Guild Wars 2

Reduce 33% condition duration – since there is a boon against physical damage and there isn’t a boon to balance this against conditions, I think it will be good to add this new boon in order to have some classes stand a chance against very strong condi builds in this meta. What do you think, good or bad idea?

Boons are sort of active skills, in that they are useful in the moment and last 3-4 seconds to 1 minute at most. Reduce condition duration is useful as a food buff that lasts 30 mins, but it wouldn’t be very useful as a 5 second boon, especially when it would be easier to use a skill that simply removes the condition.

Simply put, there are too many ways to just remove a condition altogether for a condition reduction boon to be useful.

It’s pretty bad.

In WvW, it would result in -98% condition duration. Which is essentially permanent condition immunity.