Fallout 76recently announced that players will be able to turn their characters into a Ghoul in a future update, marking a major milestone for the franchise.Fallout 76’s playable ghoul character is expected to be available in early 2025, but there is no official release date yet. Based on what’s been revealed about this feature so far,Fallout 76’s Ghoul transformation will offer a unique experience via new perk cards, encounters, and quest interactions that will be exclusive to Ghouls.
Outside of what’s already been revealed,Fallout 76’s playable Ghoul charactercould potentially shake up the game’s PvP meta by giving new life to an overlooked legendary effect, Ghoul Slayer.Fallout 76may not have a big crowd of PvP enthusiasts, but the Ghoul playable characters synergizing with the Ghoul Slayer legendary armor and weapons effect could still be a game-changer, even for players who don’t participate in PvP.
Meta Builds Dominate Fallout 76’s PvP
There was originally a battle royale game mode inFallout 76, known as Nuclear Winter. However, this was removed from the game in 2021, allegedly due to a lack of player support. Despite any lingering nostalgia for this game mode and a massive influx of new players coming to the game afterAmazon’s Emmy-winningFalloutseries,Fallout 76still seemingly doesn’t have much of a large following of PvP enthusiasts.
For the players who do participate in the few remaining methods of PvP inFallout 76though, these players are typically invested enough to have a dedicated build with perks, armor, and weapons based on the latest PvP meta. While there’s a little room for flexibility in which legendary effects are considered the meta for PvP builds inFallout 76, there are a few legendary effects that are naturally unfit to utilize in a PvP scenario because their conditions won’t apply. One of these legendary armor and weapon effects is Ghoul Slayer.
Fallout 76’s playable Ghoul characters are said to be resistant to radiation damage, so Bloodied and Unyielding builds likely won’t be viable.
Fallout 76’s Ghoul Slayer Legendary Effect Stats
Even in PvE, Ghoul Slayer is generally considered a bottom-tierlegendary effect inFallout 76because of how situational its utility is compared to other, more universally beneficial legendary effects. However, with the new Ghoul playable characters coming to the game, this legendary effect has the potential to go from one of the worst to one of the best legendary effects inFallout 76, specifically for PvP builds.
Fallout 76’s Ghoul Slayer Legendary Effect Could Be the New PvP Meta
Compared to the two most popular Legendary effects for PvP builds inFallout 76, Assassin and Executioner, Ghoul Slayer has the potential to not only compete with the current meta, but to entirely replace it. At any rate, the PvP meta could arguably benefit from some healthy competition anyway.
While the main attraction of the upcoming Ghoul playable character is reasonably going to be theexclusive Ghoul perk cards and world interactions,Fallout 76shouldn’t pass up on the chance to give new life to one of the most overlooked legendary effects in the game. This kind of synergy seems like a natural fit for the Ghoul Slayer legendary effect that could have implications even beyondFallout 76’s relatively small community of regular PvP players.
For players who don’t regularly participate in PvP, Ghoul Slayer armor, weapons, and mod boxes could become a hot item to trade or sell after the Ghoul playable character gets added to the game. So, especially with thenew Legendary crafting system inFallout 76, players may want to reconsider scrapping any legendary gear that has the Ghoul Slayer legendary effect.
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Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Expand southward to Skyline Valley – a brand-new region of Appalachia. Investigate the cause of the electric storm circling overhead and unveil the mystery around Vault 63 and its dwellers, including a shocking new Ghoul type – The Lost.
