Builds for The Plague

Best Build Without Limitations
- Increases the duration of Corrupt Purge by +20 seconds.
- Automatically enter Corrupt Purge whenever a Generator is completed.
- Reduces the duration of Corrupt Purge by -20 seconds.
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."
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.
Hex: Blood Favour lights a Hex Totem at the start of the Trial, cursing Survivors with its Hex Effects.Whenever a Survivor loses a Health State by any means, Hex: Blood Favour triggers its effect for 15 seconds:
- Blocks all upright Pallets within 24/28/32 metres of that Survivor.
- Blocked Pallets cannot be dropped by any Survivor.
"It would be no leap of the imagination to suggest that the Trials are a biological response of sorts." — Journal of Talbot Grimes
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)

MesterX's Favorite
- Increases the Charge speed of Vile Purge and Corrupt Purge by +50 %.
- Increases the Infection gain from Vile Purge by +40 %.
- At the start of the Trial, the 3 Generators located farthest from you are blocked by The Entity for 80/100/120 seconds.
Corrupt Intervention deactivates prematurely once the first Survivor is put into the Dying State.
"It shall be known across the land that the Gods curse the unfaithful." — (The Tablet of Adiris, 3.7)
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.
Start the Trial with 4 Token.
Whenever a Survivor is hooked onto a Scourge Hook for the first time, Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance consumes -1 Token and applies the following effects:
- Causes the Generator with the most progression to explode, damaging it.
- Instantly regresses the Damaged Generator by 10/15/20 % of its total Progression.
- Causes the Damaged Generator to start regressing afterwards.
- Causes all Survivors repairing the Damaged Generator to scream.
- This does not trigger a Loud Noise Notification.
"The pain spills beyond flesh/darkness staining the horizon." — Girl in the Shadow by Carmina Mora
Performing the Damage Generator action on Generators highlights their Auras in yellow.Whenever a Survivor enters the Dying State by any means, Eruption triggers the following effects on all highlighted Generators:
- Causes them to explode, damaging them.
- Instantly regresses them by -10 % of their total Progression.
- Causes them to start regressing afterwards.
- Causes all Survivors currently repairing them to suffer from the following effects:
- Causes them to scream.
- Their Auras are revealed to you for 8/10/12 seconds.
"It can use weapons?" — Jill Valentine
Performing the Damage Generator action on a Generator activates Trail of Torment:
- Grants the Undetectable Status Effect.
- The Aura of the Damaged Generator is revealed to all Survivors and highlighted in yellow.

Best Beginner Build
- Causes 1 Pool of Devotion to spawn in the Corrupted state.
- Increases the Infection gain from Vile Purge by +30 %.
- At the start of the Trial, the 3 Generators located farthest from you are blocked by The Entity for 80/100/120 seconds.
Corrupt Intervention deactivates prematurely once the first Survivor is put into the Dying State.
"It shall be known across the land that the Gods curse the unfaithful." — (The Tablet of Adiris, 3.7)
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.
Whenever at least one Survivor is either injured, dying, or hooked, Thanatophobia activates.While active, all Survivors suffer from the following primary effect:
- Incurs a stack-able 1/1.5/2 % Action-Speed penalty per injured, dying, or hooked Survivor for Cleansing, Repairing, and Sabotaging, up to a maximum of 4/6/8 %.
- Increases the penalty by an additional +12 % to a total of 16/18/20 %.
Each time a Generator is completed, No Holds Barred calls upon The Entity for the following effects:
- Blocks the Generator with the most Progression for 15/20/25 seconds.
- The Aura of the Blocked Generator is highlighted to you in white.

Unique Build - Speed Plague
- Increases the Charge speed of Vile Purge and Corrupt Purge by +50 %.
- Increases the Infection gain from Vile Purge by +40 %.
"You've fooled them, haven't you Michael? But not me." — Dr Sam Loomis
While within 16 metres of a completed Generator, you benefit from the following effect:
- Grants a +5 % Haste Status Effect.
- This effect lingers for 1/3/5 second(s).
After hooking the Obsession, you benefit from the following effects for 14/16/18 seconds:
- Grants the Undetectable Status Effect.
- Grants a +10 % Haste Status Effect.
"You have no idea what I have planned for you. It'll be in the news for weeks. I'll make sure of that." — The Ghost Face
After performing the Damage Generator action, Machine Learning activates:
- Causes that Generator to become a Compromised Generator.
- Damaging another Generator transfers the state to it instead.
- The Aura of the Compromised Generator is highlighted to you in yellow until it is completed.
- Undetectable Status Effect
- +8 % Haste Status Effect
"YOU WILL HOLD NO DOMINION OVER ME!" — HUX-A7-13