Guild Wars 2

Everything have boons, so much boons, boons stacking like wvw, it makes the game so passive. Glint rev, aura ele are like boon sharing bot. Why boons control is so limited.

Before HOT, Mesmer and Necro are pretty good at boon controlling. Now, if they got ripped away or corrupted, you’ll get them back almost immediately. Making boon controlling pointless.

P.S. If you don’t know what i’m talking about, watching ESL, everyone have a full bar boons.

Maybe it’s time to use the boon strip sigil.

emikochan.8504:

Maybe it’s time to use the boon strip sigil.

LOL because that clearly is the solution.

Yep, so silly how this is currently a thing…

I was playing a curruption signet necro, hit both signets and my DS #2 skill over the course of about 10 seconds. The ele still had 5 boons with 25 stacks of might… wtf

strip 1 boon with 10s CD, really ? they can reapply faster than you can strip them LOL

Maybe it’s time to revert Corrupt Boon to all boons? Not sure which skills in particular sould get buffed up on the boon strip front on Mesmers, but Necro at least already has a skill intended for mass removal. Two if you consider Lich Form 5.

And before anyone cries about suggesting buffs to Necro meta builds, Corrupt Boon actually got pushed out of the meta entirely due to Signets of Suffering overall being better.

Maybe revet Corrupt Boon back, as well as revert Larcenous Strike to steal 2 boons again for Thief.

But I’d rather see less boon spam (and condi spam)instead. Right now logic is like this, “I want to spam protection on me and others at all times.” Instead it should be, “Huge damage spike about to happen, better activate and not waste my limited skill that grants protection!” The constant mindless spam of boons and condies (and now invulns) is what kills this game for me.

Klinch.2964:

Maybe revet Corrupt Boon back, as well as revert Larcenous Strike to steal 2 boons again for Thief.

But I’d rather see less boon spam (and condi spam)instead. Right now logic is like this, “I want to spam protection on me and others at all times.” Instead it should be, “Huge damage spike about to happen, better activate and not waste my limited skill that grants protection!” The constant mindless spam of boons and condies (and now invulns) is what kills this game for me.

Would probably be the better course of action, sure, but would require a lot more work.

Perhaps Glint facets should be changed to 5 second boons every 5 seconds instead of 3s every 3? Boon stripping would have more of an impact at the cost of the boons lasting longer after the facet upkeep ends. Which is better? Honestly, a tough call.

Maybe buff Destruction of the Empowered to 4% damage boost? 5%? Would let Warriors running that trait severely punish those just loading up on boons and expecting (albeit, probably correctly) for that to carry them.