If you could give any underused perk a small buff, what would you do?

Dark Devotion: Have it activate for 30 seconds on any damaging attack against the obsession instead of just basic attacks. Also improve how it shows how long its active for and cooling down by having it light up and slowly fill to red when active, and then go dark and have the red tick back down.

Infectious Fright: Remove the "Basic Attack" requirement same as my suggestion for Dark Devotion.

Thanatophobia: Re-issue the buff it got during the PTB where the maximum value was a 24% de-buff. Thanatophobia was in no way OP during that testing because very few killers can get all 4 survivors hurt at the same time since survivors heal asap whenever they see the debuff. Either that or let its de-buff's remain for each dead survivor as well as the injured/hooked/downed.

Monstrous Shrine: 3 fewer hook escape attempts, 25% faster sacrifice progression (should take a total of 30 seconds off of a full sacrifice, -15s per phase), and +.5s to hook rescue. All this applying only to the basement hooks to make it much more of a threat to survivors.

Spies From the Shadows: Remove the cooldown and loud noise indicator, have it reveal the Auras of all crows in either white or yellow within 36 m of you, increase crows Cawing volume 100% for any disturbed, and make it so that they don't get disturbed by the killer anymore. That way you hear crows being disturbed behind/around you, and can see their auras soar into the sky like signal flares instead of that awful loud BANG and crow bubble.

Shadowborn: I'd suggest increasing the default FOV but I'd settle for an Increase in the FOV of Shadowborn, the small FOV can be nauseating sometimes.

Thanatophobia: Bring back the buff you were going to give it, Right now it buys you a few seconds at most a game, It could've been at least useful with the changes you had in mind.

Pop goes the weasel: The 60 second change is nice but what this perk needs is a token system for each hook.

Predator: Scratch Marks left by Survivors will spawn closer with the addition of louder footsteps.

Fire up: Buff the numbers, this perk could be great but just like thanatophobia the numbers are underwhelming to the point that it seems like a waste of a perk slot.

Saboteur+Sabotage Mechanic change

Saboteur perk change: Unlocks the ability to sabotage hooks without a toolbox. You can see the aura of hooks in a ~24m(dont know what a useful range would be) radius around you. Sabotaged hooks have a yellow aura. Normal hooks have a red aura.

Sabotaging mechanic change: Sabotaging a hook wont instantly break them when finished, instead they are "sabotaged" and can now be interacted with by any survivor to break the hook.

Sabotage progress gets lost when interrupted before finish. If a hook is fully sabotaged, it will give a notification to the killer(like it does now, when the hook drops).

I hope I could explain my idea so you guys can understand it. The basic idea behind it is to make 99%ing a hook the standard way.

This isn't as much of a small buff as it's a complete rework but, I've been thinking of a way to make Open Handed an useful perk.

This way it'll be a way to share information with your teammates. I know it reguires you to use another perk like Bond/Empathy/Plunderer's Instincts etc. to actually do something, except when you're hooked, but I also had the idea that if a survivor had an aura reading perk then maybe you'd be able to see the auras that are revealed to them as long as you're within the 32 meter radius.

Would make the perk more useful than it is now, good for solo players that wanna help their team.

Only thing is to not make it work with OoO since that could be abused.

Monstrous shrine

Buff: Sacrificing survivors in the basement gives 100% more blood points.

Hooking survivors in the basement gives 50% more blood points.

Hooking survivors outside of the basement gives 25% more blood points.

Note: the increased speed and difficulty of the basement hooks are still the same

Distortion.

3 tokens is way too little for it to actually be an effective perk.

I get it's powerful but you basically lose it after killer hooks 3 people (barbeque), even faster if they have nurse's calling.

Make it so you can earn tokens by doing something or increase the amount of tokens you start with.

Hex third seal:

Survivors that are affected see hex totems as dull totems

Survivors that are blinded can't see whose injured or hooked, etc in the hud, and notifications when people are hooked (the big bubble) are gone

Wouldn't have to implement both changes they are just ideas

Autodidact should increase the odds of receiving a healing skill check by 10/20/30% as well as it's regular effects.

Take off the 1 second delay after unhooking yourself from Deliverance. Currently once you unhook yourself it stops you for one second just to tell you that you're broken.

<-- thinks open-handed is fine and already uses it with Bond

Botany - Keep current effects but your medkits uses charges slower.

Play With Your Food - Reduce the speed increase per token, you can't get bloodlust while you have the perk, tokens can't be lost when hitting non-obsession, you only lose a token if you hit your obsession.

Spies From the Shadows - change the indicator to be a 1, 2, or 3 second aura depending on the level of the perk.

Wake Up- Keep Current Effects But also Allow the Perk to wake up the user if Asleep.

Remember Me- Keep Current effects but add if you hit your obsession All Survivors gain a penalty of 11/22/33% towards all actions (Generators and healing Specifically)

Flip-Flop- Keep Current Wiggle effects, but add that once hooked (Based on teir of Perk) you have an 10/15/20% Chance to unhook yourself.

Spirit Fury- Keep current effects but add: Shows survivors in your terror radius for 2/3/4 Seconds in a 10/15/20 Meter Range after the perk breaks the pallet.

-shrugs-

No Mither: add reduces grunts by 100%. Start the trial healthy once injured your no longer able to heal to full. Broken status is seen from beginning only on the survivors end. Killers end you just appear to stay injured to prevent tunneling.

Thanatophobia: Raise each survivor hurt to 10% reduction in all action except movement speed. For every survivor who has died keep the penalty of 10% for up to 60 seconds before being reduced down to 5% for the remainder of the game.

Each failed skill check results in regression of x action by 6% + 2.5% per sacrificed survivor gain a red token and 5% per killed by mori survivor gain a green token. You may only have 2 tokens at any time. When a survivor is healed lose a token at random.

Disconnects provide no additional tokens or loss of tokens. It does however have a 10% Penalty for 2 minutes before losing it all together.

I may of made thantophoia a little too strong, but I'm happy with the outcome.

Killers:

Corrupt Intervention: add When the generators become unblocked, the corruption spreads to 3 random hooks. Corrupted hooks can not be sabotaged and survivors hooked on corrupted hooks are sacrificed 10% faster.

Dark Devotion: remove obsession component. Last survivor hit gains your terror radius.

Distressing: remove percentage bases increase. Increase terror radius by 8/12/16 meters.

Dying Light: make it a pass/fail system when checking. Was an obsession killed or sacrificed yes/no? If yes, it remains active the whole game regardless of whether or not a new obsession is in the match.

Fire Up: Blocked generators count. (yes, this would stack with Corrupt Intervention but you'd lose 3 tokens when the generators become unblocked)

Furtive Chase: remove obsession component. Change to: "You lurk in the shadows, toying with your victims. When a survivor is rescued from a hook at least 24 meters away, Furtive Chase gains a token up to a maximum of 5 Tokens. The first 4 tokens decrease your terror radius by 15/20/25% while in a chase. You lose the red stain when you gain the 5th token. You lose 2 tokens if a survivor is sacrificed or killed."

Hangman's Trick: add Whenever a survivor is sacrificed with a reverse bear trap, add 1 reverse bear trap to your inventory.

Hex: The Third Seal: add When this hex is destroyed the effect persists for 120 seconds, but survivors not currently afflicted will not gain blindness if hit.

Hex: Thrill of the Hunt: remove current effects. Change to "Other active hex totems can not be destroyed while this perk is active. This perk's hex will have bright green flames. You can see the aura of survivors cleansing this perks totem. Gain 25/50/75% more bloodpoints for actions in the hunter category" (Not included in the perks description, but active totems protected by H:TotH will have a visible shield around them so survivors know they can't be destroyed until H:TotH is cleansed)

I'm all ears: remove terror radius restriction and reduce cooldown to 40/30/20 seconds.

Monstrous Shrine: remove current text. Change to Whenever you hook a survivor in the basement, 3 random unfinished generators are blocked for 30 seconds. Gain 500/750/1000 more bloodpoints for survivors sacrificed on a basement hook.

Play With Your Food: only successful attacks remove tokens.

Predator: Scratch marks glow brighter and fade more distinctly making the direction of travel easier to understand.

Remember Me: Change back to the way it was, but add "when there is only one survivor remaining the effects of this perk are reduced by 75%"

Save the Best For Last: No longer remove tokens for hitting obsession, however you do not gain tokens for hitting the obsession. Lose 4 tokens if the obsession is killed and can not earn new tokens.

Shadowborn: Add "vegetation within 12 meters of you is 50% transparent"

Territorial Imperative: change to- "Survivors auras are revealed to you when they are in the basement and you are more than 36/32/28 meters away"

Thanatophobia: penalty applies for sacrificed, killed or disconnected survivors in addition

Unnerving Presence: penalty remains for 15 seconds after the survivor is out of the terror radius.

Left Behind - if you are the last survivor, you can down the killer and mori him

Detective's Hunch:

change it so it activates when any survivor completes a gen (same as poised does). Also increase aura reading time by a few seconds.