Guild Wars 2

Please nerf this skill to have a longer cooldown (like 60 sec) or to copy only a certain number of boons to allies (like 3 random boons). I’m asking for this from a WvW player’s perspective. The boonsharing is getting silly at this point…like when we go up against zergs with 2 minutes of 25 stacks might, a minute and a half of regen, a minute of protection, a minute and a half of resistance, a minute of 25 stacks of stability, 3 min of swiftness, etc, etc. And you can’t boonstrip/corrupt boon fast enough because Signet is on a fairly short cd and boons can be spammed faster than they can be stripped/corrupted. At this point, boonshare comps are pretty much able to just steamroll through anything/anyone because they can’t be immobed/chilled/crippled/cc’ed/anything. Even DH longbow 5 is a joke to boonshare comps. And with the supposed change coming to stability, I ask Anet to please nerf this skill asap.

Heya,

First of all – no. The skill is balanced and well tought, yet it seems you lack of knowledge about boon sharing and boon application:

• There is NO possible way to stack 2 minutes of 25 stacks might. Might stacks in efficiecy, means that if you have 25 stacks and you apply a new one, the duration does not extend, the new stack just replaces the oldest one, ignoring the time it had left. So if you stack 30s 25 stacks might and a Mesmer casts SoI while having only 5s of 25stacks might, you’ll have them too now and in 5s it’s all gone. Same for stability.
• Protection, swiftness, quickness, regeneration all stack in duration, but not with a time limit, rather a stack limit. If you have 9 stacks of swiftness for example, you can’t get swiftness until the first stack has wore off. So there is no way in “infinitly” stack any of those boons. Retaliation even only stacks 5 times.
• SoI has a 30s cd, so if you see a Mesmer just use it, you can corrupt the boons after that. Even if another Mes uses it’s SoI it wont cleanse the tons of conditions of them anyhow.
• SoI only has 5 targets, not more. So if the enemy zerg does not have at least 17% Mesmers, there’s no noticable way this will work as you state it.

Don’t hate SoI for the mistakes your Zerg does while fighting another one. Or do you go to the ele forums too when a few of them drop good meteors in your zerg while playing full zerker? Oh 5 eles died of reta, still wiped the zerg tough. WvW is hard to balance, still it’s not like there are no counters to that.

Greez!
- Xyonon

Wasn’t the skill already nerfed to only prioritize squadgroups?

Ananeos.4587:

Wasn’t the skill already nerfed to only prioritize squadgroups?

Yes, well 5 of your sub, if you are only 4 others it’s 4 +1 (closest).

Oh Fay don’t be so sinister …
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What next, nerf Spatial Surge because it’s not a projectile?

My question is were the hell did you get enough resistance to multiple it to 1 minute
BTW lion is guardian main he goes around forms asking nets to warriors xd mesmers and engis book bad lion stop coming up whit stupid ideas and l2p

It’s funny that he is apparently still dying to Mesmers. Feels like he posted the thread 2 years late or something.

Honestly ’ 2 minutes of 25 stacks might’ is on par with ‘66% dps increase in raids’ so I’d expect a SoI nerf next patch.

Levetty.1279:

Honestly ’ 2 minutes of 25 stacks might’ is on par with ‘66% dps increase in raids’ so I’d expect a SoI nerf next patch.

True. Probably going to be limited to only share 1s of each boon.

30 seconds of resistance how? It requires full party of cronos with good cordinations to achieve this stab might don’t stack in duration and protect and regent can be stacked without mesmers help
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Resistance

baylock.1703:

30 seconds of resistance how? It requires full party of cronos with good cordinations to achieve this stab might don’t stack in duration and protect and regent can be stacked without mesmers help
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Resistance

My guess would be a combination of a couple Mesmers running the signet, Temporal Enchanter at 100% boon duration (easy when there are nearby Heralds) plus people running durability runes.

This thread is why I still frequent the forums