Vecna, Dead by Daylight’s 36th new killer, was recently released and is already one of my favorites. While arguably being on the weaker end of the D-tier killer, his four spells, drawn from the book of Vile Darkness, will take time to get used to and used to their full potential. These spells emanate an incredible dark energy that can be harnessed with practice. In this post, we’ll review the best add-on combination and builds we found for him.
Vecna’s relentless pursuit of forbidden knowledge has led him to uncover and submit to an incomprehensible, malevolent force, thereby anticipating that its dark secrets will one day be his. His abilities are also linked to the same foreign magic, a mysterious and dangerous power emanating from a torn spell written in an unfamiliar language, which he has spent extensive time deciphering.
Vecna’s spells can conjure spectral entities that pass through obstacles and injure survivors. Additionally, one of Vecna’s spells reveals survivors by creating a moving invisible sphere that disables their magic items for a certain duration.
Best Vecna Build 2024
This build rewards you for minimal effort by providing multiple forms of passive slowdown and control. The add-ons increase your mobility and ability to apply exhaustion to survivors, making chases easier.
Recommended Add-ons: Boots of Speed & Staff of Withering
- Corrupt Intervention (The Plague): Block three generators furthest from you for 120 seconds at the start of the game.
- Deadlock (The Cenobite): Block the generator with the most progress each time a generator is completed.
- Discordance (The Legion): Highlight generators in yellow when 2 or more survivors work on a generator.
- Bamboozle (The Clown): Blocks windows we vault for 16 seconds.
Nice Guy Vecna Build
This build focuses on playing fairly by spreading hooks among survivors while maintaining generator control through slowdown perks. Using the add-ons helps manage your spells effectively, allowing for more frequent use and quicker recovery.
Recommended Add-ons: Potion of Speed & Pearl of Power
- Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance (The Artist): On hooking a survivor on a Scourge Hook, the generator with the most progress explodes and regresses by 20%, causing survivors repairing it to scream.
- Dead Man’s Switch (The Deathslinger): Blocks generators survivors let go of for 30 seconds after hooking a survivor.
- Grim Embrace (The Artist): Block generators for 10 seconds on each unique survivor hook. Block generators for 40 seconds on the 4th survivor.
- Gearhead ( The Deathslinger): Shows survivors’ auras for 8 seconds after completing a skill check after injuring a survivor.
Hex Vecna Build
This build revolves around hex perks to continuously pressure and slow down survivors by making them choose between doing generators or dealing with totems. The add-ons ensure that you can use your spells more frequently, maintaining high pressure.
Recommended Add-ons: Bag of Holding & Ring of Spell Storing
- Hex: Ruin (The Hag): Automatically regress generators at 100% speed when a survivor lets go.
- Hex: Undying (The Blight): The first hex totem cleansed will always be undying, protecting other totems.
- Hex: Pentimento (The Artist): You can rekindle a cleansed totem to create a Hex Totem. For each Hex Totem active, one of the following effects applies: reduced repair speed, healing speed, recovery speed, totem cleansing speed and permanently block all totems.
- Surge (The Demogorgon): Knock 8% progress off all generators within 32 meters of a survivor going down.
Best Vecna Add-ons: Vile Darkness
- Pearl of Power: Reduces the current Cool-down timer of all Spells by -5 seconds following a successful Basic Attack.
- Ring of Spell Storing: All Spells’ cooldown timer is permanently reduced by -4 seconds.
- Bag of Holding: Two Treasure Chests are guaranteed to roll a 1 on the Dice Roll. Opening Treasure Chests causes Survivors to become Oblivious for 15 seconds.
- Vorpal Sword: When injured Survivors enter the Dispelling Sphere’s radius, they suffer the Broken Status Effect for 30 seconds. Causes the Mage Hand Spell to break dropped Pallets rather than lifting them back up. The action takes 3.2 seconds to complete.
- Boots of Speed: The Mage Hand Spell provides a +5% Haste Status Effect for 2 seconds.
- Crystal Ball: Killer Instinct lasts an additional 3 seconds after the Dispelling Sphere Spell reveals a Survivor to you.
