Guild Wars 2

Boon corrupt is good, boons are very powerful and need some counter play to them.
Not so much counter play however that boons cease to be… well a Boon, and turn into a liability. Ill look at once build condi rev. Condi rev has 3 main boons: quickness, stab, and resistance (there is some might in there and the boon burst from f2 but these are the staples) Through two traits rev gains 2 stacks of stab on dodge so almost always has stab. Their is usually only a lil bit of might along with that stab making it very easy to corrupt which is fine since corrupts arent that common. But every third auto will put rev in almost a constant state of being feared. Add in quickness turning to slow, and resistance turning into chill which will in turn damage the rev you can see how every 3rd auto boon corrupt quickly becomes overpowered. Im all for boon corrupt, just not on an auto attack.

First welcome to the world of necromancers, where regeneration is liability due to no healing in death shroud.

I aggree and disaggree at the same time. I think that the standard boon corrupt is OP on an auto attack. However I do think that a “nothing can save you like” boon corrupt (remove a boon and apply a specific condition if so ) is much more appropriate.

Tim.6450:

the world of necromancers, where regeneration is liability due to no healing in death shroud.

Lol, guess i played the wrong game.

Chapell.1346:

Tim.6450:

the world of necromancers, where regeneration is liability due to no healing in death shroud.

Lol, guess i played the wrong game.

Well regeneration has no effect in shroud but still can be used in anti boon effects so at that point regeneration is a liability.

Yeah that’ll suck when you can’t depend on ridiculous uptime of the three strongest boons in the game. :/

Also, ppl don’t complete multiple scepter chains as often as you think.

Tman.6349:

Yeah that’ll suck when you can’t depend on ridiculous uptime of the three strongest boons in the game. :/

Also, ppl don’t complete multiple scepter chains as often as you think.

They will now that spamming auto attack will be stupidly rewarding against many opponents.

Tman.6349:

Yeah that’ll suck when you can’t depend on ridiculous uptime of the three strongest boons in the game. :/

Also, ppl don’t complete multiple scepter chains as often as you think.

I don’t necessarily disagree but they would have to up our condi cleanse, stun breaks and damage numbers to numbers that would work without those boons… Honestly I prefer the boons since they lead to more build diversity.

ArthurDent.9538:

Tman.6349:

Yeah that’ll suck when you can’t depend on ridiculous uptime of the three strongest boons in the game. :/

Also, ppl don’t complete multiple scepter chains as often as you think.

They will now that spamming auto attack will be stupidly rewarding against many opponents.

You’re just going to sit there while a necromancer, with no leaps or teleports apart from flesh wurm and spectral walk, performs a long AA chain repeadetly? You’re not going to dodge, blind, guard, LoS, interrupt or anything? Heck you can probably range him to death in the time it takes to do that thing twice! You don’t even need to worry about the first two AA’s too much, they’re just bleeds!

Zuko.7132:

Through two traits rev gains 2 stacks of stab on dodge so almost always has stab…But every third auto will put rev in almost a constant state of being feared.

Sounds perfectly balanced to me, and sums up this game perfectly, rev mindlessly gets stab whenever he dodges, the necro mindlessly corrupts with auto attack, a fine example of the braindead, skilless play that epitomises this game now.

So its ok For a lot of you guys to turn obese with the amount of boons you get pretty much at will(Ele/engie/rev) but how dare you get some form of counter play for it. I don’t think the aa is going to be that strong after the first week or so.

While more boon corrupt is a good thing, it being on an auto attack chain is simply silly.

I would imagine i would maybe get off the boon corrupt on auto maybe 5 times in a match…….

Sitting around auto attacking with scepter is a quick way to get yourself destroyed i will be relying on my current boon corrupt like usual and i doubt i will even notice the effect of the corrupt on scepter auto with the amount of boon production going around.