House or Yes Man), and a 95 in Veronica's i can make you care when the BoS members ambush you when exiting the bunker if you don't wanna fight them. The highest speech checks you'll ever need are either at the battle of hoover dam with 100 speech for the legionate and the general (if you side with Mr. If anything it's not really worth having animals friendly towards you and companion buffs when your health drops below half since you're making a gun build too.

barter and speech skills normally and treat charisma as a dump skill (you get very little bonuses sadly even with DLC perks). You need 6 to get the companion perks but if you aren't gonna get them you can lower it to as low as 3 and bump it up to 10 with party time mentats, a business suit, a charisma implant, and other clothing or items. For perk skills it more affects melee and carrying weight TBH though the most perk skills are unlocked form perk stat pts rather than SPECIAL lvls.Ĭan be bypassed with food, armors, and drugs (at most i think you need is 10 but with the lowered weight from weapon handling at lvl 16, you only need at most 8 for a minigun or lvl 10 strength items). Also luck for overall better crit chances and inc in perk skills. Guns and speech are affected more by charisma (for speech and barter skills as well as companion buffs) and agility (for VAT points).

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