Forum:What skill to put my skill points in?

Once I get the level cap increase after I get Dead Money, I'm wondering where to put my skill points.

Currently, WITHOUT the Levels/Books from Dead Money, my skills are at:


 * Barter: 41
 * Energy: 41
 * Explosives: 41


 * Melee: 36
 * Unarmed: 36


 * Survival: 57

Everything else is at 100.

I don't really use any of the combat skills, maybe Energy once and a while, so I might max that out. I have no need for Survival and I have nearly 200,000 caps so Barter isn't an issue.

I get 16 points per level, so 80 points for the 5 levels. Then the skill books for Barter, Energy, Melee and Unarmed (since Survival and Explosives books aren't in the DLC) 68.60.250.193 07:48, February 20, 2011 (UTC)
 * It's interesting that the most usefull skills in Dead Money's beginning (energy, melee and unarmed) are low. :D Don't get me wrong, guns work too, but it takes a while until you have decent weapons to use, that's all. I like melee/unarmed a lot, if you want to experiment them, you can spend some points in Melee until it's at 45, so you can pick Super Slam, and then raise your unarmed until 70 for Piercing Strike (-15 DT with melee/unarmed). Then you decide wich one you want to use, melee or unarmed and put the rest of the points in it. Or you can raise your energy weapons skill and use Flamers or Heavy Incinerator or make a mix and raise explosives until 75 for using plasma grenades, they are very powerfull. Brfritos 12:45, February 20, 2011 (UTC)

get explosives to 60 for the vault 19 powder ganger quest(provided you want to take the good route) and id suggest putting some to survival, mine is 95 but only because i wanted to able to say "i can make everything" also get melee up for dead money, its real useful there(and its cool to have it at like 75 or so for the special attacks so you can also do that)
 * I already have done 99% of all the quests in the vanilla game. I'll just raise everything to about 50 and then the rest of my skill points can go into Energy. 68.60.250.193 16:51, February 21, 2011 (UTC)