Guild Wars 2

I was thinking of ‘Boon Hate’ since it was announced that Warriors would have a trait that increases damage per Boon on a target.

This made me a think of a trait that could be useful to Necros and our whole ‘masters of attrition’ thing that Anet planned with Necros.

How about give Necros a trait that deals damage upon the removal of a boon?
This would make skills such as ‘Corrupt Boon’ and ‘Well of Corruption’ more effective’.

Its called spinal shivers.

Yeah, I know the Focus skill. It does damage per boon removed. But I meant as a trait, not a skill.

I agree. But could also be inherent to the Corrupt skill as well, a set damage per boon removed instead. Would help it add more of a punch since most professions can easily just cleanse and restack the boons you stripped long before your cooldown for Corrupt is done.

Edit: As for Well of Corruption(which I think you meant instead of WosSuffering), it really should corrupt ALL boons per tick instead of just one, to make up for the really short duration and long cooldown. Doubt this will ever happen though.

Whoops, I’ll go edit that now :P
Yeah, Well of Corruption

I’ve got a necro alt and already feel like I destroy boons. This class in general is pretty good at annihilating them. I suppose variety can’t hurt though, haha.

ReMortis.4287:

As for Well of Corruption(which I think you meant instead of WosSuffering), it really should corrupt ALL boons per tick instead of just one, to make up for the really short duration and long cooldown. Doubt this will ever happen though.

2 boons per tick would be enough and even that might be a little op

Class can reapplied them much quicker, so I don’t really find it OP. Mesmer Null field removes all boons in one shot on a large area, each tick.

Right now you’re lucky if the player wont dodge/teleport out of it after 1 tick, and then the boons are all still there. It’s still a 45/36 sec cooldown, boons are reapplied almost instantly right now for the professions you need it against.

Maybe wells should stick on a target instead and affect everyone near, now that would deserve the title of OPness!

Null field rips all boons, we corrupt them. That corruption is pretty significant, because it doesn’t just leave you with no boons, it leaves you with stacks of conditions on top of it.

Apart from guardians, who we normally totally eat with Corrupt Boon if they’re not prepared against it, corrupting 2-3 boons is a small bonus (mostly because of the poor Boon to Condition table), removing the boons altogether is way more important.

Well of Corruption normally don’t stay long on my bar against classes like Boon engi, Boon Ele, Boon Ranger and the like. But at some point it should be their counters, who else can mess with boons better than us. Now if 25 stack of might would corrupt into 25 bleed stack instead of a flimsy weakness, we could maybe make the boon spammer think more about when to use their “skills”.

Note that this applies to WvW, not PvP. I agree that in PvP, placing a well as large as the point they need to stay on to make their team wins is a good thing. In WvW it’s rare that you’re able to remove 2-3 boons with it, except for the big zerg that autoattack on a door and doesn’t care anyhow about those because of sheer numbers.

The problem right now with those Boon classes, is that they reapply them faster than you can remove them (some even cleansing those conditions at the same time) thus negating the corrupt part of it. So an instant Corrupt each sec would just make them fear it a bit more, in my mind.