Imagine if we got a Grim Embrace or Floods of Rage meta
With 39 perks changing, nobody outside the dev team knowing exactly what the perk changes are gonna be, a lot of people have been concerned with the two main anti-tunnel perks (DS and BT) being slated for a rework, and for a long time the concern with a BT nerf or DS nerf has been that it would lead to killers tunneling. However, since 17 killer perks are also being changed, including the most meta gen-delay perks (except for DMS somehow), we don't know how Killer will play in the future, and how big an issue tunneling will be.
Which is why I titled the post with Grim Embrace and Floods of Rage; while we don't know exactly what the killer perks look like, there has been a recent trend in killer perk design to either:
- Encourage the killer to hook multiple different survivors (Grim Embrace, Hex: Plaything, No Way Out), or
- Encourage leaving recently unhooked survivors alone in favor of targeting others. (Scourge Hooks: Gift of Pain and Floods of Rage)
All the perks listed are from the last 6 chapters, as the only prior killer perk that felt like it actively encouraged anti-tunnel was BBQ&Chili. However, with the 17 killer perk rework (which notably includes Gift of Pain and BBQ), we're likely to get a lot more perks, and stronger/meta perks, that fit into the two categories above. And maybe some time in the future Grim Embrace will also be buffed because it's probably the healthiest B-tier perk in the game.
Imagine a version of DBD where survivors don't need to bring as many anti-tunnel perks because the killers themselves all run perks that encourage anti-tunnel. That's the best thing I coult think of that could possible result from the 39 perk rework.
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Devour is another good 'don't camp' perk. GI sucks. FoR is excellent, but you need to commit to a SH build with Agi and PR, and PR is getting nerfed so that's likely going to steer people back towards kicking builds.
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Floods is good on certain killers. Grim embrace will never be meta though unless it gets a buff. It’s trash right now.
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Throw in Make Your Choice and you've got a winner.
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I was about to comment the same thing.
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Grim Embrace has a nice effect but it's not worth the effort, 40 seconds of gen blockage even on all gens is to short for it's requirements. Might be better if they changed it so once all Survivors are hooked once, every generator loses 40 % of total progress.
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I would love if they add NOED prerequisite for activation is "hook every survivor at least once". It momentarily move from crutch perk to endgame perk.
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How about 100% instead lul
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If we had GE and Floods of rage as meta I would say that:
Killers now go at 140% speed
Devs killed their game
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Grim needs a buff to be even considered picking. Floods is allready decent perk on many killers.
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Floods is amazing paired with make your choice on nurse and Dredge
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Floods of rage isn't bad but it needs to be on a killer that can immediately react to the auras, like nurse or huntress
Grim embrace doesn't have a bad effect per se, but the numbers are too low. Going out of your way to hook every individual survivor should have a bigger pay off than what it has now.
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The problem is that if you increase the duration of Grim Embrace too much then the Killer can just facecamp one Survivor to death safely while the others can't progress the game. The concept of the perk itself is a problem and it should probably be just reworked completely. It's unlikely to be salvageable in its current form.
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