What are your thoughts on: boon totems??

meowzilla69

Personally, they should spawn like hex totems. Not to be chosen. Not sure how they’ll work: it’s only used one time like hexes. Maybe killers can corrupt boon totems for their benefit. I wonder what lengths survivors will go to protect the totems??

what are your thoughts on them??

Tricksters_Wife

I'm personally a bit concerned about boon totems. I have to manage my time perfectly with Trickster since he already has such weak map pressure and I can't imagine trying to squeeze in looking for a boon totem on top of timing and managing everything else unless I'm already ahead of the game and have some spare time.

Yords

They seem cool and all, but I really think they are a bad thing to implement.

killers already have so much on their plate, adding a secondary objective for them would only make things worse. If anything, survivors need a secondary objective, not the other way around.

Objectively_speaking

I hope Boon totems are just used as a way to increase bp gains by a certain percentage so that newer and older players are encouraged to do it and so that it does not hurt or help the killer.

Mazoobi

I think they're an interesting new concept because this game should have some more. I'm tired of the same pallet, window, gen, and hook shenanigans we've had for 5 years.

The issue is how the devs are going to execute them. Something is telling me that it'll be up to the survivors on where to place them due to the effects they could possess. If a boon totem were to give survivors X amount of repair boost, I don't think it'll be fair for the killer if the totem was already set up since survivors will hop on gens ASAP unless the killer finds the totem in time, but that'll waste their time from finding survivors.

That's my take though, we'll have to wait and see :P

baseballfan4877

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/279358/what-are-your-thoughts-on-boon-totems

I believe they should scrap the entire idea. It will be impossible to implement fairly. Either The totems are too strong and you give the killer ANOTHER objective (they dont need another) or the perks are so weak that no one runs them or the killer ignores the mechanic altogether.

DemonDaddy

Has me concerned, but hoping that they are attached to hex totems so survivors need to deal with the negative to gain the benefits.

Squirrel_Thicc

I think they're gonna be a really stupid addition and I'm not very excited for them.

[Deleted User]

Has me a little bit worried. If killers really have find them like survivors have to hex totems then they sound overpowered. The only thing that would ease my concern would be if they made it so killers can see all totem auras all the time.

Seraphor

No they should require set up time for survivors, so automatically spawning is out of the window. I'm a little disappointed that they don't require you to first cleanse the totem (ensuring it takes over 14 seconds to set one up) but I hope they do take at least as long to bless.

They're not going to be as strong as Hex perks (there's still four survivors, four boon perks, so boon perks have to be no better than 1/4 a Hex perk)

So providing they get the balance right and it still serves as an additional objective for survivors to complete, then that's fine.

They shouldn't really be much different from Inner Strength. That gives you a free heal for the cost of cleansing a totem. So it's just perks that require you to 'cleanse/bless' a totem, for something a little more permanent than Inner Strength, but can be taken away by the killer.

Rogue11

Terrible idea. Killers can't afford to waste time to deal with another objective, and they let survivors pick a dull totem to apply the boon to. so they can find a well-hidden totem instead of the classic next to the gen spawn my Devour usually gets.

MarcoPoloYolo

If they're strong perks, it's going to be a disaster for killer players. Killers can't afford secondary objectives, and the fact that survivors are getting a feature killers should have had since forever (picking your totem spot), and there is no totem detection perk for killer, totems will be a stronger time waste for killers than survivors.

humanbeing1704

I'm actually pretty excited although that depends if the effects are blatantly overpowered

vacaman

I like the concept but only if they add some kind of buff to killers to compensate the time they have to waste looking for totems.