What meta perks have you never seen the appeal of

I get the appeal of Adrenaline, but it's situational enough to me (it doesn't help at all until the end of the match) that I'd rather bank on other stuff.

I get why all of them have appeal. I just particularly like any of them.

Borrowed Time. I find it to be ok, but I probably wouldn't run it on really any of my builds.

NoeD and Decsive Strike

NoeD does help when it does get used, but I'd rather end the game with 4 perks before it than risking multiple survivors getting to the end game with 3 perks and get a 4th perk at the end.

As for Decisive, rarely does the killer go for me twice in a row, and even if they do, they usually slug me to make sure I don't have it.

Dead Hard for sure. When I play killer, I either A. Bait it out and just slap you after you use it.

B. Swing without baiting, realize you have have it and remember for future chases.

Dead Hard is simply not as effective as people make it out to be.

DS: If a killer is tunneling me off the hook stunning them once for 5 seconds isn't going to stop the tunneling. Don't see point of using it for random chance I'm hooked at end of match, rather just work on avoiding getting hooked at end game.

Ruin: Old/New either one can be worked around and is easily countered by destroying the totem. Rather a perk that can't be destroyed at start of match and will be useful the whole time.

Sprint Burst, cause you're essentially just slowed until the killer finds you.

Dude, I am about to hit rank 3 survivor (mostly solo), and I seriously do all that stuff I was joking about in that other thread a few days ago -- I'll Dead Hard into walls, terminally mindgame myself with my own Hag traps, cannot reliably loop unless it's an easy double-window (or sooooooometimes shack), etc. There were multiple points where I was like "Welp, I have plateaued and will never get past green (or whatever) ranks." I have still improved with practice in spite of this, and I am no great gamer. DBD is the first game that I have really ever been at a "respectable" rank at. If I can do it, I think there is hope for anyone.

I would say re: your comment about Bond, it's not necessarily that people ran the killer to you more often, it's just that you saw it coming (which is an advantage of Bond -- it tells you when it's time to leave). I would ask "what rank are you?" but other players do stupid stuff like this even in red ranks. I will always recommend alternatives to Self-Care, but lots of people use it even at high ranks, too.

Adrenaline. It's too situational.

Sure it might give you a timely heal while slugged or a much needed Sprint burst mid chase. But you are just as likely to get randomly exhausted at full health while the killer is on the other side of the map. Not to mention it's an end game perk and I find perks you can use throughout the match more useful.

Deadhard. Press E to dash? More like press E to die. Swear this damn thing fizzles more often than it works.

Whispers. I'm not sure it is considered meta but some players out there seem to rate this perk highly and I just don't get why.

Exhaustion perks in general. Yes they help extend chases, yes something like Adrenaline is helpful once a match. But after the first time you use it, the killer, assuming they're not a total potato, knows you have it and will plan around it. Sprint burst? Don't heavy commit until you catch them between uses. Dead hard? Fake a hit or delay your swing. Lithe? Work angles and don't be afraid to abandon the chase in favor of someone else if you're coming up on a window. Adrenaline? Once a match and not all that great. I don't bother with them.

This. Exactly this. Walking all game to me is just boring.

DS I can’t bring myself to use, it just feels like a perk that helps survivors out of situations they should have lost in, I.E making a really bad play and going down cause of it

The thing is I never felt the need of a perk to do any of that. Most survivors don't bother being particularly stealthy anyway and the exit gates are the least of my worries. I just think the cases where Whispers is genuinely usefull don't happen often enough to justify a perk slot.

Panic is a funny thing. But again, it's a single use. Once I know you have dead hard, it'll never work against me again.

Yeah, my wife is like that. She prefers to play a more stealth-oriented playstyle because she's just not that good at looping (yet) and doesn't see the fun in second chance stuff.

And it feels like every damn game people are on her ass about, "Those aren't the right perks, you were useless, learn to play, nyaaaaaaaa!" because there's a fairly strict, accepted meta that survivors expect now and deviating from it is unacceptable.

She's still Rank 4, though, because she gets ######### done every game.

But yeah, the survivor meta now is for everyone to be invulnerable supermen, rush gens, and second chance out of the gates. If you don't fall into line with that, people get mad.

I guess it's a popular playstyle! 👍️

Dead by Dedicated Servers or Dead-Hard-into-the-box... Yeah.

I used it for about a year and depended on it, but now since it gets eaten all the time and killers have brains, I rather use Kindred now. So much information. More worth than a perk that doesn't work properly.

Deliverance.

Every time I try using this perk, I either am found first or I can't get a safe unhook before I do get found.

I just find it annoying to use. Feels more clunky than Bubba.