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Is Trying to learn Blight the same as trying to learn Nurse?
As in, you will be stomped game after game in order to get better?
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Yes, but blight still has m1 chase potential, so to truly learn him fast and keep the stomps closer to the start rather than dragging them on for a longer period of time time overuse your power, until you learn when you more can and can't use it to get a hit rather than hold it and never use it
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Regardless of whom you're trying to learn you'll get stomped before you get better. It's all in the learning process. You just gotta keep going and learning. You'll get there
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Nurse has a steeper learning curve. You can play Blight as an m1 killer with mobility if you want to. Nurse doesn't have that luxury.
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Yes and no. Like with Nurse you need to learn when its the right time to use your power, whens the right time to eat the cooldown and continue the chase instead of desperately ping ponging and hoping you'll hit them. I wouldn't say its anywhere near as hard but it takes the same level of discipline. The stiffness of his lunge may take a while to get used to but heres a tip. You can grind against walls like Oni and around corners if you swing early enough. In the normal rush he'll bump off but once the swing animation starts you can smear your face across objects penalty free.
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Not quite. Blight has transferable skills because he still has to function as an M1 killer. Nurse is completely unique.
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get a friend and practice in custom matches. Blight is tricky and it takes a bit getting used to navigating him, as the first instinct is to use the regular way of moving a character.
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Not at all. Newer Blight players can simply use his power to get around, and slowly start trying to get more adventurous with his power as they understand how it works. If you know how to M1, you'll be fine.
With Nurse, when you don't know what you're doing you'll just get ran in circles and it's one of the few times you can expect genuine pity from the survivors because new players will be lucky to land a single hit depending on how poorly they do.
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Would you happen to know the best add-ons on him for someone that is new to him?
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Blight is still a 115% killer with good mobility. He's much more forgiving than Nurse is.
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None. If you want to get good at his power, don't use his add-ons. That said, the broken monocle isn't bad for seeing what you will hit when you use a Rush. All of the other add-ons are very strong, but you will severely miss them if you don't have them. Get used to using his power without any help before you start bringing add-ons that make him much stronger.
Also, the speed add-ons for his rush are not a great idea in any scenario. They make him much harder to control.
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Yes and no.
Yes in that they share 1 essential skill - making reads. Both require you to use your power quickly and predict a survivor's movement to land a hit on them. Their powers are both simple to understand but are very complex in how you can properly utilize them to their full devastating potential.
The difference is that if you screw up with Nurse, you get a massive cooldown and have to wait 3-6 secs before trying again. Blight is more forgiving with the standard 2.5 sec cooldown (swinging makes the animation quicker but the cooldown is always the same) and he's an M1 killer with 115% movement speed.
If you're bad with Blight, you can still you his power for mobility. If you're bad with Nurse, you're screwed (don't worry, we've all been there).
To summarize, they're both very hard to use to their full potential and both rely on predicting the survivors. Blight is much easier to pick up, however, since his power is more forgiving for mistakes, can be used for mobility instead of downs if you're still learning, and you're still a 115% movement speed killer.
That said, being bad with any killer is how we all started out. Don't feel bad if you go on a losing streak—you're playing to learn.
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you got a point but some are a ton easier to get used to than others.
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Vile heresy and libel. Blight's speed addons are his best addon other than turning rate. They not only let you move faster but get you more range on each rush and more range on each lethal lunge.
Learning Blight was much easier than learning Nurse since he's still 115 (albeit much shorter than the average killer). Just remember that you get a full second after each slam before you go into cooldown, so while you're learning to Blight take the full second to reposition and aim after each slam.
Don't be afraid to go for overly-ambitious attacks. You'll only learn what Blight can do by pushing him past his limits, and you're barely punished for missing an ambitious lethal lunge.
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Nurse has the luxury of just going through walls. She's literally straightforward.
Blight has to pool physics his way into straightening himself out.
Survivor turned left?
"I'll have to use these 3 adjacent walls in order to line up my sight, then the next two bumps will need to close the gap."
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For new Blights I'd recommend slam duration and the monocle that lets you see where your slam will impact.
Slam duration becomes bad the more you play Blight, but when you're new, it'll give you critical time to adjust and reorient yourself. Once you've got a few matches down with it and the monocle, remove them as you'll naturally be faster at chaining your slams quickly, and will begin to get annoyed at how long the slam duration is with add-ons. It (slam duration) is one of those great learning add-ons that helps you learn without making you reliant, you will want to take it off as you get good, without anyone having to tell you. As for the monocle, it's like the Nurse add-on that allows you to see where you're blinking, but you'll pretty much only need it for a couple matches, tops, as Blight's slam mechanic is much simpler. It can be useful for spotting weird terrain without having to slam into it, though.
His speed add-ons are fantastic, but are generally for much higher level play. You'll be able to pull off some crazy plays with them where you catch up to survivors much more quickly than normal and leave them with far less time to respond. It's great for making sure they don't get to windows or pallets, as you can just keep increasing your speed to insane levels. He is a bit harder to controller, obviously, but not so much that you won't be able to deal with it once you've got a lot of hours in.
Even after the "fix" to Alchemist's Ring that removes the 0.5 recovery bonus for tokens, it's still pretty much his best add-on. Landing a hit and then getting all your tokens back is huge. It means that as you get better, the ring gets better. Eventually you'll have virtually no downtime and will be incredibly oppressive to survivors who aren't at powerful anti-Blight loops.
One of his trickier add-ons is the tag that allows you to down survivors in one hit on your final lethal rush token. If you're great at landing hits, you can just force this one out by bumping into the same spot multiple times before going in for the kill. But if you miss, you've got a healthy survivor and a looong cooldown before your next rush, which is why it pairs nicely with recovery time or the page that gives recovery + one less rush token. It also works well with Alchemist's Ring, but without the regeneration it used to have, it only rewards hits, which you might be getting less of if you're going for riskier rushes to get faster downs.
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In OP's context, yes... somewhat. Learning any killer takes time and potentially many losses before you get the hang of them and really start getting them kills, but when it comes to Blight vs. Nurse, one of these things is not like the other, one of these things requires much more patience. It all comes down to their learning curves, Playing Nurse it took me a good 20+ hours or so before I could declare I was getting "decent" with her, whereas with Blight, I played maybe a total of 10 matches or around 2-3 hours and could declare the same. Nurses learning curve is heavy, in that it punishes you severely for making mistakes, but rewards you greatly for getting the hang of her Precision. Blight on the other hand has much more Wiggle room to correct for mistakes, and feels much friendlier to new players since learning to play him effectively is less about prediction and more about reaction in the early experiences. Nurse simply doesn't give you that. You either go hard and nail your predictions, or go home, and most people who try Nurse out don't have the patience to get good with her when there are other killers to choose from who have easier learning curve and reward players much sooner for the time they put into them.
So in the context of "you will be stomped game after game in order to get better?" Like all killers, Blight has that, but unlike Nurse, the stomping ceases much sooner since his learning curve is more lenient and easier to pick up on. However, when it comes to the Time you put into learning a killer Vs. the reward for learning them, Nurse still stands proudly over all of the others as the quintessential queen. Yeah, she's without a doubt the hardest and most time consuming to learn/get good with, so expect MANY losses before you do... but once you do, you become a nigh unstoppable force of nature. Seriously, no other killer in this game gives you that feeling of reward that hands down feels, above all else, well earned.
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The Blight is just as hard as the Nurse to learn if you try using his power at loops.
However he's easier to learn if you first try to learn how to chain his power for distance as its a less punishing for failing along with letting you learn how his bounces work in general.
Also he's a normal speed killer at loops if your only using his power for mobility so he can still work well even at lower skill levels.
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Well, yes and no. That is the same as can be said for almost every killer. However, Blight has a much lower skill floor than Nurse because his chief ability is to Rush wherever he needs to be. His secondary ability, Lethal Rush, is very, very hard to learn, but you don't need it in order to do okay, which is not something that can be said of Nurses blinks.
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You're right some are easier than others. It's quite hard hard start off in any game. I wish you luck, it might just be me but some survivors have been even bigger [Bad Word] `S recently, so now not exactly the perfect time to start killer lol
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Sure, I can even give you some pointers ingame if you want them
heres my seal of approval btw
(14th most lethal rush hits)
Heres some good addons to keep in mind
Shredded notes, Yellow addon
decreases cooldown on tokens by 0.33 (down to 1.67 per token) and removes one token overall 33% shorter maximum cooldown
allows for heavy power usage which is good for learning and aggressive playstyles
Speed addons yellow + green
yellow (4% speed per token up to 16%) (green 6% speed per token up to 24%)
these addons scale the best with skill, the better you are able to move and play fast the better they are
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see people when you bump really strong pairs well with alchemists ring
Alchemists ring, follow up a rush hit with another one because why not
Both iridecents, Both pair well with shredded notes for unique and fast playstyles involving either instadowns or super fast pallet breaks + short recovery
Vigos Journal, decent but I would say his other addons above are more impactful but use it with information perks and scare people for easy hits
Just pick and choose mix and match for some fun strong addon combinations
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This. I returned to the game after 1.5 yrs and picked up Blight. I've been doing well using him as an m1 with mobility and getting rush hits here and there. Starting to pull it off more often. Also was dropped down to rank 17 while away so I got to practice at a lower rank which helps. I normally get 3/4k's with him.
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As a survivor you only have to do loops when you have to do it, but as a killer you have to control many aspects, engines, hooks and despite playing with all your effort the survivor tell you ez, teabag or insult you if you tunnel because they are making you tremendous gen rush and you want to take a simple kill because you want to have fun too in some way, being a killer is more stressful, and dbd worries all with killers nerfs you have to be better and better and it doesn't help nerfs and nerfs killers, if freddy kills so much it is because it is the easiest killer to use and so down the scale to the most difficult that are the nurse and the blight, and survivors main still want nerf freddy, that sucks tho.
What dbd should do is to improve the playability of the killers,
When I play with the nurse is very frustrating to lose because it is bugged and I can do a tp in all the rest of the game or do a fast hit after to a projection, or go to the basement instead of going through an object, and the survivors only have to do genrush.
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Blight need better tile knowledge,
know how to rush in every tile to get 100% hit.
use things around tile.
I'm not a nurse expert but in my pov
Nurse doesn't care much about tile
you just blink to where ever you can see survivor. And some blink knowledge
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Like others have said you can use Blight for getting around the map and if you're a good killers around loops you'll do ok. That being said, I would say using his power to land hits is harder than nurse.
So his learning curve is not as steep as nurse however, there is more to learn than nurse about learning to use your ability to hit survivors.
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Say what?? I'm 11th most lethal rush hits???
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brothers in arms
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I feel very out of place, haha. All my other stats are sad in comparison to everyone else.
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don't compare yourself to other people when measuring growth, just compare your current self to your past self
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Blight is easier to pick up since you can just use his power for map traversal and be an M1 Killer for chases if you want, but effectively using his power for both pressure and chase is, in my opinion, harder to do than Nurse. I think Rush is much easier to dodge and more difficult to control. The fact he can't go through walls, bumps into things, has to take some time to bump before he can channel a Lethal Rush, and only has that limited turning in his lunge makes his power harder to wrangle than Nurse's. Not to mention the awful camera height.
Starting off as Blight will be easier, but ultimately I think it's harder to be very good as Blight than it is to be very good as Nurse.
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In my experience, YES ABSOLUTELY.
I've been going through adepts achievements on killers, so that's what my experience is relative to, with me having snagged both of those finally.
Nurse was certainly brutal. I went through a WHOLE LOT of lost games, and naturally all the harassment and taunting that entails (DBD's community is so F'N toxic it hurts), where I couldn't get a single hit. But her mountain is steepest at the start, where after that initial "impossible! impossible!," I could at least tell I was improving and getting the mechanics down better until I eventually pulled off the achievement.
I wouldn't say I'm decent with Nurse now, but I say I "get" her as a role and I play her from time to time still. Even though my skills fluctuate back and forth any given day until I play a few warm up matches.
Blight was the one I thought I'd never actually get until I managed to get it somehow... and now I'll never touch Blight again! 😄
Must have taken me at least twice as many games... or maybe they were just twice as miserable? I ended up having him over level 35 by the time I finally pulled it off. Easily highest level/tries of my Adept attempts, where I think next is Demo at level 28. (this vs like Legion or Spirit, where I did adept without that 4th perk slot even unlocked)
His skill mountain doesn't start off so steep, where I could actually get hits in every game (well... m1 anyhow), but it was actually being able to parlay the power into anything useful at all and dealing with loops that ended up being a goddamn nightmare. I still don't know how I did it... His power is so disorienting already (with such tight stun periods to readjust and spin again) but the POV is what really kills me. Maaaybe I'll try him again once that changes, but until then YIKES!
PS: Oh and they're also both alike in being buggy as ######### with how obstacles around them interact with their power. 😎
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