Kate Denson Perk Buffs
These are some ideas that I had to make Kate's underwhelming perks better.
Boil Over: So I have 2 ideas for this perk but now that DS is being nerfed the first idea that I'm proposing might actually be usable. (Idea 1): You are a battler and do everything to escape a foe's grasp. Your struggling effects on the Killer are increased by 25/50/75 %. You obscure the Killer's ability to see Hook Auras within 10/12/14 metres and you struggle 6/7/8% faster. (Idea 2) You are a battler and do everything to escape a foe's grasp. Your struggling effects on the killer are increased by 50/75/100%. You obscure the Killer's ability to see Hook Auras within a 14/28/42 meter range.
Dance With Me: I have 2 really simple ideas for this one. (Idea 1): When performing a fast vault or leaving a Locker in a sprint, you leave no Scratch Marks for 3 seconds. Dance with Me has a cool-down of 30/25/20 seconds. (Idea 2): When performing a fast vault or leaving a Locker in a sprint, you leave no Scratch Marks for 5 seconds. Dance With Me has a cool-down of 60/50/40 seconds.
Windows of Opportunity: Unlocks potential in one's Aura-reading ability. Auras of Pallets and vaults are revealed to you when within a range of 20 meters. (There will no longer be a cool-down)
Additional Explanation: This part is just to say why I think the perks should be buffed in these ways, so here we go 
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I think that either idea for Boil Over would be fine seeing as DS is getting a nerf because now that the wiggling aspect of DS is getting removed a wiggle faster perk could actually be implemented without it being broken when paired with DS. Plus the wiggle increase would still be countered by IG and the amount of hooks that are nearby each other would make the percent increase not worth it in most cases. If the percent increase proves to not be balanced (I mean we won't know unless it's tested 
), then I think the second idea would still work as a good buff. With the second idea, the killer would have to rely on sight instead of auras, which in most cases is pretty easy because most maps have wide open spaces leading to the current Boil Over's effects being very ineffective because it only obscures hooks that the killer can most likely see already; and the additional wiggle effect would just make the perk that much better as well as allowing a 25% wiggle effect against IG. If Boil Over did get a buff I'm assuming they'd most likely go with the second idea, but who knows, they might test out both.
Dance With Me either needs a longer amount of time where you can't see scratch marks or a smaller cool-down because the perk by itself is pretty bad because the 3 seconds won't confuse most killers unless you pair it with Lithe, but even then they can most likely figure out where you went. I think the shorter cooldown would make more sense because it would pair better with Quick and Quiet so that they could be timed better together instead of activating Q&Q without DWM and vice versa. The increased time that the scratch marks disappear would make the perk by itself better, but might prove to be too strong when paired with others; we'd have to see it tested first though.
Windows of Opportunity has always been a training perk for newer survivors who don't know a map's layout yet so honestly why have a cool-down on the perk at all? Most experienced players will already know where things are so it doesn't make sense why a perk designed for new players would gimp those players by not letting them know where things are. Plus if they're paying attention the would have most likely seen the other pallets/vault points before deactivating the perk, so why not just give it that boost for new people?
Those are my thoughts and would like to hear what the rest of you think. (I might edit this post in the future to better explain or convey ideas, so sorry if any discrepancies arise from that).
Comments
I like the second change to BO but it should still be at 25/50/75
Honestly it should just block hook auras entirely.
the extra 75% effect is just a commodity that's easily dealt with. I don't think it's that big of a deal to keep it.
A buff to those perks is so needed.
Maybe we'll get some buffs on this patch?
I hope so, but I'm not really holding my breath seeing as DS is the big perk change for this patch
Good luck finding a hook on maps like lerys/haddonfield etc, you are not supposed to get off the shoulder of a killer, the perk is supposed to make it harder not impossible to hook.
The current version of Boil Over is pretty much useless but I don't think that a perk should allow you to wiggle faster. Also obscuring hook auras for 42 meters? Way too strong. It would probably be best to give Boil Over a complete rework. With how it works now, this perk can only be useless or too strong.
Dance With Me and Windows of Opportunity are fine. Your changes would make these perks too powerful.
Boil Over is a SWF perk, that's why I don't like it.
How would the change to WoO make it too powerful? It is strictly a perk designed for newer players who don't know a map's layout, and even if it did get this buff it wouldn't be used by experienced players because they already know the map layouts. In the case of DWM, I believe that the full 5 sec could be too strong when paired with other perks, but decreasing the cool-down time wouldn't be. DWM by itself isn't very effective at losing the killer because you can hear the survivor running and (in most cases) you can see them running so having that shorter cool-down to make it usable more often would make it better while keeping the 3 second time the same. A larger obscuring of hooks is the only way for BO to be viable and having it be 42 isn't too strong because you can find a hook based on seeing it instead of based on its aura. In most cases survivors go down next to two hooks that the killer will be able to see very easily, so making the aura blocking larger shouldn't effect that because the killer will be able to clearly see where the hooks are.
That's the point I made with indoor maps, hence why the original post has a 42 aura blocking length so that a killer can still see far away hooks to get a general idea of where to hook the survivor if they down them near that area later; and they can still use their eyes to find the hooks in Lerys and Haddonfield, both those maps have hook spots that are easy to spot even if the aura is gone. Making the perk more effective isn't going to guarantee a wiggle off, it would just make it harder for the killer to find a hook because the current BO doesn't do anything for killer's who have half a brain; not to mention that it can be easily countered by IG or Agitation.
Sounds fine. WoO needs a buff like this. It would be good for newer players similar to Deja Vu without it being overpowered or anything.