googleviI: Key Changes and Recommendations:

Weapon Speed is Fixed: The Weapon Speed legendary effect and the Martial Artist perk card now significantly increase the attack rate of automatic melee weapons, making them essential for a strong build (1:07-1:47).

Mods and Modifications:

Turbo offers comparable DPS to Electrified (-), but breaks faster due to higher speed (-).

Electrified is recommended for high damage and durability (-).

Legendary Effects: Rapid (Weapon Speed) is generally superior to Heavy Hitters (Power Attack Damage), especially when combined with a four-star cryo damage mod (-).

Chainsaw Status: The Chainsaw remains a top-tier weapon and is not "dead." It performs similarly to the Auto Axe in time-to-kill (-). Ensure you have the dual bar mod installed (-).

Combat Perspective: Playing in third-person view is highly recommended for the best performance and to avoid a bug where the weapon fails to spin up (-).

WilliamJeromeCorwin: Is furious/pounders now worse than mutants/iceman?

cameltoeinspector6015: Bugthesda literally killed the Chainsaw, Ato Axe, and Railway Rifle nobody uses them shits now

thongus_: Giuseppe made this patch so people would finally buy the turbo mod from him.

HelpfulShark: Curious to see how an Auto Axe with Rapid and Turbo would perform against bosses.

LeTon75: My two shot explosive dual bladed firing breathing pounder chainsaw is so awesome I killed Bigfoot in literally 3.5 mins!

brianrmc1963: I am glad I didn’t hop on the chainsaw. How disappointing for those who did.

eightchickens: Yes please test on bigger enemy or boss. Thanks.

MandaloreTheReclaimer: Iceman's, burning mod with miasma armor mod for poison will make the perk card deal sealer give 30% damage.

TheeMasterSword: Why would you show us a test on one trash mob. How does that give us a good idea? Why not test on like queens/behemoths/etc, stuff that actually lives longer than .5 seconds.

furlyghost707: Recently while playing a public event (heart of the swamp) I was randomly removed/kicked out of the game. It brought me back to the login page and the message I got said something about "modified files!?" Apparently the chainsaw I was using did too much damage. I'm not 100% sure if this was the cause but I was using my chainsaw when it happened.

wrinkleneckbass: Anyone else on PSN getting randomly kicked off the servers since this last patch? It's happening a lot and it's really annoying.

nemesisundead83: As long as they didn't touch my vampire ability I'm fine

chrisyoder8985: How do they perform against guardian and snake?

psycleshift: Can't be that good, bethesda wouldn't be having that.

boblee1902: You can also quick swap your weapon to "fix" the bug, on controller i find it easier to press the left d pad than bash an enemy

Papahops2943: Did you keep the 16t pinion on the bigrock?

IAmACactus-r2w: Oh, they actually fixed attack speed, i don't remember seeing it in patchnotes to be honest. Good on bethesda. Yet there is a bunch of bugs to fix still

ukscf: Have you come across or heard of reports that if you try modding your power armor it can crash or bug out causing you to lose your power armor even on relogging? I am not using my power armor for now. A long time ago i had a similar issue but relogging fixed it for me thankfully. Recent reports are not so lucky and bethesda " lacks the tools" to help.

olgagagarina4166: So mutants now the best? I’m confused

coelhovii2716: I was gonna say something about Ponders but glad you sneak it in the end. I was wondering if I could still use them after the patch but seeing how they are doing with the new speed change I might visit this build again.

noahdahunter: As always bugtesta don’t fail to kill the fun on their games

paneth8466: Only real reason I don't use them anymore is because of the long standing bugs with them. You would think with how old those bugs are they would have gotten around to patching them but naw. Easier just to add new bugs to the game lol

wizard5986: My Auto Axe still has Furious, Heavy Hitter, Strength and Pounders I wonder if it’s still good

TorpedoVegasLLC: Brendon Shaub will NEVER die.

LegacyVision.: Is this pts?

69djpitbull: We dont care about mutants. I want an all enemy chainsaw buuld that dies the same damage

Mar 21 2026

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