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Support items are an important part of any survivor build, while typically they take up no more than 1 to 3 slots in a gear grid (unless you are a dedicated badass fist and tooth support survivor) they are where the most unique and potent parts of builds can come to life. They provide a host of essential and unusual abilities, ranging from simple buffs to important stats like evasion, through to healing items an all the way to methods of killing the monster without ever attacking them. 

While weapons kill and armor protects, support items do all of the rest!

This is the contents page for the series, each link below will take you to a detailed discussion on flagship members of a particular category. I recommend you start with 1. because that has the explanation of how each category was created and themed.

• 1. Introduction & Debuffs 
• 2. Contents 
• 3. Hit Location Control 
• 4. AI Control 
• 5. Buffs 
• 6. Defense & Healing 
• 7. Activators 
• 8. Movement & Positioning 
• 9. Utility Offense 
• 10. Survival Gains 
• 11. Resource Gathering 
• 12. Tactics 
• 13. Miscellaneous 
• 14. Promotional