The Gleaming Depths update brings significant balancing changes to several Perk Cards. These updates aim to make underperforming perks more appealing and easier to integrate into your builds by reducing ranks, lowering costs, and scaling effects with related primary stats. To significantly improve their combat performance against NPCs and other players, players obtain cheap buy fallout 76 items from U4gm. Use coupon code "allen" to get 5% off at U4gm. Here's a detailed breakdown of what’s changing so you can prepare your builds for the update:

Perk Card Changes

Adamantium Skeleton

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• New effect: Limb Damage Reduction now scales with Endurance.

All Night Long

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• Rank 1 Perk Point cost increased from 1 to 2.
• New effect: Positive effects of pre-war alcohol last twice as long.

Batteries Included

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 2.
  • Rank 1: 45% weight reduction.
  • Rank 2: 90% weight reduction.

Bloodsucker

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• Moved from Charisma to Endurance.
• Gains the former Rank 3 effects.
• Healing bonus increased from 150% to 200%.
• Additional effect: Benefits now also apply to Cannibal.

Bullet Shield

• Moved from Strength to Endurance.
• Added a 4th rank.
• New effect: 5% chance per rank to Deflect ranged attacks for 6 seconds when firing a heavy weapon.

Cannibal

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• Healing received and hunger restored increased at Rank 1.

Cap Collector

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• Now applies to containers and corpses, not just Cap Stashes.
• New effect: The amount of Caps found scales with Luck.

Evasive

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• New effect: Now increases Evade Chance based on Agility.

First Aid

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• Now affects Stimpak Diffuser.
• New effect: Stimpak healing scales with Intelligence.

Four Leaf Clover

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• New effect: Misses in VATS contribute to the Critical Meter based on Luck.

Hard Bargain

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• New effect: Grants +7 Charisma while bartering with NPCs.

Iron Stomach

• Now also increases Energy Resistance.

Junk Shield

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• Now works while in Power Armor.
• Additional effect: Scales with Luck.

Lifegiver

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• New effect: Improves HP gained from Endurance.

Lone Wanderer

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• New effect: AP regeneration and defense bonus based on Charisma.

Natural Resistance

• No longer increases Energy Resistance.

Night Eyes

• Removed requirement for time of day.

Ordnance Express

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 2.
  • Rank 1: 45% weight reduction.
  • Rank 2: 90% weight reduction.

Pharmacist

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• New effect: Radiation healing scales with Intelligence.
• No longer required to craft Disease Cures or Water Filters.

Professional Drinker

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 2.

Ricochet

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• New effect: Deflect chance scales with Luck, reflecting 100% damage back to the attacker while reducing damage taken by 50%.
• Additional bonuses:
  • While in Power Armor, reflected damage increases to 200%.
  • Heavy Armor or Power Armor grants a +50% multiplier to Deflect chance.

Serendipity

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 1.
• New effect: Increases Evade Chance under 30% health based on Luck.
• Evade avoids all incoming damage from direct attacks once per second.
• Cooldown increases with armor type:
  • Light Armor: +0.1 seconds per piece.
  • Medium Armor: +0.2 seconds per piece.
  • Heavy Armor: +0.4 seconds per piece.
• Evade does not activate when over-encumbered or in Power Armor.

Starched Genes

• Ranks reduced from 2 to 1.
• Moved from Luck to Endurance.
• Rank 1 provides the benefits of the former Rank 2.

Thru-Hiker

• Ranks reduced from 3 to 2.
• Moved from Agility to Endurance.
  • Rank 1: 45% weight reduction.
  • Rank 2: 90% weight reduction.

These updates aim to improve gameplay balance and offer more strategic choices when planning your builds. Start thinking about how to adapt to these changes as The Gleaming Depths update approaches. Build smarter, Vault Dwellers, and make the wasteland yours!