Killers: Do you think Boon Totems are too OP?

I actually love boon totems, very interesting gameplay they bring.

That being said, Circle of Healing is a tad bit too strong and I dont think the range is the only issue, its the infinity heals it provides. I think that they either need to introduce stacks to boon perks, so you cant infinitely bless a totem, or put a timer on it.

I’m completely fine with their actual effects.

What I’m not fine with:

The range feels a tad too big.

Them stacking seems rather excessive. I’m fine with healing speeds stacking, just not this one on top of itself.

The perk is not disabled when the totem gets snuffed out. The totem is also not destroyed. Unlike hexes, they can be brought back in full power, in the same spot without any real punishment. That means that you can have a fairly central totem serve as a healing station for all survivors that cannot be permanently disabled. I’m fine with it being a healing station, I just want them to need strategic placement.

They can be placed over hexes. This just doesn’t make sense to me. Imo, this should be the other way round, though that only applies to a handful of hex perks.

The range on a single totem covers nearly all of The Game, and other similarly sized maps. Nothing "okay-ish" about it. The booms are also indefinite, unless dispelled by the Killer, yet they can put their boons back up as often as they like, but the Hexes cannot be, so far as we know.

Boons should work just the same as Hexes, start on Dull totems, can be dispelled, and reapplied maybe once or twice Max. To top it off, Undying should be reverted, and jumping hexes should be able to overwrite boons

I feel they are overpowered because there are 4 survivors in the game. The fact that 1 out of 16 perks survivors bring to a game being this can completely remove a killers healing pressure is way too strong in my opinion. It's like the old Brand New Parts, when the addon could instantly finish a generator, so 4 people bringing the addon could pop 4 generators at the start of a game. They changed it so 4 people bringing BNP can pop 1 generator at the start of the game, which should also be the power level of boon perks. It should be fourth as strong as a hex.

I think it should be fine if the Devs remove the abilility to stack the effects of boon totems.

They can leave the healing speed at 100%, but I would probably reduce the range of the boon totem to use your perk.

Even aside from the balance issues as far as their power level (which is too high), just simply as a concept they are absolutely terrible design with how the games meta is. Killers frankly do not have time to look for totems. Adding objectives for the killers when they are already vastly in the negative when it comes to time just makes no sense and shows a lack of understanding of the game.

Maybe? I don't think that the effects are as strong as something as Devour Hope. However, the thing that bothers me is the fact that survivors can just keep blessing the same totem multiple times, which is busted and completely kills the the purpose of totems in the first place, which is to be a high risk high reward mechanic, with no strategy behind it at all. So for that reason, I think that boons are actually pretty busted.

With that being said, I think that this whole thing of being able to bless the same totem multiple times was just overlooked by the devs and won't actually come live because it is just stupid.

Concept wise i think they are great.

Survivors get a powerfull effect but give the killer what he vallues most for it in return.

They bassically give the killer a free pop whenever they bless a totem and it's up to them to get vallue out of it.

Obviously the edge cases like stacking healspeed need to be looked at and the radius could be slightly less but overall i think these perks are infinitly more healthy then all the meta perks now where survivors get their powerfull effect for free

No. People who think they're too op don't see full picture imo. They only look at their effect, and the fact that they can be reapplied infinitely, completely ignoring the time wasted to find totem and bless it, ignoring that killer can easily find boon because of loud sound it makes and nullify survivor's endeavors in a second, ignoring that killer can interrupt survivors. Though there are few changes I would like devs to make: no stacking and double the time it takes to bless hex totem.

From a killers POV from someone who has played DbD on different mediums since it was a 1 y/o game.

The devs put so little thought into boon totems its pathetic. Hex totems originally were pretty OP, spawns were decently randomized and some well hidden but the effects themselves were strong.

Devs listened because survivor mains complained old ruin slowed down gens to much ar new/mid level play and required survivors to find it. The endless plethora of "nerf noed" threads on the forums. The rancor that bubbled up with Undying being introduced.

Hexes were given a simple concept, high risk - high reward. If you run a hex and its cleansed welp GL you are now permanently down a perk the entire game.

Boons are opposite, no risk - high reward. The range is WAY to large, people don't seem to understand that totems are evenly spaced across a map despite the placements being slightly altered per game, you see 7 gens near 5 of those gens you will find a totem. Survivors who say they can't find totems don't know where or how to look and killers shouldn't be punished for them refusing to learn.

If the devs are serious in implementation they need key changes.

• Boons can only be placed one time. If snuffed by a killer the totems crumbles.

• If you bless a totem that is already hexed your boon perk is deactivated and the hex is eaten but a dull totem remains. (Before survivors ######### this means you have a chance to completely remove ALL perks from a killer per 1 perk per survivor). It leaves options of do you want to bless then cleanse a dull or bless and move on.

• Boons should NOT stack affects.

• Amount of totems in game should be increased from 5 to 7. This gives NOED more strength and hex totems more viability while giving survivors an easier time trying to find totems to bless.

Honestly, no. I play alot of killer, and I don't feel like Boon totems will have a HUGE impact on the way I play. Survivors will heal anyway or hide in lockers to avoid BBQ, and having them all run to one particular spot whenever anything bad happens isn't all that bad, especially if the totem is in a corner of the map or away from gens. I can understand the frustration with them however, and my opinion may change depending on what future Boon perks may be, and how strong they are. If they do turn out too strong, maybe the option for the killer to break a totem would be a fair fix.

I kinda like this idea it gives survivors some decision making to do. I think the only thing that needs to be changed about boon perks is the range, the stacking and maybe take abit longer to bless so it wastes survivors time too. I dont mind survivors being able to bless again because it takes the killer like a second to destroy, and if they keep blessing at least they arent doing gens which is great. also hex perks are way stronger than boon perks so I dont mind them having heals. but then again we dont know whether it will be strong yet still too early to say gotta wait till it comes out, so lets see first before we complain