I don't think it's too bad. It's not terrible if you're mindful about when and where you decide to heal. Survivors can be pretty brazen about where they decide to heal up, like right in front of your face when you're carrying someone or when they think that you don't care and you're just going to keep after the person you're chasing. Right under the hook, too, is what gets me.

Especially given the prevalence of nurses calling, it does discourage self care a little bit, since it's like putting a big target on your back. Since the healing nerf, my nurses calling/whispers Myers manages to kill self-care users the fastest/easiest.

I guess we won't really know the full extent of the nerfs effect on balance until after it sticks around for awhile. As far as I can tell, it just makes survivors be a little bit less obvious and keep better track of their teammates. Though, I might be biased. I've never bothered to run self care. I use bond/plunderer's instinct and can snatch a medkit or find an ally to heal up quickly 95% of the time. In my opinion, I think balance is achieved when the skill cap to reach rank 1 survivor is roughly equal to skill cap required to reach rank one killer. I don't remember the exact percentages, but I believe the percentage of rank one survivors is something like 2.8 percent and rank one killers is 1. something. So, there are nearly a third more rank one survivors than there are killers. That indicates a considerable advantage, so it makes sense that there should be a considerable nerf/buff in favor of the killers.

Assuming this nerf is that considerable, anyway. Keep in mind that the nerf also came with a buff, reducing the time needed to recover from the dying state. The reason why I welcome the healing nerf is because you can put in a crazy amount of work in the early game simply to have it completely negated in under a minute. I catch three people attempting to rush a gen, smack dwight out of the window, fake the chase, come back and smack the meg who returns to the gen, she sprint bursts away toward a double story loop, but I still see scratch marks the opposite direction, follow them a few feet to smack the Nea attempting to urban evade in a corner and by the time I force her to drop one pallet Meg and Dwight have already healed up.

###. That. The nerfed healing speed also encourages killers to spread the love around a bit instead of just tunneling down the first person they see. Though, I will add the disclaimer that I'm only a rank 7 killer. Playing survivor at rank 1, though, I have barely noticed the effect of the nerfs.

@TigerKirby215 said:
People read the healing nerf as +4 seconds.
What people don't realize is that this is +8 seconds of Self Care, +5 seconds on a Sloppy Butcher heal (from the base of +3 seconds, and being +4 seconds from the current base heal time), and a whopping ten extra seconds of Self Care with Sloppy Butcher.
This isn't even looking at perks like Coulrophobia which increases these numbers by 50%, meaning that a Doctor with Sloppy and Clownphobia can make a Self Care take a whopping 45 seconds.

If the intent was to nerf Self Care well... you didn't. You just made it more mandatory since it's less likely that your allies will have the time to heal you. Once again a nerf that tries to fix an OP perk just made it even more mandatory. (Exaustion nerf)

+4 seconds is way too much because of the implications with Self Care. Either make it +2 seconds, or make Self Care's healing speed something like 60%. (~27 seconds, which is still 3 seconds slower than base Self Care.)
Or better yet: just nerf Self Care's healing speed? Nip the problem at the bud instead of cutting the whole damn tree down?

You can only heal when you are safe anyway, I dont see how a few secodns change anything now. It only affects people that wanna SC while looping.

The intent was not to nerf SC, the intent was to slow down the game (yes that was achived, but the magnitude is laughable).

The devs simply are too lazy/scared to touch the actual problem, namely the gen mechanic

Hey i have a plan.
Dont use Self Care.
Just find a teammate.
Rly. Its a TEAMGAME.

TEAMGAME!

Tsulan said:

Take we ll make it instead. 
Works like a charm.

@TigerKirby215 said:
If the intent was to nerf Self Care well... you didn't.
Or better yet: just nerf Self Care's healing speed? Nip the problem at the bud instead of cutting the whole damn tree down?

The patch notes said "To give Killers the ability to extend the game length through regular gameplay and without increasing generator times, the base time to heal is being increased."

Match length is the "tree," not Self Carry.