Has anyone made Hex: Pentimento useful?

I think that'd be too powerful. It'd be like old Ruin/Undying without even taking the other effects into account. Pentimento's effects and potential 5x placement are balanced on the premise that they're easier to remove than a typical hex totem. The core issue with the perk isn't that at least one survivor already knows where the totem is, it's that survivors no longer have to cleanse hex totems and were already discouraged from cleansing dulls when boons entered the mix and the opportunity to use this perk isn't even reliable.

Anyway, Plaything is the key to Pentimento. It's one perk for four hex totems and it generally forces each survivor to cleanse their own totem, so one Mikaela with a boon can't waste all your hexes. The nature of Plaything involves a lot of time spent off gens anyway so it compounds the slowdown Pentimento brings.

Five stacks is often a pipe dream, even with another hex in the mix, but Plaything will let you keep one stack up for a while.

Personally the only situation I can see where survivors wouldn't boon hexes instead of breaking them would be with Thrill of the Hunt.

At that point, you're running Pentimento, Thrill of the Hunt, and probably another hex like Plaything JUST to get a 30% slow on gen progress. You could basically run any other stalling perk and get more value, and when you do that you have 2 extra perk slots available. The whole build also relies on the fact that you don't lose Thrill early, in which case you may as well have just brough 1 perk to the match.

Most smart survivors that see Plaything at the moment are either going to boon the totems that it makes, break them and then come back in 10 seconds to break the Pentimento totem as they know exactly where it is, or just realise that oblivious isn't the biggest deal and play through it, because chances are the rest of your perks aren't threatening because you're geared up to try to make a bad perk work.

All that needs to be changed is snuffing out a boon breaks the totem. Then Pentimento would be a fair counter. I say fair because the survivors will still know exactly where it is.

Yeah I did that when mikaela released and now im doing it so killers can get that pentimento value

I've been trying it without any other hex perk. The problem about this is that some games it does little, some games it does a lot, and some others it does nothing.

The best maps for it are the ones where totems are harder to see, like The Game and Midwich. Hell, even the survivor who first cleansed the totem might get confused about where it was and take long to find the totem on The Game. By the way, I just got a 4K on that map thanks to this perk.

The problem is, since I'm using no other Hex, there is little incentive for survivors to cleanse totems, so I only got a really good value of it on 3 matches so far. I try to wait until there are at least 3 broken ones to start lighting them back up, but sometimes not even the first appears. If one survivor has a Boon perk, they will hardly ever cleanse. If all the survivors have boons... well, no totem will ever be broken this match.

When there is only one, though, a possible strategy would be to kill Mikaela first, since she is usually the one with the Boon. That should make the others think there's no remaining reason not to cleanse. The problem, of course, is that this might take long... even if you try to tunnel Mikaela, BT and DS might get in your way.

You say “Boons” but the only problematic Boon so far is Circle of Healing. The Boon system in general is fine, it’s just Circle of Healing needs to be slowed down.

Huh? The heal isn’t instant. There’s always been healing perks in the game plus there’s more than just the healing boon. PLEASE enlighten me how Shadow step and the new boon are “OP”? And you can IDK go up to the totem and……put it out? And what perks does it make useless? Sloppy? The slow down is still applied. Im gonna need a stronger argument than this.