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Fearmonger Craze

UnluckyDucky
UnluckyDucky Member Posts: 330
in General Discussions

I feel like every game I'm playing as survivor I'm seeing Fearmonger being used on killer. I dont see the big whoop about it? Like it's a TINY bit annoying, I guess, because you can't see your other survivors or auras but if you pay attention to birds on the map, the other players status' and other audio it's really... not doing much? I just dont know if there's something I'm missing that would clue me in as to why so many killers are running it right now.

The only time I've seen a random perk suddenly go up this fast in popularity was when Boil Over got that mega buff.

Comments

  • UnluckyDucky
    UnluckyDucky Member Posts: 330
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2975782#Comment_2975782

    Ah, I suppose. I guess the killers ive gone against havent been very effective with it. I noticed some of those debuffs when hopping off a gen but they weren't drastic enough to really make me go "oh DANG IT its fearmonger!" i just wait the 5 seconds and just go about my day. ty for for filling me in :) i guess it can be pretty handy with a good killer

  • QwQw
    QwQw Member Posts: 4,531

    I don't care what the game says, it's called Mindbreaker and it's gonna stay Mindbreaker.

    Also, it's a pretty good perk.

  • Brimp
    Brimp Member Posts: 3,056
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2975782#Comment_2975782

    I mean mind breaker is legit just a straight buff to sprint burst as its a free 99.

  • TeabaggingGhostface
    TeabaggingGhostface Member Posts: 3,108
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2975810#Comment_2975810

    Well, until you go back on the gen with the full exhaustion

  • lauraa
    lauraa Member Posts: 3,195

    tinkerer makes for a nice combo. no DH to worry about

  • Brimp
    Brimp Member Posts: 3,056
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2975811#Comment_2975811

    Doesnt matter cause by then you'd buy enough time for 3 gens to pop with 2 left and unhooked which resets exhaustion.

  • Blueberry
    Blueberry Member Posts: 13,671

    It’s way over hyped. The blindness is nearly worthless as you just let go a couple seconds and you can see everything anyway. On top of that Blindness in general as a status effect is quite underwhelming and doesn’t actually accomplish much. The Exhaustion is also only 5 seconds which is in the vast majority of situations useless as you can very easily get it off mid chase. The literal only good thing about the perk is that if you have another effect applying Exhaustion or they already applied it themselves it’s paused, that’s it. I literally can’t think of a single time that perk has ever felt like it hindered me from seeing things I wanted to see or using my Exhaustion.

  • JocelynAwakens
    JocelynAwakens Member, Administrator, Mod, Co-ordinator Posts: 1,674

    As an Empathy worshipper in the solo queue, Fearmonger really puts a dent in my Empathy builds!

  • Chadku
    Chadku Member Posts: 731

    Sorry about Fearmonger but it's one of the only perks at tier 3 that i currently have on Demo, Legion and Ghostface.

    It takes 9.9 milion BP for PR+DMS+BBQ+Pop so you have to wait a bit.

  • GreyBigfoot
    GreyBigfoot Member Posts: 954

    I made a post months ago about Fearmonger being a really good perk. I don't expect anyone to remember that so I'll just say the main argument.

    The main point I made was that it was definitely in the top 3 of free killer perks. Only thing that would beat it imo is Sloppy Butcher (after Mangled debuff change) and Tinkerer.

    Imagine you have no DLC and only free perks, what else are ya gonna use? Deerstalker?

  • CORENdot
    CORENdot Member Posts: 28

    It became a "no purchase needed perk" since Demo dissapeared.

    I have it equipped with my Wraith and it has been usefull against Spine Chill risky repairers too.

  • StardustSpeedway
    StardustSpeedway Member Posts: 882

    Personally I find the perk to be really decent now. I know for sure as survivor it's definitely a bit annoying and the exhausted effect has caused me some trouble too especially when caught off guard by stealth killers!

  • Marik1987
    Marik1987 Member Posts: 1,700

    The main reason is: Anti-Deadhard

  • SimplyPixelated06
    SimplyPixelated06 Member Posts: 469

    I think mainly it's just cause it's a free perk now, and it's probably the best out of the free bunch