What Perk Did You Heavily Underestimate At First?
I really started loving Make Your Choice at some point, but i'll bring up the more recent example for me...
Surge is doing extremely good work for me right now.
I don't need to waste time kicking those, it still scares some Survivor off of Generators no matter what rank, & even if they stay on it, it's still some extra work they have to do.
Its cooldown is its biggest negative to me, but i can live with it.
I also equip Pop Goes The Weasel along with it, to kick those that aren't regressing and need regression badly.
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Thrilling tremors. I didn't use it at all until a couple weeks ago. Now it's in most of my builds lol.
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Tenacity
Crawling 50% faster while recovering feels sooooo good
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A bunch of them. For Survivors:
Iron Will... I was like "just heal". I did not know that it will have such an impact.
Balanced Landing... Thought it was the worst Exhaustion Perk (you know, before they made it the worst Exhaustion Perk), because I thought being that situational hurts a lot, but I did not really value the passive effect.
For Killers:
Whispers... When first using it, I thought it is the worst Perk in the game. Tried it because a Killer found me with it, but that Roabwoahraoashraoshroash was only distrecting at first.
Also Enduring... Thought it is a really bad Perk, because... Just dont get stunned? I respected the ######### out of every Pallet at this time.
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Spine chill, because I didn't think it would be an advantage to know when the killer is looking in your direction
Shadowborn, until i used it on nurse and realized how op it is
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spine chill tbh. i thought it would be useless since i wouldnt always check if it lit up. now i use it in every build
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Definitely Empathy at first. A lot of people told me to use Bond instead. However, with my play style Empathy lets me know when people are in a chase, where the killer is, and what I need to be doing at the moment. While I don't know where my team is, I always know what I have to be doing based off my aura reading.
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When I first started playing I found Resilience to be way too little rewarding for it's risk. Find out later that it's actually pretty decent and not to be underestimated.
Then, when I started playing killer around 2 weeks after I got the game I seriously thought that Enduring was crap since I always thought "Why would you even risk to be stunned", later find out that was one of the best.
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Survivor: Spine Chill. I worship this thing now.
Killer: I like Fire Up. its kinda fun to meme with
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PEBBLE (obviously)
The variety of ways to use this perk is insane. And the number of times it works is even crazier!
Ever had a teammate working on a single-person-generator you wanted to call yours? No problem - just pebble.
Don't you agree that teabagging at the exit gate is rather outdated? Well how about you pebble it up instead?
And in case the killer once again trapped you in a corner and you don't know what to do with your life, guess what? Pebble's not gonna let you down!
Although the removal of Hatch Standoffs can be considered a huge nerf to the perk (Diversion was just gonna give you that free escape by pretending to be a stone's throw away - got it?), it is kind of understandable why the developers decided to take that step. After they buffed the perk, so killers would see scratch marks all around the stone's impact point, Diversion outdid most of the current meta perks like Deja Vu, This Is Not Happening and Noone Left Behind. Therefore, a quick fix was necessary and the introduction of a new mechanic to solve an insignificant End Game problem just seemed like the right thing to cover up that outrageous power level of a perk in Dbd history.
Luckily I managed to strain all my remaining brain cells to come up with an incredible idea to fix that perk. Currently there is no way for killers to determine the authenticity of the pebble's notification. However, if we were to add a special sound to that occurrence...
The sound should thematically fit into a horror game and needs to be distinguishable from other notification, so I suggest the following one: https://voca.ro/jE7dpsCtUu3
Feel free to come up with own balance ideas, but PLEASE! - don't be ridiculous.
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Whispers, no doubt.
Then I realized that even the instances where the perk isn't active gives me valuable information. Checked a gen with plenty of progress and Whispers isn't on? I immediately know there's no sneaky survivors hiding nearby waiting to get back on to finish it. Especially handy early game to get in a chase ASAP and to "check" on a totem without sticking your nose up to it and making it painfully obvious you went to that spot for a reason to any survivor watching you.
And then I learned that at times you can basically "triangulate" a survivor's position once you get a feel for how far the range is from the killer's perspective, especially if you walk in and out of the radius from a few different angles.
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Botany
I was like I don't need to heal faster, I just need to hide better- This was when I first started the game and thought Claudettes Blending Powers hid me in plain sight. Didn't realize how loud survivors are until I played killer. Same with scratch marks and blood stains. It's amazing how much you could learn by playing the other role for a bit.
It's really good to speed up teammate healing.
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Ferocious Beating is a killer perk that no-one else runs. It's really good because survivors never expect it. I thought it sounded so basic but it's got such a high skill margin.
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Infectious Fright - didn’t think much of it. Now I end games in less than 60 seconds because how great it is.
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Infectious Fright was better than I originally gave it credit for.
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Ferocious Beating? Is that even a thing? Even with a Google search nothing comes up
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For me, when playing survivor, I love to run Ace in the Hole.
If I do not want to go into my blood web to get any items, I just let the game choose for me,and I usually get 2 extra addons for it.
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Pop goes the weasel, even after the buff I still had my doubts about it, nowadays I use it in at least half my killer builds
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New deja vu. Shows which gens are closest to each one, never wander aimlessly.
Iron maiden. Ever got locker juked as Nurse or chainsaw killer? It also makes them scream, good crap.
Thrilling tremors and I'm all ears. Those are really top tier perks once i really tried them.
On the opposite side i thought new Dying Light will be good but its useless. Obsession is not affected and you don't get tokens from obsession. Once obsesion dies you loose all tokens. So basically you avoid obsession. Obsession pumps gens and other people are getting chased, hooked, saved meaning only one max two people are really affected at a time. Penalty doesn't kick in from the start and isn't even big enough to be noticible. Thanathpobia is better because it motivates survivors to waste time healing. Crap design from start to finish. I get it was made to fit with other 2 Mike perks (leave obsession for last) but it just doesn't work. His old kit gave you something for any interactions with obsession, now you are only punished for this. And name, dying light doesn't even fit anymore. Used to be: ######### this guy is dead, now were #########. Now its, oof he ded amen, pump gens.
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Monitor and Abuse. I P1'd the Doctor for Overcharge, and because I enjoy his laugh. Did not realize how much M&A would help Myers and Hag, both whom I love to play. Works well on other Killers as well. It just doesn't give me much love in the Bloodweb sadly.
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Better Together is actually a shocking good solo perk!
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I'm All Ears
I started using it first on Demogorgon.. it helped quite a bit at ending chases quicker.. put it on Nurse and it was pretty good for her as well - knowing which way to blink through walls.
a shame it had to get the axe from my builds
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DS directly after its rework.
But they buffed it and never looked back to it and now its the best perk in the game.
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I never really used Hex perks because they typically aren't hidden well enough.
However, I been using a perk that bypasses that flaw and picked up NOED on my Nurse. I combo the perk with Infectious Fright and oh boy, I never seen anything more dirtier than that combo. 😊
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Botany Knowledge, mainly because my smart brain thought you could only use it near in-game plants... didn't find out the truth until after 3 months of playing.
Sprint Burst, I thought it sucked without using it, since you literally can't run without using it, I just kept using BL. 👌😏 it pretty neat.
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Resilience.
Do everything 9% faster while injured? No, thank you.
As of now, I tend to have it with most of my builds.
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Small game.
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If you are currently interacting with an ingame action, the progress bar turns yellow and has icons above.
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sprint burst because i never used it until recently (was a balanced landing user before the change, and dabbled in lithe), and now i have a lot of joy with it.
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Blood Echo.
Thought it would be only good with Legion and Plague. Messing around with it made me realise how great it is.
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Monstrous Shrine. I just recognized it's true power. Unlimited power.
Nah, I think that Dark Devotion. But not as Survivor. As Doctor I got a lot of gen grabs and static blasts on the other side of the map :D
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yea i never knew that because instead of trying it, i would assume it sucked
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Probably resilience and Iron will. I just love the 9% resilience gives and the vaulting speed,and i'm addicted to iron will. I like being able to stay injured and make absolutely 0% noise
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Shadowborn is beautoful, ain't it? I just love it
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Hmm, gotta say sloppy butcher and dead hard for me
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Spies from the Shadows. I put in on Nurse and I don't think I'll ever take it out.
This is also a great one. I think it pairs with DS incredibly well. Whenever you have Tenacity, the killer assumes you have Unbreakable. So, if you're slugged, you can play strategically. You can show your Tenacity to force the pick-up to DS, or wait the opportunity to crawl away fast and get picked up, all while recovering.
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Surge for sure
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Spine Chill
At first it didn't seem that good, but after playing with it and getting used to its mechanics, its practically a cheat code perk that tells you whenever the killer is in your area, and heading your way. Even better it works against Stealth killers, so there is literally no reason why it should be absent from any build imo.
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Eeeyyyyyy! 🤗
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I really dislike Pop and Surge because Surge counters pop on a 3 gen
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spine chill for survivors. When I started the game, I thought it was terrible compared to premonition, now I feel blind when I don't have it.
For killers, I've started to like Save the best for last. I'm not sure if it's that good, but I love the cooldown reduction
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Lucky Break. This perk is amazing when combined with Iron Will. Killers lose you so easily when they can’t hear you & don’t have a blood trail.
Currently my favorite build is a stealth build on Claudette which uses Lucky Break, Iron Will, Urban Evasion, and DC/Self Care.
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Spies and Save best till last, because of survivor que times it's kinda forced me to basically become a killer main lol so I have started to use spies and save the best alot more, and i really enjoy them now.
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Small Game pretty means = RIP to Nancy's perk 😂 MY TOTEMS NOT YOUR
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Didn't take me that long to work out you use it anywhere lol but yes when I first started I was like where are the plants??!! 😂
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I live for spine chill lol I dont really use it to stealth away, I more use it so I know I'm possible going to be ready for a chase any second, and of course for a little extra progression speed when killer chase someone else in my area lol
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I originally thought that OoO would be awful.
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Fair enough, i also dislike some liked Perk combos. 😋
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It has to be overcharge. It is a guilty pleasure,I admit. But once I started using it,it became extremely good. Combo with unnerving presence and distressing with doctor and the skillcheck is near impossible. Also regresses the fen if failed and I just love it with pop. People in green/purple ranks don't fully commit on gens so they end up losing more progress and being less productive due to it
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Coulrophobia, is not super good but in the late stages with 4 or 3 clustered gens left it forces survivors to go heal far away from my patrol zone or stay near my TR and heal very slowly, it stalls them in both scenarios, if they decide no to heal they are open for a one hit down.
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Save the best for last, brutal strength, whispers
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