Fallout 4 Perk Chart Complete Guide For the Best Perks

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One thing about Fallout 4 that you should always keep in mind is that the game offers you variation in every single aspect of gameplay. Whether you wish to play the game gunning everybody down or become a diplomatic legend, or even an evil conqueror; the choice is in your hands.

There’s a total of 7 attributes in Fallout 4 that affect your play style tremendously by offering you a plethora of perks within each attribute. They shift up your entire gameplay loop, by offering you so many different things to invest points into.

Now with the choice being so much, there’s bound to be some confusion if you’re new. Well, we decided to make it all easier for you! In this guide, we’ll be explaining what each perk does, along with a couple of classes that you can create by investing in certain perks!

All Attributes and Perks in Fallout 4

Here are all the 7 different attributes in Fallout 4, and some of the most important perks that are associated with them!

1. Strength

Strength is by far a highly instrumental attribute. Strength is the attribute that determines how hard your melee hits are and also how much stuff you can carry.

Heavy Gunner: This makes your heavy weapons deal more damage.
Strong Back: Gives you strength to carry more weight.
Steady Aim: Makes you have better accuracy during hip-firing.
Iron Fist: Gives you a +20% damage increase with punches.
Big Leagues: Gives you a +40% melee damage and a passive disarming ability.
Armorer: Gives you access to armor mods for added damage protection.
Pain Train: You can shove enemies to the ground while in your Power Armor by just running at them.

2. Perception

This attribute heavily affects accuracy with weapons, especially while using V.A.T.S. V.A.T.S lets you slow down time and shoot specific body parts off of enemies.

Rifleman: Makes your heavy weapons deal more damage.
Awareness: You can see enemies’ resistances and weaknesses when using V.A.T.S.
Demolition Expert: Makes your explosive weapons and throwables deal more damage.
Sniper: Gives you the ability to hold your breath for longer times while scoped in using snipers.
Concentrated Fire: The damage you deal using V.A.T.S will stack.
Penetrator: Gives you the ability to target enemies hiding behind cover while using V.A.T.S.

3. Endurance

Endurance is about your character’s physical abilities. Endurance determines how large your in-game health bar is, along with how many Action Points (AP) you drain while running or doing other actions.

Toughness: Gives you additional damage resistance by 10% to 50%.
Lead Belly: Protects you from radiation when you consume radiated consumable items you pick up from the wasteland.
Aqua Boy/Girl: Gives you the ability to take no damage while swimming in radioactive waters. You can also swim underwater to remain undetected from enemies.
Rad Resistant: Gives you additional damage resistance by 10% to 50% from any radiation source.
Solar Powered: Gives you +2 Endurance and +2 Strength attributes during the 6AM to 6PM time in-game.

4. Intelligence

Intelligence is a key attribute to invest in, considering it heavily helps you level up! It determines how many Experience Points you’re going to get with each quest and activity.

Gun Nut: This allows you to unlock advanced weapon mods for your arsenal.
Science: Allows you to unlock advanced weapon mods for all energy weapons.
Nuclear Physicist: Radiation weapons deal more damage.
Scrapper: Allows you to salvage rarer components by deconstructing items.
Medic: On the maximum level, Stimpaks will heal you completely and remove all radiation effects. However, starting out Stimpaks will heal you 40% more, and remove 40% radiation effects.

5. Charisma

Charisma determines your overall diplomatic abilities. Become better at bargaining, bartering and gain added dialogue options to go through the story without using much violence.

Cap Collector: Allows you more discounted deals at vendors.
Lady Killer: Humans suffer more damage during combat, they’re also easier to persuade in conversations.
Lone Wanderer: Grants you 30% less damage taken and 100 more carrying weight when travelling without a party.
Local Leader: Allows you to create workshops and supply lines amidst the settlements.
Wasteland Whisperer: Allows you to possibly pacify non-human enemies by pointing your gun at them.

6. Agility

Agility affects your drain for AP during V.A.T.S usage and during sneaking if you want a stealthy play style.

Gunslinger: Makes your semi-auto pistols deal 20% more damage.
Commando: Makes your automatic weapons deal 20% more damage.
Quick Hands: Allows you to reload all guns much quicker.
Sneak: Allows you to be harder to detect by 20 to 50%.
Action Boy/Girl: All action points (AP) will now regenerate 25% to 75% faster.

7. Luck

Luck on the other hand is a confusing attribute to understand, but it highly affects your chances of hitting any critical hits.

Scrounger: You can now find more ammo in containers!
Bloody Mess: Enemies will essentially explode into mush.
Idiot Savant: Receive random 3x XP multipliers for doing random actions such as reloading and talking to a vendor.
Better Criticals: Allows your critical hits to do 50% to 250% more damage.
Four Leaf Clover: Every hit using V.A.T.S might refill your critical hit gauge.
Ricochet: Enemy ranged attacks can ricochet off of you and hit to kill them.

5 Fallout 4 Classes That You Should Experiment With

Here are the 6 classes we curated that you should definitely experiment with within your campaign, use your perk points wisely and create some really fun classes with these perks!

1. Wasteland Ninja

The Wasteland Ninja class is for people who want to sneak around taking enemies out! If you’re not that big of a fan of going out guns blazing, nor do you like talking much, this is the perfect class for you! Invest mainly in Perception and Agility, along with Luck to become a ninja warrior!