What Are Some Of Your Favorite Perks?

I've been really enjoying the buff to Jolt lately, its been really fun to be able to focus on survivors and have gen management be kind of an afterthought

Anything Spirit related is automatically amazing.

Balanced Landing, Head On, Empathic Connection, Kindred, Open Handed, Autodidact (when you can ACTUALLY GET VALUE OFF IT), Diversion, Babysitter, Aftercare, Blast Mine, and Residual Manifest.

I'll admit I don't play much killer these days (I'll try to get more back into it sometime in the near future) but back when I played it a lot more, even more so than survivlr, I'm my favorite perks to use were Enduring, Brutal Strength, BBQ (back when it gave those sweet extra BP), Shadowborn, Remember Me (before it got nerfed), Agitation, Monitor & Abuse, Surveillance, and Iron Maiden (for Doc and Huntress)

As you can probably tell, I always preferred chase-themed perks along with the occasional info perk when playing as killer as opposed to your typical slowdown/regression perks as I always found those to be boring even while playing as the killer.

I am a Head On enthusiast. That perk brings me great joy. It has also been helping me get better at chases because killers get REALLY mad at it.

Lightborn is our lord and savior on the killer side. Never do it without protection.

Well not Mettle of Man anymore soon ;_;

Windows and Bond (although it's bad for your mental health in solo-q, i still like to know where the other survivors are so i don't bring a chase to them).

For killer it's easily Lethal Pursuer, the perk itself lets your early game get going right away and lets some other perks and add-ons get some very big buffs that can let you claim a critical opportunity, I've gotten plenty of value from Lethal + Compound 21, it's such a good perk

For survivor it's Object of Obession, it sells me out sometimes, it may work against me sometimes, but I just love it so much no matter how little it may do for me in a match. It lets me have intel, and knowing what's going on outside your space is so comforting to have. Along with the fact that it counters Lethal, Floods, Add-Ons, anything aura related, you use it too as long as they're detectable. Adds a tactical element I didn't know DBD could have.

I also have a lot of map offerings for The Game(because what killer doesn't?) and yesterday for ####'s and giggles threw on Distressing, Coulrophobia, Thana and Sloppy Butcher with a game map offering. It went pretty much how you'd expect.

One survivor even complimented the build, said it took her and her friend a minute and a half to heal.

Survivor : We'll Make It, Dance With Me, probably others that I haven't used in a while

Killer : Spies From The Shadows, Mad Grit, Hex : Devour Hope, Hex : Third Seal

Autodidact and Devour Hope

I have some favorite perk loadouts

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Juggernaut

• Brutal Strength (break things faster)
• Enduring (faster pallet stun recovery)
• Bamboozle (faster vaults)
• Fire Up (makes most everything faster and stacks with above)

This is really fun on killers who do melee chases. Force the pallet drops early, break them, and switch targets to keep people off gens as much as possible early game and then by the time they have two or three gens finished you have created these dead zones where either there’s no pallets or the handful of pallets they can still reach just get shattered extremely quickly and you can often get a followup hit when they try and reach a new one. It does mean you have to be good at juggling survivors initially though.

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Backpack

• Agitiation (move 108% survivor speed while carrying)
• Mad Grit (attacking while carrying doesn’t affect wiggle progress)
• (after next patch) Awakened Awareness (see auras within 20 meters while carrying)
• Either Starstruck, Forced Penance or Iron Grasp

Backpack is pretty hilarious, and surprisingly effective since until they realize you have it there’s a good chance someone will try and block you from a hook and you can get a free down. I’ve had matches with this where my first down turned immediately into two or three downs and snowballed into a win from there.

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Bad Medicine

• Coulrophobia (Longer heal times and faster skill check dials within your terror radius)
• Unnerving Presence (smaller skill check boxes in your terror radius, including heals)
• Septic Touch (Blind and Exhausted during and for about 10 seconds after healing in your radius)
• Distressing (larger terror radius)

This is a fun build since not only does it make healing a bit of a hassle for survivors but you also periodically hear the noises of survivors failing their healing checks which is kind of funny and also decent information. You can vary this up as well by swapping in Sloppy Butcher for Septic Touch if you want to replace the Blindness and Exhaustion with longer heal times, or can put in Nurse’s Calling for auras of people healing nearby.

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The Anti-Popular Perk Loadout

• Discordance (see when two people are on a gen to counter Prove Thyself)
• Hex Third Seal (Blindness to counter Windows of Opportunity and other aura perks)
• Fearmonger (Exhaustion and Blindness to counter Exhaustion perks and to a lesser extent Windows and other aura perks)
• (After Wesker) Terminus (to counter Adrenaline fully healing in endgame); or a gen regression perk, or Undying to protect Third Seal

Basically this loadout specifically targets the most popular survivor perk picks according to the aggregate site I follow. And I’ve had good results with it. 🙂 One interesting aspect of it is I don’t think people know how popular or effective Windows of Opportunity is even with higher MMR survivors, it’s and Blindness totally shuts it off.

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Plunderer Ace

• Plunderer’s Instinct (See chest auras and get rarer loot from them)
• Ace in the Hole (get good add-ons with loot from chests)
• Open Handed (increases all aura ranges for all survivors by 16 meters, including Plunderer’s)
• Appraisal (can Rummage a chest that’s already been opened for a new item)

This is the only survivor I play. 🙂 I love the idea of going in with a toolbox, using it up right away on a gen near a chest, then getting a new item and using it up and repeat. The only downside is flashlights and keys are kind of disappointing but when I get to use multiple tools or medkits in a match it’s kind of fun. 😄

Obviously this isn’t the most effective loadout, it’s really a gimmick. Open Handed though is a really good perk in particular, if I was playing “for real” I’d probably use that plus some other perks that show auras.

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The anti-popular perk load

• Discordance (see when two people are on a gen to counter Prove Thyself)
• Hex Third Seal (Blindness to counter Windows of Opportunity and any other aura)
• Fearmonger (Blindness and Exhaustion while repairing gens to counter Exhaustion perks and auras)
• (after new chapter) Terminus (to counter Adrenaline fully healing in endgame), or a slowdown perk or Undying to protect Third Seal

This loadout specifically targets the five most popular survivor perks according to the stat site I follow. An interesting thing here is you don’t see people talk much about Windows of Opportunity but it’s actually currently the most picked survivor perk in the stats since the rework. It’s a really solid perk in a chase to know exactly where you can run for safety at all times, so hard countering it with Blindness is actually taking away perks from probably one or two or more survivors. The only downside to Third Seal is as a Hex it can get destroyed early, but if it lasts it’s like playing against survivors that are short some perks.

For survivor: Deja Vu, Empathy, No One Left Behind, We'll Make It, Quick and Quiet, Repressed Alliance, Diversion, and Autodidact

For killer: Spies from the Shadows, Forced Penance, Agitation, Monstrous Shrine, Floods of Rage, Dark Devotion, Rancor and The Third Seal

Nemesis and Furtive Chase. I like perks that can switch who the Obsession is and think there should be more.

Enduring: So many times I get stunned and get a double tap on Survivors cuz I end up on the same side as them.

BtB: Extremely fun Perk, allows to vanish mid chase. Combined with a fast Med Kit, really fun.

Hyperfocus: It makes repairing gens actually challenging and fun (never tried it, but after seeing it I'll definitely use it)

Shadowborn. Always shadowborn.

Hex : No One Escapes Death. It's a really underrated perk and i think that's probably because it takes a lot skill to get value out of.

Whispers... best guide ever

Even though it is a bit disheartening... that it stays active around a Hooked Survivor