Nurse and Blight are a Problem: When Are they Getting Changed?

Nurse and Blight have consistently been the game's two best Killers for a while and have been seen as the meta-defining Killers of the game. Although arguable, this hasn't changed even with the latest patch, since now Blights and Nurses have an easier time in taking out Survivors due to Generators taking longer to complete altogether.

But this isn't the only problem that these two Killers have. There's plenty of problems that the community has with them that seemingly have not been addressed, and that they would like to have addressed.

So Nurse and Blight are a problem. That fact is evident. But I want to detail why they are a problem and why the community greatly dislikes playing against them, in the hopes that this will finally get through to the developers that they need changes. The numbers and "raw data" may show one thing, but the players themselves show another thing entirely.

I'll start with The Nurse, who is easily the best Killer in the game.

• The Nurse has the ability to completely ignore the fundamentals of the game because of her Blinking ability. While this is unique in the fact that she can simply go through walls and objects, this gets extremely irritating considering that there is little to no counterplay against this ability.
• Further complicating this are her add-ons. The two most-talked about add-ons of hers are the range add-ons, the Heavy Panting and Kavanagh's Last Breath add-ons. These add-ons inadvertently increase the speed at which her Blinks travel, and thus reduce the amount of time it takes for her to exit the Blink stage. This is a feature that is currently not even listed in the description of the add-ons themselves and many assumed they were an unintentional feature.
  • This was later confirmed not to be unintentional by one of the developers, leading to significant backlash over the fact that Nurse has the ability to become even more powerful without the effect ever being listed.
• Another point of contention amongst the players is the fact that her Blink attacks are considered Basic Attacks, not Special Attacks. Probably the single most common suggestion that the community has ever given about Nurse is to just change it to be the reverse--Blink attacks are now "special attacks", not "basic attacks". The reason being that Nurse has the ability to scale long distances and use Perks that require the activation of Basic Attacks.
  • Another, often not-talked-about reason that people want to see Nurse's Blink become a special attack is simply because most attacks that have you currently active in your power, like Pig's Ambush, Legion's Feral Slash, Oni's M1 while in Blood Fury, and even Blight's Lethal rush, are all Special Attacks.
  • Because her post-Blink lunge attack counts as a basic attack, Nurse gains the ability to use Perks that should, in no way, be activatable by her under any means due to how powerful she already is without them, and it only makes her even more unnecessarily powerful. These Perks include, but are not limited to, Dragon's Grip, Hex: Devour Hope, Hex: Haunted Ground, Hex: No One Escapes Death, Jolt, Make Your Choice, Rancor, Sloppy Butcher, and probably the most offensive case, Starstruck.

Nurse basically has the complete ability to break the game in a way that makes playing against her fundamentally terrible as a Survivor, while also making her a practical must-pick in order to have an edge in higher levels of play.

Now onto The Blight, who is arguably the second best Killer in the game in the current patch:

• Blight has an incredible amount of mobility and unintended mechanics that allow him to basically catch Survivors off guard or in a way where there are limited escape options against him. His incredible mobility is compounded by the fact that he has exploits such as the "moon tech" and the "hug tech". However, he's arguably seen as fun because of these, though mostly considered unfun because of having somewhat of a general lack of counterplay or forcing Survivors into a specific, repetitive gameplay loop just to win.
  • I've decided to use the term "exploit" for the two aforementioned aspects of Blight's gameplay, as the "hug tech" has basically been all but confirmed an exploit, and I would assume the "moon tech" would also be one.
• This is even further compounded by Blight's add-ons. Unlike The Nurse, who had only two problematic add-ons, Blight has several add-ons that put him on a completely new level and can make him feel just as unbearable, while reducing add-on variety to his kit.
  • His speed add-ons, namely Blighted Rat, Blighted Crow and Adrenaline Vial, all individually provide him with some substantial speed buffs, with the former two doing so over the course of his rushes. When combined with other add-ons, however, this effect becomes overwhelming to Survivors on multiple different maps, since Blight will be able to simply move through the entire course of the map and inevitably find a Survivor, or at best, hit them.
  • Then there is his Alchemist's Ring, which rewards Blight with the ability to instantly recharge his Rush tokens as soon as he hits a Survivor with a Lethal Rush attack. But there in lies the problem. He regains all of his tokens instantly upon hitting a Survivor, which can lead into an extremely quick downing of a Survivor if they have little to no defenses, due to there not being significant enough of a distance between Blight and the Survivor.
    • Because of the current 6.1.0 mid-chapter patch nerfing Survivor sprint burst durations on hit, this is also made worse overall.
  • And of course this wouldn't be a Blight add-on problem if he didn't have probably one of the worst designed add-ons in the game: Compound 33. This add-on effectively gives you the ability to have built-in Enduring and Spirit Fury on any rush, while also slowing the Survivors down, while also no longer needing to use the Rush attack to destroy a pallet, while needing to consume only one token for that pallet. I don't think I need to say anymore.
• Now, thanks to Blight being one of the aforementioned Killers where his M1 attack during his Power is considered a "Special Attack", he doesn't have the capacity to use Perks like Nurse does that completely cause him to become even more busted than he already is.

So Blight also has the ability to really relegate Survivors into a certain style of play and punishes most Survivor players at most levels because of his ability to take them down with relative ease, owing to his high mobility and use of exploits, as well as the utilization of various add-ons to make the experience even more miserable for most Survivors.

So Nurse and Blight are a problem to Survivors in general; they're typically powerful characters who are basically the only truly viable ones in higher levels of play. Even with the patch that was recently made to reduce the overall gap between Killers, these two are still an issue.

Which leads me to ask the developers one question: When are they getting changed?

(Also, when are we getting Nurse's lobby and chase music?)