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Boon totems are exactly what I was afraid of

Toastyy
Toastyy Member Posts: 226
in General Discussions

They are already a nuisance and the healing boon isn’t even enabled at the moment, I really don’t enjoy having to destroy a boon totem for it to be renabled right after I leave it. I don’t think survivors should be able to relight boons an infinite amount of times. Killers time is already precious enough.

Comments

  • jesterkind
    jesterkind Member Posts: 8,012

    It might help to realise that, especially with Shadow Step specifically, you really don't have to break it immediately. It's a good action to take in the downtime after downing or hooking a survivor- which is probably going to happen pretty close to the totem since they're running to it to make use out of it.

    The killer's time is valuable, so you shouldn't waste it snuffing a totem when doing that doesn't really help you very much.

  • landromat
    landromat Member Posts: 2,193
    edited October 2021

    Yes they're dumb i have no idea why people said they're fine and balanced when 1 perk provides team with infinite heals

  • NOEDENJOYER
    NOEDENJOYER Member Posts: 237

    Yeah Shadow Step is good but you can ignore it by following blood, grunts of pain, footsteps etc.

    But the healing one is busted AF

  • Zozzy
    Zozzy Member Posts: 4,759
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2585592#Comment_2585592

    This is still detrimental to the killer. Instead of hooking a survivor and heading directly to the gen with 2 survivors on it to stop it and use pop, You waste time to walk to the totem and stomp it.

  • jesterkind
    jesterkind Member Posts: 8,012
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2585742#Comment_2585742

    Eh, I find it doesn't really take all that long- unless it's in one of those annoying up-high spots, but that's a problem with totem spawns, not with boon totems.

  • Nathan13
    Nathan13 Member Posts: 6,725

    I think they only need a cool down after killers snuff the totem.

  • Kill_Yr_Idol83
    Kill_Yr_Idol83 Member Posts: 213
    edited October 2021

    I think boon totems really should be relegated to a token system. Like 4 (?) tokens per match and then the perk becomes deactivated.

  • dugman
    dugman Member Posts: 9,713

    So far the only problem I had with the Shadow Step totem was I had a match in The Game earlier where the boon totem was wedged in a tight space and my Clown couldn't seem to step on it. Kind of irritating but a bit of a fluky thing. 🤷‍♂️