Killer Perk Build (Dark Devotion + Furtive Chase)

[Arxie]

Introduction

I was watching a video that mentioned Dark Devotion (a perk from the Plague that transfers your terror radius to your obsession upon hit), and remembered the new perk that Ghostface brought (Furtive Chase - it decreases your terror radius while in a chase based on how many times you have hooked your obsession, and also allows your obsession to transfer to the survivor unhooking them).

With that introduction out of the way, here is a build based on hopping between your obsessions (best used with a high-mobility character that uses M1 attacks more often, such as Nurse or Wraith).

Perks

Dark Devotion
Dark Devition allows you to transfer your terror radius to your obsession upon hit with a basic attack. Using this build, your obsession will be changing often. This build doesn't have much disruption other than Pop Goes the Weasel, should you choose it over Nurse's Calling, and allowing someone to carry your terror radius across the map as you track down the survivor that was unhooked can definitely be helpful.

Dark Devotion can also be left on a downed survivor or a survivor that is hooked to deter immediate altruism (thus buying you time to hop to another nearby survivor). If you are aware of survivors that are working on objectives, you can also choose to safely disrupt them.

Furtive Chase
Furtive Chase transfers your obsession to whoever unhooks your obsession. The most difficult part of this build is finding your obsession. Once you do, it will continue to swap among survivors. This also allows you to decrease your terror radius while in a chase.

When combined with Dark Devotion, this can be a powerful combination. Your obsession will constantly hear your terror radius, no matter where you position yourself in a chase and no matter how far away you are. Should you choose to chase another survivor, you can do so with no terror radius for the time being. Even without Dark Devotion, having a decreasingly small terror radius in a chase is always helpful.

Make Your Choice
Make Your Choice gives you immense pressure when survivors are unhooked, and allow you two options that both end with a downed survivor in a single hit. Referring back to Dark Devotion, you can down your new obsession and they will still carry your terror radius. This is very helpful if you can ensure that you don't stray too far from the survivor that was unhooked. Survivors tend to heal themselves at the first opportunity they get. If they see you go after the person that unhooked you, they will likely still be in that quadrant to half of the map. Running to find them without a terror radius, especially if you take Nurse's Calling, is never a bad idea.

Pop Goes the Weasel / Nurse's Calling
Pop Goes the Weasel allows you to apply more pressure to generators, as this build otherwise doesn't provide any. Knocking 20 seconds off of a generator that a survivor was previously working on is a large setback that can't be removed through the breaking of a totem. If you can keep your hooked survivors to one quadrant or half of the map, you can force survivors to leave the last 3-4 generators in pretty unfavorable spots by denying any work in your area.

Nurse's Calling allows you to, when Make Your Choice is used in combination with Dark Devotion, backtrack and stealthily attempt to find the survivor that was previously hooked. When a survivor is unhooked, go for the survivor that unhooked them - down them, transferring your terror radius to them. Backtrack in the other direction, as the injured survivor that was hooked likely ran away to heal.

Conclusion

It's definitely a gimmicky build, though not nearly as absurd as trying to incorporate Insidious or a strictly slug-based build. Killers with high mobility, such as Nurse, Hag, Wraith (with add-ons to muffle his bell or increase cloaked speed), Hillbilly (with add-ons to muffle his chainsaw), and Spirit are good candidates for this build. I don't have Dark Devotion on most of my killers due to its niche use, but if you have these perks unlocked, feel free to try it and let me know how it goes.

[KaoMinerva]

Or.... Pick Nurse

NOED
Sloppy Butcher
Nurses Calling
BBQ

[Arxie]

Originally posted by KaoMinerva:

Or.... Pick Nurse

NOED
Sloppy Butcher
Nurses Calling
BBQ

I mean, the point of this was to put together a build that hasn't been ingrained into the community.
But that works too.

[ftm groceries]

Damn why can't we get more posts like this on the forums. Instead of all the "THIS GAME IS DEAD" or "THIS IS OP" kind of stuff. Thanks for the idea, I will definitely give it a shot!

[Kormit the Frag]

Why on earth would you take MYC with FC AND DD?
Either way, this perk is hilarious on Legion and surely on Doc.
You just leech off the Ob with FF since it wont kill them, then you can be a silent terror.

[Soren]

It can be interesting, I will give it a shot on Hag ;)

[Shiro♌]

I like your idea, but, unfortunately, the third party programs kinda remove the surprises from Dark Devotion, Monitor & Abuse, Insidious, Distressing, (...).

[Ted]

Been watching not Otzdarva by any chance? He makes great use of perks like this, really inventive builds. If you haven't seen his DBD vids, I highly recommend them for his builds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIJjZxJa7iM

[Ryu the Fox]

Not usefull for me.

[Uncle Sam]

Maybe be useful on purple ranks & below against really potato SWF or SoloQ survivors. But against SWF above potato lvl or decent SoloQ survivors this might as well be a waste of perks.