Would you rather: Nerf Meta Perks

I hate DH so much that I'd almost be in favor of small buffs to all 3 other perks listed here if it meant nerfing DH

No contest. This will make the game a lot healthier.

BT and DS are easily avoidable if you don’t tunnel, IW can be annoying but as a plague main it doesn’t bother me cause I can still track survivors when they’re coughing/vomiting.

DH for distance should be removed.

DH is the only problematic perk here for the most part. I'll go through them and address DH last.

BT can be very frustrating if they just force the BT hit when you're trying to avoid tunnelling, but that could easily be fixed in numerous ways while still maintaining the core of what BT does (i.e. grants temporary protection to players after they've been unhooked). So overall, it's fine.

DS is entirely for anti-tunnel now. If you're getting hit with DS all the time as Killer then I'm sorry but that's on you. Only interaction I can think of where the Killer may not have tunnelled and still be DS'd is if the Survivor refused to do any objectives and hit you with DS sometime before the timer ends. However, if that happens, that can very easily be viewed as beneficial for the Killer. Bear in mind that they didn't do anything that whole time to keep their DS AND now that they've used it, you actually could tunnel them mercilessly later if you want/need to. At the end of the day, DS is entirely fair and fine imo.

Iron Will is very annoying to deal with as Killer sometimes. Indeed, when used well or when paired with certain builds, you can actually lose the killer mid-chase which is definitely very powerful. To be honest though, I've never had much of a problem with the perk. It can be very annoying but it's not even really in the same ball park as the other meta perks.

To be honest I'm kind of surprised you didn't include COH. Even after it's nerfs, COH is still insanely strong to the point of probably still being overpowered. Oh well.

DH, well what can I say really that hasn't been said before? For much of the killer cast, it's uncounterable when used right, guarantees a huge amount of extra gen time and is supremely frustrating to deal with. I'm honestly baffled that a perk like this still exists in the game in 2022. It should've been gutted years ago, but I guess that'd drastically increase the kill rates because of all the people who crutched on it to do well. Not much we can do about it at the end of the day I guess.

Contrary to the popular belief, other perks listed here are actually fine.

Just rewert the Iron Will buff so Stridor has effect on it again and there are ok perks.

It's just DH that is unhealthy at the moment. Literally having third health state with no downsides is STUPID. Compare it to Mettle of Man.

Dead hard has always been insanely strong but there was also the risk of being exhausted on the ground. As a result, Sprint burst or lithe were usually more consistent so Dead hard wasn't as common. When dead hard validation happened, the perk's main drawback was gone and it instantly became far more consistent. After that, people began to realise just how crazy it is and it quickly rose in popularity soon after that. Also, the "just bait it out" argument only works when the Survivor is in a deadzone (i.e. they're gonna go down anyways). If they're in a loop, or near enough to a loop that dead harding would save them, then "baiting it out" isn't going to help.

DH should not even exist