Is the wraith a good killer?

Trapper, Wraith, and Hillbilly are pretty simple in what their powers do.

Wraith is just that, a stealth mode but you can't directly hurt Survivors and a non-stealth mode that you can directly hurt Survivors.

Does it take time and knowledge to know the best times to cloak and uncloak? yes but DBD is a learning experience and you'll figure it out.

Just know Wraith is considered pretty add-on reliant and Stealth Killers are typically less powerful in the actual chase.

However there are perks like 'Unrelenting' which help recover from missed attacks quicker which is great with wraith imo.

Although people have alot of problems with NOED (No one escapes death) , it could be a good perk to have as you can sneak up on players and down them instantly.

Anyhow welcome to Dead by Daylight and I hope you have a fun time playing :)

Like every killer, he has his pros and cons. He can move around the map pretty fast while cloaked. Especially with Windstorm addons. His Shadow Dance addons let him shred pallets and vault stupid fast. Unfortunately he has trouble landing the second hit.

Being new to the game, any killer will be strong for you because (most of the time), you’ll be facing inexperienced people. The game is very odd both sides. Aside from some small breathing/injured noises characters make, all survivors are equal. However, every killer is different, they all have strengths and weaknesses, some more than others.

If you’re playing in high or mid ranks (1-9), you HAVE to play your strengths or you’ll lose. For Wraith, his biggest strength is the ability to get the first hit. Now this is easily counterable by survivor perks, some of them (like Spine Chill) are extremely popular in loadouts of people you’ll be facing. In my experience, it’s more effective to hit, re-cloak, and go hit someone else. You won’t want to chase down survivors, you want to catch them off guard.

IMO, don’t “main” anything, try them all. Learning different playstyles with different abilities will improve your performance. Heck, the experience you gain from playing survivor even makes you a better killer, easier to predict routes and actions. Welcome to the community, I apologize in advance for any toxicity you may encounter, please let it roll off your shoulder and just do whatever you want in your attempt to have fun playing the game!

That's a good choice and a fair reason!

Also I'm not sure, normally NOED comes around between 10 and 15, it's not entirely fixed at one specific level. I've got mine at level 20 and sometimes at level 10. But in that region :)

For a new player, Wraith is the perfect killer imo. Very very straightforward with a very simple power, which means a new player can learn the fundamentals of the game. With Wraith you have to learn to be decent at concepts like looping in general, how to run specific tiles and structures, and how to prioritise targets and know when to drop chases, all of which are important skills to have when you reach high level play. Whenever someone new to the game asks which killer to play first, I always say wraith.

For higher level play, the answer gets a bit murkier. I think Wraith is a good bit better than most give him credit for, but as others have said he is very very addon dependent. He absolutely needs Windstorm for map pressure, as well as to significantly outspeed survivors, so without it he's just completely worthless. But, with the right add-ons and skillset, I think he can do well even at Rank 1. He can bodyblock vaults, fake cloaks, and use his windstorm lunge to play around loops if you can get the timing right. I tend to run the decently boring BBQ, PGTW, and EndFury combo just so I can basically face tank pallets and guarantee hits. I have a soft spot for Wraith, he's a pretty simple but effective killer in the right hands!

Nurse is a completely different ball game. The nurse is one of, if not THE best killer in the whole game, but hands down the hardest to master. She has a wicked learning curve, and unless the developers plan on incorporating bots into custom matches or allowing us to load up custom matches by ourselves, then I would highly recommend practicing her with other online players in a custom match.

Wraith is a newbie-stomper, but when you learn all of his tells and weaknesses (his distinctive noises, Predator shimmer, no map pressure, poor chase/looping potentials, flashlights shut him down), he stops looking very appealing.