
The Comprehension perk will allow you to add 20, and anything putting your skill above 50 will greatly increase your accuracy and effectiveness with everything that goes BOOM.Īnother very deadly creature (new to New Vegas) is the Cazador. However, if your Explosives is low (which is usually the case with my characters), now would be the perfect time to use a skill magazine (or two). Frag grenades and missiles will make easy clean-up. That could still spell your doom when things get harry, so you should still do your own fighting from a perch when it comes to Deathclaws (as it will only take a few moments for them to slash you to bits while your companions are incapacitated).ģ) Blow them up! Characters with a high Explosives skill shouldn’t have too much trouble. Unless you’re in Hardcore mode, your companions never die but merely get knocked-out during a fight.


ED-E provides my ranged cover fire (hardly ever missing with the upgraded laser), while Lily goes in as my tank, smashing shit with extreme prejudice using the Super-Sledge, Oh, Baby! (AND she also happens to add +10% damage to crits I score while sneaking). If ever you need companions in a Fallout skirmish, it will be against a pack of Deathclaws. I never travel anywhere now without ED-E and Lily, and sometimes I even call on an NCR trooper to better my odds in a battle. Depending on your perks, plasma rifles, sniper rifles, and any kind of explosive always work best against them.Ģ) Use your companions. Problem is, only the most powerful weapons in the game can actually kill a Deathclaw in one shot, so you better be ready for a counterattack. But if you engage them from an unreachable perch, you can turn an otherwise very dangerous situation into a shooting gallery. Scoring criticals against these beasts is the best way to take them down without draining your ammo supplies, and the easiest way to do that is to catch them off-guard. But if you have to rock n’ roll, here a few pointers that I’ve learned the hard way:ġ) Sneak-attack from above. So if you’re not packing the firepower (and the XP to use it), your best bet is to avoid them altogether. Only a couple other creatures can boast having more hit points, and Deathclaws hang about in groups to make things even better. good luck with that.Perhaps no other abominations in the game can be as difficult and as maddening as Deathclaws.
