Jack (weapon)

Jack is a unique variant of the uncommon melee weapon, the Ripper. It is equal in power per single hit to its cousin, but has a higher potential damage rate, due to its slight, but noticeable boost to the critical hit rate. It also exhibits an amazing benefit in combat against limbs, doing an extra 50% damage against them.

Location
Jack can be found inside the Deathclaw Sanctuary on a female Enclave Officer. She spawns alive, but unless you cleared out the Deathclaws on an earlier visit, she won't be by the time you reach her. Refer to the map for the general area, but remember, since she and the other officers spawn alive, there's no telling what you'll find.

This weapon is not available until The Waters of Life is completed.

Characteristics

 * The higher critical chance increases the power of this weapon enormously because it hits over 30 times per second. The listed weapon damage is divided over the individual hits, but the critical bonus damage is not. This means every hit has a normal chance to critical and do the full critical bonus damage. With Better Criticals and Ninja this is quite possibly the strongest melee weapon in the game in real-time combat, possibly replacing the Shishkebab of the title.
 * This weapon does an additional 50% limb damage. Due to the extra limb damage, it will cripple nearly any limb hit on contact. This can make fights against NPC's and Super Mutants very easy, due to them not attacking you because they are too busy grabbing the body part that has been crippled.
 * Sneak attack criticals are devastating with this weapon, especially while in VATS.
 * This weapon is highly effective against Deathclaws and typically kills within 3-7 seconds depending on where you hit them with it.
 * With a high critical chance and the Better Criticals perk, even super mutant overlords fall within 5 seconds of being subjected to this torture of this weapon.
 * When you disable a robot with the Robotics Expert perk and use this weapon in sneak, a Sentry Bot is destroyed in an amazing half second! Incredibly powerful indeed.

Appearances
Jack appears in Fallout 3.

Trivia

 * This weapon's name is, quite obviously, a reference to Jack the Ripper, one of the most infamous serial killers in history.
 * The fact that the Enclave officer carrying it is a woman may be a reference to the theory that Jack the Ripper was actually a woman
 * There arent too many Rippers in the game to be used to repair Jack. As a suggestion, you can try letting Crazy Wolfgang repair the Rippers you find before you use it to repair Jack (assuming of course that your Repair skill is higher than Crazy Wolfgang's).
 * Some merchants can, occasionally, carry Rippers at lower conditions. Crazy Wolfgang is one of these, so instead of having him repair it, why not buy it off him for peanuts and repair your Jack with that?

Bugs
Holstering Jack (and probably a regular Ripper, but that remains untested by this author) while you are using the Chinese Stealth Armor or a Stealth Boy and sneaking will cause it to disappear mid-animation. It's minor, but interesting.

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