Introducing “Noita: Zesty’s Perk Tier List and Notes” – a guide to help you rank perks for longer games. This article also includes extra notes for your gaming journey.
Intro
Helpful?
This isn’t THE definitive guide to perks, this is MY guide to perks. You may ultimately disagree, or find other guides that don’t value perks the same way I do. That’s perfectly okay. I’m just offering my perspective and I hope it’s useful.
The overall rankings are geared toward longer runs. You might find a lot of these perks are much better on short runs where their features are more beneficial to getting a basic win.
For long runs, I value perks that don’t cause chaos, or permanently alter my spells, or will kill enemies I don’t wish to die, such as with various minion perks. I can find spell modifiers to alter specific wands, but it’s hard to reverse a perk’s effect without removing it entirely.
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Perks
Description
Stack Effect
Rating
Notes
All-Seeing Eye
Removes Fog of War.
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Amazing
Always Cast
Random ‘Always Cast’ added to wand.
–
Unreliable
Angry Ghost
Copies Projectiles
Additional Copy
Disruptive
Great for speedruns. Copy Black hole with a fast wand. Otherwise very disruptive to long runs and specific tasks.
Attract Gold
Attract gold nuggets.
Increased Range/Strength
Whatever
Bombs Materialized
Throw bomb-like spells from inventory
–
Whatever
Boomerang Spells
Spells arc back, extra speed/dmg
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Disruptive
Spell modifier is preferred if needed.
Bouncing Spells
Spells bounce and last longer
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Disruptive
Spell modifier is preferred if needed.
Breathless
Infinite breath, faster swim
Faster Swimming
Amazing
Close Call
40% crit chance when rather near.
Additive?
Great
Concentrated Spells
Reduce spread, +dmg, +castdelay, +recoil
Additive?
Disruptive
RECOIL. Adds damage to beneficial spells. DunkOrSlam calls it best offensive perk for short win. Affects each projectile.
Contact Damage
DMG enemies that touch you, based on missing HP.
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Disruptive
Makes enemies bleed, which removes invisibility if you have it.
Cordyceps
Spawns minion when creatures die. Explodes.
Disruptive
Explosions count as Trick Kills.
Critical Hit +
10% Crit Chance for all spells
Additive.
Great
Crit can go over 100% for a dmg multiplier: 5 * Crit Chance
Curse of Greed!
3x gold drops. Area you are at, on delay, turns into greed cursed rock.
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Special
Eternal Wealth
Dissolve Powders
Dissolves some powders around you.
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Meh
Soil, Sand, Fungal Soil, Mud, Coal, Gunpowder, Sandstone, Snow, Salt, Bone Dust, Sulphur, Herb, Glass Powder, Wax Powder, Excrement.
Eat Your Vegetables
Satiation = +DMG. <25% = Curse DMG. Satiation Reduces Faster
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Meh
Anti-synergy with Vampirism. Doesn’t add +dmg to heals, unlike other perks that add dmg.
Electricity
Electifies nearby objects, electricity immunity.
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Disruptive
Can blow up nearby explosives. Dangerous to yourself, or with immunities, to quests/tasks.
Electricity Immunity
Electic Immunity
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No-brainer
Warning: Electric spells often do explosive damage as well.
Enemy Radar
Detects/marks nearby enemies.
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Good
Some people avoid this perk. Early alternative to All-Seeing Eye perk. Even marks invisible.
Essence of Air
Air Burst
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Special
Essence of Earth
Magic Bolt
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Special
Essence of Fire
Explosions
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Special
Essence of Spirits
Projectile Whiskey Trail
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Special
Essence of Water
Projectile to Lava
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Special
Exploding Corpses
Explsv immunity, enemies explode on death.
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Disruptive
More disruptive variation of explosive immunity.
Exploding Gold
Gold explodes on contact with player or enemies.
NO BENEFIT
Disruptive
Disruptive to quests/tasks.
Explosion Immunity
Explosion Immunity
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No-brainer
Doesn’t affect fire, freezing vapor, or anything like that.
Extra Health
50% more to current total HP.
One-Off
Great
Better later. Amazing in long runs when stacking health. Doesn’t synergize with glass cannon.
Extra Item in Holy Mountain
Adds 1 wand and 2 spells to future spell shops.
Additive.
Great
Adds convenience to long runs.
Extra Knockback on Spells
Knocks enemies back further than normal.
Disruptive
Meh
Makes aiming more difficult. Doesn’t affect enemies not affected by knockbacks already.
Extra Life
Extra life. Revived with 100 HP on Death.
Additive.
Great
No effect if Poly’d. Used before Saving Grace.
Extra Perk
Extra perk in every Holy Mountain.
Additive.
Amazing
Great, but don’t stack too high or you can’t see/grab perks as well.
Extra Wand Capacity
Adds 1-3 spell slots to each wand in in ventory, 25 cap
One-Off
Good
Good, but not too useful on short runs.
Faster Levitation
75% boost to levitation speed, 40% increase to falling speed (caps at 2)
Additive?
Good
Not worth grabbing more than 1 or 2. Disruptive to expected control of character. Pairs somewhat nicely with equal amount of Faster Movement.
Faster Movement
40% horizontal speed increase.
Additive?
Good
Can make precision difficult. Best only grab 1 or 2. Pairs somewhat nicely with equal amount of Faster Levitation.
Faster Projectiles
75% increase to projectile speed. Multiplied in multicast.
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Situational
Can make spells too fast. Better to use modifiers.
Faster Wands
Reduces cast delay and reload of all held wands by 20% + 5 frames
One-Off
Good
Caps at -0.35s for each stat. Apply to secondary starting wand for a rapid early wand.
Feared by Worms
Worms/Lukki don’t destroy terrain/items and run from you.
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Good
Helpful for EoE. Makes worms less disruptive generally.
Fire Immunity
Fire Immunity
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No-brainer
Doesn’t affect lava or explosions.
Freeze Field
Fire Immunity, nearby materials freeze.
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Bad
Can’t gather freezable liquids and can easily get trapped in blood and such? ♥♥♥♥ that.
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Perks
Description
Stack Effect
Rating
Notes
Fungal Disease
Emit spore pods when enemies are near.
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Bad
Breaks shield perks.
Gamble
Gain 2 random perks (from next holy mountain)
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Unreliable
Gas Blood
Bleed flammable gas, TOXIC IMMUNITY, 0.75x gravity
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Amazing
Good for not letting you get stained with your own blood. Grab AFTER Oil Blood (FIRE IMMUNE), and Slime Blood (Projectile Resist)
Gas Fire
Ignite gasses around you.
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Situational
Protects against Toxic Gas, Freezing Vapors. Makes traversing the cloudscape harder.
Glass Cannon
50 HP Cap. Projectiles 5x damage, 5x larger projectile explosions.
10x effects, 25 HP cap.
Situational
Gold is Forever
Gold nuggets don’t disappear on their own.
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Meh
Destabilizes game on long runs. Lots to track.
Greed
Doubles value of gold nuggets.
Doubles current value.
Good
28 Greeds will make the slightest amount of gold give you gold cap. Gold set to infinity at 2.1 billion.
Healthy Exploration
60 hp recovered on new biomes.
–
Whatever
Does this count for new biomes in parallel worlds? Probably not. Wouldn’t matter much anyway.
High Mana, Low Capacity
Held Wand. +100-600 mana, +recharge speed, half spell slots
One-off
Situational
Homing Shots
Some spells home on enemies. Slower = more accurate
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Disruptive
Better as a spell modifier.
Homunculus
summons minion whenever you enter a biome for first time.
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Dangerous
Kills enemies you might need alive for quests/tasks. Will attack you if you polymorph into hostile enemy.
Hungry Ghost
Minion. Eats projectiles then gives you small damage bonus
Additional Copy
Dangerous
Adds damage to beneficial effects.
Invisibility
Invisibility. Broken by stain, attacking, or taking damage.
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Good
Take AFTER immunities, or blocking immune damages make you visible. Can throw items without revealing self.
Iron Stomach
No bad effects from >100% satiation.
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Great
Anti-synergy with Spontaneous Generation. Berserkium has no benefit from being ingested. Can drink ANY liquid to get a short immunity to that material, like lava or poly.
Item Radar
Detect HP-Up, Spell Refresher, Potions, and Items
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Great
Short/Early game Health Pickup detector. Helps find pots and items.
Kills to Mana
Killing enemies gives short-duration buff to mana recharge.
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Great
Does not actually produce liquid.
Leggy Mutation
Like Lukki Mutation, but legs can’t stick to walls.
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Bad, but funny
Drops from Leggy Mimic. 1/20 chance per regular mimic.
Levitation Trail
Leave sparks behind when you levitate.
More sparks?
Dangerous
Disruptive to quests/tasks. Damages friendly mobs. Breaks shields. ♥♥♥♥♥ with invisibility. Can kill you if you’re poly’d.
Living on the Edge
Damage increased 3x when under 25% of max health
Multiplcative (max 3)
Situational
9x for 2 stacks. 27 for 3 stacks. All damaging perks share limits.
Low Recoil
Reduces recoil of your own spells. Reduces spell flight speed by 20%
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Good
Can mitigate recoil from concentrated spells perk. Spell flight speed gets so fast in long games that this perk is just a positive.
Lukki Minion
250k HP spider minion.
Additional copy.
Disruptive
Damaged by poly, acid, and curse. Bleeds slime (washes off your ambrosia in cursed rock). Follows charmed enemies.
Lukki Mutation
Faster horizontal speed, unlimited levitate, one “leg” must be on surface.
1.25x speed, leg length
Fun, not good
Fly using telekinetic kick on object you’re standing on.
Melee Immunity
Melee Immunity.
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No-brainer
Does not protect against own slice damage.
Moon Radar
Points to Moon
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Special
Underground Cavern, SE of Pyramid.
More Blood
MORE BLOOD, including worm blood, lava blood, dust blood, etc.
MORE BLOOD
Meh
More Hatred
Lowers relations between factions.
Additive
Situational
More Love
Raises relations between factions.
Additive
Great
4 Stacks for max effect, though more can be taken.
Mournful Spirit
Dying creatures leave behind AoE ghost
Additional Copy
Disruptive
Never Skip Leg Day
Kick Force, Dmg (1 to 61), Knockback increased.
.+60 dmg
Whatever
Might get too strong to unstuck potion mimics, or kill when disarming.
No More Knockback
Cannot be knocked back, or knocked out of the air.
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Great
No More Shuffle
Held wands and those found later turned into non-shuffle wands.
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Amazing
No Wand Tinkering
No wand tinkering ever, enemies sometimes drop blood money
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Trash
Avoid at all costs.
Oil Blood
Bleed oil, FIRE IMMUNITY.
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Amazing
Take BEFORE Gas Blood. Removes Fire Immunity from Pool
Peace with Gods
Gods are no longer angry, and can’t become angry.
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Great
Most likely more of a convenience than a need.
Perk Lottery
50% chance other perks don’t disappear when you take one (seeded)
Multiplcative
Amazing
1% failure at 6 stacks.
Permanent Shield
Regenerated energy shield.
Additive
Amazing
Personal Plasma Beam
Plasma beam, increases cast delay and recharge time.
Additive?
Bad
Dangerous, but also reduces your stats for it? Junk.
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Perks
Description
Stack Effect
Rating
Notes
Phasing
Projectiles might phase through you. Increases proje. and expl dmg by 30%
Additive?
Bad
Also makes healing projectiles phase. It’s bad. Not a good trade.
Pinpointer
Reduce spread (20 degrees), increase projectile speed by 40%
Additive?
Great
Applies to every spell with a type of projectile, multicast with black hole, for instance.
Plague Rats
Rats spawn when enemies die. Other Rats friendly to you.
More rats.
Disruptive
Good for short games, but can be disruptive to quests/tasks on long games.
Projectile Duplication
50% chance to shoot a projectile twice, 25% dmg taken from projectiles.
Number of projectiles
Dangerous
Potentially dangerous mistake possible.
Projectile Eater
Deletes any projectiles that cross the tiny butt shield.
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Whatever
Might delete things like your own black holes, but whatever. It’s fine.
Projectile Repulsion Field
Field surrounds you that repels projectiles. Includes your projectiles.
Stronger??
Great
Disrupts Black holes. Some issues with healing bolt.
Projectile Repulsion Sector
Sector in front of aim that repels projectiles, including your own.
Stronger Repulsion
Great
Projectile Slower
Field surrounds you that slows projectiles. Includes your own
Stronger deceleration
Meh
Counteracts projectile repulsion field. Either this or that, and this one slows your own projectiles.
Rage-fueled Levitation
Gain flat levitation power when creature dies near you.
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Meh
Repelling Cape
Stains drop off faster when moving.
Faster drop off.
Great
2 stacks ideal. Synergizes with Invisibility and Stainless Armor. Makes traveling through curse rock harder until you have a lot of Stainless.
Revenge Bullets
Shoot out bullets when damaged. 20% projectile/explosion resist.
Additional shot.
Disruptive
Doesn’t aim well. Disruptive to quests/tasks.
Revenge Explosion
Release explosion centered on you when you take damage. 25% expl. resist.
Additional explosion.
Disruptive
Disruptive to quests/tasks.
Revenge Rats
Release rats when damaged, up to 20 at a time.
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Disruptive
Disruptive to quests/tasks.
Revenge Tentacle
Revenge tentacle when damaged. 25% projectile resist.
More resist, tentacles?
Disruptive
Disruptive to quests/tasks.
Saving Grace
Prevents death with 1 HP. 1 sec invln. Reusable after healing above 1 HP.
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No-brainer
Doesn’t apply when Poly’d.
Slime Blood
Bleed slime, not slowed by slime, 25% projectile resist
More resist.
Amazing
Get BEFORE Gas Blood.
Spatial Awareness
Shows Map when still.
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Special
Drops of Kolmi Silma in Power Plant
Spontaneous Generation
Vomit/Urine near you turns to temporary rats.
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Average
Average to Disruptive, but can be controlled more than other disruptive perks. Can eat bad food for vomit.
Stainless Armour
Reduces damage if you’re not stained.
Halves damage, mult.
Amazing
Can be stacked 15 to 20 times to become effectively immortal in most circumstances.
Strong Levitation
Doubles levitation bar power.
Doubles current value.
Amazing
5+ Stacks and you never think about not having levitating power.
Stronger Hearts
Heart give more max HP.
Increases HP per.
Average
Helps the early game. Becomes less potent the more you grab.
Summon Sädekivi
Gives item that let’s you nuke a tunnel straight up to the surface.
One-off.
Situational
Telekinetic Kick
Replace kick with telekinesis. Lose ability to parry and disarm.
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Situational
Versatile. Force pull gold nuggets, portable cover, move quest/task items, offensive utility, Lukki Mutation Hovering
Teleportitis
Teleport nearby when you take damage. Dmg taken reduce by 20%
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Dangerous
Dangerous, Disruptive, annoying. Can be useful on speedruns.
Teleportitis Dodge
Teleport based on cursor location when a projectile gets near.
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Dangerous
Disruptive, annoying, potentially dangerous. Can be useful on speedruns.
Tinker with Wands Everywhere
Tinker. With Wands. Everywhere.
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No-brainer
God, Finally!
Toxic Immunity
Toxic Immunity, prevents Toxic Stain
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Amazing
DOES NOT AFFECT: Acid, Poison. Weaker alternative before you can get Gas Blood
Trick Blood Money
Trick kills create blood gold, which heals.
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Good
Not affected by greed. Is affected by Trick Greed.
Trick Greed
Doubles gold nuggets dropped from trick kills.
Stacks expon. (up to 5)
Good
Not super helpful on long runs.
Unlimited Spells
Most limited spells become unlimited.
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No-brainer
Synergizes with vampirism and blood summoning perk.
Vampirism
Deducts 25% max HP. Blood heals at 4 HP per 10% blood potion.
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Average
No satiation from blood.
Wand Experimenter
Heals first few times you use a new, unedited wand.
??
Whatever
Wand Radar
Detects and points out wands.
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Great
Great on first descent, convenient later.
Worm Attractor
Increases worm spawn rate, attracts them.
More worms/attraction
Disruptive
And that wraps up our share on Noita: Zesty’s Perk Tier List and Notes. If you have any additional insights or tips to contribute, don’t hesitate to drop a comment below. For a more in-depth read, you can refer to the original article here by Zesty, who deserves all the credit. Happy gaming!