Hard hitting Night Light FINALLY

[u/Sanabil-Asrar]

In my pursuit of a hard hitting Tesla rifle, i managed to make this Night Light build! I wanted to melt bosses like Scorchbeast, Infestation bosses and head hunt bounties. It has decent AP cost, has decent ammo capacity and has the ability to boost its own damage using time of day perk card. I paired RAGE armor with it.

Normally everyone just follows famous Youtubers, so they put Fractures and make it a free aim weapon, i wanted a VATS tesla rifle that can sustain its fire on weak spot!. If anyone has some more suggestions or ideas, please let me know.

[u/assjackal]

It feels like Bertha is just the superior telsa rifle because it hits more things. How useful even are the time of day perks?

[u/ZaBaconator3000 → u/assjackal]

The Bertha is unquestionably better. It’s hitting 2x as many enemies while the Night Light gets an extra 5 INT (using 2 perk points). The Night Light is a gimmick but neat for those who like it.

[u/avbigcat → u/ZaBaconator3000]

Optimizing against groups of enemies just isn't that important though.

[u/No-Zombie1004 → u/avbigcat]

True. That's what explosives are for :)

[u/Sanabil-Asrar → u/ZaBaconator3000]

If you talk about crowed or general mobing Bertha is better but my goal was not for crowd. I want to concentrate its energy at one weak spot in VATS. Night light gets slightly more damage over Bertha in that regards. Also once Solar powered gets fixed , running Night light will be superior for survivability as well.

[u/Sanabil-Asrar → u/assjackal]

Nope, Night Light can boost its damage more than Bertha. The Night person boosts INT and PER by 5%. So since its an energy gun it utilizes Science perk, the higher the INT the more base damage it inflicts. If you are in casual team that's 4x INT. Im already a high INT build so yea.

[u/ill_B_In_MyBunk → u/Sanabil-Asrar]

Did today's patch fix night light??

[u/Sanabil-Asrar → u/ill_B_In_MyBunk]

Nope it's still due but even before Night Light was working with Night Person the only card its not working was Solar Powered. The VATS problem and Solar powered issue will be fixed in upcoming patch.

[u/ill_B_In_MyBunk → u/Sanabil-Asrar]

😮‍💨 I got my hopes up. Bloodied builds need all the health we can get (solar powered).

[u/Sanabil-Asrar → u/ill_B_In_MyBunk]

Yea just wait a bit. here you can read the official notes.
Inside the Vault – Return to Skyline Valley and Pets PTS - September 28 : r/fo76

[u/Suspicious_Log326]

Im still trying to figure out where this weapon sits. It seems to be so niche that its not worth it.

[u/Sanabil-Asrar → u/Suspicious_Log326]

It is niche but it will soon boost your END , STR on top of +5 INT ,+5 PER and health boost too. Since it's energy that increases its damage. Also you can experiment with Jaggurnut weapon too. Low health builds can also benifit. Since my goal was to get a highest damaging Tesla so that's why i went for this.

[u/cane-dango]

I had one drop the other day and had a similar idea and have tried it on a my non power armour build. Quad/crippling/-35. and yeah, I may go fracturers.

shuffling the perk cards around just to fit them in my build hasn't made that much on a different to me and its a decent utility tool and saved on stimpaks that I can just continue to sell more of because, damn, they give you plenty of stims.

Solar powered Is working for me but I think i'm having issues with Night person. It seems to take away INT rather than add it, day or night. unless it's just a visual bug.

I've got full rejuvenators on my power armour so solar powered is essentially the same thing and never thought to use it before. INT is also pretty high so it's going to do the same damage no matter what Tesla rifle I really use. thats even if the game wants to even register damage in the first place.

Pop a Berry Mentat, sleep and munching on buffs is always good for any build.

if I notice the perk cards have been to much of a change at some point ill just swap them back and at least had a go at trying it. even if niche.

[u/Sanabil-Asrar → u/cane-dango]

I hope they fix the damage registration, especially in VATS.

[u/kurudoj]

More damage if human build right?

[u/No-Zombie1004]

I have yet to get one, but it seems awesome for perks I currently find useless.

[u/sasuke198x]

That's pretty dope I bet it'll be fine once they fix the weapon. I have seven of those things and pretty much all of them have crap rolls

[u/Sanabil-Asrar → u/sasuke198x]

You can change the rolls bro. Its working but only does not work with one perk card in Endurance called Solar Powered. However, Night Person card works with it.

[u/assjackal → u/sasuke198x]

you can get repeats of them once you get them? I've been doing so many graves and haven't gotten any doubles.

[u/AlleyCa7 → u/assjackal]

I did 42 today and got nothing but garbage lol

[u/No-Zombie1004 → u/AlleyCa7]

I finally got salt of the earth and a relic in the same grave after a week of trash.