Builds for The Dark Lord
Best Build Without Limitations
After teleporting to a Window, Lapis Lazuli triggers its effect:
- Calls upon The Entity to block it to all Survivors for 8 seconds.
Modifies the Teleport ability with the following effect:
- Increases its Teleportation range by +20 %.
The first time you hook any Survivor, a random Dull Totem becomes a Hex Totem, provided that a Dull Totem remains in the Trial Grounds.
Generators are highlighted; the intensity of the generator's Auras reveals their repair progress.
As soon as a total of 4 generators have been completed in the Trial:
- All remaining generators explode, lose 6/8/10 % progess, and start regressing.
- The associated Hex Totem becomes dull, and this perk becomes disabled for the remainder of the trial.
"You... let us in. And now, you are going to have to let us stay" — Henry Creel
Start the Trial with 5 Tokens, one for each Totem located in the environment:
- Reduces the Action speeds for Blessing and Cleansing by a stack-able 8/10/12 % per Token, up to a maximum of 40/50/60 %.
The Hex Effects persist until the Hex Totem is either blessed or cleansed by a Survivor, disabling it for the remainder of the Trial.
All Generators not currently being repaired experience the following effect:
- Causes them to automatically regress at 100/125/150 % of the default Regression rate.
"A curse is upon you. It will cause your ruin."
Unlocks potential in your Aura-reading ability:
- The Auras of cleansed Totems are revealed to you in white.
- 1 Token: Reduces the Action speeds for Healing and Repairing by -20 %.
- 2 to 5 Tokens: Increase the strength of the Action Speed penalty by a stackable 1/2/3 % per Token, up to a maximum of 24/28/32 %.
- Survivors cursed by Hex: Pentimento see the Auras of Rekindled Totems within 16 metres.
- Blocks all Rekindled Totems for the remainder of the Trial.
The Hex Effects persist until the Hex Totem is either blessed or cleansed by a Survivor, disabling it for the remainder of the Trial.
"Though a pentimento is an inherently concealed piece of art, there is something to be said of the desire to discover that which is beyond." — A Guide to Art & Process (1961)
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Modifies the Shapeshift ability with the following effect:
- Reduces the Transition time between Forms by -5 %.
Modifies the Shapeshift ability with the following effect:
- Reduces its Cool-down time by -5 %.
All Generators not currently being repaired experience the following effect:
- Causes them to automatically regress at 100/125/150 % of the default Regression rate.
"A curse is upon you. It will cause your ruin."
- After hooking a Survivor, all Survivors who are at least 60/50/40 metres away from that Hook have their Aura revealed to you for 5 seconds.
"I just can't take no pleasure in killing. There's just some things you gotta do. Don't mean you have to like it." — Drayton Sawyer
Whenever a Survivor startles a Crow within 20/28/36 metres of your location, Spies from the Shadows triggers its effect:
- Alerts you with a unique Loud Noise Notification in the shape of a Crow.
"In the shadows they torment, scarring our minds with each scream."
Whenever a Survivor is within 2/3/4 metres of a Dull Totem, Hex: Undying triggers its primary effect:
- Their Aura is revealed to you for as long as they remain in that range.
- Transfers the cleansed Hex to the Hex Totem associated with Hex: Undying instead, replacing it.
Best Beginner Build
Modifies the Shapeshift ability with the following effect:
- Reduces its Cool-down time by -5 %.
Modifies the Shapeshift ability with the following effect:
- Reduces the Transition time between Forms by -5 %.
After a Generator is completed, Hex: Wretched Fate activates and lights a random Dull Totem, cursing the Obsession:
- Reduces their Repair speed by 27/30/33 %.
- The Aura of the Hex Totem is revealed to them within 12 metres.
The first time each Chest and each Totem are interacted with by a Survivor, Dominance triggers its effect:
- Calls upon The Entity to block it for 8/12/16 seconds.
- The Aura of the blocked Prop is revealed to you in white.
At the start of the Trial, 4 Hooks in the environment are changed into Scourge Hooks:
- The Auras of these Scourge Hooks are highlighted in white.
Each time a Survivor is unhooked from a Scourge Hook, the following effects apply:
- Causes that Survivor to suffer from the Haemorrhage Status Effect for 90 seconds.
- Reduces their Action speeds for Healing and Repairing by 10/13/16 %.
If there is still a Dull Totem in the environment, Hex: Fortune's Fool lights a Hex Totem whenever you hook a Survivor for the first time, cursing them with its Hex Effects.
- Inflicts the Oblivious Status Effect.
- Blocks the Hex Totem for all other Survivors for 90 seconds.
- Blocked Hex Totems cannot be cleansed or blessed by Survivors.
- This does not affect the Cursed Survivor.
Unique Build - Wolf Dracula
While in Wolf Form , whenever the Pounce attack becomes available, you benefit from the following effect:
- The Auras of all Survivors whose Scent Orbs you have collected are revealed to you for 5 seconds.
Modifies the Scent Orbs with the following effect:
- Increases their Spawn rate by +10 %.
At the start of the Trial, the Auras of all Survivors are revealed to you for 7/8/9 seconds.
- Extends the duration of all instances of a Survivor Aura being revealed to you by +2 seconds.
"...it knows what it wants and won't stop till it gets it." — Carlos Oliveira
Whenever a Generator is completed, Coup de Grâce gains +2 Tokens, up to a maximum of 10 Tokens per Trial:
- Increases the range of your next Lunge Attack by 70/75/80 %, while consuming -1 Token.
- You can no longer gain the Bloodlust Status Effect.
- Successfully hitting a Survivor with a Basic Attack grants you a +5 % Haste Status Effect for 8/9/10 seconds.
"Catch it, put it in the airlock, get rid of it." — Dallas
After performing the Damage Generator action on a Generator, you benefit from the following effects for 22/26/30 seconds:
- Transfers your Terror Radius to the damaged Generator.
- This Terror Radius is set to 32 metres.
- Grants the Undetectable Status Effect.
"Mom, if you find this, I'm sorry..." — Final Journal Entry, 07/12/1991