Acrid

Acrid has a lot of wasted potential due to one of their best strategies being posioning the enemies and running away. That's boring. Rather than nerfing poison, I 've decided to make changes to a bunch of Acrid's skills so that they each have a unique niche and provide additional incentive for attacking.

Base Character (nerf)

- Base damage reduced from 15 (+3) to 12 (+2.4), to match most other survivors in the game.

Alternate Passive | Blight (buff)

- New stacks of Blight reset the duration of all stacks, similar to Bleed or Hemorrhage.

Default Primary | Vicious Wounds (tweak)

- Regenerative healing increased from 5% of your health to 8%, but heals you over 2s instead of over 0.5s.

Default Secondary | Neurotoxin (rework)

- Cooldown increased from 2s to 3s.
- Damage increased from 240% to 320%.
- Now has guaranteed critical hits against poisoned targets.

Alternate Secondary | Ravenous Bite (tweak)

- Regenerative healing increased from 5% of your health to 8%, but heals you over 2s instead of over 0.5s.
- Cooldown increased from 2s to 3s, but damage increased from 320% to 400%.
- If this attack gets a kill, 4 seconds are added to the duration of all Regenerative stacks (an additional 16% healing per stack).

Default Utility | Caustic Leap (buff)

- Damage increased from 320% to 400%.
- Proc coefficient of acid pool increased from 0.1 to 0.5.
- Acid pool now hits 4 times per second instead of 2 (though damage per hit slightly reduced due to base damage nerf).
  - Overall dps increased from 62.5% to 100%.
- (Indirect) No longer counts as a combat skill for Red Whip and the reworked Warbanner.

Alternate Utility | Frenzied Leap (buff)

- Damage increased from 550% to 700%.
- Base cooldown reduced from 10s to 8s.
- Rather than decreasing its own cooldown by 2s per hit enemy, decreases the cooldown of ALL SKILLS by 1s per hit enemy.
- (Indirect) No longer counts as a combat skill for Red Whip and the reworked Warbanner.