Guild Wars 2

A condition that would lower the duration of currently applied conditions would be an excellent way for groups to counter groups that stack boon duration.

Currently the only way to counter the boon share meta is to have lots of necros, so there’s not a lot of counterplay if you’re playing anything else. I think it’d be great if anet could add a condition or traits that could help bring balance to the current meta.

… or you could just nerf boonshare?

Adding stuff is what has gotten us here in the first place…

Also I’ve noticed zergs running way more necros these days, replacing elementalist I suppose.

Xenesis.6389:

Also I’ve noticed zergs running way more necros these days, replacing elementalist I suppose.

That’s the only way you can have enough boon corruptions to fight other zergs, since all other professions are bad at ripping boons. And don’t even dare to say thief with the new changes. Thief is a joke who can’t live 5s in a zerg fight.

Yup boon corruption is pretty bad in this game, it was fine before the expansion when you didn’t have 20 guys running around with 6-8 boons constantly, but not now, and it’s dumb that they stuck most of it on necros.

But can you see? Boon corrupt was always there… Just like the signet of inspiration.

The problem is now everyone and their grandmother is flailing numerous boons around and getting more boon removal is a must to counter that. And the only viable boon removal is boon corrupt since other removals are either an aoe field which only remove 1 boon per pulse and can be easily skipped (Well of Corruption/Null Field) or have a super long cd to be viable (Arcane Thievery 45 secs cd).

nerf all mitigation, blocks/invulns, dodge spam

boons aren’t suddenly the problem and neither are conditions, HoT mitigation morphed the meta to allow these things (and MANDATE conditions) to be more relevant

Jeknar.6184:

But can you see? Boon corrupt was always there… Just like the signet of inspiration.

The problem is now everyone and their grandmother is flailing numerous boons around and getting more boon removal is a must to counter that. And the only viable boon removal is boon corrupt since other removals are either an aoe field which only remove 1 boon per pulse and can be easily skipped (Well of Corruption/Null Field) or have a super long cd to be viable (Arcane Thievery 45 secs cd).

Problem is definitely boon application and not boon removal. ANet needs to take a serious look at how easy it is to get most boons in the game. Especially for elite specs. And retaliation needs a huge nerf to be in line with stability but for conditions.