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What's your opinion on boon totems as a killer?

Grandkurama
Grandkurama Member Posts: 318
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What's your opinion on boon totems as a killer? 43 votes

They are weak
0%
They are fine
20%
DelsKibaraTaigadarkcloudlinkNoOneKnowsNovaReverseVelocityGuiltiiPSPTacitusKilgoreAurelle 9 votes
They are too strong
79%
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Comments

  • FFirebrandd
    FFirebrandd Member Posts: 2,446
    They are too strong

    If they were counterable without either Tunneling or being Plague, they'd probably be OK. As they are, I suspect they're going to cause several Killers to just... not get played.

  • Grandkurama
    Grandkurama Member Posts: 318
    They are too strong
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2528656#Comment_2528656

    as a killer you hear a sound near the boon totem

  • vacaman
    vacaman Member Posts: 1,140
    They are too strong

    32m, reblessable, are active for ALL survivors, and have a strong effect. Oh and not only that, they nerfed Thrill of the hunt just for them, apparently a perk that can be permanently removed is too strong but 4 players being able to activate strong perks over and over and share effects is completly fine.

  • Grandkurama
    Grandkurama Member Posts: 318
    edited September 2021
    They are too strong

    I think the fact that killers can't DESTROY the booned totem, plus survivors can REBLESS them, and 4 SURVIVORS CAN BRING THEM makes them too strong

    edit: oh and they are ANOTHER OBJECTIVE for the killer. Boon totems may be as strong as hexes but th edifference is when a hex is cleansed you lose it for the rest of the match.

  • Shaped
    Shaped Member Posts: 5,906

    I don't think adding another objective for the killers was good in current state of the game.

    But, I am on console so I can't test it myself and see. Currently I am not sure if it is too bad like some others think but was it unneccessary? Yes.

  • FengisKawaii
    FengisKawaii Member Posts: 309
    They are too strong

    The effects are on the same level as killer hexes. The risk sure is not, and this is where the problems stem from.

  • 90bubbel
    90bubbel Member Posts: 97
    They are too strong

    if they stay like they are, im never playing the game again

  • Grandkurama
    Grandkurama Member Posts: 318
    They are too strong
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2528686#Comment_2528686

    i don't know the exact number of meters, but you can clearly hear a constant sound, easier to hear than hexes

  • Kokoroo
    Kokoroo Member Posts: 23
    edited September 2021

    if you equip two boon totem perks, how canyou choose which one u want to apply?

  • Grandkurama
    Grandkurama Member Posts: 318
    edited September 2021
    They are too strong
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2528726#Comment_2528726

    they both apply to the totem

  • Trickstaaaaa
    Trickstaaaaa Member Posts: 1,277
    edited September 2021
    They are too strong

    Overall In terms of the effects the healing perk, and the one that loses ones scratch mark are quite busted. After playing killer I noticed that they were healing quite quickly, and often. Which will massively hurt killers that rely on injuring, such as legion. Or any killer for that matter, it will be hard to apply pressure by injuring people if they have the perk and you have to go out of your way to find it at the end of the map. So that perk is somewhat OP, and definitely needs a nerf maybe make it so they can fully heal but at regular speed, making it a high risk high reward perk. And I often found that good survivor could get lost quickly with the iron will combo and losing scratch marks hex perk. This will definitely be strongly used by smart SWF, I can already see it. On solos not really.

  • Viktor1853
    Viktor1853 Member Posts: 944
    They are too strong

    Too strong for sure

  • Kurri
    Kurri Member Posts: 1,599
    They are too strong

    These never should of even made it to the PTB. I am severely disappointed in BHVR. Clearly they need to do a cleaning of their dev's, designers, and qa team.

  • NoOneKnowsNova
    NoOneKnowsNova Member Posts: 2,785
    They are fine

    If they had infinite range then I'd definitely consider them too strong, but at 28m I'm going to say they're for the most part fine, especially considering you can't bless them instantly but it rather takes a bit of time.

  • Aurelle
    Aurelle Member Posts: 3,611
    They are fine

    I think their effects are fine, but I think there either needs to be a limit on how many times you can rebless a totem or the totem should be destroyed when cleansed by the killer.

  • TragicSolitude
    TragicSolitude Member, Alpha Surveyor Posts: 7,410
    edited September 2021

    I think the question is will survivors use them after the novelty wears off, or will these be relegated to memeing? The meta is always useful and not limited to within range of RNG totem placement. Beyond the meta, I'm not sure anything will get those self-caring Claudettes out of their corners.

    I will go on to say I don't think it's good to add another thing for killers to deal with. Now it's not just remembering what perks each of the four different survivors are running and pressuring gens but also taking time out to deal with something new, and killers are already pressed for time.

  • Thr_ust
    Thr_ust Member Posts: 481
    They are too strong

    If the killer fully broke the totem when they kicked it. They would be fine, but the fact the perk can just be activated again is a bit too much for me.

  • GarlicRice
    GarlicRice Member Posts: 118
    They are too strong

    I play both sides and I think they are too strong currently.

    • Risk/Reward: going into the match with a hex we know that we could either lose it very quickly or the survivors don't find it and we get lucky and keep it. Why should the survivors get to keep reusing their totem all match? It seems unbalanced. Once a killer snuffs it out it should be destroyed for the whole game. In doing this I think they would have to fix the sound as currently, it's louder than a normal hex so that killers can find it easier.
    • Radius: definitely needs re-working, it seems too large of an area is covered.
    • Healing: specifically this one seems incredibly fast and overpowered.