Guild Wars 2

If boon hate (skills that have +dmg/effect if target has boons) could be implemented to engineers, to which skills would they be placed, and why?

I’d like a the Rifles Hip Shot to have this effect. Or at least to increased damage to immobilized foes.

Wolf.5816:

I’d like a the Rifles Hip Shot to have this effect. Or at least to increased damage to immobilized foes.

please not tied to a single weapon, a single kit, a single elixir… make it usable for all engineer builds please.

Immobilized could be an idea, but not just for the rifle than.
And don’t forget it would have to be balanced around rifle cooldown which is very short on immobilize… leading to a weak version of whatever boon hate it would be.

By the way: if boons are considered too strong, than why introduce yet another effect instead of just reducing boons in effectiveness?
Or would that be too simple?

Because they want only certain builds and possibly professions to utilize boon hate. They don’t want boons to be universally weaker. If given to an Engineer, it most certainly will be tied to something specific and not global.

@Kimbald I think the given reason on why they wanted to introduce Boon hate wasn’t because Boons was to strong overall, but more they wanted to add a counter play to heavy Boon bunkers in sPvP, which they would do with Boon Hate! The Boon hate should then ideal be placed on weapons/skills that don’t see much use because they are seen as to weak atm, and then get more play because they now serve a new porpouse! :P at least that’s how I understood it haha

Boon hate to the Flamethrower, yes… yes…