Blight Addon Review (Day 1)
At Day 1's close – Just some of my thoughts for now especially after testing the addons and looking up the numbers.
Skip down to the review list below if you wish:
115% M1 Killer which is basically like everyone else other than Hag, Nurse, Huntress, Spirit, and Deathslinger. Rush movement speed in power is 230% (Equal to Billy’s chainsaw sprint at 230%), more than Legion’s 130%, or even Spirits 176% Phase walks (Only dwarfed by Mother/daughter ring Spirit which is 236% but that should honestly be nerfed or a bigger downside introduced). Meaning his patrolling speed is top tier atm especially when making use of BBQ Chili information off a hook.
Each rush lasts a max of 3 seconds or until collision with a default of 5 tokens (2s recharge per token so a max of 10 seconds) – with each slam giving you a 1 second window to change directions and charge again. Fatigue is 2.5s coming out of it.
His chase potential is actually mediocre, having no lethality like many other killers and basically being limited to Save the Best For Last Perk (Which is Demogorgon level atm since Letha rush doesn’t drop stacks) to benefit fully from “too many survivors” bunch together or rushing the hook.
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Ranking everything out of 10 for usefulness from my prespective as a R1 killer aiming for 3K Hatch or 4Ks - I do think
I. Unique Ultra Rare (Pink) Addons:
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1) Compound Thirty-Three: Hinders nearby survivors for 3 seconds whenever you slam into something near them but really doesn’t have a downside + it gives you extra blood points as an event. They gave it the break pallets+breakable walls effect with rush as well so as it is – it’s a top tier addon that the survivors have to alter their behavior to deal with it directly.
10/10
2) Iridescent Blight Tag: Using all your rush tokens is a bit difficult especially if you are actively trying to take that high risk final lunge just to do an instant down. It’s probably going to take some practice – I couldn’t really pull it off in any meaningful way but maybe folks will run it with the yellow Shredded Notes (Reduce Max Rush Tokens by 1 in exchange for Token regeneration time) and see better results. Even still it’s a lethality addon on someone who could use it I guess so…
5/10
II. Unique Very Rare Addons (Purple):
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1) Soul Chemical – Reveals survivors within 8 meters while rushing. Surprisingly a good amount of information while running around – especially for folks who like to crouch and hide with urban evasion when they hear your terror radius. It doesn’t give the survivors advanced notice you are running the addon either so has good utility for no real downside.
8/10
2) Alchemist’s Ring – Instant Recharge of Rings upon hitting Lethal Dash. Completely negates the cooldown after your 2.5s fatigue to dash again immediately – gives you a lot of potential to run down those holding W trying to make it to the next pallet using that injured speed boost. Potential is there once you get good at being the pinball.
7/10
3) Vigo’s Journal – Gain Undetectable Status while rushing. This thing is ridiculously strong on most maps, even with the steps and screams he makes while running around in rush – it’s just obnoxious to play against due to the sheer speed he comes in. Requires some knowledge and can’t be useful 100% of the time but still top shelf.
7/10
4) Summoning Stone – Lethal Rush blocks pallets in 12m radius for 6seconds. A poor mans version of his own hex perk… The duration is far too short to make anything out of it usually other than isolated perfect scenarios or just to make the guy think you’re running the hex. You can down somebody at a pallet and pick him up instantly and not be worried about getting pallet stunned - there's your niche.
3/10
III. Unique Rare Addons:
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1) Compound Twenty One - Aura Reveal within 15m whenever you Slam. Bursts of information but a weaker version of Soul since there are large gaps in information too depending on the map. You ‘can’ use it sort of like a doctor static burst so there’s that. Even still I’ll rate it below the purple one even with higher range… which still puts it at useful as an aura reveal without giving obvious tells to the survivors.
7/10
2) Adernaline Vial – Improves token regeneration to 1.33s each, Increase Maximum Rush Look Angle which is basically just so you can survivors in your FOV before you collide to get more out of your next rush (Actually more helpful than I thought). Increases your maximum rush tokens by 2 and with a get this "90% turning radius reduction while rushing".
In theory the importance of lining up your angles from slams and potentially being fully wrecked by 360s should be a problem... but whether its bugged or something you can see how underwhelming the turning addons are at the moment because how much that reduction doesn't feel like anything at all here AND you get an additional 6s of running time for covering the map. This has the potential to be oppressive on wide open maps similar to mother daughter ring on Spirit. This addon plays to Blight's strength even when run alone and I'll rate it as his strongest non-pink addon for that reason.
Tried it a few more games and felt the turning debuff a bit more - still wasn't enough for me to lower the rating on it though.
9/10
IV. Unique Uncommon Addons:
1) Shredded Notes (Improves token regeneration to 1.66s each, reduces total tokens by 1). It’s a niche perk that I can only really see being used with the Ultra Rare Blight tag to get more insta-downs.
4/10 on it’s own but with that combo it has more potential if you can get “git gud” at last lethal rushes.
V. Unique Common Addons:
1) Compound Seven – Automatically face the nearest survivor within 16 metres after a Slam. This is a god awful addon for two reasons… in many cases it will just auto turn your camera im a completely confusing way – aiming it directly at people that have obstacles between you and them then you have to turn it away. If it actually helps you – more than likely you have collided someone when the survivor has absolutely no cover and you should not be using this anyway.
It’s like a reverse training wheels as it might give you bad habits with the NICHE upside of maybe allowing you to find the general area of survivor within 16m if you aren’t running the aura addons. Someone else made a whole post about it being helpful if you flick your bounces and let it guide your last bounce shot for you but I felt disorientated using this after running all the other addons first and multiple games.
2/10
2) Chipped Monocle – Displays the target location of a slam: Honestly yet another training wheels addon that should just be part of the base kit… but unlike Nurse and maybe Doctor… why the hell anyone needs a circle in the middle of the screen for this simple mechanic is strange to be honest.
1/10
3) Placebo Tablet: Decrease rush movement speed to 215% but get more blood points while getting Rush Score evens by 100%. It’s a troll addon – move on.
1/10.
V. General Addons that have similar effects:
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1) Fatigue Time Reduction: base of 2.5s
Brown addon Foxglove (-.25 s) making it 2.25s
Yellow addon Canker Thorn (-.5 s) making it 2s, Stacks to make it 1.75s at best.
These are just obviously strong addons while they are just boring. Getting almost a full second back off of missed rushes or after using it to close distance is massively powerful and usually save you a bunch of time while allowing Blight’s power to be much more forgiving in picking when to use it. It might build bad habits but there’s probably a reason a higher level version of this addon doesn’t exist because like Legion’s old fatigue reductions it would be run constantly
7/10 for the yellow one but might even be worth stacking both for that budget general purpose build.
2) Increases Rush Movement speed for each consecutive rush addons:
Blighted Rat Yellow Addon with 4% ea for 234% to a cap of 240% (258% with Adernaline Vial)
Blighted Crow Green Addon with 6% ea for 236% to a cap of 260% (272% with Adernaline Vial), Stacked without penalty it seems for 240% to a cap of 280% for 3 seconds.
I honestly think this addon will be the sleeper hit once folks gets even better with Rush – at the very least flying around the map at even faster speeds puts immense pressure on survivors similar to Ad. Vial green addon. I tried both together only once but it didn’t seem to penalize each other – If you’ve ever run double engravings Billy it’s similar. The slight adjustment in speed if running people down might throw people off when lining up angles at the slam but I didn’t have any issues with it – if anything it only seemed to help me.
I’ll rate the green one at 6/10 for the green but the yellow is useable in a pinch too.
3) Turn Rate increasing addons turn your Base Rush Turn Rate of 0.8/s to:
0.88/s (Plague Bile Yellow addon)
0.92/s (Umbra Salts Green addon).
I cannot even confirm whether this goes to 1.01/s if stacked because it was hardly noticeable even while running both. Generally speaking those minor underwhelming adjustments might make that fraction of a second difference at high levels but it was too minuet for me say I’ll be willing to run them over any other addon. Let me know if you guys feel differently.
Seems like it's the amount you can slightly curve to allow you to hit objects you normally wouldn't be able to. I could hardly tell but I'll raise the grade by one to 3/10 as it could make a difference.
Tentatively 3/10 for both.
4) Increase Slam duration addons
Rose Tonic Green Addon (Making it 2s to line up your rush after slam)
Pustula Dust Yellow Addon (Making it 1.75s to line up your rush after slam)
These are the true training wheel addons in my opinion as it really shouldn’t even take you the full default second to line up your next rush. God forbid you need 2.75s by stacking both of these… I didn’t even see much mind game potential from holding your slam for so long but maybe somebody else can.
1/10 for both.
Comments
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Edited my views on turning radius addons - they're worse than I thought or bugged
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the addon that i think is just too much is his aura raed , is just too much.
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Might want to look at Placebo Tablet more I find it easier to hit rush attacks when im moving slower
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Honestly i completely agree with your views on all addons ZCerebrate Except for perhaps adrenaline vial. i don't know what adrenaline vial you were using, but mine locked me in a direction until i slammed, even with more rushes to make room for error i couldn't get much use out of it outside of map pressure through zooming across the map.
Completely agree that the speed addons are going to be a sleeper hit. used them almost exclusively today. however they're balanced around the fact that his rushes are incredibly hard to land expecially at higher speeds. Honestly a 10/10 from me because i like to go as fast as possible, even if it might be to my own detriment!
turning appears to be the rate at which you can turn your camera during a dash and "pre line up your rushes". its not a curving addon like billys, with the adrenaline vial actually being a reverse version of billys curve addons. it takes away your ability to curve during a dash, but unlocks your camera to preline up shots. you can actually spin around whilst rushing in one direction and hit behind you however useful that may be.
turning addons (my text is stuck in italics help) appear to help you be able to prelign up your shot, rather then to be able to curve around a corner easier.
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The speed add-ons could be good but the game lags too much when I run them.
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Honestly the unlocked camera is actually more helpful against 360ing survivors than I thought - keeping it up there at 9/10 for me even though the lessened curve was a bit more noticeable after further testing
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Do you mean my personal ranking or that it is a bit too strong? It's actually gameplay changing at anywhere with high walls and all 3 indoor maps it shines just like any other perk like that (especially since you will be rushing while patrolling naturally). Plenty of times where you get hits or downs because having auras around a high wall basically forces a mistake from the survivor - approximate locations (these addons) even combined with moonwalking with do the same thing.
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It makes your map control weaker at the cost of making it both easier for you AND the survivor to gauge your hitbox and range of attack (since slower movement). Still don't see how this is ever a benefit once you play a few games
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i think he means its too strong and deserves a valid nerf (upon playing seeing it used more i agree.) that being said i don't think its actually "too much" i just think its bugged along with the range is too high.
its meant to only give you aura reading on slams. except that aura reading is further then the rare variant that works at all times, and lasts quite a while. plus its score event works on survivors you haven't seen yet either in your field of vision, or IN A LOCKER
Thats very unfair and not worthy of a common at all. like. you basically have a whisper/bbq on crack with that addon. on its own its fine, but god it needs to be adjusted/fixed with the bug.
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