


With perks alone it can get to just over 1000 DPS with 40mm Plasma Grenades loaded, it does more than 1300. I'm also quite surprised that nobody has mentioned Mercy for Fallout NV. The Metal Blaster is similarly able to do 839 damage in a single shot, plus headshot damage. As such, the Terrible Shotgun is capable of doing 1240 damage in a single shot- more if you can land some or all of those on the head, a luxury that explosives don't get. While their damage doesn't look like much on its own, both of them fire multiple projectiles/beams, and each one can crit individually. I think the other two contenders are The Terrible Shotgun and the Metal Blaster. Obviously you're not going to beat the MIRV which does 12880 per shot without taking perks into account, and has a DPS of over 20000.īut that just seems unfair, the weapon was designed to be overkill.

I know you were asking for New Vegas, but just for funsies (and because the others have already covered NV pretty thoroughly with Esther, CZ57, the gatling laser, and the 12.7mm SMG) I thought I'd chime in for FO3.
