The Nurse's new balance
The Nurse is actually strong killer, but she depends on recharge addons. They could remain Nurse without cooldown. She hasn't needed changes on her power, only on addons which were really disguisting. I know, you need a lot of practice to play very good as the Nurse but the Spirit is so much stronger. Including her power and skill required skills to play her very well, she's so much stronger than Sally Smithson without addons. Also, some addons do nothing or make game harder. That's my opinion how the Nurse could be reworked with maximum amount of 3 blinks and no cooldown on her power. Write a comment if you would like to express your opinion or additional changes. Before we start, I want to say that it's only my suggestion about her addons. She doesn't need bonus Chain Blink addons, but cooldown on her power should be removed.
Her base stats will remain the same as now. Movement speed of 96.25% or 3.85m/s, no cooldown on power, 2 seconds fatigue baseline and +0.5s additional fatigue time per chain blink, +1 second when the Nurse misses her attack. Chain blink widnow duration equals 1.5 seconds and her blink movement speed remains 333% or 13.33 m/s.
Now let's talk about the addons. They will be so much weaker than before because the Nurse won't rely on them anymore and they'll change the game by slightly.
COMMON ADDONS:
Wooden Horse: Moderately decreases bonus fatigue time from blink attacks by 25% or 0.25 seconds. No matter what, bonus fatigue will always equeal 0.75 seconds from using blink attack
Plaid Flannel: Allows The Nurse to see Blink Target Locations.
Metal Spoon: Slightly increases the maximum Blink range and charge time by 10% or 2 meters and 0.2 seconds.
White Nit Comb: Slightly increases the movement speed of your Blink by 7% up to 340% or 13.6 m/s.
UNCOMMON ADDONS:
Pocket Watch: Slightly increases the maximum range of the Chain Blink by 1 meter.
Dull Bracelet: When post-blink attacked slightly reduces the action speed until healed by 3%. Stacks.
Dark Cinture: Blink attacks applies Oblivious status effect for 15 seconds.
Catatonic Boy's Treasure: Moderately increases the maximum Blink range and charge time by 15% or 3 meters and 0.3 seconds.
Bad Man Keepsake: Slightly increases blink maximum range by 10% or 2 meters.
Rare addons:
Spasmodic Breath: Moderately increases Blink movement speed by 10% up to 343% or 13.72 m/s
Heavy Panting: Considerably increases the maximum Blink range and charge time by 20% or 4 meters and 0.4 seconds.
Fragile Wheeze: Blink attacks applies Broken status effect for 45 seconds.
Ataxic Respiration: Considerably decreases the fatigue duration by 13%.
Anxious Gasp: Moderately increases Blink maximum range by 15% or 3 meters.
VERY RARE ADDONS:
Kavanagh's Last Breath: Blink attacks applies Mangled status effect.
Jenner's Last Breath: Blink attacks applies Exhausted status effect for 3.5 seconds. It has 15 seconds cooldown.
"Bad Man's" Last Breath: When any survivor has been hit by blink attack, slightly decreases the action speed for all survivors until healed. Reduced action speed = 3% ( yes, it's better Dull Bracelet ) Stacks.
Campbell's Last Breath: Considerably increases Blink movement speed by 17% up to 350% or 14 m/s
ultra rare addons
Matchbox: Adds 1 additional chain blink. Tremendously decreases blink movement speed by 83% down to 250% or 10 m/s.
Torn Bookmark: Removes 1 chain blink. There's no sound while the Nurse is charging her Blink.
Personally, I think these changes are very interesting especially with Torn Bookmark. The Nurse can again become the strongest killer in the game while playing correctly and she won't depend on recharge addons. Someone can tell that 3 blinks will be a little bit OP but you still can outplay this Nurse even with 3 blinks. When she takes additional blink, she'll get nerfs on her ability.
Do you agree or disagree with these changes ? Write in comments your opinion! You can also write your balance of these addons in the comments section! Also if you want, vote up this article! Thanks!
PS: SHE REALLY NEEDS A REWORK ESPECIALLY FOR ADDONS
Comments
@not_Queen @Peanits Do sth with The Nurse. Fix her bugs and rework this character again but this time do it correctly. Remove this stupid cooldown and rework her useless addons.
Well I started typing in feedback and hope that my discussion will be read by the devs: https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/174116/the-nurse-should-get-a-add-on-rework#latest
Evers sane person that is not biased towards seither side or has literally no idea how nurse works (looking at you otz and tofu) knows, that the base nerf was completely unneccessary.
BHVR did it to make nurse borderline unplayable. That they fixed ONE deadzone till today shows this pretty clear. She has countless bugs, some of them for years and many since her rework.
People still play nurse?
100% agreed. She has so many annoying bugs and they are not fixing them at all. They probably forgot this killer even exists. They just threw her away since her rework and dont care about her anymore. Making a annoying unneccesary cooldown which makes her unfun to play. Ruining 80% - 90% of all her add-ons and make her really boring to play. @snozer I understand why you say that, her pickrate is so low because she just is not fun to play anymore. They should remove the cooldown since it doesnt help balancing her at all. They should rework her add-ons again or give her old add-ons back with the following changes:
No additional blink add-ons, make it so those add-ons do something with your blink cooldown incase they shouldnt remove it. If they do you can be creative and do something else with it. I would suggest something like the blink charge time on the second blink.
Omega Blink should give you a longer fatigue time.
And they completely have to fix all of her bugs. And I mean ALL of them and not just one single bug that affects the survivors only. I also made a Text Document where I wrote something about all of the add-ons she has at the moment so incase someone from behaviour should read this they can understand why her add-ons needs a reword or the changes I just suggested in this post.
Nurse Add-ons.txt