Don't bother. I think my Bloodied Explosive .50cal was far more effective even though it read out at only ~300 damage per shot when fully min/maxed for heavy. Got to this post only now, sorry if I’m late. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews Fallout 76 > General Discussions > Topic Details ™IⒶamᴴᴰkiller℡ Jun 5 @ 12:46am Shotguns secret op? Luckily, some weapons are based on your current health points. Use the search to group cards by keywords like "heavy gun". ☢️ Find all Fallout 76 Perk Cards in this Perk Card Database and in our Fallout 76 Perk Planner. For reference, I have a Bloodied/+50% Limb DMG/Fast Movement Gauss Shotgun which the Pipboy reads out as ~2300 damage per shot when fully min/maxed. I'm gonna miss that guy :( Hah I know what you mean. Everything else, game on. It oneshots almost everything, but only in VATS. My shotguns do this without the armor. Combat Medic is the best Support character for any end-game team in Fallout 76. MJP Junkie Magic Shotgunner. Scattershot. Your shotguns now do +20% damage. Reset. My friend has a BE shotty i have a B/Limb and mine does exponentially more damage in vats and he has all perks on i have 1. For me gauss shotguns have been...tricky. 2; The Ultimate Noob Heavy (Build in progress) (1 to 10) by kcxstrange, 1 month, 2 weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJnUwaEzYbY&t=227s. I have a shotgun build and I’m using a vanguard shotgun build since launch, when I got a 2* I50%limb damage combat shotgun I can confirm this does ton of damage way more than any other shotgun I have even to a not full health target. pts left: 0. No mutations at the time either. They register huge damage numbers - but they always result in the health bar bounce-back issue. So grab some ammo and put your bloodlust on as we go through 10 must have weapons in Fallout 76! I have yet to experience any sort of "magic" when using vats with this weapon and armor equipped. Gauss minigun which was there in fallout 76 also got added in Wastelanders DLC. Your shotguns now do +20% damage. The fancy pump action shotgun is an ornate weapon made with a darker wood and painted black with gold trim. All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews Fallout 76 > General Discussions > Topic Details ~ Molly ~ Sep 27 @ 7:36am Shotgun breaking too fast? Shotgun build. I thought this might have been the case, however I've tried removing the armor and using a different shotgun with 33 to no avail. Find out everything that was fixed and changed in the latest update, including Legendary weapon nerfs here. 3. In which case can you make sure you're completely naked, no power armor either and if it still does it I'd be very surprised, but there's still things like mutations to look at I suppose. I'm really disappointed with this weapon as an endgame item. The pellet damage is raised to the card damage. I can use literally any shotgun style weapon naked except for any of the two the leg pieces with the block mod and it'll always cause it to happen and go away as soon as i uneqip them. Explosives. This Perk has 3 ranks with increasing cost in Strength. ITEM PREFIX None. S. 12. Automatic Weapons. Most civil, police, and military shotguns are 12 gauge weapons. shotgun build. I just stick to my combat or pump action and they one to two shot everything. While using a Gauss Shotgun build in Fallout 76, there’s a couple of factors to take into consideration, one of which are the specific Legendary effects placed on your Gauss Shotgun. Shotguns in Fallout 76 are weapons medium to close range weapons that increases damage the closer the range. Fallout 76 Character Build Planner . Fallout 76. When you’re outnumbered and need some heavy firepower unleashed, you cannot go wrong with the trusty Combat Shotgun. And if not, which armor piece caused it? The receiver is engraved with a golden floral pattern and the forearm is painted with four white diamonds. If you have one of these, keep it! Fallout 76 Character Build Planner . In order to maintain maximum damage at all times, especially in areas with many enemies pouring in, this Shotgun Build will help you use an underdog weapon to it’s full potential. This build is not suited for playing solo and was never intended to be played in such a way. I had to say something. I'm purely using vats with perks like Gun Fu, have two effects which should supposedly trigger it, and have tried charging/not charging the shotgun to absolutely no avail. Master Shotgunner. Anways, would you mind telling me the mods on your shotguns that cause the bug? 3. 6 Is this worth buying at all?? My favorite BTW is the Instigating Limb Damage, it is the most powerful that I personally own. Check your shotty's, boys. Fo76 Builds Fallout 76 Build Directory; MJP Junkie Magic Shotgunner; EN. Share your build. Fallout 76. Eh. Pumping the weapon cycles the action, ejecting the shell and loading another one into the chamber. HOWEVER, if you use VATS the full damage will go through, resulting in you instakilling pretty much everything if you use concentrated fire for weakspot hits and/or VATS crits. Eh. How bad is this going to screw up my crit based shotgun build. Shotguns. I've got one and it's great because I can tag things in events with it by aiming down the sights and if I need to kill things I just do a vats shot. Author: MickJayPlays: Votes: +1 (100% positiv) Created: December 31, 2019 at 3:37 pm: Updated: August 8, 2020 at 7:38 pm: Planner: ⚙ Open in Build Planner: 8AUG2020 – … On a side note, this setup sucks against any high armor enemy. Fallout 76 has basically become a mobile game. We'd need to know the legendary perks on the shotgun. Normal shotguns (pump and combat) can still do one shot in super close range though, seems unchanged. MAJOR None. I wondered for the longest time why my shotgun was mutilating enemies and I had NO shotgun talents equipped. Share your build. I'll sum it up from my own experience: If you have a Junkies prefix OR any one of these primary effects: You have a magic gun that will oneshot nearly everything in VATS. The damage boost you see is the game calculating all 7 pellets as 1 shot and with how dr/er works , 1 shot doing 700 damage will do a lot more than 7 pellets doin 100 damage. Try using VATS and the damage should stick if it's the same bug, at least if it's enough to kill. Shotgunner is a Perk Card in Fallout 76. More discussions. S. 12. S. 15. Without damage perks it takes me 2 shots to kill max level ghouls. Recently while playing i came across someone selling a bloody combat shotgun for 1k caps so i said why not im almost max caps. 3. A staple of law enforcement agencies and home defenders across the United States, the pump-action shotgun is a simple, reliable weapon. SPECIALs and Perks Legendary Gear Mutations Addictions Nuclear Winter Stats Leveling. I do get random numbers on occasion. Your shotguns now do +20% damage. Skeet Shooter doesn't affect VATs accuracy and VATs is required for the "magic" effect to work. dang it, I was so sure I found the reason, tomorrow I'll try to get my hands on some more legendary armor :D. Would you mind taking off your armor and checking if it still happens? by Sub0ero, 2 weeks, 4 days ago. Energy Weapons. Master Shotgunner. IMO it should be like the videos showing it absolutely shredding the SBQ. I have a vampires 33 combat shotgun and it one hit kills in vats everything you stated. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Ghouls, mutants, just about everything that isn't a boss or a scorch beast. Angry Turtle did a video on this. 3. If what little damage I was doing last night was the result of "magic", I don't want to think about how bad this weapon would be as originally intended. Your shotguns now do +20% damage. Exotic Weapons. Experienced traders can buy cheaper and sell higher. 3. I have not personally verified this because I don't own a qualifying piece of armor. Yea vats is silly, i have a quad harpoon gun that does murder in vats but tickles out of vats even at pointblank range where all hits are registering. Small caveat is the only two armor pieces I've confirmed this bug with, since those are the only ones I have with reduced damage while blocking, funny enough are both 3* left legs, but they only share the reduced damage while blocking effect, so I'm assuming that's the reason. The Fallout community is honestly amazing and this week over 300 of us are getting together to help children battling for their lives as a first community wide fundraiser **MOD APPROVED** Earlier this year a well known Fallout 76 roleplayer "Doc" C.J. When you hit an enemy, do you get various random numbers for each pellet damage or the same numbers? I have a magic pump action shotgun and you will see the effect immediately, I oneshot everything except scorchbeasts/bosses with it when I have damage perks on. Grenades. pts left: 0. Very useful in confined spaces and melee enemies for firearms/gun character build. Use the search to group cards by keywords like "heavy gun". I noticed them last night on the SBQ, yet still did nowhere near the damage I've seen in the videos using the exact same gun/armor. If you have even one piece of armor with +15 less damage while blocking, all shotguns do this according to turtle. Ghouls, mutants, just about everything that isn't a boss or a scorch beast. A 12 gauge shotgun has a bore size of 18.53mm (.729", or 72 caliber). When it comes to using a Shotgun Build in Fallout 76, the key thing to remember is HOW POWERFUL yet HOW FAST you can burn through using V.A.T.S.. 2 Magic Fix Confirmed, First Earl Failure. pts left: 0. Try equipping Skeet Shooter under perception as I definitely notice a difference with it on even with a full set of unyielding. Reset. But in VATS they still apply their original damage outputs. In my case I see multiple hits each doing ~200 damage with a non-legendary lvl 50 hardened combat shotgun, and all that damage does go through in VATS. Pipe Weapons. Once you become an ally of Raiders, go speak with the robot Mortimer and you can buy the plans and all its mods from him. Shotguns now weigh 90% less and you reload them 30% faster. I think it's got to do with nerf shotguns got waaaaaay back when they nerfed two shot explosives too. Different numbers signal that magic is working, consistent numbers it's not. I can easily get 3-5k damage with sneak headshots and I only have about half of the shotgunner perks. Reset. Yeah I don't have reduced block damage on any armor, I still oneshot max level stuff with a 240 damage, no AA shotgun. Shotgun build. Shotgunner. Melee Weapons. Although bore sizes range incrementally from 1.5 up to 32 (with an aberrant 67.5 topping the scale), 10, 12, and 20 gauge (aside from the .410 shotgun that measures in caliber) are the most common bore sizes, with 12 gauge leading the group in popularity. Your shotguns now do +20% damage. The gauss shotgun is a powerful firearm with superior damage to other weapons of its class. Fallout 76 Wastelanders Best Weapons Gauss Minigun. Am I doing something wrong here? Expert Shotgunner. I believe it cannot be magic due to the explosive effect. Your shotguns now do +20% damage. It was a full health type of build. Learn more. Zero shotgun damage perks, too. Armor has everything to do with it for me, but apparently theres more to it. I made a post earlier where I was basically wondering why my crappy shotgun oneshots nearly everything. I really don't want to reroll yet another character or grind 100 lvls to fix yet another character. ☢️ Find all Fallout 76 Perk Cards in this Perk Card Database and in our Fallout 76 Perk Planner. Non-Automatic Weapons. Legendary Weapons . Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve read that if you have a legendary effect that’ll make the shotgun “magic” but also have a piece of armor with the specific legendary effect that affects it as well, it’ll cancel out, causing the shotgun to be normal. Share your build. Perhaps this is the true endgame raid, fighting the updates. Don't have the blocking armor piece. The fancy pump action shotgun has an increased ammo capacity and reload speed compared to the standard pump action shotgun. That's a theroy I've had for a while too, until I noticed it immediately stopped happening when I uneqipped my armor, and happened again when I equipped only my single left leg with the block effect, 100% reliable with any of the two left legs with the block mod I have, but it seems there's more ways to trigger it than just this one, This isn’t right at all . 3. Shotgunner. Recommended approach to using this tool How to measure weight grade of your armor. There will be plenty of times when you wish you brought a friend or an extra Stimpak to take out that legendary enemy. With the addition of Wastelanders to Fallout 76, a bunch of new (and incredibly strong) weaponry has been added to the game, including the insanely powerful Gauss Minigun. A Fallout 76 Build by MickJayPlays. Didn't even know it was broken til later. Builds; Guides; Build Planner; Perk Matrix; Perk Cards ; Create; Latest Replies. 3. Lvl 95 deathclaws explode into a gory mess as do lvl 68 super mutants. Edit: If you stumble upon this, make sure to read the comments, there seems to be more ways to trigger it than mine. Scattershot. Fallout 76 Build General information. Or do all shotguns do it for you? Ghouls and Mutants still take 2+ shots to kill and this gun is nearly useless in a fight against the SBQ, even if I'm right up in its face VATs criting the head. I have a vampires 33 combat shotgun and it one hit kills in vats everything you stated. Shotguns now weigh 90% less … < >-< >-Fallout 76 > General Discussions > Topic Details. Oct 11 @ 10:27pm Next update and shotguns I hear they are fixing the "Magic" shotgun issue. ☢️ Are you looking for a Fallout 76 community with a focus on tools, character builds and guides? Could you list all the legendary effects of your gun? Armor has nothing to do with it. Master Shotgunner. Your shotguns now do +20% damage. My magic quad bashing pump shotgun 1 shots just about everything. Complete the side quest "One Violent Night," and you'll receive the Nailer. Will let you know... New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, Welcome to the Fallout Network subreddit for Fallout 76, Press J to jump to the feed. The ruggedness and simplicity of the mechanism, easy layout, and good firepower made it very popular across the United States. Came back, like I do for every expansion (because this game has potential to be really great), to see if FO76's design team had gotten their heads out of their asses yet. 3. You can get this gun by completing the main storyline and siding with the Raiders. MINOR None. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. This weapon, capable of dealing obscene amounts of explosive damage to enemies, is probably the most powerful gun in the game IF you roll a good legendary version of it. To get this weapon, you need to visit ash … Fallout 76 > General Discussions > Topic Details. 3. Shotguns … Conversely, if you take off all your shotgun perks and can still one-shot mobs with a vats headshot then you probably have a magic shotgun. When crafted, Gauss shotguns use legendary modules, becoming legendary weapons with randomly determined effects. I don't think that's true. I can add a little more info also. edit: I also rolled Vampires, +50 Limb, +250 DR reload would that be better or is the VATS better? Expert Shotgunner . And also make sure to unequip all armor and confirm that it still happens with just the gun. Pretty much the same with my Two-Shot double barrel. It is an endgame item; the result of a long and hard grind. Today I crafted a ss leg I think this have 15% reduce damage while blocking, later I will test if also the other shotgun I have will do the same damage with that leg equipped. I also have a left leg SS piece with -15% DMG while Blocking which should (according to everything I've read here) trigger the crazy damage along with the limb damage weapon effect. Fallout 76 Character Build Planner . Serverus88. If you are using a Bloodied Gauss Shotgun, you’ll want to focus on using 3 Unyielding Pieces of armor with 2 Bolstering pieces to help keep up your survivability. Shotguns got their damage jury-rigged down but still show it rubber bandong. Fallout 76 is not interacting at all with Riva Tuner, doesn't detect the .exe file when pressing ctrl+Add What changed in the patch? This is rank 3: Heavy Guns. After doing some testing I'm pretty confident I figured it out, basically if you have "reduces damage while blocking by 15%" on your armor, shotguns will bug out and instead do their entire tooltip damage on every pellet instead of spreading the tooltip damage among all pellets (at least I think that's how it works, either way it's insane damage), this is a visual bug only and will correct itself (most of the time) after showing you the wrong damage numbers and showing the wrong damage on the enemy healthbar on each shot. 3. Discussions Rules and Guidelines. 3. That's the theory anyway. If you haven't tried stealth suppressed shotgun VATS, you might want to give it a go. Question, would a Stalker’s Gauss Shotgun (100% when not in combat, +33% VATS, & 25% less VATS cost) trigger this effect bc of the 33%?? Ive had my anti armor magic shotgun shortly after starting the game with Wastelanders. Needs to be in VATS though, cause without VATS I might as well be throwing rocks. Like the gauss rifle, the Gauss shotgun can be charged to fire more powerful rounds. There is also a second factor. I have a B33 Gauss shotgun and it one-hits everything, including behemoths and Mirelurk Queens... Not sure of the difference, Angry turtle said in his magic weapon video that ,the magic effect doesnt work well with energy weapons, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJnUwaEzYbY&t=227s, Welcome to the Fallout Network subreddit for Fallout 76, Press J to jump to the feed. No mutations at the time either. Via: Reddit. With plenty of enemies to farm this weapon from, the high base damage, and high ammunition capacity (starting at eight), you … Try taking off your armor and see if it still happens, then check which armor piece/pieces was the reason and report back if you don't mind. To use this Perk Card your character has to be at least level 10. Final Word. That's why it's magic to me. "Magic" aside, I'm really disappointed in the Gauss Shotgun as an endgame weapon. In Fallout 76, gamers will get into some unsavory situations. Combat Shotgun. Scattershot. Furious does not seem to work, even with proper primary effects. It doesn't happen with a different 3* left leg I have which doesn't have reduced damage while blocking. Fallout 76 Legendary Item Value Estimator. I know this is old but just skimming through, limb damage definitley makes a bloody shotgun magic i can confirm this. That seems to break whatever is causing the 'magic'. That's why it's magic to me. I have a shotgun build and I’m using a vanguard shotgun build since launch, when I got a 2* I50%limb damage combat shotgun I can confirm this does ton of damage way more than any other shotgun I have even to a not full health target. "Gauge" is used to describe the bore size of a shot-firing weapon. I've seen many posts around here hyping magic shotguns yet I am completely unable to find any sort of "magic" in mine? I run a shotgun build without blocking damage armor and get the VATS discrepancy. Martin was seriously hurt in a house fire getting his family to safety in real life. Furious still isn't working. SPECIALs and Perks Legendary Gear Mutations Addictions Nuclear Winter Stats Leveling. Explosive doesn’t break magic, it can actually create it due to the fact that explosive effect is counted as another projectile. Fallout 76 Patch 5 update is live. Shotguns now weigh 90% less and you reload them 30% faster. Date Posted: Oct 13 @ 10:29pm. Some shotguns with specific prefixes and major suffixes exhibit this behavior without any special armor pieces equipped. EN English DE Deutsch FR Français RU Pусский +1. Expert Shotgunner . 10. Then you should check out FalloutBuilds.com! 3. Prior to patch 20 I could one shot most creatures with my magic gauss, after patch 20 it takes 2+ shots so I believe gauss shotty was nerfed or messes up unintentionally. 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