Guild Wars 2

The amount of condi vs. boon removal is not even close to equal. Not that condi’s have much to do with boons, other than they are passive and make a HUGE difference. I think boons are pretty out of control right now, and have been for quite a while.

I have not heard many people bringing this topic up, I’m sure it has been in the past, but people who are anti-zerg should realize that boons are the single biggest thing keeping them up. On a smaller scale they are even out of control.

Necros are without a doubt the biggest boon remover, with mesmers behind them. Well of corruption and null field are the must haves in large scale engagements because they are the only ones of their type.

I think with more boon removal (a little over all professions excepting necro and mesmer) the game would level out a bit. Hopefully for the better of all.

As someone that plays a lot of Elementalist, whose number one concern is to make sure my might stacks don’t get ripped, I agree.

Boon ripping is something only a few classes can do. I think every class should have some way to get a form of enemy boon control. However, it should be a BIG ability, not something tacked onto an AA (ahem, mesmers). It should be something that takes some tactical planning and coordination. Maybe even make it a blast finisher.

That being said, I hate it when stability gets ripped. At least, I just hate it on Skyhammer. More so when it’s a mesmer who just hit AA 3 times, and then 4 twice. IMO boon ripping/corrupting Stability should not remove it, but half it’s remaining duration instead. Stability is too big of a boon to be thrown away like that. You can just make it so certain CC abilities can go through stability. Similar in Dota, if you compare stability to BKB. You can’t purge BKB (you can purge Omni’s repel, which a spell version of BKB), but some ults go through BKB.