The Best Legendary Perks - Tier List & Guide - Fallout 76 

My big problem with master infiltrator is when you accidentally open something locked at a players camp and get a bounty.

I think that if you're not very late-game, infiltrator is amazing as a 1 star. you get the equivalent of 6 perk cards.

We need a new full suite of standard perk cards to add variety to builds!

I use fully upgraded “S, P, E, I, A, L.” Because charisma is a pain to get working and sharing cards. To me, they have more universal use than stuff like “funky duds” which can be hard to obtain full armour set before level 50.

also, with the legendary special perks, you can get your SPECIAL above 15 but you can't get more than 15 perk point slots per special, legendary strength will bring your strength up to 20 if you have it maxed, you still only get 15 perk points for strength but it increases melee damage

With the Ammo Factory, it might go up in usefulness for the "planners", now that the Ammo Storage Box is in play. Save up for piles of ammo production and make a day out of it. It would be interesting to see if an Ammo Factory plan can out-strip a Cannonball/Ammo Converter plan.

I would put Legendary Luck in S tier because there are too many good cards in Luck that you really would just be choosing to make things harder on yourself without them. Arguably as well Legendary Intelligence and Agility

I mostly agree, but I'd put Far-Flung Fireworks a tier higher. It's really good to clear out groups of weak enemies at events. Also, it has a nice synergy with the Tesla rifle and you can chain those explosions on a lucky roll. Last time I tested it worked with shredder minigun too which adds a little bit AoE to already crazy build. I know all that stuff is highly situational, but when it works it's just amazing.

The problem with Survival Shortcut is that food/drink buffs are so huge in this game (especially for melee) that it's worth it to use regular perks like Good With Salt, Cola Nut and Thru Hiker in your build so that you can keep the best food with you. Survival Shortcut is a fine lazy perk if you don't want to carry around a bunch of chems and food, though.

I actually use Detonation Contagion when I farm XP with Nuka grenades in West-Tek as it feels like the exploding enemies provide some more clear aka more XP. Also I like Power Sprinter to some degree in power armor with melee auto weapons as you can sprint long distances and still have AP for attacking. I have Master Infiltrator always on for expeditions to open these safes in Union Dues or terminals in From Ashes. The first legendary perk I maxed when they got introduced was Ammo Factory, but it's dusting in my selection screen as I haven't crafted any ammo outside of daily/weekly challenges for years. I don't see much sense in Survival Shortcut as I'm already swimming in perfect bubblegums and have nothing else to spend my gold bullion on. Also I don't like Sizzling Style as the Fireproof perk and maybe one armor part with +25 fire resist is enough for most fire damage, for Earle you can use the Asbestos Linings torso mod if you have trouble. Same goes for Funky Duds - in armor I prefer having one or two pieces with +25 poison resist which is enough to slow down poison damage to outheal it, also the Union power armor makes this legendary perk fully obsolete. But I have to admit that I use most of my legendary perk slots for Legendary Special cards and they are clearly S tier for me. As I don't use mule characters and have everything on one character I need my carry weight and other quality of life perks and the extra special points give me this freedom to have them in addition to a full damage build.

Technically swapping to ammo factory costs 2 coins as you'll most likely put whichever perk you swapped out back

I do agree master infiltrator is quality of life. It also frees up 6 special slots for one legendary and time saver to getting things opened/terminal hacks. Ammo factory I think would be lower cause it got nerfed. Making creation ammo like 2mm useless cause how much i burn through.

Master Infiltrator is the best perk in the game. IMO. Not having to do the stupid Lockpicking or Hacking mini games is glorious. Edit: I have played 5,000+ hours of fallout 3/NV/4/76. I have done enough of those mini games in my lifetime. Lol

I would argue that while taking one for the team is powerful, the fact that it requires a teammate means it is a+ tier since if you solo or your team mates leave for some reason it's useless

I used to have Electric Absorption equiped 24/7, but now I only ever put it on if I do a nuke bunker due to how surprisingly uncommon energy damage is. Aside from robots and aliens there aren't alot of enemies that do energy damage which makes it quite rare to activate or keep you alive in most normal gameplay.

I’m lvl 63 and I use infiltrator. It is amazing how much faster I can loot stuff and I’m not worried about Bobby pins. I just did a public event earlier tonight and I ran through an armory part of the building, and there were four ammo crates, and all of them were locked level one. I was able to unlock them all instantly instead of taking up to five seconds for each one so I could get back to the public event; absolutely undoubtably S tier in my book

I used Detonation Contagion when farming XP in West-Tek. Is it working? I have no idea, but I have a good argument for it: when throwing Nuka Grenade, obviously the damage is proximity based... I have seen some super mutants survive with only a small amount of health from Nuka Grenade because they were on edge of blast radius. Do you want to know who never survived? Mutant Hounds. And where are Mutant Hounds? They are always next to Super Mutants. So in theory I would hope that on a few times a Mutant Hound triggered an explosion that killed it's owner... Is this the case? I have no idea, I've never seen it with my own two eyes but it sounds like it would work.

I also use speial no c. The other S tiers just aren't for me as I'm not stealth or aren't active often. Stuff dies so quick like you don't need 40% damage to something that hit you or to regen hp in power armor from one type of damage. You know what else replaces that. Killing the enemy before they hit you. You know what helps that. An extra TEN PERK POINTS and the associated cards

for the perks that require a full set of armor it actually only needs to be 5 pieces, for my bloodied build I have a Secret Service chest piece with scout armor limbs and a scout mask for the fifth piece

I have max rank Electric Absorbtion. I sometimes still die when the imposter sheepsquatch hits me with that nasty laser beam when I really need the perk to work the most. I have been thinking about swapping it out for more special points

The problem as I see it with Follow Through and Taking One For The Team is that outside of events it doesn’t help that much. Yes, it’s nice extra damage and very powerful for when it is actually needed. But those situations are not enough - for me - to warrant a legendary slot

In my humble opinion ammo factory is S-tier. Mainly cause i love heavy weapons. Particularly the .50 cal, gatling plasma, flamer, and gauss minigun. All of which chug ammo.

Survival shortcut is my number one go to. No need to carry stims and reduce weight

I would personally put What Rads in the top tier. For my full health char every little sliver of rads is annoying me, with What Rads i dont have to look at the health for rads at all. And while it doesnt keep me from taking rads on the big events, it does lower the rads so that rad away doesnt have to be popped constantly.

I choose my legendary special perks based on which perks I want in every build. This way I can change my build without thinking about those slots. For me, the 3 required perks in every build are Traveling Pharmacy, Thru-Hiker and Good With Salt. So, STR, AGI, and LCK are required. That leaves me 3 perks to play around with.

Your list is an universal list. No cookie cutter builds for this game, like the old WoW talent system. Least it's very simple and easy to use. Thank you for this video, Turtle.

I think the best first card to get is master infiltrator, you immediately free up 6 perk cards. The SPECIAL cards need to be ranked up and that takes time

I Just reached level 50

Infiltrator doesn't just allow you to auto unlock, which only works at whatever level the card is compared to the tier of lock you are attempting, but it effectively gives you level 3 hacking AND lock picking with 1 card vs. SIX perk cards. Tier C? I think not. That's an A tier card, for sure.

Follow Through is significantly stronger for a semi/auto sneak build and I wouldn't use for a regular sneak sniper build; Unless you're specifically hunting big boi mobs there are less niche cards to use the slot for

I use legendary perk cards which help me all the time...not situational ones. Especially since I solo in private 90 percent of the time. 4 four my 5 characters are unyielding. So I perfer to boost my special stats to max (15). In addition to low health boost from unyielding (30 plus total). Except Charisma and endurance (no boost from unyielding). On my fifth is PA build and I use ammo factory. This character make ammo for all my others.

i think a good way they could change detonation contagion, is change it so it has a 50% chance to duplicate your explosion, but at 30% of the original damage (or some other amount)

Master Infiltrator is the only S tier perk! \o/ Great to grab as your first to open all those lv3 safes for weapon plans early on.

@2:06 Rad Rumble pops, and Turtle continues on with the vid. Now that's dedication! Seriously, though, great list. Pretty accurate. I'd say Ammo Factory is fine where it is. Between Daily Ops and making a crafting alt character, for me it's F tier on my main and SSS Tier on alts.

Master infiltrator is A or S, it saves 6 normal cards and saves so much time.

Electric Absorption is in B tier category I am a full Power Armor user never had the need to use it because fusion core is easy to farm on nuclear power plants or daily ops or in the pitt and you can use vampire weapons for healing

I agree with all of these, but as a full health build I always have What Rads maxed, along with Ghoulish maxed. Having the ability to take radiation damage from enemies (primarily glowing ones and charred ferals) instantly restore some health, and remove rads fairly fast is too good to pass for me. That being said though, utterly useless for bloodied, so I get your rank for it. Great video as always! :)

I love survival shortcut. It's underrated I use it to save stimpaks and it turns stimpaks into caps which I sell everyday. I treat it like nuka cola quantums too I consume one before getting into a pvp fight since it doesn't require me to take damage to use unlike stims.

All of the exploding parks, the actual exploding ones require a buff. They really need a buff hack and slash which isn’t even exploding. One does better damage and it’s controllable but the exploding ones aren’t really worth using an end of all of them. The unarmed one should do more damage. It is also by the way affected by demo, expert and grenadier unlike hack and slash so there’s that but it still doesn’t do as much damage.

I might be confused but I swore I could craft more .45 ammo with maxed Ammo Factory and Ammosmith before. I use lots of different ammo types but thought I got more than x54 at max.

Ammo factory is A tier especially if you are using prime receivers on your weapons as it saves on flux Master infiltrator is also A tier unless you really like spending time hacking terminals and picking locks

You have helped me so much with videos like this thanks bro 🙏🏻

I think the legendary drug one should be giving you that crazy one that you get in the raider quest line I believe? The one that gives you crazy resistance and damage bonus

I'd rather master infiltrator was just a set of normal perk cards, it's nothing 'legendary' to be able to auto open locks and terminals, it just bypasses the annoying minigames. They could have it as individual perk cards, with subsequent higher tier lock/terminal cards unlocked at higher levels and removing all the lockpick/hacking perks we already have to choose from.

Only one I would bump up would be legendary intelligence for xp gain. With normal intelligence maxed and legendary intelligence maxed that's a minimum of 20 intelligence for more xp gain.

I know blood sacrifice is bad but if I'm running like a gamma gun low health build I'm clumsy and accidentally hit myself (probably cause it's two shot) so it kinda helps outweigh my bad screw ups

Swap in and out infiltration and ammo and usually use the special ones for boosted specials.

Pretty much. It's worth noting that one star Master Infiltrator allows you to throw away all of your hacking and lockpicking perk cards.

This us a great idea tbh mate. Would love to see more teir lists. Maybe each weapon or armour category. Just an idea 😅

I would put Charisma under-F tier. Unlike F tier, which simply don't make a difference, Charisma Legendary perk is actively making your character worse because taking it reduces the biggest perk of Charisma. There is no reason of every taking that card in any circumstance. If you need more Charisma you should equip a different Legendary Special and reallocate those extra points to Charisma using a Punch Card Machine.

Fusion core charging is definitely important to me. If I'm running low, I go out of my way to run into robots or keep enemies with energy weapons alive until I'm charged. I've only got it to rank 2 though. Build Progress Ramble: Legendary Perk Card 4* Intelligence 2* Ammosmith (unequipped) 4* Luck 3* Taking one for the Team 2* Electric Absorption 1* Agility 1* Infiltrator Perfect once I realized it replaces 6 perk cards. I want it permanent like in older games. I the locks are easy. Could have more, but I like having two sets of rank 1s and 3s for commando, heavy gunner, shotgunner, and ability to make it an explosive build with nuka launcher. Just started late last season 😅 and need to slow it down. Got the Nuka Launcher and got drunk on power and excavator with weight reduction legendaries for all categories. Girlfriend may be right. I need to get some space from it. Wait until next season.

I have a pretty lazy build, full health. What rads is a biggie for me. I don’t care about inflator, because there’s rarely rarely anything good behind a lock.

@7:13 Uhm, Scorchbeast breath is fire. Explosions are affected by Fireproof and assume this card as well. @9:56 Not all SPECIAL stats are equal Charisma is slightly weaker than the others as card sharing doesn't work (which you mentioned). Agility and Luck are the strongest. Intelligence is about midtier, but since you can use it to expand your XP gain even though you have 15 points in intelligence so it's the only one that matters if you equip it with a 15 intelligence.

Master Infiltrator at rank 0 allows me to pick any lock and hack any terminal, freeing up 6 normal perk cards, which is a huge bonus.

Hey turtle i was wondering if you could try making a build that can use all weapon types effectively? Just as a fun build to showcase and put a theme behind like jack of all trades character.

Thanks for clarifying the charisma-bug, I was of the opinion that the 5 points themselves don't add to the charisma-stat, but that wasn't what's wrong with the perk card.

I have 2 characters. One rifle and one heavy. They both have all legendary stat boosting cards besides follow through on the rifleman and taking one for the team on my heavy. Best way to play without going into niche scenarios

One nice use of Master Infiltrator is spamming Nukes, it makes nuke runs just so much quicker when you can hack your way past 80% of the silo, I agree on quality of life but its definitly the best one of of that subset I would switch its position with ammo factory. Yes ammo factory is generally more useful, but if you aren't running the most ressource hungry ranged weapons it isn't a concern - still a good way to earn caps even as a meleebuild by farming and selling rounds. Electric Absorption is kinda meh, fusion cores arent a concern in PA and basically laser immunity is nice in robot heavy areas, especially when the assaultrons are just spamming their ranged attacks but it can be easily trumped with good armor or if necessary a troubleshooter suit. Also, lumping all the legendary stat perks together now begs the question - how do you rate them vs. each other? I'm aware that some builds need them more then others but from a generalists point of view it would also be interesting which to max first.

Don't forget the other thing keeping sizzling style in a lower tier: it is completely supplanted by a single armor mod (asbestos). Unlike Funky Duds, which needs at least two legendary rolls (+25PR) or thousands of stamps to grind out the Union PA set.

Good job on the videos recently Angry Turtle, im a new player that just dove into the fallout 76 community and your videos have been pretty informative and answer the question I may have thanks!

The sprinting legendary perk also works with slower drain when using an automated melee weapon like the auto axe

Yeah I would choose cycle buff but if you don’t have the ability to acquire psychobuff, there is one upside to that Kim one it is you can get to the point where you’ll generate enough of them and two it doesn’t cause O addiction if you take them to cook quickly or too closely together and you can supplement it by using whatever cycle buffs you get and then when you run out you got that but you’re right, I never use it

Master infiltrator belongs at least in the same league as the s.p.e.c.i.a.l. cards. It saves you SIX perk cards by removing the need to have the lockpick/hacking perks with no perk point investment The auto pick/hack is just the cherry on top. The only thing keeping it out of S tier imo is the fact that the loot from chests and doors isn't usually great. Though sometimes like the weapon shop it's definitely worth it.

If you run automelee power armor, ap reduction for sprint can be A+ if you also like jetpacking. As an extra layer, after ap drain reduction in your arm mods.

I've wiped out entire groups of mole miners/scorched with Far Flung Procs on my plasma caster. I don't know for sure if it benefits from the grenadier and demolition perk I run on my build but thought the damage and size of the proc was rather big.

I love *What Rads?* I have a mutated monk build, so unarmed. Can’t use power armor. I use ghoulish, so I never need to heal around any sort of radiation. I have all mutations, so no need for starched genes for regular play. And on nuke zones- ghoulish + secret service armor + starched genes and pharmacist allow me to walk around normal.

I go around a sneaky rifle build so outside of follow through, I have all special stat legendaries I can get besidess charisma, they're s tier to me for giving a lot of handy extra damage or utility perk cards.

I'm currently running a no power Armour build and am not using bloodied. With two handed melee weapons and max demolition expert on top. I only have 3 legendary perk slots atm, and am rocking 3 explosion ones (collateral dmg, explosion contagion, and the vats hit one with the death law on it.) I'm legally blind from all the blasts, but man do I clear a room fast.

Hack and Slash pairing with chainsaw or auto axe is amazing

Your list is solid The only one I think is out of place is What About Rads?. The reason is its resistance & heals rads over time. If you don't use pa it's probably the first thing to get with healing factor serum as medical issues become a non-issue for the most part. Survival Shortcuts is still my first legendary at 75 but What About Rads? is very, very powerful with healing factor serum. I think you've undervalue it slightly, but even then I only move it up from B to the worse -A just below where you placed Legendary Charisma. I think its slightly better then Funky Duds cause you get constant use out of What About Rads?. Walking or swimming in water, eating, drinking, rad barrels, rad storms, being hit by enemies. What About Rads? is constantly useful.

We need a Mutation-boosting Legendary perk; imagine Herbivore builds not having to rely on Live & Love 3 to get the best boosts, or Marsupials needing mutated teammates to get the full jump height.

Power armor still need swat, rats, turtle you still take damage rats build up and it’s really useful. If you’re doing radiation rumble going down in the tunnels in power armor.

Good morning fallout

If you want to make all your friends to love you, max ammo factory

I think blood sacrifice was made for noob teammates. I mean, they can help to us at least through dying :D

Interestingly ‘what rads’ combined with armours that have the highest rad resistance allow you to survive pretty well in a blast zone without power armour or a hazmat suit

What Rads is actually really great paired with PA. I run it and basically never take any radiation damage. And any I do take is immediately erased. Saves from needing to carry any radaway

I'd say ammo factory is a s tier, since it stacks with ammosmith. So with super duper, you can make a whole lot of ammo pretty quickly, if you have at least a couple hundred lead scrap.

Taking one for the team should go on every build unless you’re solo. Follow through should go on every stealth build. Literally better than a full set of damage cards.

Tbf, the Legendary SPECIALs free up to 35 perk points for regular more usefull perk cards.

My main has rank one infiltrator (at least temporarily until last perk card would be leveled), hack and slash and then +perk cards - melee character :)

Turtle, I hope you see this and I’m sorry if you already addressed it. Damage has been reduced like shredder and auto axe, etc., but do you think it’s because enemies aren’t attacking? Maybe the perks that make enemies take more damage when they attack us aren’t being triggered. Could Taking one for the team and tenderizer just not be activating? Would this explain the damage decrease?

I felt like I was dying more often from fire damage than poison, so I swapped funky duds for sizzling style.

I love your attempt to be unbiased with master infiltrator, I think C is fair considering how bad the other perks are I think it should work for hacking as well tbh.

What's rads with the ghoul perk is a better combo than most realize. When they just announced you can play as a ghoul in 2025, I thought, but I already play as a ghoul! 😂

We need new Legendary Perks!

Can we please get rid of having to use coins to swap cards? It just discourages using different legendary cards for different builds

You prob already said this but what's rad is better because u lose rads, without losing your mutation which makes it nice

I think master infiltrator should be higher. It’s gives 6 perk points (3 per 3 int) and saves a lot of time if upgraded once. Also survival syringe on the favorite wheel so u use it whenever it’s full is great.

I am using What Rads with power armor in order to sell all the Radways... I use a lot Nuka Grape or Brahmin Milk to heal rads becayse I am not using Starched Genes to make room to other Luck Perk cards that I think are more useful

" what rads" legendary card is perfect,never loose the mutation, you don't need any aid for radiation,just need a good armor build for health

I’d put Ammo Factory in A tier just because it costs perk points to keep taking it off for combat often making it not worth it unless you’re someone who plays the game just to keep leveling up constantly but that’s not most players and definitely not me. And while yes you can just choose not to use it and get ammo via other means, it makes it so much objectively better (crafting is way superior to looting for ammo) that I find many builds but particularly heavy or commando ones just can’t afford to not have this card constantly equipped. Only if you’re the super trader type with a network could you afford not to depend on this I feel. Anyway I get not putting it in S tier but it’s definitely far more needed and useful than B tier. Same with What Rads imo. Even if you use power armor full health, as I do, I STILL find this perk so incredibly important for even more rad resist and not having to rely on any chems or radaway (constantly taking thirst and food down too) anymore to deal with radiation. And while it’s useless for bloody builds I think it’s still far too strong and useful for full health builds to leave in B tier. Other than those two I agree on every other placement. Well one more thing…while your S tier list certainly belongs at least in A, I think you just proved there IS NO S TIER in the game…because all the ones in your list are really A tier because they are situationally OP only. There’s not a SINGLE legendary perk that is so OP it’s almost mandatory for all of most builds in game, which is what S tier should be. M Follow through is only good for stealth builds no one else. Taking one for the team is only OP in teams but if you play solo or do both as I do you won’t find it near as useful or at all. And energy absorption I believe only works in power armor correct? If not, then yes that’s the ONLY perk literally I could see belonging in S tier, otherwise it’s just another powerful perk for specific play style or build, which is A tier. I don’t think there are any S tier perks.

a great video ! IMO [electric absorption] is not essential when holding vampire weapons with [ricochet] perk that is not limited to power armor and energy damage. then running with 4-5 [legendary special] ones and [taking one for the team] or [follow through] can maximize the battle performance.

Great guide!! I have just one question. Electric Absorbtion says it recharges your fusion core and heals you. Does it heal you if you are not wearing power armor?? Thanks for all the amazing vids.

Just have ammo factory on a mule, I'm not using Pay to Win aka Fallout first, so I have all junk on a mule and this one as well. Follow thougth and extra specials stats all the way !

Nice review. Saving so much time to have this good research report from Angry Turtle.

Ik this video is 11 months ago but ty for the info! I wonder, with so many useless to bad Legendary Perks why haven't Bethesda planned or haven't done at all an overhaul. Would be huge impact to player builds and more variety

Taking one for the team works when you're alone in a team, sadly it takes a while to apply debuff after getting hit and and everything usually is dead before except bosses, useless perk sadly with the exception of world bosses so ask the question do you want quality of life/better perks equal to 5 perk card points all the time or a perk that is only for world bosses, not S tier for me. Follow through is nice except anything strong like a world boss you wont get a sneak attack most likely against everyone else there and everything else in the wild will most likely already die just as fast without it. Get specials all the way, if you're a power armor build maybe reboot, and melee hack n slash, I just feel getting specials and stacking up as many perk cards in all specials, especially weight reduction perks, will increase your quality of life and give you extremely strong builds that outweigh the legendary cards. Each legendary card needs to be better then potentially what 5 perk card points can give you which majority of the time with the exception of maybe one card and rest special cards in my opinion.

My tier list was base on wen you may need them but as usual your spot on

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