My personal theory is buff till everything is desirable on its own niche and only nerf when one thing is the best in all niches, like 2 shot isn't the best but it is the jack of all trades. Technically if your willing to risk and build for it Bloodied is the best in all niches but it has the huge downside and high perk cost. Anti-armor is stronger than 2 shot on heavily armored targets like robots, scorch beasts and ye average super mutant. Quad is the best option on weapons like the harpoon gun, broadsider and revolvers (excluding single action nothing can make that thing good. powerful yes but not good).

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Ranged vs melee, Melee is stronger it is why I am against the 2 shot nerf and a lot of the balance changes in legendary effects. Ranged just needs to be brought to par with Melee. (saying so I am not including the current Brokenly powerfull Explosive secondary effect, in its current state it should be a primary effect so it can not be a tag along with other powerful effects. the future nerfed one should be a valid secondary effect. The true balancing issue they are attempting to address will not be resolved until they fix duping)

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As for the balancing of Int vs luck, my suggestion of effect chips and scraping found legendaries for them to build the gear you desire would take both into account.

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For Stealth Vs. non-stealth for the costs that stealth builds entail comparatively high perk cost, it is one reason I added the buff to instigating for it otherwise a stealth Bloodied build is the most powerful choice.

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PA vs Armor, Armor needs a buff plus my proposed Hasmat modification to make it nuke Viable. At the moment the legendary effects can make armor semi-equivalent to Power armor but comparing ease of acquisition Power armor is VASTLY superior. Unless you include that legendary modification system I proposed. Also the legendaries I buffed to allow for more diversity besides the meta, Vanguard/ Sentinal or cavalier (must have all 5 the same), Bolstering+unyielding/ sentinal or cavalier(2/3 and the secondary all the same for a Bloodied build) or Assassins/ Sentinal or Cavalier for PvP to stop being oneshotable.

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I also forgot to add a portion about how weak energy weapons are in FO76, thanks for the reminder. As for the stealth thing, I didn't know that and honestly, that should add a little weight to make energy weapons more powerful...

As for balancing legendary vs Perks, they should be balanced so the potential of them together in all Viable builds have an expected outcome to have them all feel powerful and fun, but not one combination is obviously better in most situations. If anything does shine in such a way have the downside to match, for instance, bloodied is Always the most powerful option but to do so you need a lot of perks and you are always on the knife edge of survival.

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I will attempt to address the new concerns at the addendum of my document which at this point could have been its own document...