Face Your Fears is a player Active Card in Back 4 Blood. It is a Defense Type with Brawn Affinity. The card can be used in both PvE and PvP game modes.
Card Ability
Gain 1 Temporary Health whenever you kill a Ridden within 2.5 meters.
Players who use this card will get most usage out of it by targetting standard enemy Ridden with their lower health.
Players can also crouch at choke points while swinging at regular Ridden coming through to quickly increase Temporary Health.
How to Get Face Your Fears
Face Your Fears in Back 4 Blood can be purchased with Supply Points from the top supply line decks. It is part of the 8th top supply line deck and costs 100 supply points.
Card Playstyle
Back 4 Blood players who choose Face Your Fears typically use it for melee tank builds. These players will be happily swinging the melee weapon of choice in big crowds of enemy Ridden while keeping their Temporary Health up.
Some players can choose to fill out the rest of their deck with defensive and melee damage cards to play a full tank.
Other players can choose to add some weapon damage cards to trade some survivability to help their team with damage output on Mutations and Bosses.
Regardless of what other cards are chosen, players who use Face Your Fears will want to use their melee weapon as the primary damage source.
Card Synergies
Face Your Fears synergizes well with other cards that focus on being near enemy Ridden. Increasing melee damage or character that requires the player to be close to their enemies tend to go well with Face Your Fears.
Survival cards that heal or reduce damage are also great for owners of this card since it will make the character even tankier.
It also goes well with any card that activates special abilities after melee kills, when the character is close to enemies, or when wielding a melee weapon.
Numb – This card synergizes well since it will give the character an extra 15% damage resistance when they have temporary health.
Blood Lust – While Face Your Fears increases Temporary Health, Blood Lust heals red health to keep your character topped off.
Vanguard – Similar to Face Your Fears, Vanguard increases Temporary Health by 1 for each melee kill but it also gives it to your nearby teammate. A great way to increase the survivability of the whole team.
Adrenaline Fueled – It helps keep player stamina up to melee almost indefinitely by giving 10 stamina each melee kill with another 10 stamina over 5 seconds.