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[mAdman]

I tried using mentats to increase my sight distance, but it didn't seem to have an effect so I wondered if the buffs from drugs are capped at 10?

[Myakot]

Yes, you can't go higher than 10 with your stats by any means.

[mAdman]

Yes, you can't go higher than 10 with your stats by any means.

Hawkeyes and sharpshooter take the effects of perception over 10.

I would have thought drugs would, to prevent people dumping stats knowing they will be compensated by a certain or multiple drugs.

[paragon]

Also you can't go lower than 1 by drugs effect, can you?

[mAdman]

Just used what I believe was my last reroll to make a mentat addicted sniper, as having 9 natural perception left me unable to max luck, so instead, being able to compensate my now 7 pe with mentats (+3 pe) or bloodmoon (+2 pe) (if I can ever manage to find scorpion eggs) instead leaves me a much more effective sniper.

It cost me 2 perks to do this effectively; replacing critical strength and Dr Strangelove with toughness and adrenaline rush in an attempt to negate the downsides of mentats, but now I have the option of not taking mentats and being a tough close range gunner too (especially if I use psycho).

I changed my build because mentats were useless to me (didn't increase my sight range enough to be useful). But I seem to have created a much more flexible character in the meantime.

I don't really know if it is all for the best or not yet, but so far, I like this character a lot more.