff and from what I read it says you have to modify or upgrade certain armors, but how and to what?

He is very creative, I like his style

Ya thanks for putting this up. I was totally lost as to what benefit Legendary weapons were.

One inch punch seems to literally multiply your weapon projectiles without reducing damage. For pistols this can get really crazy since you are using them up close anyway. Skip shot is very good for weapons with semi-auto that still have a high ROF. Not sure how it works with shotguns though since shotties have multi-projectiles.

I am trying to collect as many combos of effects. Want to play arou d with diffent combo of oerks and mods on different guns as some mods + perks will stack damage with similar effects some redundant as well some perks are more/less effective different gun types.

@3:30, you said that i have to hit every projectile with the shotgun - does that mean EVERY pellet? meaning, I'll have to be pretty close for all of my shotgun pallets to hit the target? or can half of my pallets hit and still get the bonus? also, is projectile the wrong word to use considering all weapons on hitscan from what i can tell(?)

Great preliminary discussion. Can’t wait for further investigations. Thanks

I got an advanced razorback with one inch punch and even though I’m fully spaced into scoped rifles it’s insane to use.

That’s a sweet ass shotgun you got there turtle

You know... The game does have lab coats... And LABS.... so...... You COULD "reopen the lab".

I want a Hard Target with Instigating, Hitman, and Shattering. Stealth sniper. IDK if a Magsniper would be better though.

My one inch punch legendary equinox absolutely melts enemies. It has very short range and works best when I close the distance.

Curious to know if the "elemental" stacked with "poison", will add to the total effect buffs ...

On the one hand, the effects seem self explanatory. On the other hand, I played FO76.

For assassins: a silenced weapon with Instigating/Berzerkers, Hitman, and Titanium 🤤

I've save scummed many enemies to farm legendaries, probably picked up between 500-1000 legendary items. I have never found any item with the +40 carry weight, or the 50 % reduced weapon weight (for armor) effects. Can anyone confirm they exist? By the way, is there some good way of maintaining low health in the game?

Are any NPCs or creatures more affected or more resistant to certain types of damage?

Can you make the same video for suits and helmets?

handload probabilities over time = 4.25% nerf

Hey turtle. Could you do it with armor? Like does veteran stack

in the chart you show , frenzy is a 1st star and a 3rd star , are you sure the chart is correct .

I got an antipersonnel ,faster fire rate and explosive microgun that's my best one

What do you find is the best way to farm advanced legendary weapons? i'm hitting high level sites and ships yet i still get calibrated and refined etc. Also, do you ever find that non-advanced legendaries are worth using? I don't even pick them up if its not advanced.

Am I the only one who does not understand how one inch punch is supposed to work on shotguns?

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yay, you got a shotty, works great with effects that add damage over time, shattering doesn't help much, cause at really high lvls it will do crappy dmg, but it can stack those effects really fast and melt everything, kinda sucky when you need to fight your dupes tho, specially if u play with cornered :D I got a cornered /hitman/ one inch punch, wish it was incendiary :P.

Cornered is bloodied