BEST PERKS FOR HAZARD 5 | DEEP ROCK GALACTIC 

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I think born ready is one of the best passives even when your weapons don't have a long reload time. It's not just about reloading weapons in 5 seconds, it's also about shooting both weapons while only reloading 1 of them(or sometimes neither). It's a good boost to sustained fire, which is a lot more tangible and less situational than most passive perks. (I know you basically said this, just repeating it because I think it's a bit undervalued by some.)

It's a Bug Thing is the only perk you need

I wish you could equip active perks in passive perk slots just for the passive effect. Faster revive even without the insta revive would still be great. Grab warning without breakout. Shield regen without overcharge.

I sort of wish they would make dash a part of movement for everyone. I find it kind of annoying how useful it is and essentially takes up half of my active perks for 3/4s of the classes. After dash I pretty much feel I need to take either field medic or iron will so it really limits the the choices of active perks

You don't take Steve for efficiency, you take him as moral support for the team. In the very short down time you have being able to pet Steve help calms you down and focus. He does okay damage and as a last resort makes a good distraction. I find he works best on engineer as a sort of melee turret that follows you around and can give you some breathing room if you are caught with your trousers down giving you just enough time to place down a a sentry or just retaliate in general, Steve has saved my ass a few times and for that I love em.

If your steeve is alive, the beast master recharge icon will be red, if steeve is dead or you just don’t have one, the icon will be white

Never underestimate the utility of berserker. I’ve had several amazing saves with this perk such as digging holes to avoid ranged attacks, damaging terrain to catch ledges, digging up resources faster in tight situations, and lastly ammo efficiency through glorious melee combat. Running it alongside thorns, vampire, and see you in hell is an incredible feeling especially on haz5 as Scout or Driller. High risk, high reward, and very very fun. Embrace the slayers oath

strong arm is good on escort missions. between moving canisters, lighting up the sides of doretta while staying near her, also, more importantly, saving doretta at mission end.

Gunk Seeds glow even when they're on the ceiling, so as long as your gamma is set to normal levels they're easy enough to see in the dark.

On scout, I like to use hover boots as an effective double grapple, let's me fling myself, hover, then grapple. I've found it to have some good utility alongside just mining weirdly positioned veins, or saving from fall damage.

Can you make a bosco haz 5 guide next? Not just builds but also how to use him?

As someone who uses Deep Pockets + Armor mod. *and* Born Ready on every single class... Yeah.. Don't even start. It's literally a bad addiction, and it *will* break you

One small note about Depositor: it’s a good pick for low oxygen warnings, although less so in Escort or missions without Molly.

My wish for passive perks would be that other perks would be brought up to compete with thorns. A combination of unstoppable and second wind would be tempting.

"Hover boots burning enemies when you hover over them, is not combat assistance, before you say that" Absolutely killed that

Steve also becomes basically unkillable on regen bugs missions so that's pretty nice

about vampire, I think its also worth mentioning its synergy with berserker, allowing you to turn groups of bugs into health. As for zerk, i like it even only because it can allow you to murder an oppressor from the front if going behind it isnt an option, and can be used as a way to deal with groups of bugs without using up ammo if the map is poor in nitra or you are caught reloading. As for See You In Hell, its my preferred choice of "planning for failure" compared to Iron Will: multiple uses, works as an explosive on yourself (iron will may gring you up without aid, but doesnt remove any bug) and even if you dont die at all its not a completely dead perk. the extra damage often allows my retaliation to finish off a grunt that would have otherwise survived and make up more easily for the hit I took through Vampire.

Been going through all your haz5 videos lately. Thanks for all the good info. Also loving the ror2 music.

I think you are 100% right on "deep pockets"... I'm an addict, but I'm 1 day sober since I saw your vid, running "It's a bug thing" on scout and trying "sweet tooth" on other classes. never really understand the hype on "thorns" tho, I think there is always a better one to pick. thx for the content.

Very good video, i’ve been wanting to get in haz 5 for a while and this is a big help

21:42 Unless the wiki is wrong, See You In Hell does not affect driller's drills. For haz 3 and lower this perk is mad fun though, combined with Vampire it allows you to melee your way through entire swarms.

Cool video, thanks for taking the time to make it. A few bits to add, but one that I think it important if you do change your perks out dependant on environment - Beast Master with regenerative bugs is really powerful! If you get an Armoured Steve, he likely won't go down for the entire mission as after each fight, he heals back up. If you get a Slasher Steve, again he'll last an awful lot longer. I find it a super useful Perk of Regen Bugs is active for the mission.

For deep pockets I'm one of those players who used it forever and it took a lot to break that habit. The thing that really helped was the addition of the waypoint on the laser, which made it possible to just mark the rest of the vein to come back to later without having to mentally track it the entire time you're fighting or something. Now I just have to do the same with hover boots on my driller.

Good review! Also i like the fact that i heard some Risk of rain 2 music in the background arround 18 minutes! :D

Would recommend making the 'correct perks' at the end of the vid more visible. Took me a good minute or so to figure out how the pointed them out, and I imagine it would be really difficult on people with poorer eyesight.

Been waiting for this vid!

I run hover boots on scout specifically for situations where I want to fling myself 50m away from the enemy and have a guarantee Ill survive the landing. Everything else (general safety net, accessing nitra near the ceiling, stopping mid jump to be in grapple range of something higher, etc) are nice side benefits when they show up, but being able to safely and reliably relocate in the chaos of combat is a very tangible benefit.

I haven't gone into haz 5 regularly yet but I have been doing ok on elite deep dives until the last stages. I don' tend to go down unless I try to play hero and protect people at my own detriment in bad situations, but the 3rd stage is where me (and often the driller too) start getting double digit downs and that royally sucks. I stumbled across your channel just the other day and decided to hang around. I tend to run dash for the reasons you specified, and iron will for my active perks. I just would feel too terrible if we're all down at the end of a mission (in my case, EDD) and they are all looking at me expecting me to get up, toss a shield and rez and I didn't have it. It's saved us a lot. I didn't actually know a lot of the changes they made to the passive perks and now I am trying several of those out too. I started in 2019 during early access before deep dives were even a thing so I got pretty set in my habits. I got burned out a few times over the years and came back again when they dropped the rival incursion update. Now haz 3 feels boring and I hang around haz 4 most often. It's challenging enough to make me work for it especially if my team isn't well seasoned yet. Haz 5 still kinda scares me since when I tried it years ago I got met with such terrible elitism and people would kick me for having the wrong weapons or perks even before we got going. I'm thinking I'll gear up for a run. I'm in your discord too so maybe I can find some good chums to help me get some haz 5 training. There's a lot of things I don't see in EDDs to know how they work yet. like machine events and prospectors and such. I like how you also just get to the point on your videos and don't waste my time stretching them out to 20 minutes or a half hour to explain what can be said in 5.

You should have mentioned that Unstoppable allows you to sprint on snow in the Glacial Strata

These haz5 videos are very in depth and well done. I disagree with you on a handful of things, but that's just personal preference a lot of the time haha.

I think there's a case for running Hover Boots on Driller. He's the only dwarf with no way of quickly traversing downward.

I love the little voice lines for when steve dies, also a helpful note while slashers appear to make good steves they really don't last very long so the only worthwhile grunt to tame is the guard

For anyone looking far in the future, currently veteran depositor is good because if you alternate clicking e and pickaxe attack really quick you deposit incredibly quickly and it’s not hard to do, but it only works with veteran depositor. I don’t know how long this will work, but it is good for this reason as of me writing this.

I used deep pockets for the convenience along with hoverboots to assist in scout mining. Thanks for pointing out that they are simply QoL upgrades and that other choices are better

Thing I love the most about DRG is that even though there’s definitely a most optimal way to build your character, you’re never forced to do it that way. A problem most co-op games have nowadays is that at higher difficulties, players are basically forced into a meta which really limits how players get to play the game. Haz 5 missions aren’t impossible or even much more difficult with inefficient perks, and no one will kick you from the lobby for running a build that isn’t 100% optimal (unless you order leaf lovers before the mission, that is).

Great video! I recently started playing (about 80ish hrs currently), and this was super insightful! I will say, though, I think you missed a crucial piece of info for Hover Boots. Yes, the can save you from scrub gravity plays, but the REAL allure is to use them for galaxy brain YOLO plays for non-scouts. Being able to dig through the ceilings as Driller and land above objectives, or fly off of cliffs into combat without a care. THAT'S why I use em.

If you are looking for a good perk set for solo go deep pockets, resupplier, and it's a bug thing alongside heightened senses and iron will.

If you have cryo-and you use hover boots you can proc temperature shock. I Just wish they had a shorter cool down

just a pretty important note on Thorns, and I'm not sure if it's a bug or intended: the Naedocyte Shockers, in my experience, swarm the person that's running thorns. So if a few of you are grouped together, and you have Thorns, for some reason they almost always come straight for you; given the internal cooldown on the perk, this is usually a very negative side effect and has made me remove it off most of my classes that were running it as even just half a group of them can decimate your shield & health within a second or two

Elemental insulation works against rockpox as well as spit ball infectors. It actually is pretty decent. Protects from friendly elemental damage too. Being someone who has been nuked and roasted by an engi and driller, it helps the headache a lot. It took me until 18minuets to realize that is Risk of Rain 2 music playing in the background. Which goes hand in hand with the fact I use the RoR2 damage tic sound in DRG. Steve's are actually great for distracting Bulks or Oppressors, heck I had a slightly distracted Oppressor get taken out single handed by a steve. Since you can add a new one once the old one is gone is great. You do get an audio que that Steve has passed. Guards make the best Steves.

I'm really hoping we get updated/new perks in season 3, about 60% of the current perks are barely usable compared to the top 40% and I've been sitting on perk points for quite a while with nothing to spend them on.

Note that born ready on CSP may be detrimental in some cases. If you get your magazine down to 1 ammo, you can fire a charged shot for a fifth of the cost so it may be advantageous to not reload in some cases.

Primary purpose of Hover boots is not to protect yourself from accidental falls, but to to purposely make big jumps in clutch situations to save your team when you are on high ground.

It’d be great if the perk system were similar to that of Battle Chasers Nightwar. Equip whatever perks you want (each has its own cost) that won’t go over the point limit.

most of us, I think, can feel the "git gud" energy in a lot of your videos but it's nice hearing you say it for once

Great video, but the Risk of Rain 2 music in the background was amazing🥵🔥

So deep pockets is basically tobacco and I liked how throughly he explained the "its a bug thing"

Hover boots can also help you when passing by molly chucks you into the other side of the cave with a power of thousand beards. I still have no clue why that sometimes happens

I like deep pockets for mining missions, it speeds up gameplay for me, i tend to take advantage of the ability to preset load outs so i can switch on the fly

I find that hover boots is more useful now that sting tails can sometimes drag you into the sky

I'm here from Deep Pockets Anonymous, and I have a problem. Also I might be insane because I love Bullet Hell. Awesome video as always Axis!

Great video

Wow, almost missed this beauty

Hover boots is like training boots,its understandable if you are new to the game.even if you are playing a lot. (Its still a 3.perk in my builds....)

Having made that test, I would say that Veteran Depositor is very useful in H5 low O2 mining/egg missions.

resupplier helps a bunch if you are fighting and want to restock fast deep pockets are nice if you are minin g the floating deposits like 2-3 at a time so you dont need to go down and up a lot

Hover boots allows me to move around caves quicker if I want to take a fall that would normally kill me or damage me greatly. Especially great on vertical caves in point extraction or refinery missions. It doesn’t have to be a falling crutch but a way to quickly move downward I like hover boots best for gunner as his mobility is not great but never take it on engineer bc I can almost always just shoot a platform below me

I feel like see you in hell in combo with Iron Will or Field medic with linked shields are pretty OP combos

Unstoppable is a must have in Glacial Strata cuz with it you ignore move speed penalty from a snow.

mixing vampire and iron will is an amazing combo to run id say, got out of a good few situations with that combo

I agree with most of this except hover boots. It's a auto-pick for every class for me. It's not just for when you "accidentally fall into a hole." Like Dash, it opens up new movement capabilities that weren't available to you before. How do you start picking people up when you're the only one still alive on your team? You need to create distance between yourself and the bugs. Being able to jump down into a big hole much faster than the bugs will create that distance for you. Hover Boots allows me to clutch more than field medic has, honestly. It opens up so much new opportunities on Scout. It lets you ride ziplines as Gunner very high up without any fear of being knocked down to your death, or allows you to freely drill about in the ceiling without having to worry about accidentally drilling yourself into a death from falling. Even on Engineer, sometimes you just don't have time to take out your platform gun when you find yourself falling. And you know what's better than using Iron Will to revive yourself? Not dying in the first place. Don't sleep on Hover Boots. After hundreds of hours of experimentation, I take Dash and Hover Boots on every class, they just provide too much value to pass up.

Born ready also strong if your primary doesn’t need a reload. Running Drak + Nuk on scout without embedded detonators I literally never press the reload key.

13:50 It's also useful for people who use Hair trigger on the shotgun for scout but doesn't want to reload it immediately. I know it's actually faster to use hair trigger, reload, and shoot again as compared to quick fire ejector but I build my boomstick for one ammo mod and one damage mod. And I like to use it as a "get off me" or "stun that praetorian" or "squeeze in more damage" weapon. Just something I pull out and mag dump and then forget about it. Born ready is useful for weapons like that. Especially on scout where you are able to use just the grapple hook and still be doing stuff useful. Instead of reloading, then grappling away to mine nitra so I have a full mag to defend myself with. Just grapple and mine and if a slasher shows up I'm already armed. It's useful for almost every build. Just maybe not all engineer ones.

What if sweet tooth could make it so you run faster when moving toward red sugar when it’s within a certain distance instead of when it’s consumed? Then you have a choice between using it for health or keeping it and using to maneuver through an area. The speed buff could also scale with the amount of available red sugar.

Veteran depositor is good for Lead Storm on Gunner, if u make bunkers with the driller, or if u like standing next to your turrets as an engineer

Love the risk of rain in the background

I enjoy having both deep pockets and the upgrade on the armor. For scout I find it so useful as I’m 9/10 the guy getting all the minerals. Getting that nitra faster cause I don’t have to keep going back.

Elemental insulation also stacks with Friendly to reduce friendly fire from elemtal weapons like every driller's primary or the engineer's fatboy.

Yay, finally 🤩 Rock and Stone ⛏️

Second wind is only rly useful if you're on a Morkite extraction mission and you gotta run through a bunch of tunnels, if it was just a flat speed bonus it would be the best perk in the game prolly.

Born ready is great for me when I'm playing engi. I can't say how many times I forgot to reload my platform gun and try to fire it when falling and get caught in a reload. Saved me from a lot of fall damage.

When you were talking about Hover, you referenced using it only in terms of falling on accident, which I completely agree. That's a waste of a slot. I found Hover to have some really strong movement opportunities on Gunner, similar to Dash. There are tons of hover-jumps that non-Scout classes can benefit from, but Gunner specifically can really apply it. You can create space during a swarm, and if it starts to fail, bail to a lower level and start over immediately. Hover created that opportunity consistently and safely, in my experience. Dash doesn't do that quite as well for Gunner.

I like to imagine it's the actual dwarf talking and explaining this potentially to maybe some green beards or even maybe a company tutorial video to explain this to other dwarfs

correction - see you in hell does NOT work with the drills, it only works with the basic right click pickaxe attack and nothing else.

Second wind has exactly one real use on hazard 5, but it's a pretty good one. It makes extractions a breeze. Just don't shoot, and the slightly faster running makes just sprinting and jumping go from like 75% attack avoidance to 95%. That and also in a REAL pinch it lets you run right back through a small swarm without too much danger

Thankyou 🙏

Veteran depositor's damage reduction sounds great if you have to wall bunker and need the DR

As someone who prefers to casually play on Haz 4 a good majority of the time but done a good amount of EDDs and the occasional Haz 5, yeah, this list makes sense. I only ever take Deep Pockets on Scout, thought not always. Sure, it makes you sit in one spot for longer if there's a big enough vein, but being able to grab more then move can be pretty nice sometimes. Veteran Depositor can actually be decent on the final segment of Escorts if you get Molly to actually sit under Doretta assuming you sit on her, but it's still pretty situational. Shield Link I think is most valuable on Gunner as they're usually the least likely to be in a really weird spot to get to for the shield regen and sitting on objectives can help the team if they're sitting close; just a nice pick IMO. I can only see two excuses for Hover Boots: you're playing Scout without M1000 Hoverclock/Special Powder OR you're expecting to have to use so many ziplines over crazy caverns that you can't use a second as a safety on Gunner.

Deep pockets really is an addiction. I cant remember the last time I took it off but its really not bad

I never thought I’d hear someone say elemental insulation is inconsistent. It’s a constant 30% damage reduction no matter where you are, as long as you’re not getting hit with physical attacks.

Love the background risk of rain music,the soundtracks could be swapped and still fit

Also just gotta ask where you got the numbers for the HP and Shield in your Shield Link showcase. Is it a mod? If so. What's the name. And where do I get it? And can I play it with Vanilla servers without having to create a modded saveM Or something you editing in post process?

Berserker is one of my Oh Shit tools. Equip your power attack for range and add Vampire, and then leap into the fray. You'll probably make it out alive and covered in bug guts. Probably. Usually.

Berzerker and Vampire is a pretty fun combo

The Hover Boots perk is a godsend for me (in tandem) when using the Rocketjump overclock for Engi's Grenadelauncher; Allow me to explain: I have the Rocketjump technique perfected to a wopping 80% succesrate ; The other 20% are times where I miss-calculate my trajectory and slam into the rock crevasse below and past the point where I wanted to launch myself on top of. Here is where Rocketboots comes into play; I activate RB and shoot 1 or 2 platforms slightly below me, so it catches my fall before RB runs out - I can then safely hop on them without turning into a dwarf-pancake, deep down below. I then continue on my way by digging my way up, to the area I originally wanted to land on.

Beast Master has the most significant team moral boast

Didn't think we wouldn't hear that Risk of rain 2 music but I did. I heard it

Think I'm gonna start listening to the Con Air soundtrack while I play now

Should've said the warning you had with deep pockets to thorns as well. It's all I use now on every class and now I get hurt too much by swarmers with CC builds.

veteran depositor on repairing mule can be good or okay I guess, as long as the objective doesn't spawn in a tunnel it should be close enough to the drop pod if not make a small room for the mule

I have hover boots on all classes and absolutely think it’s essential, whether it’s doing a emergency grapple towards the ceiling to get across large cave rooms, jumping down from great heights to revive a teammate who fell. Pairing it with dash then jumping and using the inertia to get you across huge gaps, jumping off edges if you find yourself overwhelmed by a swarm ,or simply just using it to avoid small bits of fall damage.

Love the RoR2 ost in the background

I think they've added a Steve indicator since this video was dropped. So you can tell if he's alive.

If youre only using hover boots to save you from fall damage you're only getting half of the functionality out of them. You get so much additional kiting functionality with hover boots i consider it the best active perk in the game

It's worth emphasizing that the perk loadout of often class-specific so that it works together with your specialization within your class and with your playstyle. As a scout I focus on objectives and minerals so I take the deep pockets perk. For a more combat oriented build perhaps a different choice is best.

It’s a bug thing perks will just eat up your perks space if you are planning to do an escort duty mission because there are no lootbugs in the cave

And I thought I was the only one using hoverboots for mining high resources Being able to grab those high Aquarqs or weirdly placed nitra is a HUGE help Not always there is an engineer in your mission, and even if there is one, it's not guaranteed that they're anywhere near you. Maybe they're out doing their own thing, or you are in a weird position far from them

I use hoverboots on every class... Its just really fun and not only will it save you but i will give you more options... For example if you are playing driller and are the last man alive on haz 5 mission and are surrounded often times using dash and then hover boots to full send my ass off a cliff works very well lmao

Resupplier is so good and i don’t know how i played without it for so long. Just the extra hp from resupply makes it S tier for me because I only play coop and a lot of the times you can’t get back up to full hp after you down because other people are taking the red sugar as well.