Approaching eruption nerf

While I get what you're saying, 1.32m isn't 'nothing' either, especially since the blade wiping buff further means you're catching up sooner, even if that survivor has an immediately available pallet or window. Which you said, but shrugged off the extra 1.38m gained compared to before that patch. In a dead zone, both of those changes combine, and the survivor has 2.7m less of a lead than before the 6.1 patch.

And, for comparison, the 'for distance' portion of dead hard that was removed was at best 2.28m of distance, and that's rounding up. But that shows why just looking at 'oh, it's only .2 seconds difference' is misleading. The question is: is the potential for 2.5m of extra distance in nearly every chase valuable or not?

I'm always amused at how people downplay the 6.1 buff of doing nearly every common killer action 10% faster as though it's trivial and nearly meaningless. But I guarantee if we just reverted it back to the pre 6.1 values it would be panned as 'the worst nerfs ever'.

Barring a complete rework of the perk my idea has always been to add a delay between a Survivor going down and the generator exploding. Something long enough that an alert Survivor knows to let go, a la when you know there's a chance for Pain Resonance, but short enough that it's not made too easy to avoid.

My understanding has been the Incapacitated status, and the fact there's no way to be able to avoid it, is the big issue with the perk. A delay will enable it to be less of a problem vs Solos while, at worst, not really affecting a SWF's ability to counter/ avoid the Incap.

I'm aiming for a way to dodge the perk's Incapacitate without requiring additional perks or builds designed around avoiding eruption. A form of counter play anybody could do, in theory.

The idea, to me, is that while having perks to avoid a problematic perk, playstyle, or what have you is useful, they shouldn't be a requirement to just play the game.

Which is irrelevant to my point about Eruption, since I'm not talking in 1:1 terms or not acknowledgingthat this isn't Cornelius true everywhere.

Also your point is inaccurate since Killers needs a perk to break the totems of survivors. Putting them out is basekit. Which goes to my point, actually. The perk is useful for countering Boons, but not a requirement.

I honestly don't know what you're talking about.

I'm talking about a way to balance Eruption without losing l the power of its effect any more than can be helped while addressing what is, to my knowledge, the most problematic aspect of the perk (its being far harder for Solo Queue survivors to counter vs SWF).

You seem to be talking like doing so inherently requires some 1:1 exchange, when the whole point is the issues with the perk are what's making it already uneven.

My delay idea is meant to give alert survivors that opportunity to counter without further empowering SWFs or negatively impacting the value the Killer gets from the perk any more than can be helped.

You wanna know the reason Botany went from 33% to 50% and efficiency penalty?

Self Care was nerfed by 15% and the 20% efficiency was removed.

Botany gained Self Care´s 15% + 2% to make it 50% and a 20% efficiency penalty.

By changing the numbers between those two the perks became bad by themselves but meh with each other.

Yet Circle of Healing with it´s infinite healing charges and +50% is fine and doesn´t need a nerf to it´s infinite heals.

Keep Self Care but bring Botany back, even if the combo gets weaker

Self Care should never be used in the first place.