Dead by Daylight | Perks & Bloodweb

What Are Perks?How the Bloodweb Works Perk Tiers and Prestige Good Starter Perks for Beginners Perks & Bloodweb Tips for Beginners Next: Chase & Looping

Perks and the Bloodweb are Dead by Daylight's core progression systems, letting you unlock powerful abilities and upgrades for every Survivor and Killer you play.

What Are Perks?

Perks are passive abilities that modify how your character plays in a match. Each Survivor and Killer can equip up to four perks at a time, chosen before the match begins. Perks range from utility boosts like faster healing or generator repair speeds, to powerful effects like revealing the Killer's aura or getting a speed burst after unhooking a teammate.

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Teachable Perks

Every character has three unique perks. Once you unlock a character's perk in the Bloodweb at a high enough level, it becomes 'teachable' and can then appear in other characters' Bloodwebs too, so you can mix and match perks across your roster.

How the Bloodweb Works

The Bloodweb is a web-shaped progression map that appears for every character individually. You spend Bloodpoints, the in-game currency earned at the end of each match, to claim nodes on the web, which contain perks, add-ons, items, and offerings. Each time you claim enough nodes, the web resets at a higher level, introducing rarer and more powerful rewards.

Watch out

The Entity Steals Nodes

As you purchase nodes on the Bloodweb, the Entity (the game's supernatural force) will begin to consume unclaimed nodes. You cannot stop this, plan your path through the web to grab the nodes you want before they disappear.

Perk Tiers and Prestige

Most perks come in three tiers (I, II, and III), with each tier offering a stronger version of the same effect. You upgrade a perk's tier by finding higher-level versions of it deeper in the Bloodweb as your character levels up. Once a character reaches level 50, you can Prestige them, resetting their level but permanently unlocking their perks at all tiers for every character on your account.

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Prestige Is Worth It

Since a 2022 update, Prestiging a character to level 1 immediately shares their Tier 1 teachable perks with all other characters, removing the old grind of finding teachables through each individual Bloodweb. Prestige further to unlock Tier 2 and Tier 3 versions account-wide.

Good Starter Perks for Beginners

As a new Survivor, perks like Dead Hard (gives a brief invincibility dash), Borrowed Time (protects a rescued teammate from being immediately re-hooked), and Self-Care (lets you heal yourself without a Med-Kit) are widely considered beginner-friendly and effective. For new Killers, Barbecue & Chili (shows auras of distant Survivors after a hook) and Pop Goes the Weasel (regresses a generator after a hook) are strong fundamentals that also teach good habits.

Perks & Bloodweb Tips for Beginners

Focus on leveling one or two characters first rather than spreading Bloodpoints thin across your whole roster, you'll unlock strong perks faster and get more consistent results.

Prioritize pathing toward perk nodes in the Bloodweb rather than add-ons or offerings early on, perks have the most long-term impact on your gameplay.

Don't ignore the Bloodweb's outer ring, rarer (purple and gold) nodes appear toward the edges and often contain Tier III perks or powerful items.

You earn Bloodpoints for almost everything you do in a match, healing, unhooking, doing generators, chasing Survivors, and more, so try to play actively even if the match isn't going well.

Check what perks your opponents used after each match in the post-game screen, it's a great way to discover strong perks you haven't unlocked yet and plan your next progression goal.

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