What was the first exhaustion perk you ever used?

SB meg was my first surv.

First game i played with sprint burst i read it and was like "so i cant run got it" guess what i did right as i spawned in lol.

Sprint Burst, because it was the only exhaustion perk when the game launched and i started playing in December of 2016 ^^ (when Nurse came out)

Balanced Landing. I leveled Nea before Meg. At the time, BL was a bit more useful, and I liked the idea of being able to activate my sprint when I wanted it rather than having to blow it if I needed to run at all. Obviously, SB is actually better and using it when you aren't being chased isn't entirely a detriment, since you still get around to objectives and such faster, but I wasn't thinking that at the time.

Now I don't use any, because I'd rather have perks that either constantly give me use or give me something during niche scenarios that I don't like.

I recently went back to Meg to clean out her items before I prestige her, and I'm coming to really love Sprint Burst! I don't particularly go out of my way to preserve it unless the thing I want to reach is a very short distance away. Mostly I find it useful for working on gens - I'll usually have it by the time the killer shows up, and the head start is great. It's also not a bad anti-tunnel perk because it reactivates when you get hooked, so if somebody unhooks you close to the killer, you can rocket off and the other player becomes a more appealing target. I've also had the same thing happen when being picked up from a slug. Not the most altruistic playstyle, but half the time in solo queue it's tit-for-tat with the way your teammates play, and if the other player needs to avoid being hooked more than I do, I can still bodyblock for them.

Lithe for me actually.

My first survivor matches were in a KYF and Lithe sounded fantastic. Then I started out maining Claudette, so I ran no exhaustion perks for a while... then Lithe happened to show up in the Shrine shortly after I started playing so I got it. Funnily enough, 1k hours later I still don't have Feng.

Sprint boost. I first tried to unlock sprintboost, self care and urban evasion. Im not proud of that.

Balanced Landing. Didn't use anything else until it got nerfed because why would you when you had essentially 2 S-Tier perks for the price of 1. Wasn't broken at all on certain maps or anything.

SB

I really miss the original SB when exhaustion mechanic didn't exist at old.

I actively went against using Exhaustion perks because I always felt they were cheap even as a person that played exclusively survivor back then. Right before Exhaustion was nerfed against survivors I went Sprint Burst/Vigil on the old Badham Preschool and can remember running around the map 4 or 5 times before i eventually was caught by the killer.

While unfair, it was an amusing time.

Balanced Landing was the first ever exhaustion perk I used.

Dead Hard. I clicked E when it told me to and didn’t know what that did.

For me oddly enough was lithe.

For me, it was Lithe.

Balanced Landing

Mine was lithe, I got it from the shrine when I first started DBD and unlocked it for Dwight

Lithe and it's still my fav perk to this day 🐷💕

Lithe

i used to main Feng when I first started playing

Dead hard for me actually, I wanted to grind for WGLF.

First ever actually equipped and used was Sprint Burst. Didn’t like it though and didn’t play around with it much.

First I actively used and that for a very long time was Lithe, still my favorite Exhaustion perk (if it wasn’t for the window hits.. but those got at least better again..)

(currently I use Dead Hard and it’s amazing how much more easy and stressfree surv gameplay got due to just having it)