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Okay but seriously, Wraith does not need that base kit nerf. His lunge was fine, he is B tier.
Nerf his broken addons all you like, by all means feel free, they are boosted to hell and back.
But there is no reason at all to touch his base kit, it is good but not too strong or oppressive. I don't understand how Blight and Nurse can exist (NOT saying they should be nerfed) but Wraith gets his lunge neutered a bit because... I don't really know.
There are many problematic balancing issues in DBD, Wraith and his lunge is not one of them. You have to stop listening to everything whiners say on the forums, you need to look at it pragmatically and think "Is this fair? Does this have proper counter play?"
The answer to both is yes, so please just do him a solid and leave the lunge alone. It would cost you nothing to do so and it would make people who like Wraith very happy. He's not OP or broken, his addons are just a bit too good, THAT was his one issue and you have adjusted them.
So just don't commit to the lunge nerf please, thank you. Wraith is frankly a testament to where every Killer should be in terms of balance, strong but fair, and the fact you want to nerf that is very disheartening and makes me not want to bother playing Killer.
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Thing is: it is still possible to use lunge, but there is just no room for error and you need to be really close on survivor for lunge after uncloaking and it is worse for hits around loops, because you get less distance.
But I don't think it is needed. He has good enough counter-play and he is going to suffer from boon totems a lot.
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Why they nerfed wraith? omg, devs seriously want us to play only meta killers 🙄
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I can understand that Addon, but definetly not basekit.
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It's easier to nerf the basekit than to do an entire add-on pass.
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Just learn to play Nurse, it'll make you happier in the long run.
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He didn't really need an entire add-on pass though. He just needed All-Seeing Blood and the Windstorm add-ons nerfed, and the former IS being nerfed, so it's a double blow.
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He had like 2 busted addons that needed nerfs and that's all
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I agree. Lunge nerf was uneccessary.
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The nerf is minor though, you only lose out on 0.25 seconds of being 6.9m/s all it means is that its slightly harder to use in chase and for other situations you might need to start uncloaking out of sign for the 1.5 seconds you are silent instead of running straight up to someone and uncloaking, I get that it has multiple factors to it but in all honesty wraith will be just fine with this nerf and will still be in a good spot just less so since this slightly increases the skill floor of his gameplay to make it less easy to pick up and use
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"The nerf is minor though" So why bother? Why? Why even care enough to nerf him and make him worse? If it is so small that it doesn't matter, then to even bother with this nerf is just bad.
If the Killer was fine, nerfing them is objectively a bad idea and makes the game less fun.
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I didn't say it was small enough to not have an impact but I did say he needs something to make him slightly harder to use / slightly less effective since his current playstyle is too beginner friendly and doesn't require much other than brute force
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He is literally a free beginner Killer. And a GOOD one at that, every Killer should be good, even the "easy" ones. He doesn't even scrape the tier that's behind top tier, he's solid but that is it. His addons were boosted and they got the nerfs they deserved, so nerfing his base kit makes no sense to me. He is a glorified M1 Killer that is countered by everything that is meant to counter them.
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I think he will be fine and that it just shifts him away from an easy brute force playstyle
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You have aura reading addon and what is second? Silent bell?
I have played around 10 games on PTB and it definetly has big impact. Uncloaking hits are quite unreliable after that nerf and he got limited on number of loops he can use power to get a hit -> so basic m1 killer without power there.
His lunge was most fun thing about him and Wraith definetly has good enough counter-play already and wasn't nowhere near top tier killers.
I agree with addon nerf, that was just too good overall.
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Aura Reading and Silent Bell we're OP imo, if not OP then really damn unfun and super good with no drawback. I can see arguments for Silent Bell not being too bad but Aura Reading had to go.
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I am fine with addon nerf, I just don't like basekit and don't think it is deserved.
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*Z tier.
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