In-depth Spirit Changes With Reasoning & Justification!

A decent set of ideas but PLEASE, do NOT slow her movement speed down to nurse levels.

Her obnoxiously slow movement speed is what keeps me from enjoying The Nurse at all, and yeah, I can do well with her, but ugh, SO SLOW.

Also, +1 on making her scratchmarks more visible/reliable and being able to turn off that bloody chase music.

Yeah, I'm aware, and you're not a dev, so these are only suggestions (albeit good ones), I just really don't want another killer as slow as the nurse personally, hah.

I mean you can literally urban evasion away from her.
Wouldn't fit the spirit, and her passive phasing, which I find rather creepy and cool as survivor.

You should be able to notice when you phase shift when you PLAY The Spirit, though.

I streamed playing her for quite awhile around rank 1-3 and I can't remember now but I think I got all 4k's. A few DC's but yeah.
I think it's just hard to know how to properly use her power to catch survivors, and you've gotta predict where the survivors are gonna go.
Also, It's really good to use her power during a chase once the survivor loses sight of you. (Once the survivor goes around a wall or once you get behind something not too obvious) That way they'll keep running and most likely not know you're phase walking. This has worked wonders for me in tracking them.
That being said, I do still think she needs a few buffs and I like these ideas. She might not be as great as I'm thinking and I very well could have gone up against nothing but potatoes in all those games!
Let me know if anyone would like a link to the stream to check it out.

I just want to be able to disable the chase music in general.

Personally it pulls me out of the game. On both Killer and Survivor.

Especially if you use No Mither, that injured music... Ugh...

@Nickenzie said:
Hello, I been playing Spirit for around 12 hours and I'm gonna list some of her flaws as well as some solutions to how fix them! My goal is to make her like the Nurse in terms of rewarding your skill while not being as strong as the nurse! Enjoy this problem & solution thread!

Problem 1: (Unreliable combo)

The Spirit can barely combo with her power after attacking a survivor. Basically when attack a survivor and you use Phase Walk to combo, you'll barely be able to catch up to the survivor assuming your tracking is on point!

Solution: (Faster Phase movement speed)

I can't say how much of a movement speed increase she needs but she does need some kind of speed boost! If I was forced to say how much she needs right now, I would roughly say a 25% speed increase to her Phase Walk. Now the point of this is to allow her to quickly attack a survivor then finish them off with her power. However this can also be used for better map pressure, giving survivors less time to react to her presence, and faster mind games!

Problem 2: (Not rewarding skill & power too punishing)

When you land a successful Phase Walk and attack the survivor the moment you exit your Phase Walk, you still get punished with a horrible 20 second cool down. This by itself just feels awful since you did very well to predict the survivor's movement and now you have to wait.

Solution: (Instant % recharge upon a successful Phase Walk & slight increase in Phase Walk recovery) 

During the speed boost period when you exit your Phase Walk if you attack a survivor, instantly recharge 7.5 seconds of your power. Additionally her power will take 15 seconds to fully recharge if it was fully empty. This now rewards you for being on point with her power and is less punishing when you miss predict a survivor's movement.

Problem 3: (Hard to predict a survivor's movement during Phase Walking)

Since scratch marks are delayed and can be hidden in grass, this can often be confusing to the Spirit player! Scratch marks are the most important thing besides listening that can help the Spirit player predict a survivor's movement and it feels so awful when the scratch marks are unreliable.

Solution: (Disable chase music when Phasing, make scratch marks more brighter, & increase the bonus when you exit your Phase Walk)

She might not need all of these solutions, this is your heads up!

Disabling the chase music can be a HUGE plus because it often blocks out noises caused by survivors which can be the thing that decides if your Phase Walk will be successful or not. Scratch marks need to be tremendously more brighter and needs to be more transparent through grass during a Phase Walk because it's the ONLY thing she has besides sound so it needs to be reliable! Additionally, if you guys don't like brighter scratch marks, you can increase the bonus when she leaves her Phase Walk so she can correct herself just a little kinda like how nurse can use her second blink to correct herself for a quick attack.

Compensation: (If the Spirit is over powered with these changes)

-The developers can decrease her movement speed to 96.25% (Nurse)
-Nerf her add-ons while keeping her kit strong
-Maybe all of the above if she is really out of control

Please if you have anything that you'll like to say about the Spirit, I'm here to discuss your questions, complaints, and your suggestions! Please be respectful and be civilized, thank you for reading!

If she is overpowerd that's a good thing this is an assymetrical game the killer should be overpowerd this is why the nurse and hillbilynare so good.

I don't really understand many of the points.
Why? They don't have many things in common.
Every Killer has it's power set out to make them play in a specific way.
Trapper has to use his traps to catch survivors and cut short chases by blocking escape paths.
Wraith uses his invisibility to set up ambush and down survivors.
Nurse uses her power to catch up to any survivor she can find.
Billy uses his power to control area and punish those he finds.
etc.
For this changes though... It looks she would catch up using her power in open space, but once in a tricky place she gets cucked, unlike nurse.
Also suggestion to make her speed lower than survivor.... She can't bypass obstacles, so it will make her unplayable. You hide or vault, she can't catch. You have jungle gym and she's useless.
In other words, with those changes she lacks design to execute.

On another note, her speed is 4.4, which should encourage using her power. But her power right now "could" only be used to cut down chases (if not for sound bugs). And her mobility suffers which further reduces her ability to locate survivors which she can easily loose.

The problem with punishing recharge, not enough mobility to keep hold of map and lacking ability to find surviovr... this all is fixed by 4.6 speed and sound bugfix.
Unlike Wraith, her power can hardly be used for ambush right now (or anywhere, if they're supposed to hear her, they could evade her before she appears and starts search)