How to value Balanced Landing perk?

[Pimpin Pippin]

I started DbD yesterday but i have been watching the game for a few years.
I watched a few latest DbD perk tier videos and Balanced Landing perk is rated really highly.

And sure when i am on a map that has a lot of such places where i can "fall" to trigger it the perk is of amazing value.
However then there are quite a few other maps where such ledges/cliffs are rather rare.

Sometimes it happens that i dont get to use Balanced Landing during the entire match simply because the map and the situation (teammates & killer) makes it impractical despite me trying to be near such elevated locations.

So i am really unsure how to value Balance Landing as a perk?

On some maps it is awesome and on some maps/matches it is borderline useless.
Feels very random and unreliable... and i kinda prefer Perks that i can count on to be useful (Spine Chill, Urban Evasion etc).
Should i still always use Balanced Landing?

[MAriskaDeville]

Well personally it's my fave exhaustion perk. Just for the fact you keep the stun reduction even if exhausted. As most maps seem to have plenty of large buildings this means you can really extend the chase.

[costasiero]

Get used to the fact that depending on some maps or killers... some if not most of your perks will be useless

[:D]

i use lithe, because all maps have more vaults than drop offs. However, even when BL is procc'd, on a cooldown, and u jump off a ledge of any kind, u will suffer no stagger effect.

Also, there are many areas where u can proc BL, without having an actual drop off from a second story level. The giant tree in shelter woods can do it, and also harvesters/combines in the cornfields, etc.

[Sibirian]

Stop searching for this meta tier peek ♥♥♥♥. Make your own experience with Perks. Cause some people say Balanced landing is top tier doesn't mean you can handle it.
1. The activation condition. On some maps you will pretty much have no problem activating it, on other maps especially Larry's are horrible for BL.
2. Timing of activation only jumping down in chase to activate it, is a pure waste. You have to get used to the surroundings so you can us BL useful. If you only jump down from a hill at the beginning of a chase is like throwing a pallet when a killer starts chasing you.

[HUNGRY AS A HIPPY]

You should most definitely ALWAYS have a perk that causes exhaustion (excluding Head On). Why? Because exhaustion perks are what will assist in gaining distance from the killer.

Out of Sprint Burst, Lithe, Dead Hard and Balanced Landing, Balanced Landing is my go to exhaust perk simply because it not only allows me to travel to high points of a map and fall breaking into a sprint, but it also has a 75% stagger reduction effect at all times. Meaning, if I'm exhausted, I can still have the reduced stagger effect. This is EXTREMELY useful when it comes to looping two story buildings and maps like Haddon Field.

While it's a gamble to bring Balanced Landing as, like you said, not all maps have drop off zones, I still believe it is the best go to exhaust perk.

If not Balanced Landing, I'd say give Dead Hard a try. It is bugged at the moment though. Sometimes when the activate button is pressed, you will gain exhaustion but the perk won't actually trigger. But when the perk does work, it is extremely good if you stuff up during a chase. Dead Hard also allows players to cover a small amount of ground to get them to that pallet or window. For example, if you're in chase and the killer's gaining and you see the red stain behind and there's a pallet or window in front of you, all you have to do is Dead Hard and you have covered, around, 5 metres in a second, if that makes any sense.

Sprint Burst is a waste of time as you will be walking around the map saving your sprint which also wastes a lot of time.

Lithe is not too bad, but it's still not the greatest. It's good when you combined it with other perks like Quit and Quiet and/or Dance With Me.

As a whole, I'd say yes, keep Balanced Landing in your loadout!

[Let the Metal Live]

Nguyên văn bởi MatHad3r:

Stop searching for this meta tier peek ♥♥♥♥. Make your own experience with Perks. Cause some people say Balanced landing is top tier doesn't mean you can handle it.
1. The activation condition. On some maps you will pretty much have no problem activating it, on other maps especially Larry's are horrible for BL.
2. Timing of activation only jumping down in chase to activate it, is a pure waste. You have to get used to the surroundings so you can us BL useful. If you only jump down from a hill at the beginning of a chase is like throwing a pallet when a killer starts chasing you.

Lery's has one of the strongest BL infinite's.

[rat]

BL activation spots are far from rare.The perk activates even from a small jump. The only map that is hard to trigger it is Shelter Woods. In every other map you have spots to trigger it. And its insane in some maps.