Circle of Healing is proof the devs hate killers

True.

There are variables behind the boon mechanic that many simply overlook. I like how boons (CoH specifically), are beginning to shake a lot of survivor's builds.

I don't agree with OP.

However, I guarantee you that CoH will be looked at in the same vein as old DS, Undying and MoM in a year.

Takes 14s to set up CoH and ~3s to remove it....

Im still waiting for the possibility to select my hex spawns. That's the only fix for survivors spawning near totems and hex spawns near generators which is completely dumb.

Ok so you took 3s to remove a totem and they will take 14s to bless it again, or you could intervene during that process if you know where they were before.

When you mention the time spend for a Killer to walk to a Boon, you also have to think about the fact that the Survivor spends the same time to go to said Boon to heal. So at some point the Boon will either be in an area which is not relevant for the Killer and the Survivor will not really save time while healing OR the Survivors relocate the Boon to the area of action, which makes them spend more time setting up the Boon (and makes it easier for Killers to snuff it).

There's no reason to blindly ignore the state of the game for a boon totem... but that doesn't mean you will never find one while chasing a survivor or doing gen rotations

using perks is not abusing them...

Why would you play a game if you genuinely believe its developers HATE you? Or do you think maybe you're being a little dramatic and victimy?

Ok so let's talk about the alternative then? What good are you doing as a killer by not snuffing the totem

Your original argument is flawed.

Killers recieved mostly minor buffs, high level play proves how trash the game is pretty well.

Survivors did not have a meta change for such a long time, simply because of how broken all the meta perks are.

There is not a single killer perk as strong on it's own as any of the survivor perks. And they can bring 16 of them.

Boons also are map wide, there are 4 survivors and each of them can use boon, resulting in possible total of 96m radius area covered with boon effects.

No wonder a perk that lets you heal in 8 seconds mid chase is picked by half of the players every game.

They don't have to be on top of the totem when it's blessed. It takes 14s to bless the totem. Nothing more.

It takes 3s to then snuff the totem at any time. Nothing less.

I'm not going to pretend that I am a killer main but I do play killer pretty often. But honestly when playing killer as of late I will admit CoH can get out of hand at first. But then after I've downed a couple survivors I tend to watch where they keep running to during chases/ after they get away. If I hear the totem I snuff it immediately and deduce whose my culprit. I mostly main Hag so honestly I don't have to worry too much since survivors panic and forget about traps and I down them too quickly when I figure out what totems they're blessing non-stop.

That's not true. It's only a net gain if the boon affects more than one heal. If it gets snuffed after one heal, survivors gain nothing. If it gets snuffed before one heal, survivors lose time.

So, if I'm holding a 3-gen in Preschool on Badham, but CoH is in shack, it should only take me three seconds to snuff the boon.

Dumb argument tbh.

You can't nerf most of the survivor meta perks.

Because they're really weak perks. The only ones that stand out as potential problems are BT, DH and IW. And that last one is apparently bugged.

BT should remove collision for its duration so it can't be used offensively, DH is much more difficult to balance.

But particularly DS and UB are really weak perks with very conditional application, limited value, and unbelievably easy counterplay. I never got hit by them once I learned to recognise a survivor trying to bait out a DS, rendering the perk entirely useless.

There's an issue with the whole 'second chance' angle, too, in general: Survivors have three hook states. The game is designed from the ground up to give survivors three chances. The fact you're complaining about perks that try to ascertain that survivors get a second chance shows you're not interested in giving them a fair shot.

Don't tunnel, don't camp, don't slug.

If killers never did any of those, DS, UB and BT would die out immediately.

If it takes the killer 2s to snuff the totem (the actual animation lock and anim), then they gain 1.5s total assuming they took 1/4 of the time to get to the thing as the survivor did. But the odds that it took 1/4 of the time to walk to the totem are extremely low: if it's just out in the open, the time spent was likely about the same, and if it's in one of those annoying upstairs spots or the killer just doesn't stumble on it by accident and has to look, the survivors gain time.

So boons in general balance out to survivor-favoured on time if the killer snuffs it. And CoH is just timesave central if it stays up due to its ridiculous multiplier nature and being faster than self-care. With no other sources of accelerated healing, is it slower than "hide behind first wall seen and self-care"? Marginally. Every other scenario? Faster. Every survivor that doesn't then need to bring self-care or a medkit or find someone else? Now it's racked up utility on top of still being faster than whatever healing they were going to do anyway.

CoH makes the boon time equation absurd.

Imo circle of healing isn’t even OP, like no joke if its a big enough problem for you have you ever heard of sloppy butcher? Really does alot more than people think and alot of wraith players tend to use it

This is also probably why we’ll never see perks that are meta come from new chapters as well due to how when we do its immediately problematic and needs to be sent into orbit and burn, trust me when I say if boons were utterly useless we would get a forums post on how we never get good survivor perks and how the meta has been the same for around 4 years now