Forum:Your least favorite skill

Barter---Mended Flesh- 21:59, November 7, 2010 (UTC)

I actually like barter in New Vegas... there are a lot of issues in quests and conversation that can be solved with that skill. My least favorite, however, is Survival... even when I played through on hardcore mode I only found 2 instances where I actually found the skill useful and both were in dialogue. --Ninjipples

Barter and speech seem to be blooming into persuasion and Negociation. I hate Survivial. Agent c 01:25, November 8, 2010 (UTC)

Survival seems completly useless to me even after playing the whole game on hardcore--Kill-da-mutant 01:27, November 8, 2010 (UTC)

I hate Barter because getting rich is easy as pie without. Funny enough I quite like Survival as it helps you create lots of different foods and improves the health you get from it. If anything the lesser useful one is Medicine for Hardcore playthroughs. Having several items heal me more by survival can be a nice addition instead of just boosting stimpacks. But then I'm not a big stimpack fan it's too much drug like, and I never use any Psycho/Med-X or the likes at all. Only once did I use a single Psycho and Med-X across 3 different characters. --PvtNiss 02:12, November 8, 2010 (UTC)

I found survival useful for condensing consumables, but my least favorite skill would either be unarmed or sneak. Just not my bag... 02:14, November 8, 2010 (UTC)

I like that Barter actually has more use in dialog in New Vegas, oftentimes the Barter option requires much less points than the Speech dialog option and it's not just for haggling prices. The skill I don't like is Survival, mainly because some perks I like to have (Entomologist, Animal Friend) require me to sacrifice points from other skills because they now have Survival as a requirement.

In both games so far I have not touched the sneak or explosives skills, although, on my current playthrough, Sneak is 19 due to high agility, but due to 2 perception, explosives of 5. Explosives suck.Liam Spencer 12:13, November 8, 2010 (UTC)

I don't know I'd probably say Melee Weapons would be my least favorite. Bdude5 12:20, November 8, 2010 (UTC)

Definetly Survival, well my first reason being its utter uselessness all the time when you have Medecine skill to stay alive (i dont play hardcore ) , and my second reason is the Fact that Survival is not a skill , it is something that you do using A VARIETY of skills , if they were gonna call it something , they shoulda called it Cooking or simply Brought Back the Outdoorsman skill ?-- ???

For me, it's Explosives. Worthless, in my opinion. Survival is at ~25 ish on level 30 for me, because it's not important as well but still adds more to the game than explosives. Also, survival is somewhat 'needed' in order to get the 10,000 FOD achievement/trophy--XWeaverx

Mine is both survival and explosives. Survival just seems dumb when you have stims to heal you. and explosives are sometimes fun, but I find Guns and Energy weps way better

Medicine, I have done 3 playthroughs now and I have yet to put a single point into it. Also I like survival when playing hardcore mode as it makes food a better healing option (and it makes my beer have more power :) ) --121.98.182.120 22:55, November 18, 2010 (UTC)

To me it seems survival was just a way to sneak in the oblivion potions, poisons, and berry-picking thing. I suppose it makes melee characters lives a bit easier. But to be honest, if I'm feeling the need to hack and slash, oblivion is my go to game. Rhomb 10:11, November 24, 2010 (UTC)

ive found medicine very helpful because of living anatomy, its nice to see an enemys dt/health and make changes on my strategy with that info, melee is my least favorite, mainly because there are multiple times where if i was trying to be a melee char id have been dead, long range seems to be the most effective way to take down enemys, as for explosives i actually don't bother putting points into it but ill play around with it, if i find some crappy rocket launcher ill usually just fire off until its dead for fun i dont really see how people can be high explosive users though, your only good at a distance but in many caves odds are you'll end up blowing yourself up. Toolazytomakeaaccount 05:04, November 26, 2010 (UTC)

Unarmed is my least favorite. I mean, you have 5 combat skills (Guns, Energy Weapons, Explosives, Melee, Unarmed). Even if you want to be a fighter, or just have the ability to defend yourself, you really only need 1 of these. Unarmed and Melee put you in the greatest danger (because of phyiscal proximity), and Unarmed has the fewest toys. In case you're curious, Survival is my 2nd least favority (you just don't need it, even on Hardcore, and being good at it requires you to forage for and carry around a ton of junk) and I guess Melee or Explosives would be my 3rd. Servius 15:00, November 27, 2010 (UTC)

Survival. It's an unnecessary skill plus you need all the requirements in the world to make a single Nuka-Cola Victory. The Unknown User 17:01, November 27, 2010 (UTC)

I don't like speech, but that became so useful in this game. I agree that unarmed kinda sucks, and survival I am quite disappointed with. I thought you would be able to like, do whatever one would to survive, like purifying water or meat, which would have been sweet but still not important. Overall, I'd have to say my least favorite skill is unarmed. i would only use that if I were bored. Sombar1 17:07, November 27, 2010 (UTC)