Starstruck Should Be Buffed After Nurse's Nerf
I feel like this is a perk that only a few Killers can make use out of since the duration of the Exposed is incredibly short and you can often just run in away from the Killer's Terror Radius while they are hooking the Survivor to make the distance needed to get away.
The only thing that was holding Starstruck back from being buffed was Nurse, but Nurse got nerfed and her Blink Attacks are treated as Special Attacks and not Basic Attacks. In fact, she was nerfed to remove this strong synergy with Starstruck to begin with, so why not buff this perk so it can be used by M1 Killers? It was gutted so it was no longer the best tool for the strongest Killers, so why not give weaker Killers more leverage?
I know some people would say "but would it make it too strong?" but Starstruck is entirely avoidable by leaving the Terror Radius before a pick up and staying split up (which most Survivors already do). And through an entire 2 years or so of playing DBD, Ive never been downed by Starstruck on a basic M1 Killer, and I never really see it as a threatening perk due to the amount of restrictions and factors that are required for the perk to actually work.
And when I speak on this subject, Im speaking entirely from my personal experience, so while I cant say others will have the same experience I have had with this perk to begin with, I can at least provide my insight and thought process, which I have, but if anyone else would like to contribute to this subject and give their own opinions and experiences, they are welcome to (besides it is a public forum anyways).
EDIT: Im not even asking for that huge of a buff either, but to be fair I never even stated how I would exactly want to it changed people can assume and interpret it however they want. I was wanting the duration to be changed from 26/28/30 seconds to 30/35/40 seconds.
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Wesker is powerful with it Because his TR is 40. And he has mobility. I think StarStruck is fine if they just gave it an extra power like missed attacks recover faster for the duration.
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Sorry that you were fooled into believing Starstruct is this way because of Nurse.
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Starstruck is fine as it is, even if you don't get instadowns it still forces survivors to waste time waiting out its effect and playing more carefully. It's also still good for shutting down hook bodyblocking. It's not a perk you can just ignore like you can with several other bad killer perks. Starstruck was strongest on Nurse, admittedly, but it's still good on a few other killers as well.
That said, the perk that SHOULD be buffed is Awakened Awareness. Now that Nurse has no way to instadown, I'd be fine with it having its 2 second aura linger back.
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No.
See Spirit for any reasons why I think this perk should never be buffed.
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As a personal experience - I saw value of this perk on M1 killers.
But I agree the perk is somewhat weak on regular M1 killers. I would be ok with 40 or maybe even 45s. However spirit still exists (wesker could be little oppresive with it, but I don't think it would be uncounterable).
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I love using it with Trapper and Hag, they benefit a lot from it and I do not think it needs a buff really.
It makes people to not bodyblock while carrying them and then putting in the basement. Also for Hag, it helps downing other people if they trigger the traps.
It is not a perk solely to instadown people but rather avoid bodyblocks and letting you either put in the basement or even in a scourge hook to avoid getting a gen done safely.
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it now has to be balanced around spirit, so no i think the perk is fine.
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To be fair, I never exactly mentioned how I would exactly like it buffed.
I was thinking about changing it from 26/28/30 seconds to 30/35/40 seconds. Spirit will still be able to get downs like before but the buff itself only really helps Killers that are too slow to really catch up.
And besides, Spirit's entire issue is their addons, not their basekit (which is ironic since they were suppose to be nerfed, but I digress). Spirit and Blight might eventually get their addons nerfed anyways if you consider how Nurse was nerfed (hardly, but still nerfed) due to public outcry.
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