Guild Wars 2

I was thinking about the necro problems at my boring job and wondering how effective a boon steal skill would be at balancing the mobility issues Necro.

This skill (Booneater, obviously) could be one of the newly implemented skills Colin talked about adding in the near future.

The main problem with this may be balacning the cool down, considering all the boon stripping we can do.

A boon transfer would be a totalyl different beast. Or many even slapping boon steal onto an existing skill/weapon?

We should be able to boon-steal the bosses defiance stacks and the Veteran camp supervisors invuln. Mmmmm

Technically we got enough boon hate, we just need viable ways to bypass our lack of boon application without actual boons.

Andele.1306:

Technically we got enough boon hate, we just need viable ways to bypass our lack of boon application without actual boons.

I just realized that necros have almost no boons to apply.

That’s why I’m suggesting taking boons from targets. It would be interesting, tactical, and flavorful.

It seems like Anet wants our survival to come from weakening our opponents. So boon stealing does fit with that.

It would fit with the recent change to Corrupt as well, in that it now takes two skills to remove (up to) 8 boons, with the trade off being that we get (ideally) 3 of those boons kicked back to us.

Gnat.9405:

It would fit with the recent change to Corrupt as well, in that it now takes two skills to remove (up to) 8 boons, with the trade off being that we get (ideally) 3 of those boons kicked back to us.

Fighting an ele with boon corruption and Well of corruption? Its like fighting a peice of paper at that point. they cant “not” put boons on themselves. Easy fight