You can kill the legendary deathclaw in 2 shots (conservatively).Belladonnah said:Or a sneak attack headshot with the unique sniper rifle / SomethingAwful Gauss RifleKalezian said:who knew the anti-material rifle needed at least 6 strength with the perk? or that no matter how much you want to, you cant kill the Legendary Deathclaw.![]()
Base damage with hand load rounds, 100 guns skill and a dose of psycho is right around 200. Bloody mess raises that to right around 210. A critical hit with better criticals does another ~210 damage. Put that round through his head and you get the x2 headshot damage multiplier for a around 840 damage. He only has 850 HP.
If that isn't good enough, the unique guass rifle does around 270 damage in one shot with an overcharged MC mag and a dose of psycho. If you do all of the above, you easily deliver enough damage to kill the thing in one shot assuming you get a critical hit.
Of course, if you have less than 300 HP, you had better kill it quickly as it tends to deliver enough damage per swipe to instantly kill you otherwise.
And, if that seems unreasonable, simply lay a few mines to your front and put rounds through his head. A bottlecap mine or two at pathetic skill is more than sufficient to bring it down after you take a reasonable chunk out of the thing with your chosen weapon.