[Top 5] Fallout 76 Best Power Armor Builds That Wreck Hard!

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 1. Me, Myself and I

A Lone Wanderer build doesn't mean alone. You can fend for yourself just fine. Never feel like you're missing out  with this build. Not everyone's a team player. You can work this build into Junkies, Bloodied, or whatever tickles your fancy.

What the Lone Wanderer Build Excels In:

  • Receiving less damage from enemies
  • Self-sufficiency
  • You can get yourself up
  • Higher AP
  • Works well for working on questline

Build Details

Weapons:

  • Your Preference
  • Vampires
  • Instigating
  • Furious

Armor Mods:

  • Medics Pump
  • Legendary Armor Perks:
  • Auto-Stim
  • Lifesaving
  • Doctors
  • Sentinels

Mutations:

  • Electrically Charged
  • Scaly Skin
  • Grounded
  • Healing Factor

Perk Cards:

  • Lone Wanderer
  • Lifeiver
  • Born Survivor
  • Mysterious Savior
  • Mysterious Stranger
  • Tenderizer

Items:

  • Cranberry Relish
  • Med-X
  • Canned Meat Stew
  • Fury(for melee)

2. Flamer

Blaze anything in your way

It's up close and personal with a great damage radius. Melee players may like this due to the close-range attack aspects. And who doesn't love watching the world burn?

What Flamer Build Excels In:

  • Close Range
  • Radius Damage
  • Fire Damage
  • Rapid-fire rate
  • Can heal teammates with flames
  • Classified as a Heavy Gun

Build Details:

Weapons:

  • Flamer with napalmer tank mod, long barrel, vaporization nozzle
  • Quadruple ammo capacity
  • Vampires
  • Instigating

Armor Mods:

  • T-65 is preferable
  • Reactive Plates
  • Life-Saving 

Legendary Armor Perks:

  • Sentinels
  • Auto-Stim

Mutations:

  • Electrically Charged
  • Scaly Skin
  • Adrenal Reaction
  • Perk Cards:
  • Field Surgeon
  • Tenderizer
  • Suppressor
  • Gunsmith
  • Stabilizer
  • Adrenaline
  • Bear arms
  • All Heavy Gunners 

Items:

  • Cranberry Jam
  • Med-X
  • Scorchbeast Steak

3. Bloodied PVP

This should pave your path nicely 

It can be a dog-eat-dog world in Fallout at times. Occasionally you'll run into the big kid on the playground trying to establish dominance. You can prepare a build just for this encounter. If you are the big kid on the playground wanting to show off then this can bring the boom to the dynamite.

What the Bloodied PVP Build Excels In:

  • Damage to other players
  • Claiming Workshops
  • Fighting against jerk players
  • Being a jerk player
  • Damage resistance from players
  • Damage dealt to other players
  • Damage to human NPCs
  • Damage Resistance from human NPCs

Build Details

Weapons:

  • Bloodied Scatter Shot Gatling Plasma
  • Bloodied napalmer
  • Bloodied heavy gun of your choice
  • Assassins heavy gun of your choice

Armor Mods:

  • Targeting HUD
  • Overdrive Servos
  • Legendary Armor Perks:
  • Assassin's
  • Auto-Stim

Mutations:

  • Chameleon
  • Marsupial
  • Speed Demon 

Perk Cards:

  • Master Heavy Gunner
  • One Gun Army
  • Dodgy
  • All Heavy Gunner
  • Stabilized
  • Bloody Mess

Items:

  • Psycho
  • Psychotats
  • Alcohol

4. Tank Melee

In games, there are two types of gamers: ranged or blunt. This is for people who like to run up and hit crap. Which can be therapeutic. 

What Tank Melee Build Excels In:

  • Close encounters such as buildings
  • Never worrying about ammo
  • Doing high critical hits
  • High health is important for close range
  • High damage and radiation resistance
  • Can take a lot of damage

Build Details

Weapons:

  • A melee of your choice
  • Instigating
  • Furious
  • Suppressors
  • Vampires
  • Melee Speed

Armor Mods:

  • Medic Pump
  • Reactive Plates
  • Optimized Bracers

Legendary Armor Perks:

  • Auto-Stim
  • Regenerating

Mutations:

  • Healing Factor
  • Speed Demon
  • Grounded
  • Carnivore
  • Electrically Charged
  • Scaly Skin 

Perk Cards:

  • Lifegiver
  • Incisor
  • Field Surgeon
  • Tenderizer
  • Adrenaline

Items:

  • Glowing Meat Steak
  • Fury
  • Mutton Meat Pie
  • Mutton Chops
  • Yao Guai Ribs
  • Tick Blood Tequila Margarita 

5. Power Armor Medics Team Build

When going up against the Scorchbeast Queen or Earl Williams you need a solid team. If you do this build you can share the Team Medic card with your team everyone heals everyone. It's extremely efficient.

What Medics Team Build Excels In:

  • Team support
  • Preserving Stimpaks
  • Keeping the team up
  • Boosted S.P.E.C.I.A.L attributes for yourself
  • Healing teammates 
  • Helps in Daily Ops
  • Perfect for big events 

Build Details

  • Weapons:
  • Any medics weapons
  • Armor Mods:
  • Medic Pump
  • Emergency Protocols
  • Auto-Stim 

Legendary Armor Perks:

  • Auto-Stim
  • Medics
  • Life-Saving 

Mutations:

  • Empath
  • Healing Factor
  • Herd Mentality

Perk Cards:

  • Traveling Pharmacy
  • Team Medic
  • E.M.T
  • Field Surgeon
  • Friendly Fire
  • Quack Surgeon
  • First Aid
  •  Born Survivor

Items:

  • Alcohol
  • Hot Dog 
  • Pumpkin Pie 
  • Stimpak 

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