Removal of boons in wvw for a week?

[Timelord.8190]

Remove power damage and condition cleanses for a week.

[kash.9213]

No. One of my main builds is staggered boon steal plus modifiers from amount of boons. It's a fun build for choosing targets and trying to steal deep enough for full boon stacks as kind of a mini game. Boon cycling rate should get looked at but no boons would remove a layer of decision making that should probably be there for now.

[zealex.9410]

For a week e weekend event i dont see the issue.

[XECOR.2814]

Remove cc too.

[Swamurabi.7890]

We've seen no boons, or no stability, which was the pirate ship meta.

We've also seen no conditions, or boonsharing meta.

 

Neither was fun.

[SlateSloan.3654]

voted no cause no boons = spike splatter fest.

 

what about an event with a perma boon 75% damage reduction for more sustained fights?

[Raizel.1839]

Yes but also remove conditon in that same week.

[Jugglemonkey.8741]

> @"XenesisII.1540" said:

> Obviously it wouldn't make much difference to roamers other than like scrapper and soulbeast.

>

> Only groups not willing to charge are the ones who know they don't have the comps to survive first hits, but those guilds running 25-30 members and boon balling it up, it's no problem for them. You're still going to need stability to operate in melee range, and you're still going to need protection and resistance to ease all the amped up damage since HoT.

>

> I much preferred the days before hot when you actually had to used your defense skills, heals, condi clears, and boons at the right times, everything is just a spam fiesta these days.

 

I agree with the pre-HoT bit, the game is decidedly more faceroll for all professions since then.

[Blockhead Magee.3092]

Lets just randomly pick someone every once in awhile to have a "remove what I don't like or kills me" week. Remove boons. Remove stealth. Remove this set of skills or that set of skills. IE Make everyone else play the way I want them to!

[mindcircus.1506]

> @"eoz.1834" said:

> Since we are testing "possible dual professions" in wvw as beta testers, what about removing boons in wvw for a week? Do you think it may results new style of gameplay and tame powercreep and bunker builds?

 

Basically this suggestion means "Spellbreaker only" for the entire game mode.

Yeah... great idea.

[DeadlySynz.3471]

Yes but a caveat

 

- Remove boons obtained from other people

- Allow boons you can place on yourself

[Kovu.7560]

> @"DeadlySynz.3471" said:

> Yes but a caveat

>

> - Remove boons obtained from other people

> - Allow boons you can place on yourself

 

Oh boy! Boonbeast week! =D

(... and I guess scrappers and mesmers.)

 

~ Kovu

[Justine.6351]

No because without perma -33% damage people would be crying that hammer revs are doing over 10k damage to them.

[Stand The Wall.6987]

uuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

without stab this mode is impossible

[Cyninja.2954]

Only 1 boon makes this entire argument moot: stability.

 

Ever notice how you die if you are stripped or vorrupted of yoir stability at the beginning of a fight and your firebrand was asleep (or worse, your firebrand didn't apply it in the first place)? Imagine that, all the time.

[MLinni.6109]

A no scourge week might be a nice change to better times in WvW where people actually engaged in melee fights and you could see the floor instead of having to navigate a mine field each push. Maybe people would like it so much scourge could get a much needed rework.

[Edge.8724]

All these fancy events needs to go unless the game is properly fixed.

[Turkeyspit.3965]

> @"Edge.8724" said:

> All these fancy events needs to go unless the game is properly fixed.

 

Maybe that is the strategy? Create kooky events so by the time they are over, we are grateful to get back to 'normal' WvW.

[TrollingDemigod.3041]

Imagine if A-net would do "No powercreep week in WvW" event.

[nthmetal.9652]

> @"MLinni.6109" said:

> A no scourge week might be a nice change to better times in WvW where people actually engaged in melee fights and you could see the floor instead of having to navigate a mine field each push. Maybe people would like it so much scourge could get a much needed rework.

 

either that or rework on AoE stacking.

[ArchonWing.9480]

Add social awkwardness in wvw to make stacking and thus boon spreading harder.

 

Plus it's more fun if you could push your allies off cliffs. =p

 

With it, it'd also be impossible for people to stack push onto a choke.

[XenesisII.1540]

> @"Turkeyspit.3965" said:

> > @"Edge.8724" said:

> > All these fancy events needs to go unless the game is properly fixed.

>

> Maybe that is the strategy? Create kooky events so by the time they are over, we are grateful to get back to 'normal' WvW.

 

Doesn't really work on the people who finally get fed up with anet and wvw and leave for good.