Soul Guard Buff Idea
Right now, one of the reasons why the "fully recover while a hex is active" is so rare is because it only works when a hex is revealed to a survivor. And the perk icon only lights up when downed iirc. So what about this:
Soul Guard now works while a hex is active, not just when a hex is revealed to a Survivor. Soul Guard's icon now lights up and remains lit as long as ANY hex is active on the map. The Soul Guard icon will deactivate if no Hex perks are active.
However, should a Hex appear or become active like NOED or Pentimento, Soul Guard's perk icon will relight itself for as long as the hex is active.
This should counter NOED more effectively and allow Soul Guard's secondary effect to come into play more.
And the counterplay to this is very simple: Simply pick up a Survivor within 10 seconds. Which is already done for sure, but Unbreakable helps with that.
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Soul Guard doesn't need a buff. It's fine
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Somewhat fine, but it's pick rates are still "meh" and the extra effect sees little use because of how Hex totems work. This fixes that.
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imo Soul Guard is strictly an Endurance perk that turns into a better Unbreakable when you know a hex exists.
It should NOT also become an information perk.
people that pick soul guard should pick it for the endurance, not for knowing if the killer has a hex.
It has 1 or 2 scenarios where the perk works and if it work it does its job perfectly. Niche perks are good if their effect is strong enough.
Also I don't want swf using an already strong perk to instantly call out Lullaby, Devour Hope and Noed before they should be revealed.
If you want to add that effect onto, say, Small Game (since that perk is just straight up worse than Counterforce) I'd agree with that.
tl;dr: niche perks should be good in their niche which Soul Guard is; it shouldn't give information you shouldn't have as that could make it way too good and there are other perks that would benefit from this buff more
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Not really feeling it.
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