Top 10 Best Legendary Weapons To Get Early in Fallout 4 

What’s your favorite weapon in fo4?

There is an Enclave Checkpoint now next to Dunwich Borer after the new update. They actually fire FIRE NAPALM if they spotted you and that Napalm shooter can shoot so far that you can still get hit when you are almost at the bottom of the pit.

Don't forget to exit your power armor when diving in to get Kremvh's tooth or you be leaving it at the bottom to come back up.

Think what i like best about kremvh's tooth is that the legendary effect is a modification for the machete (sacrificial blade), so you can take it off, and then put it on another legendary machete. ta-da! a legendary machete with 2 legendary prefixes. makes for some VERY wicked combos!

For the Big Boy: once you complete the “Cappy in a Haystack” quest in the Nuka world DLC, you will have access to the Nuka Nuke launcher. You can turn it into a standard Fatman at a weapons workbench and apply the Quantum mod onto the big boy, making it a two shot Nuka Nuke launcher!

For legendary farming, there's a place in Concord Sewers where a Legendary Radroach frequently spawns. If you're very low level, there aren't many types of weapons it can drop, so the odds of getting a Pipe Pistol/Rifle with a legendary affix is quite decent. Using the technique you described, you can farm this legendary radroach for one with Kneecapper, Explosive, or Bleeding depending on your preference. You can do this before you even talk to Preston and face off against the Deathclaw, giving you a good weapon to use against it.

For early game Legendary farming, I like to use either the Super-Duper Mart, or Plumber's Cache. Plumber's Cache opens into a warehouse with 2 Radroaches, with a pretty decent chance of being legendary. Less than a minute reload at a time. Super-Duper Mart is insane, though, because if you enter through the shipping bay, the Feral Ghoul near the Fusion Core and the Feral Ghoul who comes in through the window of the breakroom both seem to have an increased chance of being legendary. It's not uncommon to have both of them be legendary, which doubles your chance to get the specific item you want. It's where I farmed for the NE Double-Barrel, myself.

My favorite legendary gun I ever got was a 10 mil pistol that happened to drop in the wild that had explosive rounds, I turned that bad boy into a machine pistol and it shreds

Never Ending is great on a shotgun but people sleep on explosive. Even without perks a shotgun shell releases 8 pellets. Each one of those pellets becomes explosive. So if your gun has a 40 base damage, it now does 55 damage per pellet, which with lroper perks can easiky get up to 2000 if you hit the enemy with every pellet.

There's a really good early farm spot down the road a block or so to the left of the Museum of Freedom, behind the blue capsule and bench area. 3 radroaches to the left down the stairs when you walk in, and great for farming something like a 10mm or double-barrel in the level 1-10 range. Legendary drop table depends on player level, and there are 38(?) possible legendary effects for ballistic weapons. GLHF

Kiloton Radium Rifle which can also be gotten early with a bit of running (Far Harbor DLC) and then just sleep 48 hours to get mods from other weapons he sells. It uses the same ammo as the overseers guardian w/o the accuracy loss and with the right perks you can buff all 3 dmg types from the rifle.

I got a legendary exploding double barrel shotgun from a roach near Concord the first time I played through. I did grind a little bit for it, but the game was so much fun afterwards..

The thumbnail for this video made me realize, for the first time ever in a decade of playing, we cant akimbo and I suddenly would really like to.. dual weild would be so fun, even just pistols and melee but omg

One cool fact about the kremvhs tooth is that you can take the blade which does the poison damage and put it onto any other legendary machete to stack the legendary effects. I put it onto an irradiated machete so it did bleeding, poison and radiation damage. Not sure if anyone else has done something similar

You were right about the skeleton next to The Gainer being bloodied in the past. After watching this video, i looked up old videos on how to find it, and all the ones that are from around the time the game originally came out show that it was in fact covered in blood.

I got an Explosive .44 Revolver. Absolutely love that damn thing. Gave it the Nuka-World Bladed Bull Barrel, and it’s so bad ass. I call it Punisher. Another favorite is a Freezing Shishkabab.

If you are playing a melee vats heavy build the Rockville Slugger is fantastic. Paired with Grognak’s outfit and the solar powered perk it’s almost too good. You get it from the baseball guy at Diamond City

Actually the 0451 code is a reference to looking glass studios and their repeated usage of the code 0451 in all of their first door puzzles In their games

Great video. Big Jim and vendor legendary items are the only examples I can think of that exist at level one. There are also reward legendary items like Righteousness Authority that are available early, but for the majority of legendary items, you must be at level six or higher. You are correct that combat shotguns aren’t available early. Unpatched games had them appear as early as level fourteen by dogs and molerats (“The Cave” where the alien is later found was a common place), but it was assigned to tougher enemies at higher levels after the patches started nurfing everything. Some farming areas can cap out power armor spawn sites in the area. An example is the National Guard training yard. Going there at level six does generate low level ghouls and legendary items, but the full power armor suit gets locked to T-45 instead of its potential T-51 at level 14, T-60 at level 21, and X-01 at level 28. Since there are few X-01 capable sites, I avoid those area until the sites have capped out. It’s why players wonder why they only find T-45 armor everywhere. I hunt legendaries and have never completed fallout 4. So, I have found and tried most of the sites that can be spammed with save-reloads for specific legendary items. It’s not just dungeons, it can be done in the wastelands also, but requires specific timing and locations. Anywhere you change from one load cell to another has the possibility of loot-locking a legendary item., including crossing invisible map boarders. You can detect these borders in save files as it will have name components like “The Fens”, “Back Bay”, “South Boston”, etc. An example would be to use a triggered event to loot-lock a random legendary. Triggered events are when enemies suddenly appear in an area you are walking through. A spot on the road acts like a tripwire to generate the encounter. In some instances it is an abandoned campsite that is triggered by opening a container. Those I avoid triggering either a Raider ambush or Ghoul ambush until level twenty-one when higher level enemies can appear with miniguns, missile launchers, etc.

Very nice video! Loved the no commentary killing sequence. Really satisf

There is a little like pathway thing carved into the rock to the side of the Dunwich Borers, I think next to some big digging equipment. There are some radiation barrels and some other stuff down there, that's where the death claw came from. I went down and ran into the thing and was so surprised.

I died like 10 times trying to fight that boss in the irradiated zone for his tesla

i benched my spray and pray after getting my hands on a 10mm explosive pistol. it does more damage per hit but of course has less ammo capacity. the tesla cannon i don't like as much. seems pretty weak but it does fire very quickly

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I once had a staggering combat shotgun, from a random legendary raider, it could stun lock ANY enemy in the game. As long as I had the ammo for it. Only heavily armoured enemies it struggled with, as it just took so much more ammo for it. But it was really fun seeing big deathclaws reduced to effectively sitting ducks. XD

Bro I’ve been rocking that 10mm pistol since the start. And with the gunslinger perk it’s a beast. 10 rounds your putting down death claws

4:25 with the Captain Cosmos creation, the studio in Hub 360 spawns either 2 or three legendary enemies. I got an explosive 10mm, a never-ending double-barrel, and a kneecapper pipe gun in one run.

First legendary that dropped on my 2nd playthrough was a kneecapping pipe rifle. Modded to Auto it made every melee enemy in the game trivial, even deathclaws. I was still carrying it at lvl 75 due to low weight and the absurd effect.

As someone who loves the spray and pray, quick bursts to the legs are always good, then you could finish off whatever enemy with a different weapon if your low on 45 ammo

You really shouldn't be rolling a combat shotgun for never-ending. Explosive combat shotgun is probably the strongest weapon in the game, followed by wounding. I think it is better overall than the exploding minigun and instigating gauss rifle, and can be farmed at the military base at level 20 ish

Explosive shotgun > never ending

7:23 so I did find this and I had a bleeding machete before finding this, bcuz you can take the blade off and put it on another machete I basically had a high bleeding and poisoning machete that basically with one hit took almost 2/3 or 3/4 of an enemies health. This is a highly underrated thing bcuz with multiple other effects for machetes you can make an ugly but effective melee weapon.

I still think the two shot .45 is one of the best execution weapons when paired with any of the three passify perks.

The best pistol in the game is the western revolver from nuka world. Fully perked out and decked parts makes it do 301 damage per shot. With my build that would mean around 700-800 crit damage

I had ni idea that the “Spray and Pray” benefits from the demolition perk! This is gonna be good! 😎

My FAVORITE weapon I got early on (around level 20) was a random exploding shotgun off of a legendary feral ghoul. That gun still carries me.

Oh the +25 bleed damage Combat rifle is nice too . They take a second to die after you hit them

I started a new play through for the update and my favorite finds so far are: Explosive combat shotgun Instigating Western Revolver Anti armor death claw gauntlet I blame 76 but I’ve been running unyielding armor with low health and it’s insane on fo4

The Overeer's Guardian is the best .38 calibre option. You get a ton of the ammo. This is pretty much the best weapon to use it with. For 10 mm the Wastelander's Friend is your best bet. Good list with the Caveat you might want to get a high Cha. Of course you can just wear the right clothes and take Grape Mentats.

Another gun the new update gave us is absolutely crazy: if you do the When Pigs Fly quest, you'll get the Piggy Bank launcher and all that, but if you make sure to keep the vendor alive, he'll reward you with a Penetrating Chinese Grenade Rifle. Thing will annihilate just about any enemy no matter your build. The only downside is the ammo can't be looted, you have to buy each round after you first get it.

Lorenzo's Artifact is also a good weapon, just like Kremvhs Tooth the mod can be removed and applied to a legendary version of the weapon. Back on ps4 i was graced with a never ending gamma gun and it was ridiculously fun to blast enemies into orbit, only downside was the ammo type.

10mm kneecapper pistol is OP and can be farmed with the legendary method mentioned. Easy ammo is why i use a 10mm or pipe pistol

The quest reward chest for far harbour DLC always contain a legendary weapon. One could argue if saved right before opening the chest… 😊

The most straight-up broken weapon I've found is -- a wounding pipe pistol. The wounding effect causes the target to bleed for 25 damage. This damage stacks. This damage is NOT mitigated by anything in the game (no resistances like energy, ballistics, etc.). I modded it to have the largest ammo capacity for the weapon - 48 - and this thing CHEWED through all enemies. Bonus is that the .38 ammo is cheap and plentiful. :D

I've seen the case made that the very easy to get at level 1 pipe rifle with knee-capper effect, automatic receiver, and drum magazine can take out any enemy in the game. I've never seen Swan taken out as easy as this weapon did.

For me a Deathclaw came running over and attacked the guy with the Tesla Canon. So I started chipping it down more while it killed the Tesla guy and then once he was dead I kited the Deathclaw around the wreck, looted the canon, then usef it finished off the Deathclaw.

Was able to get full set of the new Enclave power armour especially the Hellfire MK IV at only Lvl 9. You can get two of their sets if you do the *Missing Caravan* side quests (where you follow blood spatters on the side of the bridge where the Enclave patrols will ambush you)

I’m using a heavily modded Kiloton rifle, has a strong radio active AOE on it.

I found an explosive combat shotgun in far harbor on a random legendary ghoul in the hotel above the vault with robo-brains, it's probably my favorite weapon takes most enimies out with 1 shot all you have to do is hit near them most of the time (since the spread from the shotguns each hit is an explosion) but also have max rifle & explosive perks (since it counts as a rifle) only really legendries take a few shots Another one I like is my two-shot laser rifle (have beam splitter on it, so normally it's 5 beams, but with two shot it's 10 beams) also Railway rifles are just fun to use 1 for nailing parts to walls 2 for the reload sound

I randomly came across a combat shotgun with explosive rounds, the effect was applied to each pellet out of the shot so it hit for massive damage and would make easy work of everything, if you shot at a deathclaws feet it would instantly cripple it making them super easy to deal with. I haven't found it again since but you can use console commands to spawn in one and then apply the mod to it 😜

Currently my favourite is the saw blade launcher given us in the new free dlc. Before and for most playthroughs, its the 44 Magnum pimped out and with tge right perks its giving me around 150 damage each shot.

That crippled death law got me laughing too loud hahahahhaha

@astrosive How did you get that early pip-boy? Is it a mod? And if so is it on console?

Can I still do the legendary farm (4:18 in the vid) if I already killed everyone there an hour ago? I mean do they respawn or did I fuck this up?

There's also an enclave camp in the northwest area you can get a Tesla cannon, I have two, one I modified and a regular I gave to Nick, I have a wounding combat shotgun that's pretty op as well

Note: Pistols, fully perked, have significantly better range than sniper rifles. So if you're putting points in guns, keep that in mind. Turn the Old Faithful from 200 some meter range to 350 (id I recall) by adding a comfort grip and making it a pistol. Something everyone should keep in mind as they choose perks. If you use laser/plasma weapons, rifle perks are far less valuable than pistol

be careful with the Tesla Cannon, as sometimes you can get jumped by the Enclave. Their groups always have a guy in Hellfire armor, who are always a pain to take down.

I got the double shot 10mm pistol from a legandary boss early and i fucking love itn

Gotta say the deliverer is still one of my favorites.

Quad Launcher with +25% damage for the lols. Spray N Prey is fun. Anything will exploding bullets is fun.

Explosive combat shotgun. Granted you can cripple yourself if you are too close to the target.

I love the heavy incinerator

Forgot to mention krehmv’s tooth can be put on another legendary machete if you find one.

Blleding Combat Shotgun is my Fav of All Time

My favorite random drop was the two shot rail spike rifle Insane weapon

A tip killing suiciders is that use a rifle or sniper if you use shot gun and is close range you will die or get crippled

Wounding shotgun far better than never ending, each of the like 7 fragments of the shot deals 15 bleed, which nothing is immune to

Honestly, I had to put all the new quests till after I beat the game because how easy they were and how overpowered the gear that you got it was

What mod are you using to make the Pipboy look like that?

The reason why you want Never Ending on a Double-Barrel shotgun and not a combat shotgun is because of the hair trigger mod. Giving the Double-Barrel hair trigger allows the firing rate to be uncapped. This goes bonkers, especially when you use Jet.

I found a pipe pistol with the wounding effect from a legendary mob. Customized the pipe pistol with an automatic receiver and now this thing has an insane single target dps since the bleeding effect stacks. It uses .38 caliber, not the highest damaging bullet but plentyful. Love this weapon against high HP mobs.

Please help. I'm currently LV 31 and am trying to farm double barrels. And still didn't get it, instead got many combat shotgun Does level affect it?

Did you use glitches to get that much materials? I can't get them to work on pc..

Got from a random legendary raider but the Assassins 10mm completely shreds any human you come across.

If you're going to just buy a legendary weapon Justice is in the same price range as Old Faithful and shotgun shells are both easier to find and make than fusion cells. I have done whole runs almost entirely with Justice and a sniper rifle of some sort.

I didnt get the neverending shotgun but I got the wounding shotgun. All you have to do is hit the enemy one time and it bleeds out.

To be honest, the Gainer isn't very good for a pistol build. The ammo for it really appears late game. Also .357 ammo is expensive. Unlike some other damage adding effects, the flaming buff takes time to do damage. You can actually do the Railroad faction quests straight out of the vault without engaging the main story line. This will send you to the old Railroad HQ where you will pick up the Deliverer. The Deliverer does ok damage, takes the very available 10mm rounds, doesn't weight much, and has an insanely low VATS cost. If you are aiming for a VATS focused luck build, this is the weapon you want.

Spray and pray with a lot of 45 ammo that is the strongest weapon you can have when you begin the game I do like having like explosive weapon the lucky legendary pickup

Fort strong was a good legendary farm, I had two legendary super mutants spawn on me.

Best legendary drop i ever got was off a legendary radroach. Never ending explosive double barrel shotgun

"...where we gain the ability to firebend .44 rounds" made laugh so hard

6 crank instigating laser musket, dead eye combat rifle (if thats ever existed), never ending double barrel shotgun.

Ya know I played this for like 600 hours when it first came out. Playing the next gen update now and just got an infinite shotgun thanks to your farming method that I had no clue about. I had the gane on normal and got legendary ghoul every time. Took about 6 tries for the weapon to be a shotgun and then about 13 or 15 to be able to pick up the infinite one. Thanks so much.

What is that automatic gun you are using during the legendary farming segment????

I just got the overseers guardian and im ready to conquer the wasteland thanks for your last video

Thank you sir!

I just got the big boy for just under 7k and I just traded purified water for it and maybe a little ammo. I started with 1 charisma and yeah just grape rentals can take it up to 10 but now I have 3 charisma the clothes can give up to 6 so just the grape mentats take me to 14 charisma I have no perks into making vendors cheaper.

I just traded in my Big Boy Nuka Launcher for the Tesla Cannon. Love the Nuka Launcher but the ammo is scarce and it’s very inaccurate.

Honestly General Chao’s Revenge is better than Kremvh’s tooth imo. You can find it earlier with about the same damage and it’s much easier to get

What weapon were you rocking inside that quarry?

Spray-and-prey or the Splater Cannon. The only weapons you need.

Starting new play throughs with max charisma is broken 💜

Most overpowered early weapon now is the penetrating Chinese grenade launcher. X-02 Mark V destroyed in seconds at level 15 on very hard difficulty.

So wait, you can go back to places you previously cleared and get enemies to respawn or what? I just picked up the game about a week ago and havent played since 3.

What weapon are you using during legendary farming 04:18

what's the song name played in the background?

Tesla cannon isn't a legendary weapon yet its #1 🤔 should of been an honourable mention before your first choice on a context point of view

I was so mad the other day. I got a LUCKY WESTERN REVOLVER! The best and rarest pistol in the game hands down bar *none* for a critical gunslinger build. I was not, however, *playing* a critical gunslinger build. 😂

I got a mini nuke luncher at level 4 30 mins after I start ain’t even know tf it was

What’s better than the overseers guardian? I didn’t find anything in far harbor like that