The Best Weapons To Annihilate Hordes of Enemies in Fallout 76

Then keep reading because this article will explain some of the best weapons you can acquire to wreak havoc in the wasteland. If you are new to Fallout 76 or in the process of trying to reach level 50 then you will probably encounter higher level enemies or have a run in with some strong legendary enemies, that a normal gun wont pack enough of a punch to kill, without running out of ammo. It is difficult to decide what are truly the best weapons in Fallout 76 since legendary weapons vary with their stats and perks/mods.

The best way to acquire Legendary weapons are by doing specific events that give you legendary items after finishing them, like the Uranium Fever event. Then the second way would be going to farming locations, where you can repeatedly kill high numbers of ghouls or scorched to find legendary enemies with low health, that will drop a legendary item. Then there are unique weapons, you can acquire in different locations on the map or through quests or hidden locations. This article will explain what those weapons are and where to find them.

10. The Dragon

The Dragon Black Powder Rifle

This is a four-barreled black powder rifle

This rifle shoots four .50 balls each time you pull the trigger, leaving everything you aim it at with little to no remaining health for even trying to challenge its power.

Because this weapon can be obtained randomly through drops from enemies and legendary stats can change depending on the level and the drop.

• At Level 35 it has 270 damage
• 1 shot fire rate
• 419 range
• 71 accuracy
• Weight 7.8

Ways to obtain a Dragon rifle is at the Thunder Mountain Power Plant, or the boss at the end of Wendigo cave or occasionally from Grahm, the traveling super mutant merchant or other venders in Harper’s Ferry.

How To Get The Dragon

9. All Rise

The All Rise Super Sledge Hammer

The All Rise is a unique Melee super sledge hammer weapon

• This is a rocket boosted super sledge hammer that has a 90% reduced weight and adds 10 health
• This Super sledge hammer comes with a rocket mod making it a devastating tool of destruction up close to your enemies in both PvE and PvP.
• At level 40 it has a damage of 142 with a slow attack speed.
• Weight is 8

To get the All Rise you will need to travel to Watoga and listen to a radio transmission from the mayor leading you to their office where you will start the quest. The quest starts off with opening a terminal entry of being the mayor for a day. This will then take you up route 65 to a marked location to find the saboteur’s house. Inside the house you will need to investigate and collect five pieces of evidence to get to the next stage. After accomplishing this you will need to go to a Robco facility where the saboteur used to work to find a way to fix the robots trying to kill everything. Once you obtain the Holotape from his terminal you will head to the Watoga Municipal center. The mayors assistant MAIA will lead you to the roof to upload the Holotape. The system recognizes it as a virus and you will have to fight off waves of robots and a Scorchbeast for about 5 minutes defending the terminal to complete the quest and obtain your new weapon of destruction.

How To Get The All Rise

8. Daisycutter

The Daisycutter Fatman Launcher

A unique Fatman Launcher that has a 90% reduced weight and comes with the MIRV mod attached to it.

This has the ability to launch 6 mini nukes simultaneously, to clear a path of destruction through any group or horde of enemies you might encounter.

• Damage 150
• Fire Rate 2
• Range 117
• Accuracy 64
• Weight 6

To obtain this WMD, you will need to go to Ella Ames Bunker, here you will have to start a quest by accessing a terminal and selecting Radshield. This will take you to find Ella’s research taking you to her dead body. Afterwards you will have to find bonemeal and other items to create the radshield. Once finishing this you will have a consumable radshield and the Daisycutter.

How To Get The Daisycutter 

The Perfect Storm Submachine Gun

The Perfect Storm is a unique 10mm SMG that causes 24 points of urn damage for three seconds after each shot. It comes with a folded stock and large flash suppressor which makes it a very powerful weapon to leave your enemies as smoldering meat sac full of holes.

• At level 30 it does 23 damage
• 91 fire rate
• 120 range
• 63 accuracy
• Weight 6.3

This weapon can be found in Wavy Willard’s Water Park. Here you will have to complete a mission for a robot named Miss Annie, in the lazy river area. She will tell you to find the park security terminal to find clues to gain access to the office safe. After this you will have to play the holotape in the safe, that will lead you to the next clue in the underground Employees only area. Next you will follow a list of clues in different locations around the park, until it leads you to Clarksburg Post office. Here you will need a Hazmat suit to survive the radiation. Here you You will need to access a terminal to get Otis Pike’s address and head to that location to access another terminal, to get the next clue. This will then take you to Grafton Dam, where you need to find a way to enter. You will have to find 5 clues at the Grafton Steel yard and you will be pointed to the Woods estate located southwest of the lakes area. Here you will find a note in the desk on the upper floor, then return to Miss Annie to complete the quest and earn the Perfect Storm 10mm SMG.

How To Get The Perfect Storm

6. Pumpkin Grenade

The Pumpkin Grenade

This grenade deals both explosive damage and radiation damage to pack an extra punch when trying to blow up your enemies.

• It does 96 damage and 40 radiation damage
• Range 94
• Weight is 0.5

To acquire these, you will need to head to the pumpkin house and follow a short quest line by talking to a robot named Jack O’ Lantern. He will ask you to collect some pumpkins, that you can collect in the front and side yard of the Pumpkin house and neighbor’s houses. After completing this Jack will give you the schematic to craft the grenades and hand you 3 pumpkin grenades to use. This is a Daily repeatable quest.

How To Get Pumpkin Grenade

5. Bunker Buster

The Bunker Buster Missile Launcher

The Bunker Buster is a devastating missile launcher that does 20% more damage and comes with a Triple barrel and targeting computer, that allows you to lock on to your enemies and the rockets will home in to then to cause the most efficient damage.

• At level 20 it does 132 damage
• Fire rate of 8
• Range is 204
• Accuracy 68 with a lock on mod
• Weight is 43

To acquire this you will need to complete the Enclave questline after finding Blackwells hidden Bunker located under the abandoned waste dump.

How To Get The Bunker Buster

The Pyrolyzer Flamer

The Pyrolyzer is a unique flamer that reduces your targets damage output by 20% for 3 seconds making it very useful when you want to be up close and personal with your enemies while burning them to a crisp.

• At level 30 it does 27 flame damage
• Fire rate is 91
• Range is 288
• Accuracy is 53
• Weight is 26.63

To acquire this weaponweapon, you need to go to Harpers Ferry and follow the quest to investigate the area. This will lead you to a terminal where you will have to look for a missing party starting the questline called tracking unkownsunknowns. Completing this quest will grant you the Pyrolyzer. 

How To Get The Pyrolyzer

The Unique Vox Syringer

This is a unique syringer weapon that doesn’t do the greatest amount of damage but it is great for other purposes.

The Vox Syringer makes your targets speak to you like radstags squirrels and other creatures found around the wasteland will actually speak to you while you shoot them with this weapon.

• Damage is 7
• Fire rate is 3
• Range is 204
• Accuracy is 80
• Weight is 2.2

To acquire this interesting weapon, to add some entertainment to your experience you will have to go to Monongah and follow a misc quest, that pops up to search under a house, where you will find the Vox Syringer in the metal container. You then would have to access the terminal should you choose to complete the quest for it, but if you complete the quest you will lose the weapon. This is a daily questquest, so you can return to do it again if you want to complete the daily quests.

How To Get The Vox Syringer

The Unique Alien Blaster

The Scoped Alien Blaster is a returning secret item from Fallout 4, that the put into this game. The alien blaster is another weapon that isn’t meant to obliterate your enemies, but it a mysterious and rare item in the game.

• At level 20 damage is 15
• Fire rate is 100
• Range is 120
• Accuracy is 86
• Weight is 3

To acquire this weapon you will have to travel next to the butterfly symbol on the map where you will find an underwater safe holding the alien blaster inside. 

How To Get The Alien Blaster

Blade of Bastet Ceremonial Sword

The Voice of Set Handgun

Last but not least while adventuring around the Blade of Bastet and the voice of set is always a great questline to acquire both of these useful and fun weapons to use for different situations.

The Blade of Bastet is an ancient Chinese officer sword that gives increased penetration on your enemies. Then the Voice of Set is a revolver that does additional electric damage vs robots. The great benefit about these two weapons is you can craft the at any weapons workbench after completing the questline to acquire them.

• Blade of Bastet at level 35 does 73 damage
• Medium attack speed
• Weight of 3
• Voice of set at level 25 does 66 damage
• Fire rate is 6
• Range is 84
• Accuracy is 68
• Weight is 4.4

To acquire these you need to go through the order of mysteries questline that starts after you find a dead body of a young woman with a holotape and a worn veil start the questline taking you to the riverside manor. Here you will have to access the terminal and put on the worn veil to gain access to the secret entrance to the underground base. After this you will follow a series of recruitment and missions to eventually craft the blade of Bastet and voice of set weapons while working with this secret organization.

How To Get The Sword of Baster and Voice of Set

These weapons can all be outclassed by endgame grinding for legendary weapons that are obtained by chance through events or drops.

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