What are some ways to increase damage resistance?
I'm trying to play the game without relying on power armour and from my playthrough i'm finding that i'm limited in how high i can get my armour rating.
The armourer perk i believe only unlocks extra mods to further increase an armour's resistance rating but only up to a point. I've yet to come across a piece of armour that requires armourer rank 3 or 4.
Putting aside the armourer perk and the toughness perk that granks +10, 20, 30, etc extra damage resistance per rank, are there any other ways to increase damage resistance enough so that it's viable without power armour?
P.S I'm not saying that default armour sucks, but currently the highest armour rating i've managed to reach is 100 without power armour and 2 levels of the toughness perk. Compared that to the 1280 i get in power armour, the game is practically telling me, if i want to be able to use a melee build i should use power armour.
This leads me to believe the max relatively achievable damage resistance obtainable is around 150.
Best Answer
Ballistic Weave goes a very long way to offsetting this gap.
You can unlock the Ballistic Weave upgrade after joining the Railroad - once you've been given access to HQ, you'll meet P.A.M., a robot that offers randomly generated 'radiant' quests. One of these quests is named Jackpot, in which you'll be sent to clear out a random location to secure a D.I.A. Cache.
After completing the quest, the next time you speak to Tinker Tom, he'll tell you about Ballistic Weaves, and begin selling clothing with them implemented. Furthermore, if you have the Armorer Perk, you'll be able to craft and install them yourself.
With max-rank Armorer, you'll be able to make Ballistic Weave Mark V, which adds +110 to both ballistic and energy defense. You can apply this upgrade to a variety of clothing and hats, including, most notably, to a handful of 'light' clothing pieces that offer stat upgrades, but can be worn under regular armor, such as Army Fatigues, Military Fatigues, the Minuteman Outfit, and several others.
With Ballistic Weave Mark V in both a piece of light clothing, and a hat such as a Battered Fedora, you'll have +220 to both defenses before armor. Upgraded Combat Armor in all five slots should add another 60-75 defense at a minimum, and once you start finding heavy armor, that number can go well over 100, bringing you over 325 before considering any sort of perks or magazine buffs.
It's no T-45, but it should put you in pretty good shape for exploring the wasteland.
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What does it mean to have damage resistance?
Damage Resistance (DR) is a derived statistic in the SPECIAL character system. Any damage taken is reduced by a percentage based either completely or in part in this number, depending on the game. Damage Resistance can be increased by wearing armor, or by taking certain chems or perks, depending on the game.What is damage resistance in Fallout 76?
Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 DamageResist, used to determine resistance against ballistic or normal weapons - most conventional firearms, melee, and unarmed weapons, as well as creature attacks, EnergyResist, used against weapons dealing energy damage, RadiationResist, used against - what else? - radiation-based weapons.Do Damage resist mods stack in Destiny 2?
Stacking Damage Resistance However, unlike most damage buffs, you can stack damage resistance. Multiple sources of damage resistance stack together multiplicatively, not additively.How do you calculate resistance damage?
For example, each level of difference would subtract (or add) 2% from the resistance. Example 1: Player is level 25, with 35% fire damage resistance. A monster (lvl 25 as well) attacks the player for 1400 fire damage. This would result in final damage of (1400 - 0.35 * 1400) = 910.MAXIMUM Damage Reduction: How low does it go?
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