Blood Echo needs to be reworked
I can never ever see myself using Blood Echo. Nuff said, but I'll go into why I think this. It assumes that you always have multiple people injured, when let's be honest, you'll be lucky if 2 survivors are injured at any one time. It gives the affected survivors Hemorrhage of all ailments. Mangled would be so much better, it might even be a contender for Sloppy Butcher if that were the case. The only killer I can see this perk being remotely useful on is the Wraith, who has add-ons that let him see blood easier. Stop giving us garbage perks and fix the useless ones we've been given. Same goes for survivor perks. That is how you potentially change the unchanging meta.
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They won't give it Mangled for the same reason the Thanata buff didn't go through. They don't want a perk countering its own counter. IE Mangled would make it harder to heal and healing is the counter to Blood Echo.
This said, the perk is quite bad and needs some changes I agree. I honestly think the cooldown needs to be removed and hooking another person before the timer ends should refresh it. Second, replace Hemorrhage with literally anything else. Honestly Hemorrhage as a status effect needs a rework itself to do more. Replace the Hemorrhage with Blindness maybe as it's the second most terrible status effect.
Those changes would probably make it a strong but reasonable perk.
EDIT: Bake the Blood Hound effect into the Hemorrhage status effect and now it would be decent at least.
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I've used it and had it used on me, to a very oppressive effect. It's not going to work on every killer and every build, but it definitely works with a niche. Which is a lot more than can be said about so many perks.
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I don't think they can add useful perks at this point. When they design new perks, I hope, they take into account what will happen if they mix them with the current meta. Otherwise you get stuff like old MoM.
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They should remove its cooldown and buff Hemorrhage a bit.
Hemorrhage isn’t super useful and good Survivors don’t need their Exhaustion perks.
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I wouldn't mind it getting buffed but i'd miss it a lot on plague and legion if it was reworked into something else.
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It has use on killers that can spread the love and be aggressive. Plague makes great use of it. Nurse can make decent use of it. I often have games where survivors stop healing to crank out gens and not having to deal with Dead Hard as Nurse is a godsend. It's a niche perk. Solid on the right killers. I don't think it's bad by any means.
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