Guild Wars 2

I’ve been having issues with Corrupt Boon, in lack of other words, working. About 50% of the time I’ve used it, it fails to do anything other than go on full CD and leave my target’s boons intact.

I can rule out with confidence that it’s not range, blindness, or CC related.

Furthermore, I’ve noticed Fear in the downed state is failing to connect most times as well (again, pretty sure I’m not blinded and my target doesn’t have stability—I’m not that daft).

Am I doing something wrong? Is it working as intended? Or is it a latency issue?

Btw, I usually run a LB powermancer in PvE. The above issues stem from a 5/5/0/0/4 terrormancer build I’ve been running in hot join.

Corrupt boon has always been sketchy – it’s been missing for me lately, too. I pick it up because its such a strong skill and then end up shelving it for something because it is so unreliable.

One thing I do know is that it is like a fast but invisible projectile. So if you cast it with them off to the side or maybe if they are moving, it can miss. Or be more likely to miss.

It’s easy to dodge out when the enemy knows it been cast’d
At best if the enemy is focused it’ll corrupt just one boon, as it corrupts a boon per tick

I’ve noticed this also and I hope it gets looked in to. The fear on down is incredibly irritating. It’s like it just goes straight to cooldown without casting.

Havent had the problem with the death shroud 3 at all. I can confirm the corrupt boons thing tho. Take a Focus, it will serve you better.

It does miss often. If you use on the boss dredge in fractals it literally does nothing. Rather than corrupt his boons, it will simply lower some of the high stacks he has in some boons by 1. I have also seen fear not work on opponents that don’t have stability or aegis up. Maybe next year they’ll look into this.

My biggest complaint is that against someone with a ton of stability it seems to fail to convert it to fear even if that is their only boon.

displacedTitan.6897:

My biggest complaint is that against someone with a ton of stability it seems to fail to convert it to fear even if that is their only boon.

Make sure you’re watching who you use this against. A warr with berserker stance up or a diamond skin ele above 90% will have their boons wiped, but no conditions will be applied.

Corrupt boon has z axis issues, and it also only hits targets in a cone that you are facing, otherwise it fails and goes on full cooldown.

Try to imagine that you are casting wail of Doom (Warhorn 4) and line it up before you cast.

The other issue is that stability is like the last boon that it will convert, so you often don’t get the fear.