Guild Wars 2

Incoming we have Path of Flames which has elites that seem to steer away from boon bunkers and towards dps builds. While there will always be boon bots in wvw I’m worried that Spellbreakers’ over zealous boon-hating design will leave boon-corrupt focused Necromancers starved.

Will there be enough boons for necromancer corruption fodder?
Will Spellbreaker make itself obsolete through over saturated boon-hate?

People are creatures of habit. There will still benbooms that need corrupting. The prevalence may change…

Though I can see some other uses for those necros.

I don’t think that it will be an issue, boons are too spammable and will be even more so on PoF thanks to traits synergies that many new skills will introduce. Also, Spellbreaker may remove boons but they still keep their own and its allies, which means any Scourge on the receiving end will be able to corrupt them if another Spellbreaker is not present, which is essentially superior to the straight removal Spellbreaker has.

Corrupt > removal any day of the week.

Lahm.7056:

I don’t think that it will be an issue, boons are too spammable and will be even more so on PoF thanks to traits synergies that many new skills will introduce. Also, Spellbreaker may remove boons but they still keep their own and its allies, which means any Scourge on the receiving end will be able to corrupt them if another Spellbreaker is not present, which is essentially superior to the straight removal Spellbreaker has.

Corrupt > removal any day of the week.

Alot of warrior’s are dumping berserker for core atm. Many more will dump it for spellbreaker. They don’t care if corruption is better than removal.

I didn’t do the math myself but I think that “boonbots” can sustain their boon output, while for what I see spellbreaker seems to work in a more of spiky nature – it can cascade out alot of boon strips but if it is supposed to strip enought of them to actually not leave anything to the necros to corrupt, then I’m quite sure all cd’s would be burned meaning that there will be a nifty window when boon guys can deploy their boons while spellbreakers are still on CDs