The Spirit change she needs
I feel like a lot of people tend to overthink changing Spirit. Either their ideas give her a completely different identity that doesn't go with her lore or they make her significantly weaker. Being a Spirit main, I know this killer very well and I'll give my thoughts about how I think she should be reworked.
- The Spirit's moaning noises should be a little bit more inconsistent than they are right now, and they should be directional when she's using her power. It shouldn't be 100% accurate on the survivor's end as I feel like she'd be easy to loop if it was. On the killer's end, the Spirit player should have an indicator on their screen all the time that will show when Spirit's moaning or not. This will make the Spirit player be smart about when she should start using her power. This will be an even exchange of mind games from both the survivor and killer. Standing still getting a free hit shouldn't be a feature anymore as it takes little to no effort to get a hit that way.
- The Spirit's power recovery speed should always be at 10 seconds regardless of how long she phases. This will be a nerf and a buff to Spirit imo. It will keep the player from spamming short bursts with more room for error, and getting around the map with the full duration will be more effective.
- Buff her movement speed to 180% to compensate.
- Passive phasing isn't healthy and isn't very useful as it is so I would suggest just removing it entirely. If passive phasing was to be kept in, I heard someone recently had an idea to make passive phasing only happen when Spirit's power is fully recovered which gives the survivors an idea her power is up.
Her add ons most definitely need a few changes.
- Mother-Daughter Ring is way too stupid of an add on. I think the duration of the phase should be cut to 3 seconds by default as the inability to see scratch marks isn't enough to compensate.
- Wakizashi Saya and Katana Tsuba should reduce the reappearance duration as it's so easy to get cheap hits with these add ons. If these add ons give her ridiculous lunges, they need to give the Spirit player less time to react to compensate.
- Juniper Bonsai and Dried Cherry Blossom are useless add ons that need a serious rework to make them viable. They should affect the frequency of Spirit's moaning instead of passive phasing.
- You can make an argument her green add ons need minor tweaks, but the ones I mentioned are the ones that really need to be changed.
- Father's Glasses, Prayer Beads Bracelet, Yakuyoke Amulet, all her yellow add ons (except for Juniper Bonsai), and all her brown add ons are all fine and don't need a change.
Also, this isn't necessary, but please give Spirit her own chase music. Every killer needs that.
Comments
It would be an interesting change. personally I like the passive phasing, gives her more character.
You make some good points. I just think she should have visual and audio signs that she's using her power in chase like every other killer.