Opinion on boon perks

Exponential has its uses (but unhookable sabo builds are the worst thing to play against). And Shadow Step has niche applications.

Dark Theory is the pointless one... but if a non-durational speed boost was any stronger, then there'd be big problems.

CoH loses part of its benefit if it's too out of the way though. What use is shaving 4 seconds off healing time if you have to spend 6 seconds getting into its range? At that point, healing on the spot would be faster.

I don't think CoH is as big of a deal as people are making it out to be, and it's frustrating that the most common take on it is to just nuke all boons from the game forever when only one boon actually sees regular use.

I think the problem with COH is the bonus healing speed it gives that can stack with med kits. I don't mind a survivor being able to self care, but honestly its just a better self care in most cases. if the healing speed bonus and self care speed was adjusted it would be more in line with the other boons.

I don't see it that way, because if the killer drops a chase on an injured survivor, they lose that pressure anyway. CoH doesn't really change this, it's not like survivors are permanently injured. Nothing is stopping the injured survivor from finding a teammate and getting healed by them, possibly faster than they could get healed off CoH.

The only thing CoH does is improve consistency a little bit, as the survivor doesn't need to find another survivor in order to heal up, but that comes at the expense of being slower than just getting healed by a teammate, even without CoH.

If the killer is patrolling a 3-gen, you do need the boon to be close, otherwise the extra time lost ferrying back and forth is going to cut into the ability to break the 3-gen hold.

I don't know, I'm just not seeing that much value come out of it. I've done much better with other healing perks.

Unpopular opinion - all Boons, INCLUDING Circle of Healing, are a waste of time.

All Boons except for CoH are really bad. I mean, I got use of Exponential once when another Survivor had it and one time a Survivor got up against me with Exponential. And thats it.

Dark Theory is a Joke. It should have never existed in the first place, since it affects Movement Speed it had to be weak by default and is unable to be buffed (unless they give it a second effect).

And Shadowstep is somewhat okish, but not worth the time.

And honestly, while CoH is the strongest, I feel that people who boon their Totem over and over again are a liability to the team. They can rather spend the time on a Gen. I just hate it when I see a Survivor reblessing their totem just for points. Or blessing a Boon next to a Killer.

Last but not least, if the info from the German Dev-Update were true, Circle of Healing is also potentially being nerfed. And if that happens, we can call Boons a failed concept if almost all of them are not good and the one which was good got nerfed so often that it is bad.

My opinion is that boons need to have better counterplay from the killer side, but then the boons other than CoH need to be made a bit stronger to compensate.

I think their current lack of counterplay in some situations (eg. inconvenient totem locations for killer that aren’t worth taking the time to snuff) hold the mechanic back a lot because it limits the strength of the perks. A survivor going out of their way to heal in a boon usually doesn’t matter as much as a killer going over to snuff it while survivors advance their objective. CoH is the only boon that sees regular use and it’s too strong. The others are situational at best.

Nerfing CoH to be at the power level of the other boons without changing anything about the baseline boon totem mechanics likely means completing nuking the perk and boons as a mechanic would then die because none of them would be that good anymore.

I agree with this and I sort of wonder if some of this has kept CoH as strong as it is for this long. If used poorly, CoH (or any other boon) can quickly lose you the game and so when used poorly, it looks more balanced than it really is.

Well now you're just complaining about bad players being dumb, that has absolutely nothing to do with boons.

That's like complaining about bad map design where there's a dead zone with no pallets and windows because survivors are dumb and run over there. That wouldn't be a map issue, that would be a player issue.

I think the issue with boons is if they make them too strong they’d have to make that useless boon destroying perk base kit. Because on some maps you can effectively cover like 30% of them with a boons. Especially if it has vertically like DDS or RPD. It’s the same reason they don’t want to buff some Hex’s

The issue is that there is no counterplay to boons on the killer side. If put in a even decent spot, it will always more efficient overall for survivors to have that boon down. CoH wouldn't have had to be nerfed to 50% if there was any downside to just booning every time the killer goes out of their way to snuff it.

Agreed, it's unfortunate that CoH limits the other boons/I wish they played around with the range for the others.

I said decent spot. If the killer has to go into a dead zone, walk to the top of ironworks or anything like that it's inefficient. If you are setting up boons next to an unfinished gen, what was the point.

But nearly every map has some totem that covers a wide area and is hard to access for the killer. Also are you just assuming every survivor has a med-kit or is next to another survivor to heal them? What makes CoH crazy is that 4 people have an infinite source of healing that everyone can use at once. In solo, you don't need to run around looking for teammates. In a swf it just lets you reset faster as a team. Quite a few maps have hard to reach places in the center of the action such as: Ironworks, Thompson house, rpd, badham, Garden and Eyrie just to name a few

Even if it takes longer to reach for survivors, that’s more than worth it if it also makes it take longer to reach for the killer to the point where they can’t afford to repeatedly snuff it because they give up too much pressure doing so.

I’d say over half the time, if CoH ends up being a net-negative for survivors in terms of healing efficiency because it got snuffed before they got back their time investment from it, it’s because the survivors misplayed, or the killer is snuffing when it’s not worth it for them to do so, at which point it’s good for survivors anyway because that’s just more time on gens.