Leader is a Unique Perk![]()
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belonging to Dwight Fairfield

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Prestige Dwight Fairfield to Prestige 1, 2, 3 respectively to unlock Tier I, Tier II, Tier III of Leader for all other Characters.
Description
This description is based on the changes announced for or featured in the upcoming Patch 2.5.0
You are able to organise a team to cooperate more efficiently.
Other Survivors within 8 metres of your location benefit from the following effect:
- Increases the Action speeds for Cleansing, Gate-Opening, Healing, Sabotaging, Unhooking, and Unlocking by 15/20/25 %.
- This effect lingers for 15 seconds after leaving the Area of Effect.
History
Description
You are able to organise a team to cooperate more efficiently.
Other Survivors within 8 metres of your location benefit from the following effect:
- Increases the Action speeds for Cleansing, Gate-Opening, Healing, Sabotaging, Searching, and Unhooking by 15/20/25 %.
- This effect lingers for 15 seconds after leaving the Area of Effect.
Description
You are able to organise a team to cooperate more efficiently.
Other Survivors within 8 metres of your location benefit from the following effect:
- Increases the Action speeds for Cleansing, Gate-Opening, Healing, Repairing, Sabotaging, Searching, and Unhooking by 3/6/9 %.
- This effect lingers for 15 seconds after leaving the Area of Effect.
Change Log
Patch 2.3.0
- Buff: added a Linger effect.
- Change: updated the in-game description to accurately list all additional Action speeds that Leader had affected despite not mentioning them.
Patch 2.5.0
- Buff: increased the Action Speed bonus from 3/6/9 % to 15/20/25 %.
- Nerf: no longer affects Repair speeds.
- Nerf: no longer stacks with other instances of itself.
- This change compensated for the greatly increased percentages.
Calculations
Leader functions by increasing the default Action speed (1 c/s) by +0.15 c/s / +0.2 c/s / +0.25 c/s:
| Action | Default Action Time (1 c/s) |
Leader I (1.15 c/s) |
Leader II (1.2 c/s) |
Leader III (1.25 c/s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening | 20 seconds | ~17.39 seconds | ~16.66 seconds | 16 seconds |
| Healing | 16 seconds | ~13.91 seconds | ~13.33 seconds | 12.8 seconds |
| Cleansing | 14 seconds | ~12.17 seconds | ~11.66 seconds | 11.2 seconds |
| Unlocking | 10 seconds | ~8.7 seconds | ~8.33 seconds | 8 seconds |
| Sabotaging | 3 seconds | ~2.61 seconds | 2.5 seconds | 2.4 seconds |
| Unhooking | 1 second | ~0.87 seconds | ~0.833 seconds | 0.8 seconds |
Trivia
- Up to Patch 2.5.0, Leader featured the following flavour text: "Listen to me if you don't wanna end up on a Hook." — Dwight Fairfield
Video
| Cleansing a Hex Totem within the Leader range | Unlocking a Chest within the Leader range |
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Gallery
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Leader showing its buff icon at the bottom right as well as other debuff/buff icons.

