Bosses that telegraph their attacks really obviously? Slow fire rate, mate.
Slower melee weapons tend to do more damage but you can leave yourself open while you’re hefting it. This is how quickly you can get off shots or swing your weapon – melee weapons have a speed of Fast, Medium or Slow. You like that? Go play some World of Warcraft and get back to us. That’s some nice RPG knowledge right there.
A slow, heavy sledgehammer might still have a higher DPS than a small pipe pistol because even though the pistol is faster the sledgehammer has a higher damage per hit. A subcategory of this is DPS, or how much damage the weapon can deal every second, which is affected by your fire rate as well as the base damage score. Damage refers to the damage per single shot/hit of your weapon. What weapon stats mean in Fallout 4 Fallout 4 Weapon Damage
We spent an unholy amount of time at the weapons bench getting this info. Modifying weapons in Fallout 4 is an essential but complex part of the game, so to make it (hopefully) less complex we’ve explained how weapon stats work, how mods change those stats, and what you need to build them.
