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What are some good ways to get strong early other than training ?
- Health implants in Crystal Heights' Doctor's Hall (NPC Menu ---> Actions ---> Doctor's Hall to put them on NPCs)
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- Better weapon = more damage; check Imperial Arms in Emerald City
- Better armor = stay alive more; check Imperial Arms in Emerald City and Old Transit Station in the Palace District; bare minimum Duraplate is needed (and maybe stealth armor for one of your NPCs with the least HP)
- Better NPCs. There's always going to be a limit to what an NPC can do and sometimes some NPCs are just that much better for the job.
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for more information):- Malevolent: +5 damage, unconditional
- Brawler: +5 damage on melee only
- Warrior: +3 damage, unconditional
- Crackshot: 25% chance to deal an additional damage (this trait is unique to scripted NPCs only)
- Ammo Pack: the NPC has infinite ammo for non-legendary weapons (so this NPC will still deplete ammo of cyber cannons only)
- so long as this NPC has a salary of at least $100 (Ammo Pack NPCs have default salaries so you do not need to worry about it; certain NPCs ignore the salary rule because their salary starts lower like Bud or can start lower like Einar at Character Creation Soldier level 3 perk)
- or an allowance of at least $200 if you happened to enslave them which automatically reduces their salary to $0.
- If you are playing Grimdark difficulty, low prosperity disables Ammo Pack for everyone except a high affection Bud.
- Certain unique traits that belong to only one scripted NPC, check the wiki link above for more info: Shadowborn (Kate Veeron), Berserker (Aaron Kreuger), and Liberated (Clea Vallas though she is quest locked to Aria's second questline and you may not be able to access Clea anytime soon).