Circle of healing likely needs a complete overhaul

Yeah, you're right. It does need a full overhaul.

Best way I can think is to put charges on the perk just like a Med kit. Re-blessing a different totem still draws from the same charges pool, since it's on the perk, not on the totem. Any time a survivor is healed within the perk, it drains charges. When they self-cares, it removes charges at twice the speed. When all charges are gone, the totem turns off and your perk is disabled.

I'd say a reasonable number of charges would be 8. That gives your team 4 Self-Cares.

Honestly I’d just rework it entirely. One thing many overlook is how it invalidates most other healing perks. Why use botany, Autodidact, we’ll make it or desperate measures when I could use COH instead?

It’s just terribly designed

Honestly them nerfing the whole concept of boons would be the easiest solution. It would be more fair if they keep boons strong, but for those that own the perk. So that way the only user can get the benefit, not the whole squad.

Nerf it to the ground, at least to the point where it's effects can be offset with perks/add-ons.

Especially if they are going to introduce killers like Sakado who are clearly designed for hit and run, which CoH pretty much made non-viable.

Or make boons permanently breakable, introduce a perk or mechanic that allows killers to see boons, or something. The recent nerf was not nearly enough to make it fair.

It's either that or boons are probably going to get nerfed into the ground since everyone is complaining about them...

I rather boons stay strong, even if I'm only getting the benefits. Plus every perk in this game only applies to one's self. So it's the fair thing to do. One could still build a healing build around circle of healing since the owner would be able to heal others quick. And since there is 5 totems everyone can out their own.

No since even if the 4 survivors bring a totem they would have set it up and go to their boon. So it's not like how it is now since one survivor can bring circle of healing, and boom upgraded self-heal for everyone. The whole squad has unlimited heals. And not only that survivors would have let go of another perk in their builds. So it's a net positive in my book. Since it's more than likely certain boons are going to get nerfed into useless territory. That way boons can stay strong.

I think they could try a couple of different things.

1. Make it weaker over time. It starts out at the healing speed it is now and every time a survivor heals in its radius after that it takes longer and longer.

2. Whichever totem the survivor chooses the first time is the only totem that survivor can boon. They can boon that totem infinitely but If the killer snuffs it out and someone else breaks it, its now unusable. They could give it like a yellow aura or something to show it belongs to a survivor.

This way it would stack well with the 1st point and a survivor couldnt keep swapping totem placement to make the healing effects short again.

It should be a complete rework, even with a name change probably. Fundamentally a poor concept.

Well it's busted, and I think this new killer is going to highlight just how fundamentally busted it is.

I've said this time and time again, Circle of Healing doesn't need an overhaul

Healing in general does

Further nerfing? You're acting as if healing has gotten tones of nerfs down the line, its only gotten 1 nerf and that was increasing it from 12 to 16 seconds.

What I would do is increase the amount of charges for each consecutive heal, first heal is your standard 16 charges, second is 18 charges, third is 20 and it caps at that. You still heal at 1c/s.

This way you not only nerf healing but med kits as well which have been one of the most dominant items for a long time.

CoH needs a rework, if it's made any weaker then there'll be almost no point in using it in solo games. May as well just use inner strength or selfish care.

It still has very much to do with killer proximity most of the time. If a survivor picks themselves up with expo, it's usually because they either got slugged in the totem's radius or near it, which (generally) means the killer was at least somewhat near the totem at some point and didn't snuff it (or didn't know it was nearby).

Now obviously if you slug a survivor that's further away from it for a super long time they could crawl to it and recover but that doesn't happen very often since crawling speed is so slow + at that point someone else might be helping them anyways.

You see med kits because the other items are junk. Keys are useless without addons, and even with them they're still meh. Toolboxes got gutted. Rainbow maps are okay. Flashlights are fine, but can easily be a benefit to the killer. The only actually good item left are medkits.

Neither, cause the perk is fine.

I think the amount of pressure that CoH can bring with almost no downsides whatsoever is so stupid. Every other boon is really balanced because the effect is a good buff that can indirectly affect something (like Shadowstep). If snuffing boons had a bigger effect (like a 80 or 120 second cooldown), it would only feel fair for CoH, but all the other boons would feel terrible to use because the effect is significantly smaller than CoH. I personally think the healing buff should only be 50% and when a totem is snuffed, have a significant cooldown, but on CoH make the cooldown 2x longer, or 3x longer because the amount of time that CoH can give the survivor team if the killer is trying to use hit and run is probably even more time than Hex: Ruin can.

But a better solution is to make a competitive mode or remove SBMM! At this point, I don't care if it splits the player base, I'd rather play a more unbalanced game and have fun than an extremely balanced game that feels like a chore to do.

I'd just rework the whole consept of boons where you can just relight the totems infinite times to eather token based or that 1 totem can be booned once.

I'm not sure who in their right mind came up with the idea that hey...boons can just be spammed while hexes cannot.

How many of us as a killer havent snuffed the same goddamn boon 3-4 times in a match? i surely have. Maps like the game and RPD boons are completely broken.

Simple answer is to make them not be spammable. I'd say if they make it so 1 totem can be blessed once and 5 boons per match isnt enough for survivors then i dont know what to tell you. Also this would make survivors actually look for the totems and not just spam the boon on one over and over and over again.

This isn't even a bad idea. I mean it could work like "Second Wind" that you get healed over time but only if you're in the area of that boon.

I think CoH is perfectly fine (from a killers perspective)

Sometimes when I find it I let it be instead of snuffing it, this way I know where the survivors (often) will run off to if they need to heal, which is helpful for finding the survivor again if they win a chase.