How bout changing devour hope

DH is perfect as it is. Removing its hex status automatically makes the perk overpowered. You'd have to nerf its actual effects if you wanted it to not be a hex, and at that point it wouldn't be worth running.

It's the ultimate risk/reward perk, and I don't think it should be changed at this juncture.

I would prefer that they give killers a fifth slot just for hexes over something like this.

Survivors about Devour Hope: a hex instadown is totally balanced

Survivors about NOED: a hex instadown that only spawns at the end of the game is totally unfair and rewards bad players

So I think the best change for Devour Hope is for the totem to not be lit until survivors are exposed. I've had it happen to me and I know it annoys killers to see their DH get destroyed before their first hook. If DH doesn't activate after 4 (?) unhooks then that means the survivors spent most of their time cleansing totems instead of doing gens

I also want Devour Hope to stop being a totem, but it would need a massive nerf for that.

What I want most out of Devour is the mori.

I could see a Devour Hope that's not a Hex, but that also doesn't grant you instadown, instead granting speed boost.

2 tokens : same old same old

3 tokens : instead of giving Exposed, this gives you a 5% haste boost. (or lower if 5% is too busted)

5 tokens : You are granted the ability to kill Survivors that have progressed one Hook Stage (same as old memento mori).

I would use that. If you want to nerf it further, make it act like an Ebony mori instead : only after two stages. That way it would be far from broken and still fall behind most meta perks such as Corrupt and Ruin, because it kicks in pretty late in the game and all it REALLY does is give you speed and potentially avoid some saves.

But that's most of the risk factor with Devour Hope, that it's going to get found before everyone's revealed as Exposed. The reward is that everyone is perma-Exposed after 3 hooks and mori-able at 5. If you had the ability to stick it behind some corner tree in Swamp, or in some nook and box that'll never be spotted unless a survivor knows all the hex spawns on Lery's, DH will swing towards too powerful. Or rather, too reliable, which makes it too powerful, because DH's effect is too powerful to be reliable. If DH isn't plopped on some hyper-visible totem, survivors have the length of two Exposed chases in order to find it (assuming that Exposed wasn't revealed on the 4th or 5th token, because I've had that happen before) before heads start flying. Being able to put the hex in the most obscure possible spot skews that timing.

Like, DH is the one time where I feel there's actually merit to the roulette of hex placements. Run Undying and/or Haunted Grounds if you're concerned about hex longevity. The greatest buff I'd be comfortable giving it is having the totem not light up until the first person is hooked.

And I say this as someone who runs Devour regularly. Currently it's on my Nemesis build, my Ghostface build, my Wraith build, my Hag build, my Trickster build, my Doctor build, my Myers build... I love this perk, it's such a game-changer. But its balance is very careful and the suggestions here are coming across as a desire to make it overpowered.