Wraith, you think you need a rework?

I think a movement speed increase in cloak would be a decent buff, but the bell thing is a no for me. He does lack map pressure without Windstorm, and it sucks that you need to use an add-on to get some map pressure. Overall he is a decent killer atm vs most players. He could use a movement speed buff during cloak, but he doesn't 100% need it.

he's over performing with his invisibility, needs a cooldown.

He needs to have yellow windstorm's speed be base, if not green, without the speed decrease, to always stand a chance regardless of map.

But honestly I'm interested to hear what @Boss has to say.

I like the idea of a recharging silent bell... but I think it should just reduce the bell to 1 strike, and have that strike come out slower, and with no direction what so ever. I have always thought that uncloacking should apply the terror radius to all survivors that have spotted wraith in the past "x" seconds. It would add more of a "oh, did I see him or is he actually next to me" type of ordeal! hes a very Strong hider... but to bad he isnt a survivor.

Could use some buffs, i don't see a rework being necessary.

Stuff like truly invisible from far away & some more speed while cloaked could help a really long way.

Add-ons are also mostly fine, i find his arsenal one of the most fun in variety.

Blinks need to do something else, the standard uncloak time is fine.

And Blind Warrior Mud is only meh because Blindness is meh.

EDIT: Oh, and Shadow Dances are too gimmicky right now, they could use a change as well, but i wouldn't mind it too much if they stayed the same, cause at least you can do a meme build.

I'm with Boss on this one. He's not so far behind the curve he needs a total rework, but I would be excited to see some buffs to make him less add-on reliant.

Thanks, nice to be respected. 😄

If you want a second opinion from a top streamer, check out Tru3Ta1ent's videos where he plays Wraith. A couple of months ago or so he was doing a whole bunch of games with Wraith and constantly talking about how Wraith is underrated because he can use his stealth and speed to hit and run and juggle multiple survivors fairly efficiently. (The problem is a lot of people play him by just tunneling a single person which is doesn't make good use of his ability. He needs to use his stealth to start a chase closer to the survivor and get a quick hit, but if he just follows one person at a time he's losing that advantage.)

He is fine, he's consistently in the middle of the pack in terms of kill rates in the stats (e.g. https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/106566/stats-november-2019 ) both among new players and high ranks. And this notion that you should ignore add-ons when discussing a killer is silly because add-on slots are intended to be used. 99% of games will have add-ons being used so why would you ignore commonly used add-ons when comparing killers?

That being said Wraith, like every other killer, has some duds in his add-on selection that could stand improvement. If the devs decided to buff the add-ons that are terrible to make them more useful I'd certainly be down for that. 🙂

Even IF they just tweaked him so he uncloaked faster instead of needing to use addons, it would make playing him so much smoother. He has some great addons - and even the more “duddy” ones would be viable if you could pair them with his others if uncloaking that bit faster was part of his base power.

Well the Windstorms are all my favorite, all 3 are in my top 3 Add-ons for him, and for good reason. Like you said, they're not necessarily required, but they're just that good.

Swift Hunts are surprisingly average, they help incredibly little, not my favorites at all but they still give a nice effect: Uncloaking faster, and no negatives like Windstorms.

All Seeing Spirit is really nice...but i'm still of the opinion it doesn't deserve its Ultra Rare rank. Definitely Very Rare, but ehh.

Coxcombed Clapper is obviously one of his best, definitely deserves its spot up there, and i hope it'll stay like this forever.

All Seeing Blood always surprises me with how good it is, also deserves its spot and should stay this way.

Shadow Dances are weird, you gotta be cloaked (which makes sense, you gotta use the Killer's Power), but i'm hardly ever cloaked during a chase, and kicking it faster outside of a chase is just a very minor time saver. These are fantastic with Pallet meme builds though.

Blinks are close to useless, the best you can do with them is to get to your Windstorm speedboost faster.

Blind Warrior White is quite nice, while Mud is quite bad. I've seen multiple people mention how they pull off Blindness Killers, but i just don't see it.

Bone Clapper's kinda cool, i like that you can decide how your Bell works.

Obviously, The Beast is meant to be bad, but it's for extra BP. I can let such an Add-on slide in any Killer's arsenal. (Though i would still prefer a normal one, i avoid using The Beast.)

The Serpent annoys me, i barely ever cloak before kicking a Pallet they dropped, and uncloaking while outside a chase is close to useless.

Hound feels like it should be a base thing. Nevertheless, it's okay-ish if you do use it.

Ghost is weird to me, i see it as one of the worst if not used with either Clapper, but becomes very valuable in a Clapper-based build.

So i like Barbecue & Chili and Enduring on him, but i like those on most Killers. I simply like those auras, and i dislike being stunned with a passion.

As for other Perks, i like Make Your Choice on him. It's not quite like Hag's MYC + Mint Rag, but slap on any Windstorm and your chances to get that hit increase a lot more.

I also like Pop Goes The Weasel on him, especially combined with B&C. Hook someone, and if you don't know which Generator they're on mainly, there ya' go. Then just cloak, walk over there, scare them off and give it a kick.

Again not specifically tied to Wraith, but i just like Hex: Devour Hope on him. Buffing his M1 with endless Exposed is incredibly dangerous, not only does he have his sneak potential, that super-lunge CAN catch up to Sprint Burst users. (It's not easy though, you definitely need to pull off the sneak-up to make it happen.)

I used to run Spirit Fury with Enduring, and i do still like the combo if you save the charge for troublesome Pallets, but i wanted room for others mentioned here.

Save The Best For Last is always good on mr. M1, but i prefer to avoid the Obsession mechanic.

Play With Your Food synergises extremely well on him, combine it with Nemesis (and maybe Enduring) and you'll get those stacks ezpz.

Btw, imma say right here: Don't underestimate a good Wraith that uses Make Your Choice. It's been giving me nothing but great results so far.

Bamboozle's pretty funny with Shadow Dances, but otherwise it's the same as any other M1 Killer.

Mindbreaker's kinda cool...if they have Sprint Burst. Otherwise: Ehh.

Oh, and unless you're going for a meme The Beast run, you can pretty much leave Terror Radius-based Perks.

Was that too much?

Sorry if there's spelling errors, i'm not going to re-read all of that again. 😅

I'm gonna go ahead and assume you mean Windstorm without the uncloak slowdown.

I'd prefer to not kill his awesome super-lunge.

he doesnt really need a rework, just number tweaks to buff him

moving yellow windstorm (without the uncloak movement speed reduction) and green shadow dance to base kit would make him a lot less add on dependent and also make using his cloak more useful in chase

Thanks for the input!

I actually meant "This way you won't actually have to run Windstorm every game" (no native speaker, sry). Making Windstorm basekit would give you more variety in your builds, currently i feel that he is very weak without it.

Tbh MYC and DH sounds very good on paper and i tried DH on him sometimes. He has an easy first hit and being able to 1-hit sounds crazy. But in game it never really worked for me. DH gets cleansed to often before you get 3 stacks. But if it kicks in, it can easily win you the game. With MYC the problem was that i either wasn't outside of the 32m range because i chased someone running to the hook or that the exposed surv just hid somewhere till the timer went down. Or i found someone else. Maybe i have to adjust my playstyle first. Enduring is great of course, gonna run it some more i think.

Wraith is my favourite killer, he’s good in a lot of ways, does he need a rework? Nah just make his yellow windstorm add-on default. Every killer needs strengths and weaknesses. Wraith can get easy surprise hits, he’s a hit and run type killer so keep the survivors guessing and keep them out positioned

Green would probably be too much, but maybe yellow as basekit would be all he needs. I think he is in a really good spot atm. Not too strong, not too weak, plenty of counterplay; lot's of interesting add-ons.

Wraith is 100% invisible during cloak but Survivors can see his Shimmer when he's within a certain distance. (16 meters for example)

Remove Light burn.

The Woosh sound from cloaking can only be heard from 24 meters away.

Either reduce the time it takes to uncloak but uncloaking speed stays the same OR uncloaking takes the same amount of time but increase the movement speed while uncloaking.

Yellow Windstorm becomes base cloak movement speed.

Mini Shadow Dance (+15%) is added to base cloak, number nerf the add ons to compensate.