So what's the best way to deal with the new Boon Totems as killer?

As Objectively_speaking said, ignore them untill you see or hear them, then make a mental note of where the totem is and check there if you hear the blessing sound effect. Either you know where all the totems are, which makes them weaker, or survivor will keep wasting time trying to relight them

Just thinking out loud, one possibility if you're running into survivors who always use Boon: Shadow Step to hide auras is intentionally don't use any perks or add-ons that rely on auras. So no Nurse's Calling, BBQ and Chili, Thrilling Tremors, etc. Obviously there are a lot of popular perks that use auras, but there are also good perks that don't so maybe try using those instead. For example, just looking at "tracking perks":

• Whispers is decent at the start of the match for getting to the right area and doesn't use auras at all. It's also good once you've knocked out a survivor or two to track down the last couple who might be trying to hide or go for the hatch
• Lethal Pursuer can give you a similar benefit to Whispers at the very start of the match, and it only triggers well before any Boons are played (Whispers is less accurate but potentially works the entire match so it's a trade-off)
• Stridor isn't bad for tracking nearby survivors by sound, and is a counter to Iron Will which is also popular
• Spies from the Shadows is interesting because the noise indicators for the birds aren't auras, so depending on whether or not you like that perk it's unaffected by that Boon
• Surprisingly Bloodhound is another interesting possibility since the highlighted blood trail isn't an aura either. It's possibly a reasonable alternative to Nurse's Calling if you're looking for an aura-less way to track injured survivors

Of course I'm just looking at tracking perks here since the whole point of auras is tracking survivors. Obviously perks that do gen regression or that directly help injure survivors or put conditions on them all still work normally too.

Finally another thing to try against Boon users is Hex: Haunted Grounds. Since the Boon players will intentionally be looking for totems to use, they'll very likely cleanse your Haunted Grounds early in the match and get you a free down or two or maybe even three if you're lucky. You could even pair it with Hex: Undying, and every time you snuff out a boon it just becomes another potential dull totem that a new Haunted Grounds or other hex could hop too. (Just be aware that aura Hexes won't work as well. Retribution for example will still make them Oblivious for instance but you won't see their aura when they cleanse a hex.)

Play survivor.

Just like every other controversial perk/add on/character before this...ppl will get used to it and learn how to deal (except for spirit which still needs to be butt smashed with a nerf bat) I STILL can't stand NOED/ruin/than...but they are in the game and that's just that /shrug.

I guess as others have said though...don't kill your time hunting them down. If you see it, destroy it. If you are in chase, remember where it is when you have a moment. Yeah, on small, clustered maps like haddonfield...which boons kinda make even MORE survivor sided XD...they will suck, but on huge maps like red forest, the survivors have to be camping near their totems to get much use out of them, or run to one every time they get injured for circle of healing. Survivors waste loads of time overwriting hexes or reapplying boons so it's still kind of a double edged sword.

The best way to go about them? You don't.....

The only logical perk counter to them is nerfed and does nothing. I would suggest playing something else or farming BP on survivor until things settle down. Or....you could play nurse.

They're as broken as predicted when survivors are remotely competent. Completely negates a killer's ability to split pressure or defend a 3 gen. Further reinforces camping and tunneling as the best killer tactics. Bad design incentivizing boring playstyles. Unfortunate.

But yea, Plague slaps.

Alright... here are your options.

1. Play Plague. Being fully infected fully counters both boons.
2. Play a Killer with a readily accessible insta down. IE Bubba or Hillbilly. Healing doesn't matter near as much if you bulldoze both their health states in 1 hit.
3. The only way to permanently get a Boon perk out of your game is to get the Survivor who brought it out... so... figure out who brought it and tunnel them out of the game. If you can't figure out who brought them... tunnel anyway because while Boons are strong, they aren't as strong as an early 3v1.

Pick your poison I guess.

I don't know if anyone told you already but one info in your post is outdated.

Sound perks interaction was overhauled and iron will now trump's any noice increase, so stridor is completely countered by iron will and not the other way.

Let me run sloppy on billy or sloppy on blight, sure.

Slight benefits to the killer, sure, my grandma never had relationships with my grandpa as well.

I guess let me censor that word myself since that is for some reason not censored

See no reason to change them. They are OK at best.

Slight benefit to the killer, like making it really hard to track and give them green medkits, great benefits for the killer, very nice.

And don't even say "bUt KiLlErS cAn bREaK thEm", I will continue to say, 1 second for the killer is 4 for the survivors, if killers have to go out of their way to break them then the perk is obviously strong.

That's the one change that I personally call for, actually. Plaything and NOED should snuff a boon to make room if they need to.

This is what I was trying to say as well, boon totems also remind me a lot of old undying, but got nerfed.

The thing that bothers me the most is that, yesterday and today, it was usually 4 man after 4 man using boons (Idc about swf usually) but coordination + map offerings is why these perks should be changed in a more healthy manner.

It is a nightmare to play against these perks in indoor maps, on normal maps it can be annoying but just like you said not OP just strong.

Eh, that's going to dramatically go down after the novelty wears off, but yes, a four-man running all of them with decent coordination is going to be tough. The thing is, though.... a four-man with strong perks and decent coordination are already incredibly tough to go against, that has nothing to do with boon totems.

The mechanic could do with some tweaking, but anyone pretending that they're a massive problem or that they're breaking the game and need to be nerfed right now immediately is just... being silly. That's the only word for it.