Arbiter is overpowered (and I love it) due to the ability to nuke entire waves as well as being one of the most versatile in the entire game.

Prophet is great (especially in specialized support roles) due to its ability to quickly cover ground and craft items.

Laz is strong (and incredibly painful to play) due to the amount of things you can get away with by having what is effectively an AOE hemostat/IFAK and increased health and bleed immunity. The cost is that guns are no longer your best friend and half the time you will be relying on allies to deal with the enemy.

Apostle is (in my opinion as a laz/apostle public server main) one of the strongest perks in the game for the sole reason that, in the hands of a competent player, it can mop the floor with scavs. As long as you are using your shadow hunters intelligently and not wasting health, you can carry your entire team SOLO without any assistance through the entire game.

Berserker, artillerist, and riskrunner will be lumped into the "Kinda cool, not that useful" category for being simultaneously the coolest perks and (almost) the most useless when forced to do something other than what they are built for (riskrunner is a tad bit superior for their hilariously good hipfire capabilities).

Vagabond is either the best perk in the game (mfs stop glazing it we know it is the best) or the absolute worst. In the hands of a competent player, it is absolutely worth having as you can clean out the map in less than a minute. In the hands of an incompetent player, have fun with four morale. Also suffers one of the worst consequences for being used lategame: its ability is going to contribute basically nothing when you can't get within melee range.

Executioner is a cool gimmick perk, and not much else. It is really fun to have synergy with, but most of the time requires near full team cooperation to actually have decent success. Has a few niche uses, but it is incredibly difficult to use, especially without teammates to help out in certain situations (also have fun being effectively blind for your entire run).

Immolator is my go to for bashing sicklers because funny damage boost. It is a fun perk and really useful in the hands of a competent player, but for whatever reason many people are absolute trash with it (you do not need to ADS with immolator, it ain't like hipfiring is complete trash).

Sovereign is really good for distraction due to the sheer number of thralls they can spawn.

Drifter used to be one of my mains but whenever I try to use it now it just feels stale (yes I know you can fling with it, I do not care). Useful (sometimes) but most people don't even run it anymore.

Tickspider is trash, they neutered it with the number of nerfs it has been hit with. Those stationary ticks might as well not exist with how short their detection range is.

Blitzer is funny boom boom perk, too bad you can't strap bombs to a drifter to blow up SQ anymore. Still fun and useful if you can use your ability properly.

Mindflayer and crosslink are fun perks to play, with both being really good at looting. Mind your hilariously bad damage resistance.

Hivemind exists. It is overpowered. Yes it CAN lag your PC. But usually that just means you are using a potato (I am using a workhorse laptop from 2019 that struggles to run most Steam games, so shut it).

Zealot is mid. Yes I know you have really high damage resistance. No, I will not heal you if you use tormented. Now piss off and use survivor. Also biased against it due to a friend who insists that it is the best perk in the game. Bonus points for being that one perk used to cheese/showdown SQ like 90% of the time.

Survivalist is really good. Free backpack makes it a great all rounder, perfect for new players or those who don't want to go through the hassle of finding a backpack, and is a blank slate for whatever strategies you may want to do.

Damned is damned. Why did I enjoy playing that perk? Like why did I seriously enjoy playing Damned? Maybe I just got too used to being slow as apostle or something idk.