Dead by Daylight: Hour of the Witch Chapter Review (Paentimexi)
Is Mikaela a pretty Survivor Model to play with? Yes.
Are the perks incredibly powerful? Yes.
Then why am I not recommending it?
1.) It's relatively overpriced. Just grind the Iridescent Shards to unlock her for free.
2.) Her lore is kind of moronic. While a good character - it kinda sounds like someone on the dev team got a little too interested in healing crystals.
3.) This is the chapter that caused me and my wife to realize that Behavior doesn't understand how to balance their game. Boon totems on release were unspeakably unbalanced. The dev team has struggled to understand their own time economy, heal economy, item meta, perk interactions, and basic game-play to an incredible degree. This is the one DLC that should not sell well - it stands as a monument to a foolish company's misdeeds and oversights.
4.) IT'S STILL NOT FIXED. While boons may be powerful for survivors in many aspects - it's only Circle Of Healing. Shadow Step and the forlorn Clairvoyance have been sitting on the sidelines. Boons, in general, are a stillborn idea for Behavior. They worked hard to get them released, botched the launch of this DLC in 2021, then cobbled together a bandaid solution that hasn't gone anywhere ever since. Don't give them your money - they don't deserve it.
Behavior didn't think their game through and hoped that their players were dumb enough to pay $5 for a pretty redhead that got a little too interested in pretty rocks and her Zodiac sign.