How would you rework the Nurse?

I'm afraid to let the Devs touch her any more.

The addon changes were needed. Are they ok now? I don't really care tbh.

Basekit I feel was unwarranted. But if a cool down is needed it should apply after a swing, hit or miss. Fatigue has a spot for moving around the map and cool down adds time for a survivor to gain distance after getting hit or successfully dodging a hit.

An idea I heard that I've shaped into my own:

You have a power meter that is continuous instead of discrete like it is now. Meaning you can draw from it to charge blinks (1st blink is regular amount, 2nd blink is x2.) No idea what the total amount should be, but enough that you can infinitely blink around with 1 blink (map pressure) but doing double blinks back to back would be limited to like twice or 3 times. The meter slowly recharges throughout the match not interrupted by anything.

What this does is reward using your blinks effectively since a fully charged blink will draw much more than shorter blinks for re-adjusting, mind games, etc... and it also limits the double blinks like the devs want. It is better than our current version because you aren't limited after every single blink and forced to play certain ways, and it actually rewards using blinks in a smart and effective manner unlike the live version which doesn't reward smart or bad play it just limits what you can do with her.

That's the inherent problem with her though, without some way to force mouse users to have the wildly inept turn ratio of a controller there is no way you could do that.

I mean you could shadownerf her sensitivity to like 0.6 but that would just be dumb.

Revert blink CD. At this point that wont happen, but id be okay with her not going on blink CD until she blink attacks so she still has map pressure and isn't force to single blink around the map to find survivors.

Revert her completely and nerf her fatigue and chain blink window. For addons, get rid of the +2 blink addon and replace it with something else. (Keep the +1 blink addons though)

Remove the cooldown on her blinks and lower the lunge she has coming out of a blink.

This removes the non fun element they added while adding much more counter play to her blinks because now she has to be much more accurate with her blinks and they are easier to dodge if the nurse isn't as good. She will have to be much more precise with her aiming.

It is a nerf yeah, but I'd take this change over her current cooldown change. The cooldown change hurts her at least just as much against the best survivors imo.

I think something like @Mr_K 's rework idea would make her more fun to play again:

"What about if the cool down applied to blink attacks and the time were based on how many blinks you used during the chain?

This would apply to hits as well as missed swings in order to incentivize precise blinking and not blind swinging. As well it allows the Nurse to travel the map and continue chases. When the cool down is active the Nurse would be unable to blink again until it expires.

This would remove the counter on her power and the cool down would apply to her whole power instead. One blink plus a swing would be 3 seconds, two blinks 6 seconds and three blinks 9 seconds."

The devs aren't foolish enough to revert the basekit changes. Basekit nurse was the strongest killer in the game, over all killers using addons. Reverting nurse basekit changes would be almost as big of a mistake as creating the first iteration of Legion.

This is what I've been saying! She was THE model for killers to follow. Strong and versatile power that you can use whenever and however you want. If they had done more like her this game could've been the tits.

This is where I disagree, I don't think they should make her weaker but instead bring other killers up to her level. She was the model killer for skill:reward and there was counterplay on survivors part that most choose to ignore/not use, and the counterplay actually took skill as well.

Now any survivor can loop Nurse, and there is a hard cap on your skill to reward ratio since you are limited after every single blink no matter what. You can only do so much with a finite amount of possibilities.

Nurse takes skill and practice. Once you have that she is S tier no doubt about it

Nurse is still the best killer in the game. Don't kid around

Sadly true

Hate to break it to you but it takes more than 80hrs to even learn how to play killer in general correctly. Cool down or not, Nurse is not for beginners. She's a hard killer to pick up and those first handful of matches you play as her are going to be the worst ones you will ever play in this game.

Bottom line, not every killer needs to be accessible.

Right now, one of the most frustrating things about the Nurse is blinking only to see that your second blink is 99% charged. I would change Nurse's blink to work like the Spirit's haunting.

No charges, only a power bar. You can only blink when your power is fully charged or while chaining blinks. Each blink uses 1/2 of your power bar (1/3 with the Bookmark). I would also change the Bookmark to increase power recharge time instead of stopping you from going through objects.

Aside from these changes I think she is fine.

Eventually another killer will be released that ignores pallets and windows similar to Nurse. The counterplay will be similar, you will have to do something other than run circles around them. You will have to actually plot your path along a chase based on hiding and LOS instead of window or pallet loop over and over.