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Demolition Expert is an Intelligence-based perk in Fallout 76.

Effects[]

The perk increases the damage dealt by all explosions by 20% with the first rank, with subsequent ranks each adding 10%, up to a maximum of 60% with rank five. It affects most thrown grenades, mines, and explosive weapons. However, it only affects the primary damage type of a weapon. For example, a grenade that deals two types of damage only has its primary damage increased. This also means the perk does not affect the damage of pulse mines and pulse grenades, as they only deal secondary energy damage.

Ranks[]

RankCostDescriptionForm ID
★★★3Your explosives do +60% damage.003440B4
★★2Your explosives do +40% damage.003440B3
1Your explosives do +20% damage.003440B0

Affected weapons[]

Weapons affected by this perk:
Alien blaster¹ Auto grenade launcher Baseball grenade Bow²
Blast mine Broadsider Bug grenade Bunker Buster
Compound bow² Crossbow² Cryolator³ Cryo mine
Cryogenic grenade Crushing Blow Dynamite Dynamite bundle
Fat Man Fragmentation grenade Fragmentation grenade MIRV Fragmentation mine
Gauss minigun Gauss pistol Gauss rifle Gauss shotgun
HalluciGen gas grenade Hellstorm missile launcher M79 grenade launcher Missile launcher
Molotov cocktail Nuka grenade Nuka Quantum grenade Nuke mine
Plasma grenade Plasma mine Pumpkin grenade Quad launcher Fallout 76 unused content
Smoke grenade Fallout 76 unused content The Guarantee Cremator

¹ With cryo or poison mag only
² With explosive arrows only
³ With crystallizing barrel only

Crafting[]

The perk needs to be equipped and active in order to craft certain types of explosives, as well as the laser tripwire.

Rank Unlocked item
1 Baseball grenade, fragmentation grenade, fragmentation mine, smoke grenade, flare, laser tripwire
2 Dynamite, Nuka grenade
3 Cryo mine, cryogenic grenade, dynamite bundle, floater flamer grenade, floater freezer grenade, floater gnasher grenade, fragmentation grenade MIRV, pulse grenade, pulse mine
4 Nuka Quantum grenade, plasma grenade, plasma mine
5 Nuke Mine

Notes[]

Behind the scenes[]

  • Although the perk card art for Demolition Expert depicts remote explosives, these weapons are not available in the game.
  • Prior to Fallout 76 patch 1.0.5.10, the damage bonuses provided by each rank of the Demolition Expert perk were +20%/40%/60%/80%/100%, but afterwards were reduced to +20%/30%/40%/50%/60% to match other weapon perk damage bonuses.

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