Give killers the option to break Boon totems

I understand this, but at the same time, infinitely reblessable totems carry their own problems, because on several maps - really, this is true on any map if you place them smartly, but some are just ubiquitously powerful regardless of the state of the match - there are totem spots that are extremely cumbersome for the killer to reach, and putting a boon there guarantees either value from the boon or time loss for the killer (or both.) Think RPD library, Ironworks catwalks, Thompson House upstairs, Badham basement, etc - but also corners of the map, or areas where all the generators have been completed and there's no reason to patrol there. Basically, if (survivor time to reach totem)+14 < ((killer time to reach totem)+1)*(number of survivors remaining in the match), the survivors win that interaction, because while one survivor and the killer were wasting time with totems, the rest of the survivors were progressing the match.

That's how we ended up in the situation where snuffing is rarely worth it - because if you go out of your way to snuff a totem, you're losing more time than the survivors spent placing it. Searching for totems is completely unrealistic on the killer end and snuffing is only a good idea if you run across the totem while not in a chase (because stopping to snuff then typically means the survivor can reach another loop, and that costs even more time.) Breaking totems would change the math because you get something more out of the deal than just a flat delay.

This is especially a problem with Shadowstep on indoor maps - add in Iron Will and you get situations where you can't really chase survivors unless you snuff the totem, which loses the chase, but then someone puts the totem back up as soon as you leave, and rinse-repeat. It doesn't matter that you know where the problem totem is, because you can't snuff it without going back to square one. Your only hope at that point relies on luck or one of the survivors screwing up.

I find it hard to believe that boons are functioning properly. Right now, the only way it seems balanced is when a boon's effect is so weak or inherently counterable that the killer can afford to just not care about snuffing it (Exponential) - and that's obviously flawed in its own way. Otherwise, you just sort of have to put up with the effect being there for most of the game, because the counterplay is a losing battle and survivors will waste less time than you will if they're smart about it. And let's not start with matches where 3-4 survivors are running CoH and you have zero ability to stop boons from existing all around the map at all times.

Not the best choice yet a better one than the "nerf" the devs come with..

Short cooldown the people would use in repairing gens.

That's fair. I'm not as convinced as you are that breakable totems would be a death knell for the mechanic itself - the way I look at it, if you got value out of it (fast/accessible self-heals, the killer getting confused and losing a chase, a self-pickup, whatever else effects will exist in the future), it was worth bringing even if that totem spot becomes inaccessible afterwards, and there's still four other totems on the map you can try again with to get even more use out of the perk. There's multiple uses, but they're capped - think Inner Strength. All of that said, I do understand that some effects are more range-linked than others, and that for some boons, there's only a couple of spots on the map where placing them is worth it. Shadow Step is amazing in a main building, chain jungle gyms, or a two-floor map, but there is zero point in me placing it on one of those corner totems on Swamp, or next to a tree on MacMillan. That's not really a part of their design that can be 'fixed' other than keeping infinite uses in place - but that returns to the problem that where survivors want their totems to be, the killer doesn't, so someone's always losing in this interaction.

I feel like fixing totem placements is an extremely complex issue because hexes are already fragile (many of the totems that are problematic for boons are some of the best spawns for hexes, for the same low-traffic reason - meanwhile, the boons that are easy to find and snuff are the ones killers despise because they sit right next to gens.) But if there's a way to do it - that might be ideal? It still doesn't fix the specific problem of CoH and perhaps future boons being good everywhere. Mostly I'm stuck on destroying totems because it's one of the only fixes I've heard that would deal with every problem case boons present, and of them, it's the most comprehensive. The others are to put lengthy cooldowns on placing a boon when the last one is destroyed, like a minute and a half, or to continually increase the time taken to bless a totem the more it's done. Neither of these will effectively deal with a whole team loaded up with boons, though.

I will go back and snuff a totem after a chase, but you're not always going to down the survivor next to the boon. If the walk from the hook to the boon is 10 seconds, and the boon isn't in the direction I wanted to go next so I have an extra 6 seconds added onto reaching the gen I was headed towards, I'm still burning time. Otherwise, yes, that's one of the best times to deal with a boon.

"Overly altruistic"

An overly altruistic perk would like autodidact because it does nothing for the person running the perk and is soley for your teammates. And it also has to be built up.

COH is 14 seconds, in a game where most of the time, you'll be spawning near a totem anyway. 1 person puts 14 seconds into a totem and 3 get to heal for free.

Mega value for barely a price.

It's like the snarky "just apply pressure lol" response in perk form.

I don't think they need to give killers the option to break it, just that if a totem if snuffed then that same survivor cannot bless that same totem for a period of time. Forcing them to look for another totem.

Blessed infinity is the problem because of Coh. Coh is the real problem, not Boon mechanic.