My Item Revisions, Vol. 4: Toolboxes

I like it, it promotes people to run perk that refills your items more often than just running pure bully builds which can be even in combo with current items.

These changes also would fit well with upcoming changes to anti tunneling and slugging, maybe some further tweaks.

That instructions change is awful. Hitting skillchecks is way better than having none at all, cus you gain more bp and have a chnace fir great skillchecks. You'd likely get made fun of by your teammates for running that.

This would keep toolboxes still way too powerfull. I made my own post about this. It was about toolboxes are consumed on a gen to permanently increas the particular gen speed (by 5, 7 and 10 %) Meaning that Engineers toolbox would result in current Prove thyself at best.

You didn't write it here, but I think they should split the existing toolboxes into two different items, making an entire new Item class called Sabotage Toolboxes, carrying over Sabotage related add ons and reusing Machanic's and Alex's Toolboxes as well as a new uncommon one. These toolboxes would be made on a charge based system, just like Keys, Maps and Fog Vials. Giving you a predetermined amount of charges to sabotage a hook and no punishment through not committing to a sabo by reducing your item's percentage. Grip wrench would make for a good very rare add on, hacksaw giving a basic buff to the toolboxes would be an uncommon. Then there could be a common to add 2 charges to the Toolbox, a rare add on that shows the closest hook to the killer while they're carrying/picking up a survivor, buff and change protective glove's rarity to visceral, adding the ability of making sabotaging quiet, and making hook auras linger for 10 seconds after being destroyed, but charges are reduced by 1 or 2.

Repair speed add on nerfs feel unnecessary, since the faster you repair, the faster your charges are depleting anyway. Most people use their toolboxes on the first gen they see, so theres no point in nerfing the stretegic use of speed add ons to lets say pop a generator as the killer is actively running at your gen.

Normal Toolboxes already have 7 add ons linked to doing gens, so might as well do what they did with Keys, Maps and Fog Vials and make only 5 of them stay, having one for each rarity. I'd say we cut loose wire spool, instructions and clean rag. Keep the existing version of scraps, existing socket swivels, change springclamp to a rare add on, make a new very rare that hides all generator auras for the killer while the toolbox is in use, and keep existing BNP.

I kinda wanna make my own post covering more detailed changes to toolboxes and the two things they are used for. I'll get to it now.

I just like using the item strategically like that to pop before Pain Res or even Pop (the perk.) Doing that would be alot harder without socket swivels

That said, here are my changes.

IMO Alex's Toolbox should also be changed, it should have a repair speed bonus of like 30/40% or something.

• Even if you're going into a match intending to sabo, wouldn't you rather bring a toolbox with a 50% bonus and maybe a sabotage speed addon? I'm not very well versed on how sabo speed translates into real gameplay, but to my understanding a commodius' inherent sabo speed should still let you take a basic attack in front of a hook, sabotage it, then get away, right? If not I imagine a hacksaw addon would still make up the difference
• It being so intensely specialised pollutes the Chest pool.

Besides that, some notes about a few of your proposed Addon reworks:

• I don't really like the proposed change to Instructions here, because it kinda enables a mild form of griefing. I don't think it would be serious, but I can just imagine the clips of a new player applying Instructions thinking they're helping, only for the Killer to interrupt the gen at 98% progress because John Streamer couldn't get any Great skillchecks. I also think the inherent design of Instructions is wrong- It's cool to have an addon helping players who struggle with skillchecks, but disabling them entirely means they get less opportunities to learn. I would prefer something like "while repairing a generator with a toolbox, failing skillchecks has no penalty" or maybe just removing them as your version of Worn Out Tools already helps with skillchecks.
• The idea of your Scraps rework is great, but IMO it's not thematic for the addon. Maybe it would fit better on Protective Gloves, and to nerf toolbox capacity addons the capacity boosts for Scraps/Wire Spool could be reduced to something like +6/+10 respectively?
• I really like the idea of the Spring Clamp rework, and if it's applying to a single gen permanently, maybe it could also lower the passive sounds of the generator's pistons? That'd be an idea that doesn't exist in the game yet and could create some interesting survivor/killer mindgames.