How would you rework/buff these perks? (SERIOUS QUESTION!)

A lot of those perks don't need changes... they are good enough

But... I'll give you some ideas for 4 Killer perks that do need some changes (also I haven't used 3-4 of those Killer perks)

Also... I know more about Killer perks then Survivor perks

Dying Light: Could be capped at 6 stacks with 6% so a total of 36% slower Gens

Gearhead: needs to be reverted

Predator: Could give a direction to the Scratch Marks rather then making them narrower

Surveillance: Could get the loud noise notification for the Survivor hitting a skillcheck from Call Of Brine

Make blastmine take 33% of a gen to activate like wiretap.

Revert Thana to its old version.

Distressing should also cause your TR to linger on survivors for a few seconds after you leave.

Leverage needs the duration removed since it’s numbers are so low.

Hysteria apply on survivors losing a health state, not just healthy to injured.

Deerstalker should be map wide and slow recovery speed.

Grim Embrace should also block gens for a smaller duration on each survivors first hook.

Technician should silence the gen completely.

Make Calm Spirit also silence footstep sounds.

Bite the Bullet should silence everything anytime you are involved in a heal and hide their auras.

There’s some to get started.

Autodidakt guarantees a skill check every 4 seconds +1 per stack (9 seconds at max) 💖

At that point i would nerf the stronger perks and make adjustments to the base game cause if that many perks are weak it's usually a safe bet it's because they are outshined by overpowered perks

Which funny enough is exactly what is happening

Autodidact for example is going to shoot from low C/D tier to atleast high B if not A+ tier if these changes go life and they haven't touched it at all

Most of your ideas are really bad and you did not put much thought into it.

Beast of Pray would just remove a core and fun part of the game. Sure, most Killers would probably not use it, but if someone is using it, it makes the game more boring for them (even tho it would be their choice) and the Survivor. Mindgames are just an important part which make chases more fun.

Shattered Hope is awful. Why should one Survivor start with a immense disadvantage, just because they got the 25% chance of being the Obsession? Let alone that it would be really busted on Oni and would remove quite a bunch of his counterplay (once he got his power once he basically has it nearly all the time, but the counterplay is to avoid the first hit).

Not sure about Brutal Strength or Hysteria, those might be fine, even tho I think Brutal Strength is already solid and it might be really annoying to be that one person who gets a Pallet deleted immediatly in chase, because the Perk is not on Cooldown.

Leverage would just make healing even more awful than it would be after the next Patch. Because on top of the Nerf to healing you would have to deal with so much Slowdown while healing... Sure, the non-tunneling incentive is nice, but it might take things too far with the already announced Healing-Nerf.

Predator is too much Aura-Read. I am always a big fan of Aura Read, but having it permanently when a Survivor is exhausted is just too much. Other Aura Reads which work in chase are quite short and have Cooldowns and this for a reason. A Survivor using a Perk like Lithe or Sprint Burst and being visible for at least 40 seconds afterwards would be too much.

Regarding Predator- I like that idea but I think it just being a flat binary of "Exhausted = Aura Read" would be a bit too strong. Remember that killers have ways of inflicting Exhaustion, so it's not just a partial counter to Exhaustion perks on the survivor side- with no restrictions a killer can slap on Predator and Fearmonger for constant and infallible generator information, and that seems like a combo that might be a little too much.

Maybe a minimum-range requirement to make it useful for chase more than for constant mapwide tracking?

Regarding Exhaustion Perks:

I dont really mind them at all and I am fine with almost everyone running one (I dont run an Exhaustion-Perk myself). But I think if they want to nerf them, they should rather look at the Perks themselves (like they did with DH twice now and they did with Balanced Landing in the past) instead of adding a Perk which provides so much Aura Read.

Because even if the Survivor is not running any Exhaustion-Perk, an Exhaustion Add On would also probably mean that this Survivor is visible for the whole duration of the chase, since even 5 seconds of Exhaustion dont go down during a chase. Also Fearmonger would provide unlimited information which Gens are being worked on.

Regarding Shattered Hope - I still think it is not a good concept to become broken just for being unlucky. Rancor has the same problem (one Survivor at random will become the Obsession), but with Rancor you get a warning and a benefit and know that you have to hide in Endgame. And being broken is a huge Debuff - I mean, nobody uses No Mither despite the Perk having some pretty big positive sides (really good against tracking, unlimited pickup from the ground, increased Recovery). So being chosen at random to have that huge Debuff AND no benefit from it does not sound right.

Regarding Beast of Prey - I am really on the fence of removing the Red Stain by any means (except for Undetectable, since this is usually either capped or with quite some disadvantage). It is such a basic game mechanic and I think that chases can become really dull if many Killers would use this Perk.

-"I dont really mind [Exhaustion Perks] at all and I am fine with almost everyone running one"

It's fine if you are playing Nurse/Blight or maybe even Wesker. They go a long way toward making Pig, Trapper and Doctor nearly worthless considering all the other problems this game has.

-"Because even if the Survivor is not running any Exhaustion-Perk, an Exhaustion Add On would also probably mean that this Survivor is visible for the whole duration of the chase"

DBD is balanced around the idea that chases are ~20 seconds between hits. This happens in low and middle tier play but not high tier play. As a general idea if you want the game to not revolve around "I tunnel the first player hooked 3 times" then you need mechanics where people feel : I don't want to be chased.

What if for example we made the rule that exhaustion perks only did 33% of what they do now when not facing killers with mobility powers, one hit downs or range attacks (PH/ Trickster/Huntress but NOT Nemesis - since he needs 3 hits)? Would that be your preference?

Imagine for example a more organized team were running this game. You could very easily say : the most powerful 10 killers get no effect from Predator (Nurse, Blight, Wesker, Pyramid, Spirit, Huntress, etc.). Then again a more organized team would make the game so that the worst killer is only 15% worse than the best killer OR the bad killers have protected match making so they can't play against survivors who make their existence pointless.

-"I still think it is not a good concept to become broken just for being unlucky"

It wouldn't be "unlucky". The killer used 1/4 of his perks to make one player weaker. Survivors often pick perks without any care that it makes them more likely to be the obsession because there is no drawback. You could "counter pick" this by bringing no mither. Remember the A -B -C discussion?

I played against someone who unironically used No Mither last night. I listened to his stream while I played against him (because this makes killer feel less lonely). He was genuinely mad I tunneled him out because he was using Iron Will+ No Mither+Resilience + Brand new part. "You don't have the right to tunnel me - but I deserve to tunnel your gens with impunity." Those are not the words he used but that was obviously the idea running through his mind.

No Mither is really strong if used correctly. The problem was that I was playing a no Mobility killer vs a 3 man SWF all running the same character with DH. He chose to bring Iron Will so I knew he had no exhaustion - this made him the weak link so I removed him from the equation first.

Where am I going with this? What if Shattered Hope only worked if the game featured people in a SWF? As the killer you had to gamble that some people were playing together or it had a much lesser effect. SWF breaks this game and it will likely never get balanced because survivors would get mad (even though SWF ruins the game for killer unless you are Blight/Nurse).

-Btw for anyone curious I muted his stream when I hooked him the third time. After my game was done I got to watch this same player get tunneled in the next game. "He mad."

-"Regarding Beast of Prey - I am really on the fence of removing the Red Stain by any means. It is such a basic game mechanic and I think that chases can become really dull if many Killers would use this Perk."

Why would chases become dull? Explain it to me. You can see the red light therefore you always know where to go in a chase. Most tiles are designed so that if you know where to stand there is never a threat even when you can't see the red light (this is especially true if you are a good listener and know how close the killer is and listen to their footsteps/terror radius) .

Would DBD not be a far more actually frightening game if you didn't have a big red arrow to follow saying " I am going this way!"

I can't mention why I want this perk to work this way because it violates forum rules about : talking about exploits/cheating.

There’s a lot of perks here that I either don’t know how to change or don’t think need changed, but there’s a few perks here that I’ve wanted to see buffed for a while now, particularly on the survivor end.

•No Mither

-Swap NM and Unbreakable’s recovery speed bonuses

•Self-Aware/Fixated

-While walking, your scratch marks fade 10% faster

•Bite the Bullet

-Now hides auras in addition to sounds

-Effects persist for 3 seconds after the healing action is interrupted

-While self-healing, ignore the Mangled status effect

•Corrective Action

-Succeeding great skill checks grants a token, up to a maximum of 6 tokens

-Whenever a survivor fails a repair or healing skill check anywhere on the map, a token is consumed and the failed skill check is considered a good skill check

-When this happens, you and the affected survivor see each other’s auras for 5/6/7 seconds

•Empathic Connection

-Range limit removed

-Increases altruistic healing speed by 5/10/15%

•Pharmacy

-The first time you open a chest, a Ranger Medkit is guaranteed

-If you have not yet opened a chest, grants the ability to rummage through a chest to receive a Ranger Medkit once per trial

•Solidarity

-Increases altruistic healing speed by 15/20/25% while injured

-Self-healing from this perk cannot be regressed by Hemorrhage

•Resurgence

-Applies on wiggling free from the killer’s grasp and when being healed from the dying state

-The self-healing caused by this perk cannot be regressed by Hemorrhage

•Guardian/Babysitter

-Also activates when rescuing a survivor from the killer’s grasp or when healing a survivor from the dying state