Suggestion: Changes to Knights Power and Addons

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Base Kit Changes and Why:

The issue with Knight right now is how slow the knight draws his Path, the maximum length of it and the vision range of guards. Knight Players make up for it With Map of the Realm and Call to Arms but that leads to the issue that Knights cannot profit of any other addons. There is a issue with the guards right now, where they go around a pallet if a survivors drops it in a guard chase. There's also another issue where the guards don't get triggered by notifications around him. On certain maps Knight cannot use his power due to the range requirement (Only specific places, like Badham Preschool, in the School UG if the pallet spawns under the stairs).

For more Information about the Pallet Bug, Notification Bug and why Map of the Realm is a necessity, please press on the tags.

Changes:

• Increases the Vision range of Guards on Patrol by +4 metres. (Map of the Realm Basekit)
• Increases the maximum Patrol Path length by +10 metres and Increases the Path Drawing Movement speed by +2.2 m/s. (Call to Arms Basekit)
• Change Guards Logic to "Take the shortest pathing towards the hunted Survivor".
• The Knight should be able to dismiss a Guard that is not in a Hunt with the Secondary Ability Button. Recalling a Guard this way will leave The Knight with a 6 Second cooldown penalty.
• Guards will start destroying pallets in a chase with a survivor, but will end a chase after the action instead of going through the pallet (It helps The Knight and provides more counterplay for Survivors).
• Decrease the needed Distance to spawn the Green orb (aka to use his power).
• Increase the Movement Speed for The Carnifex and The Jailer to 103.5%.
• The Jailer will block Generators in a 12 Meter Radius when he start hunting a Survivor for the Duration of the Hunt and 3 Seconds afterwards.
• Optional: The Knight cycles through each Guard. Each Guard can be used once per Cycle. They recharge if all Guards have been used once. Addons like Treated Blade would have the effect, that the Knight can summon the Assassin twice before having to deplete the Carnifex and Jailer.

His Addons are in dire need of a rework, since most of them have no value or an effect that does not make any sense.

Addons:

Pillaged Mead: Rework: With the Power Changes in mind, Guards start a Hunt 0.5 seconds faster but they take 25% longer to break or damage. /// The Reduction does barely anything on Carnifex and it actually nerfs Assassin and Jailer since you profit of them taking longer to break something. You profit in the sense blocking the path since pallet stands longer and they cannot work on the generator for longer since they need more time.

Map of the Realm + Call to Arms: Rework (Only if both are basekit: Idea for Call Changes the order Guards will spawn to Jailer, Assassin and Carnifex, make this addon brown. Make Map of the Realm Yellow, Increases the length by +4 Meters and increases the path drawing movement speed by +1.0 m/s. /// His strongest addons for a reason, you basically need to run this combo since you either will not get the chase trigger for a guard or you will not make it to the gen with a guard without getting noticed. Knight needs these addons as base kit honestly otherwise all the other addons (besides 2 others) are unasable.

Town Watch's Torch: If Guards fail to damage Survivors during a Hunt a total of two times, The Knight is granted the Undetectable for 25 seconds. /// Change the condition and increase the duration. The issue here is that the condition makes it impossible to get value. Undetectable can be interesting so survivor dont notice you drawing your guard towards a gen.

Ironworker's Tongs: Rework: Give the used Guard back. Used Assassin in a chase and failed? Get him back. /// Does not bringt value since the condition is bad and the survivor that has the effect is aware of the knight.

Chain Mail Fragment + Broken Hilt: Rework: Chain Mail Fragment inflicts Haemorrhage and Mangled. Broken Hilt applies the Broken Effect for 40 Seconds. /// Getting the hit with a guard is rarely possible since you have to give up his strongest addons (Map of the Realm + Call to Arms) and you are giving up two addon slots for an effect that you can apply with Sloppy Butcher. Combine both into one addon.

Lightweight Greaves: Rework: The Jailer shows the aura of survivors around him in a 24 metres radius for 5 seconds. /// The duration is too short to get any value. The effect itself is strong, but think about it: Spawning the Jailer takes 1.5 seconds - in most loops the survivor will just run to the next loop. There's no value in using it to decrease the distance. The only value I can see is to use the jailer to breake a far generator and then to run to that generator faster. But that's so specific for a purple addon with barely any value.

Healing Poultice: Rework: Increases the Assassins Movement Speed to 115% (Maybe Higher?) but he cannot down a survivor anymore. /// I honestly think this needs a rework. You will not gain any value from this, since the knight imo does not profit of screams and revealing the survivors. You are wasting your strongest Chase Guard for information - It would be strong if the scream would trigger the guard to chase the survivor but it sadly does not.

Flint and Steel: Rework: Gain a 10% Haste Effect for 6 Seconds, when The Carnifex destroys or damages something. (And maybe it damages Generators now for 7.5% instead of 5%) /// Imo the worst addon I have ever seen in DbD. You will rarely see a dropped Pallet as a Knight + its stronger to just destroy it. Especially in a chase with the Carnifex, you can instantly destroy it and kill the survivor. Since the Carnifex chases for the longest duration and destroy items the fastest, its a waste to spawn him for that addon. It needs a rework or function with Standing paletts. That means it has the most value early in game but loses in strength as time goes on.

Blacksmith's Hammer: Rework: The Standard takes 5 additional seconds to manifest. Survivors will no longer receive a haste Buff when taking the Standard but the Endurance effect persists for 5 Seconds now. (Normally 3 Seconds) /// The effect is again too bad especially with the condition. You have to fail your power to get value and the value is too low to actually use it. 3% Hindered is barely anything even if its 15 Seconds. I would prefer a rework for this addon since hindered is boring for the survivor and buffing it would just be annoying for them.

Knight's Contract: Rework: Survivors receive a 10% Hindered effect penalty when they are within 16 Meters of the green orb for 5 seconds. Guards are showing the Aura of the Survivor while they are being hunted and after the hunt has ended for 5 seconds. /// The classic Exposed addon but barely usable. Why? Because if you summon your guard, the survivor will prefer to get hit by it. U can summon it on their booty, but the 1.5 second of spawning will mean they can make it to a pallet or window.