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Spirit still needs Changes

Clockwork_Enigma
Clockwork_Enigma Member Posts: 529
in Feedback and Suggestions

Spirit is still in desperate need of changes to put her in a much healthier state in the game. Currently, her add-ons and abilities have several exploitative design flaws that need addressing as soon as possible.

These are what would be necessary for Spirit:

  • Nerf: The directional cue of Phase Walking is now always present when The Spirit is within 24 meters of the Survivor. This is irrespective of Terror Radius altering perks or the Oblivious status effect.
  • Nerf: The directional cue of Phase Walking now gets louder the closer that The Spirit is to the Survivor.
  • Nerf: The Spirit's Husk now instantly loses its Red Stain while she is performing a Phase Walk.
  • Senko Hanabi - Nerf: Rarity increased to Very Rare.
  • Dried Cherry Blossom - Nerf: Survivors are now completely silent while Phase Walking.
  • Dried Cherry Blossom - Nerf: Rarity increased to Ultra Rare.
  • Mother-Daughter Ring - Nerf: Survivors are now completely silent and all forms of movement are now invisible while Phase Walking.
  • Mother-Daughter Ring - Nerf: Movement speed boost is reduced to +25%.

And the following are buffs I would give to compensate:

  • Buff: Yamaoka's Haunting now activates within 1.25 seconds.
  • Buff: Phase Walking movement speed is increased to 7.2m/s.
  • Mother's Glasses - Buff: Range increased to 6 meters.
  • Senko Hanabi - Buff: Duration of the Entity Blocker increased to 10 seconds.
  • Senko Hanabi - Buff: Range of the Entity Blocker increased to 8 meters.
  • Senko Hanabi - Buff: Now blocks all upright pallet locations.
  • Kintsugi Teacup - Buff: Rarity reduced to Rare.

Comments

  • ProudRinMain
    ProudRinMain Member Posts: 354
    edited December 2022

    Try improving at vsing Spirit. She already got hit pretty hard last year and still is no where as strong as she used to be.

    However, Mother-Daughter Ring could get reworked into something other than what you suggested as that’s extremely unfair ( like not only would she go slower than the current M/S of MDR but she still wouldn’t hear survivors nor see their scratches AND wouldn’t be able to see grass/crows movement but the survivors can still hear and track Spirit? How is that fair ? If so, then survivors shouldn’t be able to hear the whooshing at all if that’s the case. But it should be changed into something really useful without a ridiculous downside ( a worthy iridescent. )

    In regards to your first two proposed changes to Spirit, she’s had them since her last nerf except for when she runs the purple add-on «  Furin «  to an extent.

    If you are having trouble listening for the directional audio cue when Spirit is phasing, practice better positioning at pallets so that the audio can be heard easier than if you weren’t. ( i mean if the Spirit starts phasing from the left of your screen, you turn your character the opposite way and look directly at the front of a pallet and vice versa and if the spirit starts phasing in front of you then you face the opposite way and listen for her whoosh and vice versa. ) try it, this should definitely help!


    The 3 third point you mentioned is actually intended, there is a tip on the loading screen when playing Spirit that says

    «  Feigning to charge Yamaoka’s Haunting , you can trick survivors into thinking that you are ABOUT to phase « 

    ( Not the old stand still tactic/trick/mind-game but it’s referring to when Spirit is doing the hand twitching thing that’s visible to spirit only when the player wants to go into Phase-Walk. ) so Spirit not having a visible charge up animation Is a part of her kit.

    Why would she lose her red stain when phasing? This is pointless as you can easily tell if she’s phasing-walking or not or are you saying her husk should lose collision so she can’t block pallets? If the latter, no way as this is pretty much the only thing she has besides her speed that help her in chases.


    Your DCB change is whatever honestly.

    I really like the senko hanabi buff! Good stuff!

    Mother’s glasses should be changed into giving Spirit her old vaulting animation.


    Can i know how much of a buff the phase-walk movement speed increase is? And the charge-up time prior to going into phase-walk?



    Also, may i know how many hours in total you have on dbd ( be truthful ) i won’t judge but it would be a helpful reminder if your lack of experience ( nothing to be ashamed of ) is the problem or Spirit herself ( which i highly doubt she is. )

    Post edited by ProudRinMain on
  • DEMONANCE
    DEMONANCE Member Posts: 856

    it's always a good day to nerf spirit.

    she can be the worst killer in the game and i would never feel bad and that's coming from someone who hates killers being useless/weak.

    they really should have gone with dust catch up change they talked about but unfortunately only gone with the directional phase.