Armor perks
Equipped armor gains experience as you kill NPCs or use Upgrade Parts on it. Upon gaining enough experience it will unlock new perks and their color will change.
The first three perks on tier 3 gear are always predefined. Some tier 4 items have random perks on the first three levels however.
The fourth perk you are able to choose by dialog window once you unlock it. Exception to this is when you level your armor by Upgrade Parts then perk will be random.
The fifth perk is always random.
The sixth perk (also called "legendary") is picked from different table of perks instead of the regular one. Legendary perks work against NPCs only.
Every armor can be upgraded by Roger to gain one additional perk, or by Cotsford in Vegas at the Wattz factory.
List of armor perks
| Perk Name | Effect |
|---|---|
| Advanced Plate | +7 Normal DT +15% Normal Reduction (PvP only) |
| Anty-Termal System | +7% Plasma and Fire DR +50% Flat Damage Reduction against Fire and Plasma |
| Bonus Movement | 10% shorter running time |
| Cured | +9% Normal DR +75% Flat Damage Reduction against Normal |
| Defense Enhancement | +3% all DR |
| Defensive Belt | +2% Reduction |
| Explosive belt | Ability to use suicide |
| Fill The Gaps | -20% to attacker's crit chance |
| Firegeckon's Enhancement | +6 Fire and Explode DT +15% Fire and Explode Reduction (PvP only) |
| Bonus SPECIAL | 2 points to one of S.P.E.C.I.A.L. |
| Heavy | -20 to attacker's crit roll |
| Heavy Stonewall | Reduces attacker's ST by 15 in heavy handed roll |
| Integrated Gloves | +10 Melee Damage |
| Iron Skin | +30 HP, lower enemy's melee damage by 15% |
| Laser Reflector | +9% Laser DR +90% Flat Damage Reduction against Laser |
| Mirror System | +7 Laser DT +15% Laser Reduction (PvP only) |
| Penetration Protection | Lowers enemies DR penetration by 12%/19%/25%/30%/32%/37% Lowers enemies DT penetration by 15% |
| Regeneration | +15 Healing Rate, +0.12 AP regen/s |
| Shock Protection | +7% Explode and Electric DR +20% Flat Damage Reduction against Electro and Explode |
| Sneaky | +50 Sneak |
| Special Force Bonus | +2 ALL DT |
| Speed Mechanism | +1 Action Point and 2 Slow resistance |
| Strategic Improvement | +30 to AC, +20 to AC cap and +5 Sequence |
| Survivalist | +20 poison resistance and 10 poison resistance cap. |
| Terminator Mode | Ability to use Terminator Mode |
| Tesla Addition | +6 Plasma and Electric DT +15% Plasma and Electric Reduction (PvP only) |
| Tesla Attacker | Ability to use discharge |
| Utility | +50 CW, +30% rad resist, +30% poison resist, -1 reload AP cost |
List of legendary armor perks
| Perk Name | Effect |
|---|---|
| Advanced Defence | +20% Reduction against NPCs |
| Powered | Take 10 less damage from attacks of NPCs |
| Anty-Crit | -30 to NPCs crit chance, -60 to NPCs crit roll |
| Nightmare Defence | NPCs lose 2 AP when attacking you |
| Super Regen | restore 25% of damage taken from NPCs as HP after 5 seconds |
Rerolling
All perks on armor can be rerolled by Boyce in Junktown or Vault 8 (yes there are two of him). The cost is in local currency and matches the amount of experience it costs to get that level, except for the 4th perk which you can normally choose, and the one added by wattz cores or t4 parts. The rerolling is random, so expect to spend a bit before getting exactly what you want.
| Level | Experience |
|---|---|
| 1 | 15,000 |
| 2 | 100,000 |
| 3 | 200,000 |
| 4 | 50,000 |
| 5 | 6,000,000 |
| 6 | 50,000 |
