Would Buffing D, C and B tier killers really break the game?

It wouldn't, but it would take creativity to do so in ways that don't blanket buff the higher tiers as well, so it'll probably just be a rework or two every 1-2 years, most of which will need to be either partially or fully scrapped, some re-re-(re?)worked, and it'll become a drop in the bucket because some unrelated perk/map/item/etc will power creep the changes by the time they happen. The balancing approach we've been seeing in normalizing the roster's extremes has been the equivalent of throwing buckets of water on a burning building at this point.

Making trapper traps not affect him but deep wound injured survivors will not affect any other killer.

changing general killer mechanics might be problematic, but not changes to specific killer abilities, unless those changes may make the killer the new top 1 killer.

It would not. But I dont really see any ideas outside from "Buff Killer X". Because in the end, it is important that you keep the identity of the Killer. E.g. you can make Trapper into another Dashslop-Killer, but this would not really be the Killer people like to play.

I also dont think that your idea is that great for Trapper, since it would probably only buff his most unfun playstyle and does not do much else for him. Changes I would make for Trapper:

• Let him carry more traps, but not all of them. One more would be fine. (Hens had the idea that there are not 8 Traps on the map but 4 and he gets 2 when he picks up one of those, which would also be an option)
• Increase the Setting Speed
• Make it harder for Survivors to escape on the first tries. Currently it is 16,67% per attempt with a maximum number of 6 attempts. I think having a guaranteed escape after 6 attempts is fine, because this would mean that the Killer was so far away and did not really care for the Traps in that specific area. But I would say that the first three attempts should be very unlikely to escape close to impossible. Then the 4th should be more balanced, the 5th should be a high possibility of escaping and the 6th guaranteed. This would remove frustrating situations where the Survivor escapes on the first try, but makes it reasonable to escape from the 4th try onwards.
• Changes his traps in a way that they are always of similar color like the floor of the map. So you have grey traps for The Game, yellowish for Eyrie of Crows etc.

I think those things would make him more interesting and would buff him. But in the end, if you want to keep his identity, he will never be a strong Killer.

Then I also think it is fine that we have different qualities of Killers, because some are just more simple to play. And IMO the simple to play Killers should never be the strongest Killers. You mention Wraith and I would agree with the Tierlist you posted that he is low B. But I think this is completely fine and reasonable, because he is a very easy Killer to play while still being effective. The problem is more that there are Killers in high A-Tier (*cough*Ghoul*cough*) which are at best Wraith-Level when it comes to how easy they are to play, but far stronger. And this also hurts the pickrate of easy to play, but lower Tier Killers, because if people want to win, they will just play Ghoul and not Wraith.

And last but not least - it would also not hurt to nerf the strongest Killers. Since her implementation Nurse is on top of every Tier List. And it would be nice if there would at least be some discussion if she is the best Killer in the game, because currently there is none and everyone who creates a Tierlist puts her on the top spot. So the best Killers can also get some Nerfs, especially because those are also holding back the weaker Killers. It is way harder to implement general Killer Buffs, because they benefit the strong Killers as well as the weak Killers. And something which would help C- and D-Tier Killers will be too much for S- and A-Tier Killers. And something which would not make S- or A-Tier Killers really stronger would probably not help the lower Killers either.

Both sides of the spectrum need to be tackled. Otherwise we are at the point where the balance moves at a snails pace, because the Devs constantly need to juggle between new content and old content. And they will always prefer new content, since it generates them money (and old content mainly if it helps them get money as well… I am of the strong opinion that Myers was only buffed because they lost the license to make a bunch of money with him before it is removed from DBD).

(It would also help if the Devs would reduce the number of Chapters to 3 Chapters/year. This would allow them some time to actually balance things. Because they are showing that 4 Chapters/year plus several Paragraphs is just not possible for them)

Well it would and it wouldn't

Would: The D,C,B tier Killers have an advantage against Solo Q Survivors

Wouldn't: The S tier Killers have something that the others don't have

Like this is just one persons opinion on how they see each Killer in matches they have

No killers should receive massive buffs before solo queue.

It should be fine. Until now, the MMR system has pitted bad players against bad players, and good players against good players. We should have accurate match results. We can make adjustments based on that. If we don't have accurate data, we'll have to start over. See you in four years.

your doubts

It has been four years since the MMR system was introduced.

Buff them how? That's really the only question that matters here.

Because, the real answer is unless you give them blink or dash, trapper can never compare to nurse. You could make trapper base movement speed 150% and we would still have the "but nurse can blink between floors and trapper has to use the stairs". That's how you get "dashslop".

And they tried something like that with clown having effectively permanent haste and it was broken.

Not to say that you can't individually improve killers, or add qol, because you can and they have. But there's a big difference between "trap setting speed improved" and "gens are blocked for 5 minutes at the start of the match" or something.

I don't know why there is this obsession with buffing "low tier" Killers to be more viable against the strongest Survivor teams. I think tier lists are way overvalued and hardly reflect the reality for most. An average player can expect to win more often than not with pretty much any Killer if they put the time into learning their strengths and weaknesses.

It can be done, but it has to be done carefully and in a way that doesn't make them more insufferable to face in low MMR. Having seen what BHVR have done to the likes of Clown and Myers, I don't trust them to make careful or considered buffs to low tier Killers anymore. Their Legion buffs were successful though, so I'll give them credit for that. For example, you can give Legion extended duration to their Frenzy because it won't really affect low MMR survivors. Since these Survivors tend to group up, they make chaining hits incredibly easy even for the previous base-kit Legion without any add-ons. So it's safe to buff this aspect of their power.

I don't know what could be done for, say, Ghost Face that would make him a better pick than Billy for the more competitively minded Killer players (I compare these two because they both have an instadown as the main focus of their power).

Ghost Face:

• Has an instadown power.
• Can be broken out of his power by Survivors, sometimes unfairly so.
• Base speed / Low mobility.
• Relatively strong on indoor maps, but then there are very few indoor maps so that hardly matters.
• Just a basic attack Killer at the end of the day.

Hillbilly:

• Has an Instadown power.
• Always has his power (no more overheat). Power arguably gets better with use.
• Can be anywhere on most maps in seconds.
• Can destroy pallets with his power.
• Weak on indoor maps, but then there are few indoor maps so that hardly matters.

The relatively weaker Killers are unlikely to be buffed to the point that will make the "trust me bro, I'm in top MMR" ultra competitive gamers suddenly drop their meta Killer of choice. That just isn't going to happen. Besides, plenty of weak Killers are still very popular regardless of their relative strength. Just because you don't see them in your trials doesn't mean they're not being played. I main two of them myself (Trapper and Legion) but I understand their limitations. Trapper is the definition of feast or famine. That's just the way it goes with him and no amount of buffs will change that.

• I remind you that the entire game is balanced around "weak" killers. Every time they tried to buff a survivor's perk or generally introduce a gameplay mechanic that favors survivors, the first complaint was "but weak killers can't compete with this!". Some examples? The DS timer, or even simply the size of the maps, but also the completely eliminated anti-tunnel/slug mechanic... they are all designed not to disadvantage "weak" killers. So giving a generic buff to all killers would also mean introducing new mechanics, perks, and maps to counter this general increase in power.

I'll give it a shot on what they might have meant.

If the MMR system does what it is supposed to, the whole issue is moot. If you play a C tier killer eventually you should get to a place where your KR is 60%. If you play an A tier killer, eventually you should get to a place where your KR is 60%. The killers would be in different spots of the MMR, but those numbers are secret so the player wouldn't know. Unless a player is on the edges of MMR, everyone should end up feeling like they ended in the same spot

That's conceptually what should happen, though I don't think anyone feels like that is what happens.

I'm sorry, I have to ask, did you use AI to write this.

I would love to see weaker killers get buffed, but it really depends. Honestly there will just be bad killers no matter what. The ones that were playable in like 2018-2020 aren't viable anymore because of powercreep. Some are just designed to be bad. I also think buffing every killer to be around A tier would just not be fun. If you focus more on power than fun, the game is just miserable for everyone. I think Myers is a perfect example of this. He's just Chucky and Oni mashed together. You pretty much just force him to break the pallet, run to the next, then repeat until you either die (most likely) or he loses power.

You can overbuff killers to be good, just at the cost of their identity and anything that made them interesting. Most of it can be relatively fixed by just making some add-ons basekit. Like dropleg knife sheath or iri stone. Because with Ghostface the issue is you mark them, then your only real advantage is occasionally hiding your red stain. Not awful, but not enough. Or trapper just literally impossible to use your power so long as someone disarms the traps. Making the traps have like a 60 second timer to reset themselves after disarmed is great. Enough downtime to make it a time wasting ability, yet also encourage trapper to still reset his traps.