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Boon perk buff suggestions

Langweilig
Langweilig Member Posts: 3,232
edited February 2025 in Feedback and Suggestions

Boons have a great concept and could be very fun to play if they weren’t so weak and situational and worse than many perks that require a lot less effort.

Boons

  • Have a 32m (was 24m) range
  • Are a lot quieter

Note: They are found way too easy by the killer.

  • Killers can breaks boon totems basekit

Note: Only if boon perks get bigger buffs and require a counterplay like old Circle of healing did. That would have been the better nerf for circle of healing.

  • Survivors are able to rebuild broken totems, which takes 14 seconds (new)

Note: That way survivors would have to decide whether or not they want to waste 28s (14 seconds rebuilding + 14 seconds blessing) to get their boon back at that location, which would slow down the game a lot for the killer.

Boon: Circle of healing

  • Press and hold the Active Ability button on a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a boon totem. Soft chimes ring out in a radius of 32 metres. All Survivors benefit from the following effects when inside the Boon Totem's radius:
    • Increases altruistic healing speeds by 100-150 (was 100) %
    • Unlocks the self care ability, allowing you to self heal without a medkit at 45% of the normal healing speed. (new)
    • If a Survivor is injured, their Aura is revealed to all other Survivors.

Note: The self care part was the perk’s identity and it was only a problem, because you could heal yourself in 16 seconds. Now this would be 35,5 seconds, which is much longer. The altruistic healing speed is too slow and makes you waste more time run in to the boom than it safes time on most maps.

Boon: Dark theory

  • Press and hold the Active Ability button on a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a boon totem. Soft chimes ring out in a radius of 32 meters. All Survivors benefit from the following effects when inside the Boon Totem's radius:
    • Grants survivors a 3% (was 2%) haste status effect and 5-10% vaulting speed increase (new)
    • While running, recover exhaustion at a 50% decreased rate (new; from @Xernoton)
    • These effects linger for 4s after leaving the boon’s range.

Note: To make it the looping boon. The haste is too low and barely makes any difference, the vault speed would be a welcomed buff and the exhaustion recovery part would need to be tested whether it is too much or not.

Boon: exponential

  • Press and hold the Active Ability button on a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a boon totem. Soft chimes ring out in a radius of 32 metres. All Survivors benefit from the following effects when inside the Boon Totem's radius:
    • 100% bonus to the Recovery speed.
    • Unlocks the Self-Recovery ability, allowing you to fully recover
    • Shows the aura of all hooks to all downed survivors (new)
    • Downed survivors can crawl 50% faster (new)

Note: To make it less situational.

Boon: illumination

  • Press and hold the Active Ability button on a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a boon totem. Soft chimes ring out in a radius of 32 metres.(removed) All Survivors benefit from the following effects when inside the Boon Totem's radius (removed):
    • The Auras of all Chests, hooks, totems, exit gates switches and Generators (was chests and generators) are revealed to you in blue.
    • Increases your Action speeds for Blessing and Cleansing by 50 % (was 10%) while you have a lit Boon Totem.

Note: The effects are not strong enough to be limited to just a small area of the map and the increased blessing speed would help with relocating the boon. That way it would be great for soloq.

Boon: Shadow Step

  • Press and hold the Active Ability button on a Dull or Hex Totem to bless it and create a boon totem. Soft chimes ring out in a radius of 32 metres. All Survivors benefit from the following effects when inside the Boon Totem's radius:
    • Scratch marks are suppressed, auras are hidden from the killer and footstep sounds are suppressed (new). These effects linger for 4s after leaving the boon totem’s range.

Note: For this perk the range increase is probably enough, but the new effect would fit it well.

Bonus: (Counterforce)

Counterforce

You cleanse and bless (new) Totems 70-80% faster (was 20% + 20% per totem)

After cleansing or blessing (new) a Totem, the Aura of all Totems (was farthest) from you is revealed to you for 2/3/4 seconds.

That is my list for more perk changes for both sides

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/435967/perk-buffs-version-2-survivors#latest

What do you think?

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