I played quite a bit, just missing some of the Hazard-5-Milestones. I want to share my experience and formally disagree with some Rankings. Otherwise I like the Tier-List. - Driller-Foreman: Go for the Subata 120 with Acid and this will be your Bosskiller. Never won a Hazard-5 with it, but Hazard-4 a couple of times. I would put it into B-Tier, but it could be A. - Driller-Interrogater: The Acid-Drone is your Boss-Killer and the Sludge-Pump is really good at taking care of Mobs. Give it some Frost and it's really quite good. Also B-Tier, I guess. Probably A. Hazard-4 is doable, but I never beat Hazard-5 with it. - Engineer-Tinkerer: The Warthog, with the Upgrades you described, can carry you through a Hazard-4-Game. It's stronger than the Turrets Maintainance-Worker-Turrets-Build in most cases, I think, but the Turret-Build, with some luck, can scale incredebly high, with Hazard-5-Potential, while the Warthig might not - not sure yet. Solid A. Just regarding Hazard-5: I got the best runs with the Heavy-Gunner,, full on Thunderhead. With piercing it's the best weapon in the Game overall, imo. The only other Class to win Hazard-5 for me was the Scout-Sharpshooter. Recon feels very powerful with full-crit and focus on zhukov > M1000, but I never have enough damage at the end. I also almost beat it with the first two Engineer-Sub-Classes, the Driller-Interogater, Scout-Recon and the Gunner-Juggernaut. While I don't remember beeing close to beat the final Boss, I also made it to Level 5 on Hazard-5 with the Driller-Foreman a couple of times already. I just get overwhelmed at one point, but he is the best escapist in the whole game. PS: I also hate the Demolitionist for the same reasons. Additionally to the annoying visuals, I also never made it strong enough, not even for Hazard-4. How to build him?
I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts in a respectful way! And ya, screw the demolitionist! As for building him..ugh, I dunno. I cleared hazard 5 leveling the PGL, and then had incendiary grenades, shock fence, and neuro grenades. It’s my least played class though.
Honestly, games are only this hot for so long...so as a content creator I gotta capitalize. The algorithm has been generous with this game...so ya, dropping 1-2 videos a day for it. It's been a ton of fun though, this game has been a blast trying to find new builds, and checking out all the overclocks for the guns.
thanks for all this valuable advice. I decided to go all in with the interrogator first and enjoyed him really much. you put him in d tier and i am wondering if i will enjoy the other classes even more =)
I think if we’re looking at pure power, I don’t think you can really have the sharpshooter or one of the gunner classes below S. They are the easiest to clear Hazard 5 with from what I’ve seen from not just my experience, but other YTers.
I think your tier list is pretty comparable to my experience going through the game. Kind of struggling on hazard 4 and 5 with the classes based around status damage. Stupid idiot is a funny insult, id allow that lol.
I went to hazard 5 on magma core with demolitionist, and it was horrible. To make matters worse, i did flame granade build and did the second kinetic explosion, and the split to 3 bombs overclocks, had lots of area, and reload upgrade on the explosives. It was an effective build but i did not see a thing because everything was just red and orange on the screen (the terrain and the monsters included.) Unfortunately it was not effective vs the boss. I think this is however not a class balance problem, its a game core mechanic issue. It needs some sort of a visibility setting in the options to make the effects transparent or turn them off. When this happened to me, i went to the options immediately, but sadly there were no such setting.
Haha, ya I don’t think it’s a balance issue…the class is somewhat strong. But I absolutely hate not seeing anything, and has been the reason I died a bunch of times.
23:30 YES, I tried doing a max explosion demolitionist (got a couple legendary explosion radius buffs too) and it sucked by level 4. I was dealing tons of damage but not everything was dying in one hit, and they were hidden under the explosions. I think they definitely need to limit explosion opacity or at least put the bugs "over" the explosion effect. It is really fun making things go boom but not when you can't see :( Also I keep hearing people sing praises for Thubderhead. I grant that it is strong but being locked in to a particular firing direction makes it rough. I'm assuming if you're using it, you must get its overclocks otherwise it's pretty useless at lower levels. I definitely agree with Sharpshooter being at the top. I was doing 76k crits on Hazard 5 and killed the dreadnaught before he even jumped a single time. Absolutely bonkers, and I'll be sweeping through to get the dive clears on most everything else with that build.
Thunderhead imo is the most OP weapon in the game, and requires very little to make it strong. By level 12 you’re guaranteed to get piercing on it, and then it just shreds everything. It’s a boss killer and mob killer. Explosive build sucks lol, hate. I avoid playing it.
Hazard 5 is very hard on slow build, turrets unless you get lucky you get overwhelmed, gunner 3 and scout 3 have an easier time stacking damage, other builds suffer a lot in early game with that flying mf semi boss that wont let you mine.
i really hate the starting weapons for half the classes... accidentally they are the classes that rank worst as well i do agree that some weapons need serious buffs but as far as starting weapons it would be much better if we got an RNG selection of weapons to pick for a starting weapon, same as on lvl 5, 10 and 15 also this will let us make builds that arent possible in the game at the moment like all 4 of the flying drones... dont know if the devs just didnt think of it or it is intentionally made so they have archetypes to add for future classes with some of the updates but as it is now it feels unnecessarily restrictive also they did say the robot that follows you will play a lot more meaningful role eventually with its own progression and stuff and this might be reserved for that but this type of games need the mechanic to combine 2 weapons/weapon and artifact or something along those lines to make something more unique and no such mechanic exist at the the moment
I think the starting weapons is one of the bigger flaws of the game. I'd like to see 2 or 3 choices for starting gear atleast. Cause like you said, I wanna do a full drone, or full plasma...or full something. It's harder when you're forced to start with 1 weapon.
Mostly agree with your list. Demolitionist cant see jack, I totally agree that subclass needs separate video settings. :-D I dont agree with Interrogator though. I have cleared H5 almost by accident. You can STACK the effects and that CRUSHES bosses. On the other hand thunderhead autocannon is a very finicky weapon for me, because I cannot predict where it will shoot. So gunner is B tier for me. IMO this game depends more on RNG in terms of level ups than anything else, because spending gold on rerolls in level is almost heresy. :-D
I think engineer general is worst class in the game. explosive weapons are downright terrible because the game heavily focuses killing boss mobs. Demo is terrible. I have finished level 60 achieve on him then i have tried around 15 runs to devise a good build on demo engineer on hazard 5 and i only won once out of the times that i got to area 5. the class is just terrible at killing boss. Tinkerer is not that much better. Tinkerer is designed to run 4 plasma weapons which are warhog, lmg turret, shard defractor and plasma cutter. All these weapons god awful. Lmg turret takes 18 levels before it is useful. warhog requires plasma which is rng weapon otherwise worthless. Plasma cutter is really good as Aoe weapon but terrible as boss killer. This game is all about killing bosses enemy. Shard defractor is ok with 100% damage and 150% damage for beam life-time but you need roll life-time bonuses to make it good which require a lot of luck. Maintenance worker is only viable engineer choice and that is because it gains access to Flame turrets and Viper drone which do not belong engineer, they are driller weapons but it allows engineer to clear h5. Due to large number of constructs, Stubby becomes viable weapon because the lvl 18 overclock for this weapon is to shoot constructs that deal exploding damage and pushback.
From what I understand each character has a default set of weapons, of about 10 guns. When it says give access to a certain type, it means all those light weapons are also added in the pool now. Meaning you get access to about 15 weapons now in your selection….*I think*. 🤔
@@OHRyePlays I just played a few runs to confirm. Your first answer is the correct one. We get access to the light weapons from the other three classes. Thanks a lot!
The Weapons Specialist out of the box is by far my least favorite character. Once you've unlocked a bunch of the weapons it gets better, but it is very hard to use all by itself - the lead storm just stinks, even with fire and piercing it requires meta-progression damage and crit bonuses to be effective, and it's terrible on bosses because you're running away from the boss most of the time. I would put it in D tier until you unlock a bunch of heavy weapons to make it viable.
@lays i think you underrated the classic scout. i actually prefer classic scout over markman. M/S is really strong stat in the game because it allows you explore quickly and this bonus counter-act ammo reg artifact giving you only 5% m/s penalty. you essentially gain 50% fire-rate for free for selecting this class. The GKG can clear hazard 5 very easily. it does like 20,000 dps with 150% damage/100% reload bonus for -damage overclock and if you get Plasma rifle with Saw out upgrade, this is same upgrade that m1000 has. it gives plasma rifle 5 bullet for 1 ammo shot so it becomes like a shotgun assault rifle which is just as strong as M1000 sniper rifle into shotgun.
@@OHRyePlays ultimate class tier list is click bait then. Just saying i come here based off the title from someone who has unlocked all the guns and the overclock . I didn't watch long enough to hear you say your excuse as to why it's not actually a ultimate class tier list my bad.
A true gray-beard would have "leaf-lover" be the F/D tier equivalent.
I played quite a bit, just missing some of the Hazard-5-Milestones. I want to share my experience and formally disagree with some Rankings. Otherwise I like the Tier-List.
- Driller-Foreman: Go for the Subata 120 with Acid and this will be your Bosskiller. Never won a Hazard-5 with it, but Hazard-4 a couple of times. I would put it into B-Tier, but it could be A.
- Driller-Interrogater: The Acid-Drone is your Boss-Killer and the Sludge-Pump is really good at taking care of Mobs. Give it some Frost and it's really quite good. Also B-Tier, I guess. Probably A. Hazard-4 is doable, but I never beat Hazard-5 with it.
- Engineer-Tinkerer: The Warthog, with the Upgrades you described, can carry you through a Hazard-4-Game. It's stronger than the Turrets Maintainance-Worker-Turrets-Build in most cases, I think, but the Turret-Build, with some luck, can scale incredebly high, with Hazard-5-Potential, while the Warthig might not - not sure yet. Solid A.
Just regarding Hazard-5: I got the best runs with the Heavy-Gunner,, full on Thunderhead. With piercing it's the best weapon in the Game overall, imo. The only other Class to win Hazard-5 for me was the Scout-Sharpshooter. Recon feels very powerful with full-crit and focus on zhukov > M1000, but I never have enough damage at the end.
I also almost beat it with the first two Engineer-Sub-Classes, the Driller-Interogater, Scout-Recon and the Gunner-Juggernaut. While I don't remember beeing close to beat the final Boss, I also made it to Level 5 on Hazard-5 with the Driller-Foreman a couple of times already. I just get overwhelmed at one point, but he is the best escapist in the whole game.
PS: I also hate the Demolitionist for the same reasons. Additionally to the annoying visuals, I also never made it strong enough, not even for Hazard-4. How to build him?
I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts in a respectful way!
And ya, screw the demolitionist!
As for building him..ugh, I dunno. I cleared hazard 5 leveling the PGL, and then had incendiary grenades, shock fence, and neuro grenades. It’s my least played class though.
@@OHRyePlays, you beat Hazard-5 with it? Respect ✌
You're pumping out the content on this game, I love it!
Honestly, games are only this hot for so long...so as a content creator I gotta capitalize. The algorithm has been generous with this game...so ya, dropping 1-2 videos a day for it. It's been a ton of fun though, this game has been a blast trying to find new builds, and checking out all the overclocks for the guns.
@@OHRyePlays Haha glad it's working out. I've been watching every single one of these in full while I'm playing.
thanks for all this valuable advice. I decided to go all in with the interrogator first and enjoyed him really much. you put him in d tier and i am wondering if i will enjoy the other classes even more =)
youre awesome dude. thanks for the great content!
Appreciate it!
Great tier list. I think we have the same view about these classes. Btw loving the content on the channel keep it up
Thanks!
I think if we’re looking at pure power, I don’t think you can really have the sharpshooter or one of the gunner classes below S. They are the easiest to clear Hazard 5 with from what I’ve seen from not just my experience, but other YTers.
I think your tier list is pretty comparable to my experience going through the game. Kind of struggling on hazard 4 and 5 with the classes based around status damage. Stupid idiot is a funny insult, id allow that lol.
Ya, status damage still needs a bit of a buff...they got a little one, but it wasnt enough. Piercing seems to be the strongest effect atm.
I played Engineer with three different drones and it changed my life forever. Protoss Carrier class is the funnest class!
I went to hazard 5 on magma core with demolitionist, and it was horrible. To make matters worse, i did flame granade build and did the second kinetic explosion, and the split to 3 bombs overclocks, had lots of area, and reload upgrade on the explosives. It was an effective build but i did not see a thing because everything was just red and orange on the screen (the terrain and the monsters included.) Unfortunately it was not effective vs the boss.
I think this is however not a class balance problem, its a game core mechanic issue. It needs some sort of a visibility setting in the options to make the effects transparent or turn them off. When this happened to me, i went to the options immediately, but sadly there were no such setting.
Haha, ya I don’t think it’s a balance issue…the class is somewhat strong. But I absolutely hate not seeing anything, and has been the reason I died a bunch of times.
Extremely helpful video, and thank you for directly addressing my previous comment
23:30 YES, I tried doing a max explosion demolitionist (got a couple legendary explosion radius buffs too) and it sucked by level 4. I was dealing tons of damage but not everything was dying in one hit, and they were hidden under the explosions. I think they definitely need to limit explosion opacity or at least put the bugs "over" the explosion effect. It is really fun making things go boom but not when you can't see :(
Also I keep hearing people sing praises for Thubderhead. I grant that it is strong but being locked in to a particular firing direction makes it rough. I'm assuming if you're using it, you must get its overclocks otherwise it's pretty useless at lower levels.
I definitely agree with Sharpshooter being at the top. I was doing 76k crits on Hazard 5 and killed the dreadnaught before he even jumped a single time. Absolutely bonkers, and I'll be sweeping through to get the dive clears on most everything else with that build.
Thunderhead imo is the most OP weapon in the game, and requires very little to make it strong. By level 12 you’re guaranteed to get piercing on it, and then it just shreds everything. It’s a boss killer and mob killer.
Explosive build sucks lol, hate. I avoid playing it.
interrogator could be so fun if the flamethrower and other splash weapons wouldnt be completely trash
I agree. I hope at some point they give you options for starter weapons.
How do you rank up fast? I know you just play the game, but doing something specific gives you more rank?
I’ll be honest, I don’t know. If anything I would assume it’s the exp you gain while you play.
Hazard 5 is very hard on slow build, turrets unless you get lucky you get overwhelmed, gunner 3 and scout 3 have an easier time stacking damage, other builds suffer a lot in early game with that flying mf semi boss that wont let you mine.
i really hate the starting weapons for half the classes... accidentally they are the classes that rank worst as well
i do agree that some weapons need serious buffs but as far as starting weapons it would be much better if we got an RNG selection of weapons to pick for a starting weapon, same as on lvl 5, 10 and 15
also this will let us make builds that arent possible in the game at the moment like all 4 of the flying drones... dont know if the devs just didnt think of it or it is intentionally made so they have archetypes to add for future classes with some of the updates but as it is now it feels unnecessarily restrictive
also they did say the robot that follows you will play a lot more meaningful role eventually with its own progression and stuff and this might be reserved for that but this type of games need the mechanic to combine 2 weapons/weapon and artifact or something along those lines to make something more unique and no such mechanic exist at the the moment
I think the starting weapons is one of the bigger flaws of the game. I'd like to see 2 or 3 choices for starting gear atleast.
Cause like you said, I wanna do a full drone, or full plasma...or full something. It's harder when you're forced to start with 1 weapon.
Would love to see a refresh on this after the status effect buff today
Ya, I’ll revisit it in another month or so. I’m gonna wait for more balance updates.
Mostly agree with your list.
Demolitionist cant see jack, I totally agree that subclass needs separate video settings. :-D
I dont agree with Interrogator though. I have cleared H5 almost by accident. You can STACK the effects and that CRUSHES bosses.
On the other hand thunderhead autocannon is a very finicky weapon for me, because I cannot predict where it will shoot. So gunner is B tier for me.
IMO this game depends more on RNG in terms of level ups than anything else, because spending gold on rerolls in level is almost heresy. :-D
I think engineer general is worst class in the game. explosive weapons are downright terrible because the game heavily focuses killing boss mobs. Demo is terrible. I have finished level 60 achieve on him then i have tried around 15 runs to devise a good build on demo engineer on hazard 5 and i only won once out of the times that i got to area 5. the class is just terrible at killing boss. Tinkerer is not that much better. Tinkerer is designed to run 4 plasma weapons which are warhog, lmg turret, shard defractor and plasma cutter. All these weapons god awful. Lmg turret takes 18 levels before it is useful. warhog requires plasma which is rng weapon otherwise worthless. Plasma cutter is really good as Aoe weapon but terrible as boss killer. This game is all about killing bosses enemy. Shard defractor is ok with 100% damage and 150% damage for beam life-time but you need roll life-time bonuses to make it good which require a lot of luck. Maintenance worker is only viable engineer choice and that is because it gains access to Flame turrets and Viper drone which do not belong engineer, they are driller weapons but it allows engineer to clear h5. Due to large number of constructs, Stubby becomes viable weapon because the lvl 18 overclock for this weapon is to shoot constructs that deal exploding damage and pushback.
Tactical leadburster jugg op op
Hello, Mr . OhRye, I hope you now love crit chance and damage as much as I do.😃
glad i’m not the only one kinda meh about the driller. i keep hearing people say it’s their favorite class and i’m like 🤔
Ya, I don’t see it. Overall it’s my least favorite.
What do you mean "axe is okay"
Axe is the worst weapon in the game. Straight suicided!
😯😯
Demolitionist S tier because large boom
Automatically D Tier cause of that.
i only play with tower builds its so fun
What does it really mean by "Gives access to [LIGHT] weapons"? How does it affect the weapon selection RNG when levelling up?
From what I understand each character has a default set of weapons, of about 10 guns. When it says give access to a certain type, it means all those light weapons are also added in the pool now. Meaning you get access to about 15 weapons now in your selection….*I think*. 🤔
Or maybe it means you only get light weapons now. lol…it’s one or the other.
@@OHRyePlays I just played a few runs to confirm. Your first answer is the correct one. We get access to the light weapons from the other three classes. Thanks a lot!
The Weapons Specialist out of the box is by far my least favorite character. Once you've unlocked a bunch of the weapons it gets better, but it is very hard to use all by itself - the lead storm just stinks, even with fire and piercing it requires meta-progression damage and crit bonuses to be effective, and it's terrible on bosses because you're running away from the boss most of the time. I would put it in D tier until you unlock a bunch of heavy weapons to make it viable.
Fair point!
@lays i think you underrated the classic scout. i actually prefer classic scout over markman. M/S is really strong stat in the game because it allows you explore quickly and this bonus counter-act ammo reg artifact giving you only 5% m/s penalty. you essentially gain 50% fire-rate for free for selecting this class. The GKG can clear hazard 5 very easily. it does like 20,000 dps with 150% damage/100% reload bonus for -damage overclock and if you get Plasma rifle with Saw out upgrade, this is same upgrade that m1000 has. it gives plasma rifle 5 bullet for 1 ammo shot so it becomes like a shotgun assault rifle which is just as strong as M1000 sniper rifle into shotgun.
CRSPR is a dumpster-fire in gun form. Cryocannon is literally better in every way, and can overclock in to burn as well.
Freaking driller needs a big buff x( was my main class in DRG and in DRG:S it makes me sad...
I play DRG for a long time....THERE ARE CLASS MOD´s? WHERE CAN I FIND THEM?
2 different games I think. This is Deep Rock Galactic Survivor.
Nice
I just want to know how to get "class rank"?????!!!?!?
What do you mean?
@OHRyePlays ur class rank per person. Those numbers below them. Get rank 9 with engineer to unlock blah blah
you lied when you said last but not least :)
That’s the 2nd time I’ve done that lol.
should've waited tell you unlocked all guns bit premature
Literally say “way to early tier list” in the beginning, and will revisit it later.
@@OHRyePlays ultimate class tier list is click bait then. Just saying i come here based off the title from someone who has unlocked all the guns and the overclock . I didn't watch long enough to hear you say your excuse as to why it's not actually a ultimate class tier list my bad.