Perks that have been nerfed to the ground

I miss 150% WGLF.

you know what I despise most as killer? uninteractive games where people refuse to engage with the killer and pre run the whole game, protecting themselves with comms/auras, and 2 layers of Exhaustion(exhaustion+ Finesse) they'll camp comp corners and unplayable tiles until they get the all clear

this is so utterly boring and is sadly my common experience. if you play to this level you have to be a ruthless jerk who ruins peoples day in order to have a chance for a 2k. at this level , killers like Pinhead are actually terrible, useless killers.

but there was a brief period where WGLF was overbuffed and suddenly survivors started feeling invincible and started disrespecting me by making bold moves in front of my face. and you know what, I miss it. Interactions are moments that could cause mistakes. That, and these matches proves bloody with lots of BP going around. Everyone wins, I think. it was genuinely fun to run as survivor, too.

I don't ask for much as killer I just wanna stab everybody a couple times, chase everybody once etc. if a match vibe is good I don't care if I let everyone go or they all escape.

Dead Hard that works on anything short of perfect ping.

Now that diminishing returns are a thing they really should go through and buff some of those haste perks again.

Obviously its rework was super unhealthy for the game, but it's funny that Fast Track might be worse now than it was originally.

Like it might be better in super ideal conditions, but otherwise I'd rather take 27 passive charges over 5 permanent ones per unhook I do. Even with a build for it, getting more than 3 or 4 unhooks seems unrealistic in solo queue.

I think Spine Chill had the biggest downfall of all the perks.

Distortion

A Perk nerfed because of "rat behavior", except that this was not really an issue with Distortion. Rat behavior is rare and even without Distortion it happens, most likely even worse. The real reason was that Killers did not find Survivors, even tho I really question how Killers manage to do it then when they dont run any Aura Perks at all…. The Perk was not a problem to begin with and became useless.

Calm Spirit

Not sure if that counts, since Calm Spirit was always a bad Perk. But for some reason they decided to buff it and thought that this buff of opening chests and cleansing Totems while being silent would justify its nerf. Pre-"Buff" Calm Spirit was better than the current version. IMO if they REALLY want to keep the action speed penalty, it should only apply inside the Killers Terror Radius and you just dont have the silent effect when outside of the TR (because there would be no need to be more quiet if the Killer is far away). Would also be a neat little Buff for Stealth Killers.

(At least they corrected their error of "buffing" a Perk with Pharmacy…)

Boon: Circle of Healing

I guess I will farm a few Downvotes with that one, but the Perk is just way too bad now. And with that, all Boon-Perks are way too bad. Circle of Healing was perfect in the version right before the current one. Increasing Heal Speeds by 50% and allowing to heal yourself with Self Care-Speed. This made the Perk more useful while still having the time investment to not make it too strong. The current version just has too big of a time investment (setting up the Boon AND going into the Boon Area to heal). If you want to heal quickly, just equip WWM or Botany Knowledge.

Balanced Landing

Probably not "nerfed to the ground", but IMO made so worse that it is just not worth running aside from personal preference. I cannot understand why an Exhaustion Perk which is only useable in very specific locations, sometimes not useable due to Map RNG AND on some maps not useable at all because they dont spawn any structures to use it on should be so weak. It should either get its Stagger Reduction back or an increase in Haste, because a Perk like Lithe or Sprint Burst have the same Haste values while being able to be used everywhere.

And the worst part is that Balanced Landing was only nerfed because of Haddonfield back then which then was still not enjoyable to play for Killer. The BL Nerf was just laziness, the Perk can get its Stagger Reduction back with minimal changes to the Maps.

Monitor & Abuse

Simply because the change from flat values to percent completely missed the point of M&A. M&A was used and good on Killers with low Terror Radius to make it even lower. Meanwhile, it was bad on Killers with big Terror Radius, since it would not really help them that much. The change to percentage made it way less useful for Killers which actually want to use M&A and still irrelevant for Killers who dont care about the Perk.

Reassurance

Did not make it out of PTB due to concerns because of Killer Mains for Survivors (and TOTALLY NOT because it would have made camping extremely useless against someone with Reassurance /s). PTB-Reassurance would only have one usecase, but it would basically eliminate camping so that the Killer would need to go after other Survivors instead of (proxy)camping. Being a one time use per Hook Stage is just not enough.

An obvious answer would be Mettle of Man, but I wont include that since it was a pure cashgrab perk to begin with.

CoH I actually think was fine in it's last iteration before what we have now, setting up a boon + running to boon + 50% heal speed reduction I think is a reasonable trade off for being able to heal without a medkit and was the glue that held boon builds together. Now it's just an irrelevant mechanic BHVR made and they're too scared to make one stronger than illumination, a perk everyone thinks is a joke.

The funniest thing about CoH getting shot is that we now have a better version in Strength in Shadows where you don't have to look for a totem and it's faster, so fast in fact that when paired with botany it's faster than someone else healing you. People go "oh going to basement is so dangerous that perk is so bad" but I have around 600 heals in basement and I promise you the killer has a million things better to do than randomly check basement. The amount of times I've been able to take protection hits for teammates, heal up and have time to take another protection hit for the same chase has been incredible. Or even better let teammates get doors while I heal so I can guarantee my escape has also been life saving. So I miss old CoH and would use it if it came back but at least I have a replacement.

Adrenaline is a good example for it, the Pickrate also dropped massively with the tripple nerf.

On that note, Hope can also be mentioned. Again, maybe not nerfed into the ground, but enough that it is not really played anymore. And both are Perks which only trigger in Endgame, meaning that the Survivor must be alive at this point and all Gens need to be done.