I'm new, what perks should I be unlocking for Driller? from Early to Mid to Late game.

[BryanChung]

I'm new, what perks should I be unlocking for Driller? from Early to Mid to Late game.

Thanks.

[Chris!!]

Go for the extra slots first, then in order of Tiers:
1 - Field Medic (equip), Thorns (equip), See You In Hell
2 - Field Medic, Veteran Depositer (switch), Thorns
3 - Field Medic, Resupplier (switch), Veteran Depositer, Iron Will
4 - New Passive Perk Slot (equip Veteran Depositer), Elemental Insulation (switch over Veteran Depositer), Veteran Depositer, Resupplier, Iron Will
5 - Resupplier, Elemental Insulation, Iron Will, Unstoppable, Strong Arm
6 - Vampire (switch over Elemental Insulation), Iron Will (switch over Field Medic), Resupplier, Dash, Beast Master.
7 - Vampire, Born Ready, Deep Pockets, Dash, Beast Master.
8 - Vampire, Born Ready, Deep Pockets, Dash, Beast Master.
9 - New Passive Perk Slot

After that, unlock and use any equipment you fancy. I personally run Vampire, Deep Pockets, Born Ready / Elemental Insulation, Iron Will on all my characters and it works phenomenally even on Haz5 with randoms. Get your character promoted so you can get the second active perk slot opened (the blue perks), and put on something like Field Medic, Dash or Beast Master, but remember that Iron Will is king and will save many missions if you use it appropriately.

[Mr. Man!]

vampire

[RASTIL]

Never leave home without dash

[Uzkniso o.o]

RASTIL님이 먼저 게시:

Never leave home without dash

I seriously hope you meant hover boots.

[kestrel]

BryanChung님이 먼저 게시:

that sounds good =D

so i do need to get Cryo first eh.

i wouldnt say to rush and unlock the cryo just for the benefit of proccing vampire. the CRSPR and sludge pump are much better weapons than it anyway
work at your own pace and explore your options first

[Bookslayer10]

Dash, Field Medic, and Iron Will are all the best general use active perks, the other active perks are more situational.

Resupplier is always a great passive perk, and Driller benefits a lot from Vampire because of all his melee weapons.

Born Ready isn't as good on him because only a few of his weapons have reloads compared to other classes, and Thorns is less useful because many of his weapons have automatic AoE effects to easily keep swarmers off of you.

[DARB DADDY]

Iron Will and Sprint for all classes active slots if you're starting out, will save your team in a pinch, use iw as a last resort only, sprint to either revive someone or to get health so that you won't go down when iron will ends.

[Cursed Hawkins]

Chibbity님이 먼저 게시:

Whichever ones seems interesting or good to you, they are all great; and you'll get them all unlocked eventually.

That said "It's a Bug Thing" is kind of a joke perk.

It's the only GOOD joke perk, because it'll piss off the lootbug lovers.

[MeowMixMax]

Dash, Iron Will, Vampire, Sweet Tooth, Resupplier.

[Chris!!]

Cursed Hawkins님이 먼저 게시:

Chibbity님이 먼저 게시:

Whichever ones seems interesting or good to you, they are all great; and you'll get them all unlocked eventually.

That said "It's a Bug Thing" is kind of a joke perk.

It's the only GOOD joke perk, because it'll piss off the lootbug lovers.

IABT is unironically a great pick for Scout and Loki Engineer on a lot of missions, since you can dive in all kill most if not all the lootbugs in a cave, especially on Salvage and Refinery where they for some reason gather around those machines. There's a lot worse picks that rarely gets you any value anyway despite not being joke perks.

[Chibbity]

Chris!!님이 먼저 게시:

IABT is unironically a great pick for Scout and Loki Engineer on a lot of missions, since you can dive in all kill most if not all the lootbugs in a cave, especially on Salvage and Refinery where they for some reason gather around those machines. There's a lot worse picks that rarely gets you any value anyway despite not being joke perks.

Well, IABT is the only perk the dev's have literally stated to be a joke perk; so intent counts for a lot lol.

That said, you can make any perk work, even IABT.

[Acolyte]

I don't know if I'm the first one saying this, but it doesn't really matter which you choose to be honest. They are what the label says; just a few perks that are semi-noticeable throughout the match. The true "optimal" perk loadout changes on a mission-by-mission basis and depending on whether or not you're solo or multi, what classes your mates are, what mission you're dipping into, etc.

Instead of focusing on what's "best", pick a handful that sound interesting and rock em on a mission. I mean, beast master is objectively not seen as much of a meta, but I was so fascinated by it when I first discovered it, just sounded cool to have pet bug. I've been solo-ing Elite Deep Dives weekly with my Steevie on all classes round-robin style since, and half the time I forget to use it in the first place.


What really matters in the game is your upgrades, and your overclocks. Bread and butter. Ask about those or better yet look into them and figure out some builds. Having a coherent load-out of weaponry that works well, compensates or sacrifices, and synergises well with other abilities/guns in the same set is literally what the game's about.

[BryanChung]

Thanks for all the comments guys! :)

[BryanChung]

Chris!!님이 먼저 게시:

Go for the extra slots first, then in order of Tiers:
1 - Field Medic (equip), Thorns (equip), See You In Hell
2 - Field Medic, Veteran Depositer (switch), Thorns
3 - Field Medic, Resupplier (switch), Veteran Depositer, Iron Will
4 - New Passive Perk Slot (equip Veteran Depositer), Elemental Insulation (switch over Veteran Depositer), Veteran Depositer, Resupplier, Iron Will
5 - Resupplier, Elemental Insulation, Iron Will, Unstoppable, Strong Arm
6 - Vampire (switch over Elemental Insulation), Iron Will (switch over Field Medic), Resupplier, Dash, Beast Master.
7 - Vampire, Born Ready, Deep Pockets, Dash, Beast Master.
8 - Vampire, Born Ready, Deep Pockets, Dash, Beast Master.
9 - New Passive Perk Slot

After that, unlock and use any equipment you fancy. I personally run Vampire, Deep Pockets, Born Ready / Elemental Insulation, Iron Will on all my characters and it works phenomenally even on Haz5 with randoms. Get your character promoted so you can get the second active perk slot opened (the blue perks), and put on something like Field Medic, Dash or Beast Master, but remember that Iron Will is king and will save many missions if you use it appropriately.

Thanks for this! :)

[Нагризолич]

I constantly run thorns, resupplier and vampirism as passive perks, and fisting iron will with dash as active perks. Thorns are good for dealing with pesky swarmers and nanocytes, but driller is second-best class to deal with small enemies, so you may want something else. Resupplier is good when you quickly need to get a resup while your iron will last, and you get a free reload to start blasting immediately, and generally good for getting extra health from resupplying. Vampirism is one of the best perks if you run cryo - drilling and power attacking frozen enemies will get you a lot of health.
Speaking of, iron will is the single most useful perks of them all regardless if you play solo or with other people. Vampirism helps a lot, because you get up with 0 health and when it runs out, you die again, so the first thing you want to do is melee kill any medium or bigger enemy, likely with a power attack. Dash is your perk to escape encirclement and to cross gaps via jumping, with it you can turn a hopeless situation into a good clump of enemies to kill. It's got pretty low cooldown timer too.
Heightened senses are a crutch that will postpone your inevitable realisation that you have to look up. Field medic is kinda good if you play scout, but as driller clearing out surrounded body isn't that hard, even if you're beset by fliers or shooters you can just drill a pit to hide and revive your teammate. The rest of the perks are really meh to useless tier, unless you want something like berserker with cryo, never tried it though. Beast master is also kinda useful, but it does have it's drawbacks, try it yourself to see.