The ULTIMATE Perk Tier List for Deep Rock Galactic 

It should give like 1hp every 2 swarmer kills so it still works on swarmers but isn’t as powerful

​@dangernoodle1191 the issue is that it'd make 2 swarmers turn iw into a full revive, meanwhile beforehand you have to have a grunt for iw revive

Add swarmsgendon - 20+ swarmers a minute == 10hp all the time

I wish the main heal portion was high, like 8 for grunts and if you kill a larger bug, it scaled, like 16 for a guard or Stingtail and like 24 or 36 for a praetorian

That would make the cryo + drill combo busted af, so i can’t see them doing that as it’s already one of the best strats for high difficulty

Almost always run resupplier, having that resupply time shortened aswell as reload of weapons and extra health can mean the difference between being downed during a swarm or successfully getting back in the fray with a fresh set of ammo and health

This is late but yeah, resupplier is so good. Even on haz five, the health alone is enough to nearly full heal if you’ve been downed, you just need one chunk of red sugar to top off. The resupply speed is great too though, especially when you’re fighting dreadnoughts.

​@@CplPunishmntresupplier isn't even a choice it's a MANDATORY pick on any hazard level, just like Iron Will + Vampire. It's so incredibly important, I genuinely don't understand why anyone sleeps on it

That with iron will as you can restock and sometimes revive a downed teammate if they are close enough or even dash jump for longer distance

Any tier list is that many things will be just objectively the correct option at the top. Usually, the worse items offset this with a "fun factor" like Beast Tamer does, but honestly none of the other perks actually make your experience all that much more fun, so it's not really worth it to NOT min max your perks. Unfortunate really

>just make dash an innate ability. Would definitely expand how I used my active perks.

Combine it with the static shock mod on your armor will prevent slashers from getting more then one swipe on you

Counter goo with cheese if all else fails

Yeah, started running this perk with everyone except Scout recently. Its kinda baffling that they still havent updated the description of the perk, almost makes it feel like they want to keep it as a semi secret.

Honestly even with scout its useful for when you run out of ammo, it alone has saved me a few times

Isn't it made irrelevant by Dash?

They did that since the jet boots are activated by holding the jump button

@@Shiftermac but jet boots were added after the hover boots

You can rebind it to t if ya want. I forget if q is used anywhere

@@TaigaClawsbut it rebinds Molly hollar too

​@@Skullhawk13 If you're on PC there's a mod for that. SimpleQOL Let's you add a bind for Hover Boots and Dash and gives you the option of disabling the standard bind.

You can do that without the perk. Grapple towards a wall, let go just before hitting the wall, power attack.

@@X_Lander Yep, and if miss the angle and fall, Hoverclock/Special Powder will negate any Fall Damage.

So you active while up by the ore? I always used it to prevent fall damage

@@leoritchie9635 you can do both, you can also use it to recharge your grappling hook and when youre done mining from the inconvenient place you just hop off and grapple into the ground to avoid fall damage while hover boots are recharging... either way its a pretty neat thing that isnt used very often from what iv seen...

would also be pretty handy for fossils and other elevated pickups like that. Though you can grab those right after the grapple by massing e, you can still use it to prevent the fall damage. Though with the passive reduction on the grappling hook itself you usually don't take that much damage anyway.

Bring Cryo, use damaging drills/throwing axe

I love being that guy. And once I met a driller running friendly while I was was gunner (explosive resistance) also running friendly... His C4 wouldn't even break my shield. It's actually pretty useful.

It deals 666 damage which is just enough to kill bet-c parasites in one shot on solo haz 3, but on 4 player haz 5 it would only do about 1/4 of its health. It would do basically chip damage to any dreadnaught or bulk or whatever.

However, it is completely outshined by iron will, which is just a straight up better version of it.

See you in hell needs a serious buff, like being able to activate more per mission or something.

I also agree that it should be at least in B tier. But still you can just not get yourself in those kinds of situation where you'll need it and instead get field medic or iron will

And I use dash like 20+ times per mission so… I can see its use cases but dash, field medic, and iron will can save an entire game many times. It’s not worth taking over the many MUCH more overpowered active perks. As for your high up swarm hypothetical scenario, sorry to be that guy but every class exept driller has a way to get down easily. Scout grapple, gunner zip, engi platform on the bottom and land on it to reduce fall damage. As for driller he already has insane cc and the drills make him by far the best dwarf for close encounters especially with vampire (you should always take with driller imo). Even if you still get overwhelmed and can’t get an engi or gunner to set up to catch your fall, or get another dwarf to stand below to land on (if you land on a dwarf it stops your fall) you can still try to edge clutch to save yourself (land on the edge of some terrain so you trigger the climb animation and save yourself). Genuinely not worth it even with some use cases. If you play more and learn to play without hover boots you will find that fall damage is not a big issue in skilled play

Especially in nasty pinches. Blasting an entire swarm with a sticky fire build will buy you time for a risky reload or to run! Pair this with the Driller's melee power means I will shoot through you if you run ahead! The damage you will take is much lesser than the risk of failing to hold the line. If you're a vampire please tell me in advance!

Two full inventories of nitra(40) will get u 1 res Two deep pocket ones (60) will get you 1 res You will only get one less deposit with deep pockets when ur getting the 3rd res So basically entire passive slot for one maybe two less deposits Not worth it

@@Kevin80237 If you are a scout, you'll be gathering loads of minerals the entire time. The ability to have 60 will make sure that if you find a big ore chunk you'll always be able to clear it without a full inventory. It allows your teammates to stick with Molly. It makes missions faster, and thus safer. Going from 40/45 to 60 is is a 50% increase, which is HUGE. This means that for ever 2 runs you bring back, only 1 other dwarf has to help out to give you 2 resupplies, and in your example its 2 dwarves. It also means, as a scout, that if you find a huge chunk of ore in a dangerous spot, you don't have to get back there. Similarly, normally if you mine 2 smaller nitra nodes, you won't be able to carry all back (you need to move back, costing time), but with the perk you will. Equally, it isn't just for 1 resources, but for many. Meaning that if you spread out your mining, you'll bring back up to 50% more materials, with every run. Again, for every class this isn't worth it... except the scout due to their insane movement abilities. Remember, the job of a scout is to make runs more profitable, and a heck of a lot faster (among other positives they bring to the team). Faster = safer. Most people don't appreciate scouts enough, because their contribution is rarely in your face. For vertical levels where scouts can easily die to fall damage, this perk + hover boots qive quite the utility. And it can be used in nearly all missions as well.

@@Kevin80237if multiple teammates deposit with full note and deep pockets it does instead make a difference.

​@@Kevin80237 The number of mineral veins I have had to make a double trip to because it had more than 40 minerals, or my pockets were already partially full, makes deep pockets worth it from a time saving perspective, unless you're playing a really hard mission that you're struggling to survive. It's more of a quality of life perk, but that should be obvious.

For real

Strong arm is pretty useless

Except why? Why would you when you can take two more trips (if you are doing the mining Nitra you are probably the scout) who can grapple over to Molly in TWO SECONDS like seriously. With proper teamwork the scout is mainly mining nitra and the time between trips with their insane mobility is completely negligible. It’s absolutely not worth sacrificing a perk for like ten seconds saved through a mission when you could have any other good passive. (Vampire with iron will, thorns, born ready, resupplier, unstoppable, elemental insulation, and sweet tooth are all FAR better options since they help you stay alive, and if you die… it doesn’t matter how fast you got that nitra vein does it. Also don’t bring up “well if I get resupply faster it could save the team too” because if your team is getting swarmed and you are getting nitra and not helping them… well that’s a whole other issue. Sorry for ranting like this but I can’t help but get upset when people think the some quality of life improvement is better than a game changing stat buff or ability

​​​@@Andrew-pq3ljIf youre a solo player then fair but it can be extremely valuable to have even those 10 seconds (but likely more). On higher skill levels people move quick, molly can usually not keep up in my games. Having this extra capacity makes for a huge time save and that means that when my team enters a room and i go for the minerals, i am back in that fight so much quicker. as a scout you are already extremely mobile and therefore survivable if played well, so the survival perks only come in handy in edge cases. Its more about hit avoidance. If thats not the case for you then sure, pick survival perks. But shitting on someone isnt really necessary here. that time you save is there so you can be more firepower and distraction for your team, which helps in every single fight. Its a team game, and a perk that might not directly save YOU may be better for the team in the long run.

@@J0mCDI was kinda rude in my previous comment rereading it now lol but shitting on them wasn't my intention. I am just trying to show people that have the idea in their head that this perk provides much value at all that its wrong, even though it "feels" nice to use. Heres my counterargument: Nitra is worthless unless you hit certain values (multiples of eighty). You would have to get approx 6 full nitra deposits of 55 nitra each (330 total - 10 spare for 320 needed for 4 resups) to have gotten 80 more nitra total than you would have gotten without the perk. This also applies to morkite or other mineral quotas but the math is different there. In 90% of missions on the "higher skill levels" you mentioned, getting that amount of nitra is overkill when you can finish the missions with two or three resups at most. It is also poor time management to say that 10 seconds will matter, sure during a swarm or something that will certainly be the case, but even during haz 5 there is PLENTY of downtime for a scout to clear all of the nitra in a cave system after the fighting (or clearing of a room) is finished. Ive played over 600 hours and have never used deep pockets and have never had any issues with finding the time to get back to molly or mine minerals as scout. Yea people move quick in this game but with proper mule management she is never more than a couple grapples behind under normal circumstances. All of this doesnt even matter because as I said previously, the extra space will take AGES to pay off, and instead of getting the 15 extra nitra in a vein, leaving it and depositing at 40 nitra and going to the next vein is just as fast (actually faster because you are mining less) and again, you will only ever get an extra resupply every 320 nitra + plus you still have to spend the time mining that extra 80. What you said before about scout being very mobile is true, but damage is still inevitable playing this game for the vast majority of players. When you get to the point in skill that survival perks don't matter then an argument can be made that ALL perks are only handy in edge cases. While most of even the best passive perks are only handy in edge cases, with how long it takes to get any value from this perk, its a dead perk slot for every mission that doesn't reach the 320 nitra minimum to get value, and even then as I said before its wayyy overkill for smaller missions and bigger missions give you much more opportunities to deposit so its again, a dead slot. Thats why I think that way :/

And if you dont want friendly fire at all, there is also a mod for that

Friendly is s tier for gunner, automatic missile salvo to my feet and my shields don't even move.

It might be situational, but those situations lead to instant downs, which can easily spiral into more downs. So it is pretty useful. The number of leeches I've seen that reach out 90 degrees and snatch horizontally before you can even see them is pretty high.

It used to be stronger, on a 5 minute cooldown but that was years ago unfortunately.

Considering how often it's used, I don't think Iron Will needs more reason to be picked.

@@bluedistortions Very fair, it's more of an issue of other options not being competitive or close. The medical perk is just as good, but doesn't conflict with perk slots. Were they the same type they'd be the only 2 active perks anyone used in team play. What would even compete with a revive/temp revive? A twice per mission invulnerability perk maybe but that has the same problem, nost perks are not worth taking outside very specific nitches.

1200 hour dorf here, and I completely agree. I'd never take deep pockets on any class except scout. But as scout, I _always_ take deep pockets, because my primary job is to get the min'rals that provide the fuel for the team. It can also involve being away from the team for significant periods of time, and as you mentioned it can bog the team's progression down if you're calling Molly far away from the low mobility classes all the time. Also, Molly isn't even available on all mission types, so you can be travelling great distances just to grab a handful of nitra and have to go back to the same faraway area 2 or 3 times, which becomes a significantly bigger time & attention issue without deep pockets

How do you kite with hoverboots?

For me its very handy with Fat Boy, not just for accidental ally hits but also for intentional creation of radiation zone, then running through it with swarm following you, as radiation is also reduced by it you will take minimal damage, and it will roast and slow bugs, good way to get out of tough situations when you are surrounded.

@@belisarian6429in that situation dash is better (even though it’s an active you should be running it anyway)

@@Andrew-pq3lj yes and no, yes rush will get you to other side quicker, but sometimes that is not target, sometimes situation calls for you to run inside it for a while. As for dash to be must have, maybe, for me Iron will, instant Res and Steve are of similar importance,so it depends on situation.

I'll have to rexamine that perk.

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This is a haz 3 tier list for sure

Bro is a dating coach

Bad take

tbh sweet tooth is kinda a waste of a perk slot

​@@kronikz_2210free health cant be waste of a skill slot

@@user-we8kp3lc1s take what you want, but personally, i find resupplier to be a better health source. Red sugar isnt always available in many situations.

jet boots should be a hover boots upgrade

@@isactuallyark1110 It would be way too strong. Jet Boots are great as they are because they are so rare, its exciting to find. As soon as you hear that beeping its a rush to locate the crate. If you could have them in every mission it would just trivialize most situations.

As a new player, I really like See You In Hell, even if I don't always get to use it

That's pretty interesting

No leave the friends alone

​@@vladgabrielmatei9128I would if they didn't drop nitra

"I just popped a lootbug, and i'm not so proud of it."

And that's why I only use it with Scout

"Sorry little bug, your own fault for being full of goodies"

You can land on any mineral that is not gold. Really not that valuable because there are more veins in a mission that the 75 second cooldown can handle. You’re better off using your grapple and power attack. Hover boots are semi-useful for weird magma core ceiling veins, but in most cases you can ignore hard to reach veins like that. 1 nitra vein can help you, but most missions give you an inordinate excess of nitra. Morkite spawns in droves in the final room of a mission so hard to reach veins often aren’t worth it. Crafting minerals have it slightly better, but one vein won’t make or break your in game economy. For reference, I play exclusively haz 5 aside from goofing off in the discord lfg very occasionally. Not trying to shit on other hazards, just trying to give my info a little bit of credence.

@@duchoang5410 the problem is you can’t get all of it, and sometimes the health loss from fall damage isn’t worth it. At least imo cause I save red sugar as long as possible for late. Even with the fall damage upgrade on armor. For most of my missions I can get 1-4 ceiling nitra veins and idk why. I don’t use hover boots really, I almost exclusively only run iron will and field medic. But when I have run hover it’s been extremely nice. And especially depending on your play style, others would like it.

A good scout is able to power attack mid flight to make a hole to stand on any minerals except those nested into the ceiling cracks of magma core. That is however a big skill ceiling to reach and hover boots are a great savety net for learning how to do that.

@@Nikolai0169 I ran hover boots for a long time while doing my first promo on scout, and while I agree its use case is so slim it isn't worth the slot, every few missions I see a vein that I can't land on because of the slope of the cave, but if i had boots to hover for a few seconds I could carve a landing.

I think one use case for hover boots can be if you're high up somewhere and a sudden swarm comes, you can then jump off the ledge and land safely without worrying about fall damage. I played around it with a while and it is very effective in those cases. Sadly though, there is only 2 active slots and the competition is rough.

It really depends on the loadout. Besides the weapons mentioned there are some that just reload really quickly anyway, the Boltshark still needs to reload whenever you switch ammo types, etc. Getting the passive reload on Support tools can be pretty handy though, if hardly crucial.

Fun fact! Randoweisser just randomizes your loadout, not give you a random person's. Or at least I don't think anyone is using the demon head with plastic coating on driller...

Shit I run sweet tooth too

I'd argue Deep Pockets is a scout perk due to them having the main job to collect hard to reach ores. Every time you find either 2 small chunks or 1 very large chunk, normally you lack space. Now you don't, and have enough. It saves trips, thus time and you don't have to leave behind ore because you can't bring it with you.

Nope no reupload. It may have just been something similar.

and also if there's just no red sugar nearby at all

He did say this at 34:11