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Killer mains: What are your favorite 7 perks?

Edilibs
Edilibs Member Posts: 699

I'd like to see what people like most. Doesnt have to be competitive perks or it can but perks you really like

Most favorite: Blood Warden

2- Sloppy Butcher

3- Haunted Grounds

4- Nurses Calling

5- Insideous

6- Save The Best For Last

7- Thanatophobia

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Comments

  • Mandy
    Mandy Administrator, Dev, Community Manager Posts: 23,357
    edited August 2021

    Enduring

    Brutal Strength

    Spirit Fury

    BBQ & Chili

    Lethal Persuer

    I'm All Ears

    Discordance


    (if I could have 8, I'd put Corrupt Intervention in there)

  • Seraphor
    Seraphor Member Posts: 9,429
    1. Make Your Choice
    2. Devour Hope
    3. Haunted Grounds
    4. Rancor
    5. Starstruck
    6. Iron Maiden
    7. Self Care
  • chargernick85
    chargernick85 Member Posts: 3,171

    Most Favorite is Blood warden because it's so satisfying to pull off. Will list the 7 perks I run the most/like the most.

    1. BBQ
    2. Lethal pursuer
    3. STBL
    4. Brutal
    5. Disco/Tinkerer
    6. Pop
    7. Corrupt

    Honorable mentions to Agitation, Devour, Enduring, Infectious, MYC, and Thrilling.

  • chargernick85
    chargernick85 Member Posts: 3,171
  • RaSavage42
    RaSavage42 Member Posts: 5,566

    1) Corrupt

    2) BBQ

    3) Whispers

    4) STBFL

    5) Discordance

    6) Thrilling Tremors

    7) Sloppy Butcher

    Not in any particular order

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  • Objectively_speaking
    Objectively_speaking Member Posts: 514
    1. BBQ and Chili
    2. Shadowborn
    3. Rancor
    4. Noed
    5. No Way out
    6. Devour Hope
    7. Hysteria

    Honorable Mentions | Bamboozle, enduring, Fire Up, Remember Me, and Blood Warden

  • ReikoMori
    ReikoMori Member Posts: 3,333

    Lethal Pursuer

    Dragon's Grip

    Starstruck

    Pop Goes the Weasel

    Oppression

    Coup De Swoop (I love the idea of longer lunges, but hate it requires losing gens)

    Mind Breaker

  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Member, Administrator, Mod Posts: 17,933
    1. Whispers
    2. Enduring
    3. BBQ
    4. I'm All Ears
    5. Devour Hope
    6. Discordance
    7. Spirit Fury
  • AlbinoViera
    AlbinoViera Member Posts: 169

    Most favourite: Devour Hope

    2nd - Save The Best For Last

    3rd - Pop Goes The Weasel

    4th - Tinkerer

    5th - Surveillance

    6th - Undying

    7th - BBQ & Chili

  • Iliketoplaykiller
    Iliketoplaykiller Member Posts: 352

    -Starstruck

    -corrupt intervention

    -bamboozle

    -whispers

    -tinkerer

    -stbfl

    -bbq & chili

  • Edilibs
    Edilibs Member Posts: 699
    edited August 2021

    You REALLY dont like having to deal with pallets huh!? lol Nice perks. How do you feel about the Brutal, Fire Up combo?

    Interesting. I feel like BBQ users should sometimes use Iron Maiden, i dunno i think they synergize pretty good. I like MYC too but only on Hag. Do you use Make Your Choice on multiple killers?

    Its very satisfying isnt it!!? I love shaking my head up and down while they tea bag at the exit gates and they get bodied for trying to make the killer feel bad instead of leaving! )

    I feel like Opppression, Starstruck and Dragons Grip are great Doctor perks but not so much on anyone else.

    When i see this i get the impression that you like loads of information ie information the majority of the match! Cool.

    Chasing people off gens much while Ruin is still up much!? )

    Based off the perks you like seems like you like to find survivors as quick as possible and get faster downs with Bamboozled, considering you use Bamboozled in most of your matches.

  • Seraphor
    Seraphor Member Posts: 9,429

    I love Make Your Choice on Wraith and lately Demogorgon, but Spirit and Blight are some good contenders for it too, and Nurse if you can play her.

  • Gruul
    Gruul Member Posts: 130

    In no particular order

    1. Sloppy Butcher

    2. Corrupt Intervention

    3. BBQ

    4. Brutal Strength

    5. Devour Hope

    6. Franklin's Demise

    7. Bamboozle

  • GannTM
    GannTM Member Posts: 10,893
    1. BBQ
    2. Lethal Pursuer
    3. STBFL
    4. Infectious Fright
    5. I’m All Ears
    6. Whispers
    7. Iron Maiden
  • Bran
    Bran Member Posts: 2,096

    it's hard to name 7 when i mainly use a few and just fill the rest but...

    1. surge
    2. corrupt intervention
    3. thrilling tremors
    4. oppression
    5. blood warden
    6. lightborn
    7. bbq and chili
  • EvilTurnip690
    EvilTurnip690 Member Posts: 32
    1. BBQ
    2. Pop
    3. Devour
    4. Tinkerer
    5. Discordance
    6. Sloppy butcher
    7. Monstrous Shrine
  • MrDardon
    MrDardon Member Posts: 4,041

    1. Barbecue and Chili

    2. Corrupt Intervention

    3. Monitor and Abuse

    4. Enduring

    5. Surge

    6. Hex: Devour Hope

    7. Hex: Undying

  • Lochnload_exe
    Lochnload_exe Member Posts: 1,360
    1. Mad Grit
    2. BBQ
    3. Agitation
    4. Iron Grasp
    5. Corrupt
    6. Lethal Pursuer
    7. Ruin
  • Junylar
    Junylar Member Posts: 2,005
    1. BBQ
    2. Lightborn
    3. Franklin's
    4. NOED
    5. Infectious
    6. Corrupt
    7. Nurse's
  • Iliketoplaykiller
    Iliketoplaykiller Member Posts: 352

    I’ve been playing a lot of trickster as of recent so I have to compensate for that speed lose ;)

  • GrimoireWeiss
    GrimoireWeiss Member Posts: 1,452
    1. Save the Best for Last;
    2. Play with your Food;
    3. Shadowborn;
    4. BBQ;
    5. Corrupt Intervention;
    6. Nurse's Calling;
    7. Surge.
  • ChiSoxFan11
    ChiSoxFan11 Member Posts: 1,093

    There's definitely a difference between perks I like because they're fun -- and those that are almost a necessity to keep a game competitive (Ruin, Pop, etc.). If we're looking at "fun" over "necessity", mine would be:

    1) Devour Hope -- a powerful game-changer, made even better since the change to Undying. It's a great "Oh, crap" moment for survivors when they realize you have it, and the race is on to find the totem. Playing survivor, it's also fun (IMO) to go against as well.

    2) Make Your Choice -- I've come to love this perk on Wraith, who can punish altruism with this. I'm stunned at how many exposed survivors I find healing someone right under hook when they know already I'm running this, lol.

    3) Save The Best For Last -- Getting to 8 stacks is SO satisfying. The cooldown reduction is incredibly underrated, and I'd run it on every killer if I could. The ones I do, I love having it on.

    4) Starstruck/Agitation -- I have to put these together, since running the first means I'm almost certainly running the 2nd. It's only a good combo on certain killers (I run it on Doctor with double Calm add-ons to make that TR huge), but when you get that one-shot from that exposed survivor, it's so satisfying.

    5) Hex: Haunted Ground -- It has the potential to be really devastating or do absolutely nothing, but when it goes off and you're on the heels on a healthy survivor, that's such a great feeling. It has a little of the DH "Oh, crap" feeling when you're a survivor and it goes off, so that alone makes it fun.

    6) Blood Warden -- I almost never run it, but just for that one survivor you kill that was teabagging you in the exit gate, it's completely worth it and so much fun.

    7 (Tie) -- Hex: Huntress Lullaby/ Hoarder -- Lullaby is another very situational perk, only good on some builds and some killers (Doctor!). It's hard to keep it up, but if you're playing an oppressive Doctor build and you get to 5 stacks, the sounds of missed skill checks all around the map is incredibly satisfying. Hoarder, especially coupled with Franklin's Demise, can be so much fun. I've played Ghostface rounds running them together, and the constant info I'm getting while in stealth, allowing me to stalk or down people out of nowhere is a blast. Played it during a KYF once (where everyone was bringing in chest offerings and Ranger med-kits) was one of the funniest games I've ever had -- since we were all in the same chat, hearing them keep asking, "How does he keep knowing where I am?" was hilarious!

  • GoodBoyKaru
    GoodBoyKaru Member Posts: 22,817

    1) BBQ

    Bloodpoints. That's all I have to say.

    2) Mindbreaker

    Extremely underrated, on any killer with mobility (Freddy, Wraith, Blight, Nurse, Spirit) it's so good and completely eliminates any fear of Dead Hard. Bonus points to using Plague with Blood Echo and Mindbreaker to take any exhaustion perks and ######### on them.

    3) Corrupt

    I enjoy not losing 3 generators within 100 seconds.

    4) I'm All Ears

    I main Pyramid Head, enough said.

    5) Surge

    Haha gens go boom

    6) Save The Best For Last

    Attack cooldown? Never heard of her

    7) PGTW

    A gen regression perk that's balanced and rewards you for doing well while not giving you a great amount of use if you're doing badly, and isn't completely RNG dependant?! Sign me up

  • Pukenplag
    Pukenplag Member Posts: 1,454
    edited August 2021

    1) Hex: Devour Hope

    2) A Nurse's Calling

    3) Save The Best For Last

    4) Blood Warden

    5) Hex: Undying

    6) Barbecue and Chilli

    7) Hex: No One Escapes Endgame Chat Shaming

  • Rez_Marsiel
    Rez_Marsiel Member Posts: 279

    Ima be boring


    Hex: Ruin

    Hex: Undying

    Barbecue and Chili

    Pop Goes The Weasel

    Tinkerer

    Corrupt Intervention

    Deadlock (from PTB)

  • Kira4Evr
    Kira4Evr Member Posts: 2,025

    I'm not a killer main, but:

    1. BBQ.
    2. Devour Hope.
    3. Corrupt.
    4. Shadowborn.
    5. Surge.
    6. Sloppy Butcher.
    7. Whispers.


  • FancyMrB
    FancyMrB Member Posts: 1,250

    BBQ & CHILI BABY ✌

    Sloppy

    Nurses Calling

    Save The Best For Last

    Devour Hop

    Spies from the Shadows

    Bloodhound

  • Bwsted
    Bwsted Member Posts: 3,452

    Out of curiosity, why 7 specifically? Like the sins?

    Anyway, in no particular order:

    Agitation

    Mad grit

    I'm all ears

    Spies

    Coup de grace

    Iron maiden

    Fire up

    (Yeah, the fun perks are not necessarily the best ones or the meta)

  • twitch_ravKenclaw
    twitch_ravKenclaw Member Posts: 54
    1. Agitation
    2. Blood Warden
    3. Distressing
    4. Hex: Devour Hope
    5. No One Escapes Death
    6. No Way Out
    7. Save The Best For Last

    I need more than 7...

  • kyogul
    kyogul Member Posts: 491

    in no order:

    STBFL

    Enduring

    Agitation

    Whispers

    that's it so far

  • landromat
    landromat Member Posts: 2,193

    Play with your food

    Save th best for last

    TInkerer

    POP

    Sloppy

    Eruption

    BBQ

  • OldHunterLight
    OldHunterLight Member Posts: 3,001

    In order? Because I honestly can't tell which is better for when I play but.

    1. Whispers.

    2. Sloppy.

    3.bbq.

    4. Stbfl.

    5. M&A.

    6. Enduring.

    7.surge.

    Special mentions to.

    Iron maiden and shadowborn, these 2 perks just feel amazing for me especially when I play trickster.

  • SirGando
    SirGando Member Posts: 374

    BBQ

    Ruin

    Pop

    Tinkerer

    Sloppy Butcher

    STBFL

    Bloodwarden

  • RenRen
    RenRen Member Posts: 1,443

    BBQ

    Deathbound

    STBFL

    Lethal Pursuer

    Eruption

    Corrupt Intervention

    No way out

  • Edilibs
    Edilibs Member Posts: 699

    This list has me lol. I dont know if you genuinely enjoy and or like these perks but they're very meta. Maybe the game has pushed you to this and if so i totally hear ya! )

    In game slowdown and perks that can shorten chases. Cool

    Lethal persuer seems pretty good even though i dont use it. Yes another person that likes Iron Maiden! Haha

    Lightborn, Thrilling Tremors, Surge and Oppression. Do you play Doctor at all?

    Monsterous Shrine? Lol Do you like that perk or actually use it in the match? Thats pretty scary because if your around basement and someone is getting so desperate to survive that they have to go to the basement to look for a med kit then... that Monsterous Shrine value! )

    Undying Devour Hope! So good or at least has potential to be really good.

    You like perks that get you basement. Dope!

    So survivors typically cant blind you (considering you actually run these perks often) and if they have items or a key they're bodied. You also play and or like a perk that gives you extra mobility end game with NOED should they choose not to cleanse totems all game, nice!

    Gotta love STBFL, i love that perk too I use it exclusively on Pig (I dropped Demo)

    Blood Warden, Hex No One Escapes Death! Aasweome!

    Damn! lol I respect it though, you like what you like regardless of how meat it is! )

    Shadownborn? Do you play Huntress or Nurse?

    Hoarder! Lets have taht information shall we, haha. You seem to like and or play pretty fun perks.

    Bloodhound! I think i've seen someone use that 1 time in a match. Do you play with Bloodhound or just like it?

  • FancyMrB
    FancyMrB Member Posts: 1,250

    Blood Hound is one of the best tracking perks (imo). More often then not it leads me straight to healing survivors I wouldn't have known were there. On top of that I find it is a solid counter to Iron Will which I see at least 2 survivors have every match.

    Why rely on sound when I can just use the big glowing red puddles ^^

    I use it mostly with Trapper and the Bloody Coil. Survivors snap my trap, get injured, and then its very easy to find them after that ^^

  • Boss
    Boss Member Posts: 13,616
    1. Hex: Devour Hope
    2. Make Your Choice
    3. Barbecue & Chili
    4. Hex: Undying
    5. Eruption
    6. Pop Goes The Weasel
    7. Surge
  • Aurelle
    Aurelle Member Posts: 3,611
    1. Corrupt Intervention
    2. Save The Best For Last
    3. Hex: Haunted Ground
    4. BBQ
    5. Hex: Devour Hope
    6. Starstruck
    7. Sloppy Butcher
  • TerrorUnleashed
    TerrorUnleashed Member Posts: 497
    1. Surveillance
    2. Make Your Choice
    3. Starstruck
    4. Blood Echo
    5. Trail of Torment
    6. Hex: Retribution
    7. Rancor


    And Scourge Hook: Gift of Pain and Hex: Plaything might replace a few of those soon...

  • Bran
    Bran Member Posts: 2,096

    i rarely play doctor. surge, thrilling, corrupt, and bbq is my demogorgon build.

  • DelsKibara
    DelsKibara Member Posts: 3,127
    • BBQ and Chili
    • Infectious Fright
    • STBFL
    • Devour Hope
    • Pop Goes the Weasel
    • Coup De Grace

    And that's about it.

    I don't really have strong feelings for any other perk. There are strong perks but sometimes it's more about feeling like I need to use them to win rather than using them because I think they're neat

  • VikingWilson
    VikingWilson Member Posts: 789

    1) Whispers

    2) BBQ (sweet, sweet bloodpoints)

    3-7) Whatever fancies me at the time

  • hiken
    hiken Member Posts: 1,188
    edited August 2021

    Ruin

    Undying

    Pop

    Tinkerer

    Corrupt Intervention

    BBQ

    STBFL


    Bonus-> Agitation.


    edit: not killer main, i play both sides.

  • MegMain98
    MegMain98 Member Posts: 2,919

    In no particular order….

    1. BBQ
    2. Nurse’s Calling
    3. Shadowborn
    4. Brutal Strength
    5. Infection Fright
    6. Pop Goes The Weasel
    7. Monitor And Abuse
  • Ghouled_Mojo
    Ghouled_Mojo Member Posts: 2,287

    In no particular order

    STBFL

    Bamboozle

    Enduring

    Tinkerer

    Lethal Pursuer

    Franklin’s Demise

    Sloppy Butcher

    That was more difficult than I thought lol.

  • Blue_Archer33
    Blue_Archer33 Member Posts: 318

    No particular order:

    -A Nurse's Calling

    -Forced Penance

    -Deathbound

    -Save The Best For Last

    -BBQ

    -StarStruck

    -Make Your Choice

    Yeah... I guess I love perks/builds to make injuries more punishing as well as punishing Altruism 😅

  • aperoni
    aperoni Member Posts: 23

    Barbeque And Chili (can't play Killer without it, don't know how I survived before)

    Ruin

    Pop Goes The Weasel

    Devour Hope

    Corrupt Intervention

    Thrilling Tremors

    Discordance/Tinkerer (depends on how I'm feeling)

  • Edilibs
    Edilibs Member Posts: 699

    The misconception is that "Killer Mains" only play killer or are just stronger with killer and this is not the case, well for me anyway. When i say im a killer main what im saying and it means is that if something were on the line I'd main killer and not survivor because i dont like relying on people and this is for different reasons. I play both sides as well and im very strong on both sides but i "main" killer for the reasons mentioned above. Also i get to rank 1 alot faster than with survivor (maybe because its easier and or i play killer a little more). Every rank reset i usually end with rank 1 killer and rank 3 or 4 with survivor ( i admit its harder to get to rank 1 with survivor for me because of all the variables, i dont play swf unless its with my friend or random people at times but i never use coms with them)

    So i guess the appropriate term would be that I am a killer main that is strong at DBD! )

  • Edilibs
    Edilibs Member Posts: 699

    Btw I am and will continue to crtique the perks you guys have listed to give an overall assesment of what i feel your perks offer based off what are your favorites and or what you like which i enjoy doing!