After receiving some feedback I went back to do some very specific testing. I mentioned that, as a healer, you might want to not be in a subgroup in a large open world squad so that your regen could hit more people, and that it would prioritize low health targets. I was mistaken on that! After doing controlled testing, the regen will always hit your party of 5, or, if you are not in a party, or your party is not in range, it will hit the nearest 5. The regen boon is not as smart as direct heals, which will always hit targets that need healing first that are in range. One NEW thing that I learned during this test, is that if you use an ability that does direct healing AND Boons (tested with astral glyph of the stars, and fern hounds "Regenerate" (the F2 skill where it howls) those skills can hit 10 targets in a weird way. It will do the boons they say they do on 5 NEAREST people, then do the heal component on up to 5 people in range that need the heal. It will not necessarily do the heal and boons on the same people. So the heal has a limit of 5 targets, and then the boons have a limit of 5 targets and there may be some overlap. This is a VERY niche situation, but I found it interesting enough to share. Sorry for any confusion!
This is really good to know as a Druid. That means I can't give my spirits regen but if I overheal they will get that eventually unless there's some kind of pulsing damage.
@@kaltaron1284 Correct on the healing, it can be difficult to keep them alive on boneskinner if everyone is dying for example as no healing spills over to them. You can give them regen with staff 5 if you stack them up first, as staff 5 doesn't appear to have a target cap.
@@MuklukRUclips Thanks for the tip. As the description reads "Allies that pass through the wall gain boons." I wouldn't have guessed that you can use it to top off the spirits. I normally prefer to camp Axe + Horn but this is a good reason to whip out the staff. Might as well blast it afterwards for even more regen. Only problem is that you might mess up the cooldown reduction trait (wiki is still healing) which I mostly want on the first Avatar skill.
I approve of the use of Braham as a target dummy. Emphasis on dummy. Does anyone remember the times when combo finishers were import sources of boons and having 25 might was actually an important deal? On Stabililty: While it allows you to ignore many boss mechanics, there are also some that ignore Stability. Swiftness (and Super Speed) is esp. useful when you have to escort an NPC like Glenna or Desmina. A a boss example for corrpting boons would be Slothasor via the Slublings. A boss who steals boons would be one of Saul's Vices (first one) or one of the Largos Twins.
@@NoxxiTheNoxxian Yeah, the detail is in the pudding as usual. Same with Aegis. Just had a discussion on the tears at Deimos. Funny how CM was actually easier for some time.
This is hands down one of the best videos ever made relative to GW2. Well done and thank you for this. I have nearly 2500 hours and I learned a few new things!
Looking forward for the one about conditions, learning more is always good, honestly, Anet should make Muk a voiced NPC character that walks new players into the leveling experience and tutorials explaining everything, and make Vallun the one for PVP, that'd be sick.
I wish Boon priority had "Target" as the top priority above party members. Often I want to give an escort event NPC some swiftness or superspeed, but it ends up on other players first.
"Target > Party/subgroup > Squad > other Players > Minions > other Minions > NPC" Something like that? I more so hope the boon priority in non squad envairoment was the person with least amount duration, the least amount stacks or least amount healing 👍 That would enable you playing Healers and Boon supports in open world without feeling stuffed when your boons reach those closest to you and heals are taken by everyone between 1% and 99% and that person at 1% is not getting healer because all the people with 99% between us 😂 Target getting priority in boons would mean you could choose to prioritize the specific NPS or Player that is not on your sub group for Boons and Healing and I think the Healing should also prioritize the Target as first target 👍 would also make the Specter little by little better 😄 but man how I'm sad that Heal Specter is not a thing yet.
Important note: swiftness and superspeed can effect NPCs who have to walk to a destination before a quest starts -- such as the three for the explorable paths in Ascalonisn Catacombs
Just something i want to add to the classes that like to have vigor: A renegade gets 33% crit chance when at full endurace (Brutal Momentum trait, mandatory)! this is a relatively large damage boost which falls off when you have to dodge something so any vigor is always appreciated there (they also get vigor from the same trait when they crit, but i think its still worth mentioning)
I dont know if it was my end or the video but for some reason that hit like and subscribe was super loud on my headset. Scared me. The edits to explain stuff was hilarious.
Very good video, as always! Its perfect for new players and even veterans, since some people just play the game on auto pilot and never get to really understand every detail that actually matters.
one thing i wanna add is Quickness will increase the speed of channeled skills, including non-combat actions such as gathering from resource nodes, opening chests, building siege weapons, or communing with places of power.
Yess! As someone who has a Norn as their main character I absolutely needed this. But I don't approve of beating up my equally dum dum comrade. Very offensive, Muk.
Came to say I killed zhaitan last night! Thanks for helping me along this journey with your videos! I even got my wife into playing now too so I have an adventure buddy! Looking forward to learning about the rest of this amazing world!
Fun stability fact: not every cc removes a stack, there is a cap of 1 stack removed every 0,75 sec (if I remember correctly). If two ccs hit within 0,75 sec, the second one does not remove a stack. Important for surviving in wvw, where a lot of cc can hit you very quickly.
To be fair I'm not even sure if that is intended or not 🤔 Aegis can also block multiple hits (or at least did at some point, unsure if that also got fixed or not) if they hit you at the same exact time. I know this because when I used to play my guardian early on in the game, I have many occasions where I blocked two or three attacks that happened to hit me at the exact same time
you should explain how boons are removed, like in which order, for example, any newly applied boons get stripped from you before the older boons do, or however it actually works.
For condi build, the gear you use is Ritualist. It give concentration, expertise, condi damage and vitality. It have minor stat in concentration, meaning it provide as much concentration as harrier but less than diviner. This is particularly annoying as a condi alacrity renegade. We need 80% concentration for full alacrity uptime, which is something you can only achieve with a 6 runes providing +25% boon duration (Rune of Leadership is the best one) AND an additional concentration source such as food+utility or the Sigil of Concentration.
I'm a 5 year vet and that was helpful as I get things confused all the time, I forget stuff too. 😅 Now if I could just Get Good at using them all consistently I'd be ok. I play Reaper main cause I have lots of damage and CC so I don't worry much about providing boons for others. Could be I'm lazy too. 😂
0:11 instantly best guide. I find it quite hard to get a good overview tho. would have been nice if you had shown all boons once, atleast so you can see them in one picture or smth idk
I would've included stealth in this listing, using the same logic you applied to superspeed. Stealthed/revealed status is quite important in WvW and PvP.
So if I understand correctly, if your tooltip says "Regen (9.75s): 16,358 Heal", then that means you heal at a rate of around 1,678 health/s over 9.75 seconds for a total of 16,358 health restored, right?
Out of sheer curiosity: Which information was new to you? Edit: As I'm frequently training newbies and helping them to explore new content like raids, I'd be interesting to know which mechanics they don't know about, but don't feel like asking (may it be embarrassment or mere lazyness)
@@Grixxis Some of informations which were provided in this video could be obtained if I would simply read tool tips of boons when they appear. But I'm lazy so I missed a lot cause of that. Gotta admit that I had no idea how boon priority worked. Next Aegis boon at the fact that timing is important. Some info about boon removal and corruption was also explained in a way I understood it way better than I thought. Overal it's again great, short video that does IMO awesome job in explaining those things.
GREAT VID. I CMd a dragons end and i had to beg BEG BEGGG people to play quick and alac and explaining that you playing a 20k dps isnt as important as buffing 4 people doing 15k
I find it somewhat awkward that Auras didn't make it to the special mention cut. They mechanically work almost similar to boons, even though they are their own separate category. Then again, those are covered to some extent on the field/finisher video, so all is well. =]
For me boons are a double-edged sword. Because many of these boons can be kept up 100% of the time, this becomes the new baseline. So groups will expect players to keep them up all the time. So why do I see this as a double-edged sword? Well, first of all it's boring (imo) to have to actively keep boons up 100% of the time. Also the GUI doesn't allow resizing or grouping of the boons that are on players. So that means that they remain small and the same boons aren't in the same place all the time. So that makes it even more tedious. Then there is the issue (imo) that it makes the dps output a LOT higher than groups who don't have this sorted. I think you said twice as much but I think it's much more. Just look at crit and the damage multiplier. That alone makes you do more than three times as much damage than if you don't. And with alacrity and quickness and might added into the mix...well that increases DPS even more. So even when a group does use those boons but only manages 50% coverage or doesn't have all those boons available in that group, they will do considerably less damage. GW2 said that they didn't want to use the tank/dps/heal trinity. But healers are back in (and sometimes tank), but moreover there are more roles needed now. Might, Quickness, Alacrity, Fury all have to be provided by someone 100% of the time. My personal preference for boons or buffs would be that all of them would be limited so you can only use them some of the time, but others disagree, I get that. But there's nothing much tactical about having 100% crit 100% of the time for the whole group. It makes the upkeep and the result superfluous when you think about it. And I also don't care much for the huddling together for the sake of boons. It makes melee vs range a bit pointless. Anyways, that's just my opinion, but there it is.
Omg the Anti-Brahm propaganda is REAL What a scream. Excellent video Muk and Noxi, very important for new and returning players to understand what boon does what
if Braham was in the Titanic I'm prety sure he was the one that caused it... he was probably trying to look for Jormag and drove the boat into an iceberg...
As someone who has only dabbled in the story to get mounts, and is only basically familiar with Braham, could someone explain why he's hated so much? Lol
Braham deserves to be a punching dummy. Also, well done, this is extremely informative since the word "boon" tend to confuse the hell out of new players.
Why am I watching this? I've played this game since launch. I know boons. Oh yeah, I watch it cause Muk and Noxxi make it entertaining. Oh yeah, I end up learning some new stuff about the game despite playing it since launch.
1:25 False, you don't want to leave the Group to try and give Regeneration to those who need it. Boon Priority is 4 closest, not the one with least amount duration/stacks 😭 Healing is the same On top of that who are you supposed to find the people with no regeneration Mukluk?
If you're in a pile of 50 people but only grouped with 5 of them, your boons will just stack on those 5 until capped out. If you are in a group with all 50 of them, or not in a group at all, your boons will hit the nearest people, except regen which in that one specific situation will hit injured first. I wish I had thought to include that in the video but I did not. It is very noticeable as a healer when in a pile of people and only a couple of them are hurt, you pulse regen and it hits exactly those hurt people.
@@MuklukRUclips in my knowledge All boons including regeneration is 4 closest targets to you even when you are 100%hp and 60s Regeneration 🤨 That is my experience playing full heal tempest in last End of Dragons map event trying to heal everyone and seeinh multiple of them just die because they got 0 healing because priority on healing isn4 closest and no one is 100%hp in that fight 😆 Also when I did experiements like solo healing Shivering pass half of the people were dying if I didn't move and some had 0% all boons even tough regeneration is 600 range 😆
@@xezzee Most organized Dragon's End maps divide people into subgroups, if that happened your boons would only hit the 4 people you were grouped with and not the rest, althought your direct healing would hit others if your party was full health. Could that have been the case?
@@MuklukRUclips Few things. I do my best to summaries but I'm not good wit that: I was not in a squad. I don't join Squads usually. Few times I did join a squad was to load to same map as friend. I played full heal tempest which healing is the top notch healing build able to heal 20 people easily if healing priority was lowest % hp. (the build: Tempest/Water/Earth for that 40% protection. All souths. Elemental Bastion. Full Harriers. Dagger/Horn.) Used this build roughly 10 times in Dragon's End before giving up in depression because I can't heal anyone who needed healing :< I would have to run Arcane & Staff for revives ^ but Now days I play Full DPS Blood Magic Scourge because I get to deal 10k solo damage while reviving people who go downstate 👍 only valid open world solo support build I like because anyone who is downstate needs help. While yes Heal Tempest can revive also the Blood Magic just feels better with F4 pulling 5 people and you able to drop wells also while dealing way higher dps 🤤 Regeneration in my knowledge uses literally same rules as any other boon like Protection -> 4 closest = Have you done experiments to confirm if Regeneration is following different rules? Simple, get 10 people in line in range. Have 4 farthest players get hurt to 5% hp. Use Scrapper Healing Kit 5 Infusion Bomb and tell me who got that Regeneration? 1) The 4 people who are at 5% 2) the 4 closest to the infusion bomb 3) swiftness and Vigor went to the 4 closest and Regeneration went to the 4 farthest 😱 It is rare to see ability that only gives Regeneration 😓 Healing Kit 2 Bandages? If they hit the people who have lost hp then it is not Regeneration prioritizing but the pure healing prioritizing and Regen is just side product 😓 on top of that I think Healing Turret F1 might only give regen and work like healing skill? but to find that one specific skill from all the other skills 😱 Would make sense that healing ignores anyone who is 100% hp but good luck finding anyone in Dragon's End from the 50 peoples who is at 100% hp while you can see more than 5 people at less than 10% hp and always few in downstate. The simplest fix how to make open world solo support gameplay more fun would be to make boon priority and healing priority to the lowest hp/duration/stack with same rules that you always priorities Sungroup > Squad > other players > NPC that would open up playing pure healing builds in open world and being able to heal anyone with 5% hp without having to stand on top of them 😱 The down side of making boons and healing prioritize those with lowest hp, boon duration or boon stacks is that 1 player could upkeep permanent Alacrity on 10 people with certain builds played well. Currently untamed can be played in level that you give 100% Alacrity uptime with 0% boon duration and adding 100% boon duration would make it possible to upkeep Alacrity on 10 targets if the Alacrity was given to the player with lowest duration 😅 Currently it would be 5 closest but you are always closest so 4 closest 😏 5 people would be left out and if you swap the players around 1 player is now farthest from the 5 players and gets 0 alac because you give alac to yourself ........
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After receiving some feedback I went back to do some very specific testing.
I mentioned that, as a healer, you might want to not be in a subgroup in a large open world squad so that your regen could hit more people, and that it would prioritize low health targets. I was mistaken on that!
After doing controlled testing, the regen will always hit your party of 5, or, if you are not in a party, or your party is not in range, it will hit the nearest 5. The regen boon is not as smart as direct heals, which will always hit targets that need healing first that are in range.
One NEW thing that I learned during this test, is that if you use an ability that does direct healing AND Boons (tested with astral glyph of the stars, and fern hounds "Regenerate" (the F2 skill where it howls) those skills can hit 10 targets in a weird way. It will do the boons they say they do on 5 NEAREST people, then do the heal component on up to 5 people in range that need the heal. It will not necessarily do the heal and boons on the same people. So the heal has a limit of 5 targets, and then the boons have a limit of 5 targets and there may be some overlap.
This is a VERY niche situation, but I found it interesting enough to share.
Sorry for any confusion!
This is really good to know as a Druid. That means I can't give my spirits regen but if I overheal they will get that eventually unless there's some kind of pulsing damage.
@@kaltaron1284 Correct on the healing, it can be difficult to keep them alive on boneskinner if everyone is dying for example as no healing spills over to them. You can give them regen with staff 5 if you stack them up first, as staff 5 doesn't appear to have a target cap.
@@MuklukRUclips Thanks for the tip. As the description reads "Allies that pass through the wall gain boons." I wouldn't have guessed that you can use it to top off the spirits. I normally prefer to camp Axe + Horn but this is a good reason to whip out the staff. Might as well blast it afterwards for even more regen. Only problem is that you might mess up the cooldown reduction trait (wiki is still healing) which I mostly want on the first Avatar skill.
Mukluk and Noxxi: *makes an informative video*
Community: *enjoying Braham's pain*
Hey, I'm capable of enjoying both. Bonk Braham some more please.
it is amazing that Braham is a target dummy in this video and gets hit all the time
I approve of the use of Braham as a target dummy. Emphasis on dummy.
Does anyone remember the times when combo finishers were import sources of boons and having 25 might was actually an important deal?
On Stabililty: While it allows you to ignore many boss mechanics, there are also some that ignore Stability.
Swiftness (and Super Speed) is esp. useful when you have to escort an NPC like Glenna or Desmina.
A a boss example for corrpting boons would be Slothasor via the Slublings. A boss who steals boons would be one of Saul's Vices (first one) or one of the Largos Twins.
Well tbf that's why it says _some_ mechanics 😛
@@NoxxiTheNoxxian Yeah, the detail is in the pudding as usual. Same with Aegis. Just had a discussion on the tears at Deimos. Funny how CM was actually easier for some time.
Yep i remember those days getting yelled at in a few dungeons lol. "Don't use wells that gives the wrong combo buff!"
the edits for stability were sublime
Okay, that boom priority diagram is AMAZING! Makes it super easy to follow, thank you!
Love that the taunt is rythlock giving the finger
This is hands down one of the best videos ever made relative to GW2. Well done and thank you for this. I have nearly 2500 hours and I learned a few new things!
Looking forward for the one about conditions, learning more is always good, honestly, Anet should make Muk a voiced NPC character that walks new players into the leveling experience and tutorials explaining everything, and make Vallun the one for PVP, that'd be sick.
I wish Boon priority had "Target" as the top priority above party members. Often I want to give an escort event NPC some swiftness or superspeed, but it ends up on other players first.
"Target > Party/subgroup > Squad > other Players > Minions > other Minions > NPC"
Something like that?
I more so hope the boon priority in non squad envairoment was the person with least amount duration, the least amount stacks or least amount healing 👍 That would enable you playing Healers and Boon supports in open world without feeling stuffed when your boons reach those closest to you and heals are taken by everyone between 1% and 99% and that person at 1% is not getting healer because all the people with 99% between us 😂
Target getting priority in boons would mean you could choose to prioritize the specific NPS or Player that is not on your sub group for Boons and Healing and I think the Healing should also prioritize the Target as first target 👍 would also make the Specter little by little better 😄 but man how I'm sad that Heal Specter is not a thing yet.
Amazing edit to explian stability, Noxxi as always overcoming themselves
Important note: swiftness and superspeed can effect NPCs who have to walk to a destination before a quest starts -- such as the three for the explorable paths in Ascalonisn Catacombs
Note that npc's are the last one's to get the boon so maybe wait until there are less then the target cap in you vicinity
@@Shark-8472 Which is why people send most of the squad away on River of Souls so that Desmina gets boons.
Superspeed is massive in weekly Forging Steel runs, it can turn a 1 hour slog into a 30 min walk in the park
Definitely a Must Have thing on the Snowden DRM, cause that pokey Kodan has NO SENSE OF URGENCY!! 🤣
Switness is great for escort type events to help speed up the NPCs. Yaks in WvW are one example.
This video is a boon for new Gw2 players. Remember long ago when I first played Gw2 and Boons was a new word for buff and I generally was confused :D
Just something i want to add to the classes that like to have vigor: A renegade gets 33% crit chance when at full endurace (Brutal Momentum trait, mandatory)! this is a relatively large damage boost which falls off when you have to dodge something so any vigor is always appreciated there (they also get vigor from the same trait when they crit, but i think its still worth mentioning)
I dont know if it was my end or the video but for some reason that hit like and subscribe was super loud on my headset. Scared me. The edits to explain stuff was hilarious.
Was the initial concept for the video boons or was boons just a good vehicle for beating up Braham a lot?
Funny enough, I didn't write the braham stuff into the script at all. Noxxi just DID that.
LOL
@@MuklukRUclips Tell Noxxi 10/10, no notes, perfection
Very good video, as always!
Its perfect for new players and even veterans, since some people just play the game on auto pilot and never get to really understand every detail that actually matters.
i love noxxi's edits so much, they're amazing
one thing i wanna add is Quickness will increase the speed of channeled skills, including non-combat actions such as gathering from resource nodes, opening chests, building siege weapons, or communing with places of power.
Yess! As someone who has a Norn as their main character I absolutely needed this. But I don't approve of beating up my equally dum dum comrade. Very offensive, Muk.
Came to say I killed zhaitan last night! Thanks for helping me along this journey with your videos! I even got my wife into playing now too so I have an adventure buddy! Looking forward to learning about the rest of this amazing world!
You got my like at BETTER FASTER STRONGER 😆
p.s. great video!
Fun stability fact: not every cc removes a stack, there is a cap of 1 stack removed every 0,75 sec (if I remember correctly). If two ccs hit within 0,75 sec, the second one does not remove a stack. Important for surviving in wvw, where a lot of cc can hit you very quickly.
To be fair I'm not even sure if that is intended or not 🤔 Aegis can also block multiple hits (or at least did at some point, unsure if that also got fixed or not) if they hit you at the same exact time. I know this because when I used to play my guardian early on in the game, I have many occasions where I blocked two or three attacks that happened to hit me at the exact same time
I like the Braham part 4:55
Thanks Muk, now I finally know what alac is.
you should explain how boons are removed, like in which order, for example, any newly applied boons get stripped from you before the older boons do, or however it actually works.
For condi build, the gear you use is Ritualist. It give concentration, expertise, condi damage and vitality. It have minor stat in concentration, meaning it provide as much concentration as harrier but less than diviner.
This is particularly annoying as a condi alacrity renegade. We need 80% concentration for full alacrity uptime, which is something you can only achieve with a 6 runes providing +25% boon duration (Rune of Leadership is the best one) AND an additional concentration source such as food+utility or the Sigil of Concentration.
Incredible as always!
I'm a 5 year vet and that was helpful as I get things confused all the time, I forget stuff too. 😅
Now if I could just Get Good at using them all consistently I'd be ok. I play Reaper main cause I have lots of damage and CC so I don't worry much about providing boons for others. Could be I'm lazy too. 😂
Great video muk!
Finally!
This is so useful.
This needs to be top on the steam page too!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO
one thing to note bout swiftness. is that it doesnt increase ya backward running speed, just when ya going forwards
0:11 instantly best guide. I find it quite hard to get a good overview tho. would have been nice if you had shown all boons once, atleast so you can see them in one picture or smth idk
I would've included stealth in this listing, using the same logic you applied to superspeed. Stealthed/revealed status is quite important in WvW and PvP.
Fair point, It completely slipped my mind
Great vid. Thanks for this.
Thanks for the video.
So if I understand correctly, if your tooltip says "Regen (9.75s): 16,358 Heal", then that means you heal at a rate of around 1,678 health/s over 9.75 seconds for a total of 16,358 health restored, right?
In most cases yes, with the exception of a few quirky skills with weird tooltips.
@@MuklukRUclips thank you!
Damn, this video taught me more about boons than nearly 4 years of playing this game 😳
Out of sheer curiosity: Which information was new to you?
Edit: As I'm frequently training newbies and helping them to explore new content like raids, I'd be interesting to know which mechanics they don't know about, but don't feel like asking (may it be embarrassment or mere lazyness)
@@Grixxis Some of informations which were provided in this video could be obtained if I would simply read tool tips of boons when they appear. But I'm lazy so I missed a lot cause of that.
Gotta admit that I had no idea how boon priority worked. Next Aegis boon at the fact that timing is important. Some info about boon removal and corruption was also explained in a way I understood it way better than I thought.
Overal it's again great, short video that does IMO awesome job in explaining those things.
How do you access the window where you moused over all the things and got extra text of what those things where?
I remember 5 years ago or longer superspeed also ignored slow effects, cause bug.
Does it still exist?
very great video, ty mate
5:01 Best moment of the video haha
Oh thanks your for this info...
It was super helpfull
GREAT VID. I CMd a dragons end and i had to beg BEG BEGGG people to play quick and alac and explaining that you playing a 20k dps isnt as important as buffing 4 people doing 15k
I find it somewhat awkward that Auras didn't make it to the special mention cut. They mechanically work almost similar to boons, even though they are their own separate category. Then again, those are covered to some extent on the field/finisher video, so all is well. =]
Very good video indeed
How does alacrity effect Thief since they don't have skill cooldowns (except on utility skills)?
It simply doesn't, since thief weapon skills have no cooldown, it just depends on initiative if you can use it or not.
Hey Muk, can you do a beginners guide to combos and their use in PvE, PvP and WvW? Would love to see it.
I'm not sure if it encompasses every aspect you requested, but I do have a guide to combos: mukluklabs.com/gw2-new-players-guides/#Combo
@@MuklukRUclips a scholar and a gentleman. Thank you Muk!
haha the daft punk got me
A GTTP video longer than 5 minutes? Unacceptable.x
Beating up Braham makes it worth it.
Perfect!
Me: *Knows all about boons but watches anyway*
Me: Interesting
I play since 2012 and never realized that stability gets removed when it protects you from control effects. I always assumed they used boon removal.
stability has had some changes over the years, it used to stack duration and just prevent all effects while it was active (changed in 2015)
For me boons are a double-edged sword. Because many of these boons can be kept up 100% of the time, this becomes the new baseline. So groups will expect players to keep them up all the time. So why do I see this as a double-edged sword? Well, first of all it's boring (imo) to have to actively keep boons up 100% of the time. Also the GUI doesn't allow resizing or grouping of the boons that are on players. So that means that they remain small and the same boons aren't in the same place all the time. So that makes it even more tedious. Then there is the issue (imo) that it makes the dps output a LOT higher than groups who don't have this sorted. I think you said twice as much but I think it's much more. Just look at crit and the damage multiplier. That alone makes you do more than three times as much damage than if you don't. And with alacrity and quickness and might added into the mix...well that increases DPS even more. So even when a group does use those boons but only manages 50% coverage or doesn't have all those boons available in that group, they will do considerably less damage.
GW2 said that they didn't want to use the tank/dps/heal trinity. But healers are back in (and sometimes tank), but moreover there are more roles needed now. Might, Quickness, Alacrity, Fury all have to be provided by someone 100% of the time.
My personal preference for boons or buffs would be that all of them would be limited so you can only use them some of the time, but others disagree, I get that. But there's nothing much tactical about having 100% crit 100% of the time for the whole group. It makes the upkeep and the result superfluous when you think about it. And I also don't care much for the huddling together for the sake of boons. It makes melee vs range a bit pointless. Anyways, that's just my opinion, but there it is.
Nice.
Omg the Anti-Brahm propaganda is REAL
What a scream.
Excellent video Muk and Noxi, very important for new and returning players to understand what boon does what
Thank you for beating up Braham so much!
1:48 why would you want to save Braham
Stability not prevent or make immune immobily condi but resistance make immune immobily condi
Resistance completely make immune to vulnerable, immobile, fear and taunt
This should be in the game as a tutorial
And now you know how to get buff, you're welcome.
You've been watching content creators too long when you can tell who the editor is by watching the video.
Now imagine if quickness stacked in intensity
if Braham was in the Titanic I'm prety sure he was the one that caused it... he was probably trying to look for Jormag and drove the boat into an iceberg...
Don't mind me, just here for the algorithm
As someone who has only dabbled in the story to get mounts, and is only basically familiar with Braham, could someone explain why he's hated so much? Lol
If you wanna avoid spoilers, the answer lies in Heart of Thorns and Living World Season 3.
Noxi is a god
Poor Braham 😂
The amount of times I had to pause and calm my laughing from Noxxi's edits so that I would be able to focus 😭😭😭
Braham deserves to be a punching dummy. Also, well done, this is extremely informative since the word "boon" tend to confuse the hell out of new players.
Why am I watching this? I've played this game since launch. I know boons.
Oh yeah, I watch it cause Muk and Noxxi make it entertaining.
Oh yeah, I end up learning some new stuff about the game despite playing it since launch.
I hate that thumb-up Braham.
Yay Target Dummy Braham!!!!
still waiting for a world where I can target boons on people who need them instead of stacking duration on the closest people, *sad druid noises*
1:25 False, you don't want to leave the Group to try and give Regeneration to those who need it.
Boon Priority is 4 closest, not the one with least amount duration/stacks 😭 Healing is the same
On top of that who are you supposed to find the people with no regeneration Mukluk?
If you're in a pile of 50 people but only grouped with 5 of them, your boons will just stack on those 5 until capped out.
If you are in a group with all 50 of them, or not in a group at all, your boons will hit the nearest people, except regen which in that one specific situation will hit injured first.
I wish I had thought to include that in the video but I did not.
It is very noticeable as a healer when in a pile of people and only a couple of them are hurt, you pulse regen and it hits exactly those hurt people.
@@MuklukRUclips in my knowledge All boons including regeneration is 4 closest targets to you even when you are 100%hp and 60s Regeneration 🤨
That is my experience playing full heal tempest in last End of Dragons map event trying to heal everyone and seeinh multiple of them just die because they got 0 healing because priority on healing isn4 closest and no one is 100%hp in that fight 😆
Also when I did experiements like solo healing Shivering pass half of the people were dying if I didn't move and some had 0% all boons even tough regeneration is 600 range 😆
@@xezzee Most organized Dragon's End maps divide people into subgroups, if that happened your boons would only hit the 4 people you were grouped with and not the rest, althought your direct healing would hit others if your party was full health. Could that have been the case?
@@MuklukRUclips Few things. I do my best to summaries but I'm not good wit that:
I was not in a squad. I don't join Squads usually. Few times I did join a squad was to load to same map as friend.
I played full heal tempest which healing is the top notch healing build able to heal 20 people easily if healing priority was lowest % hp.
(the build: Tempest/Water/Earth for that 40% protection. All souths. Elemental Bastion. Full Harriers. Dagger/Horn.)
Used this build roughly 10 times in Dragon's End before giving up in depression because I can't heal anyone who needed healing :< I would have to run Arcane & Staff for revives
^ but Now days I play Full DPS Blood Magic Scourge because I get to deal 10k solo damage while reviving people who go downstate 👍 only valid open world solo support build I like because anyone who is downstate needs help. While yes Heal Tempest can revive also the Blood Magic just feels better with F4 pulling 5 people and you able to drop wells also while dealing way higher dps 🤤
Regeneration in my knowledge uses literally same rules as any other boon like Protection -> 4 closest = Have you done experiments to confirm if Regeneration is following different rules? Simple, get 10 people in line in range. Have 4 farthest players get hurt to 5% hp. Use Scrapper Healing Kit 5 Infusion Bomb and tell me who got that Regeneration? 1) The 4 people who are at 5% 2) the 4 closest to the infusion bomb 3) swiftness and Vigor went to the 4 closest and Regeneration went to the 4 farthest 😱 It is rare to see ability that only gives Regeneration 😓 Healing Kit 2 Bandages? If they hit the people who have lost hp then it is not Regeneration prioritizing but the pure healing prioritizing and Regen is just side product 😓 on top of that I think Healing Turret F1 might only give regen and work like healing skill? but to find that one specific skill from all the other skills 😱
Would make sense that healing ignores anyone who is 100% hp but good luck finding anyone in Dragon's End from the 50 peoples who is at 100% hp while you can see more than 5 people at less than 10% hp and always few in downstate.
The simplest fix how to make open world solo support gameplay more fun would be to make boon priority and healing priority to the lowest hp/duration/stack with same rules that you always priorities Sungroup > Squad > other players > NPC that would open up playing pure healing builds in open world and being able to heal anyone with 5% hp without having to stand on top of them 😱
The down side of making boons and healing prioritize those with lowest hp, boon duration or boon stacks is that 1 player could upkeep permanent Alacrity on 10 people with certain builds played well. Currently untamed can be played in level that you give 100% Alacrity uptime with 0% boon duration and adding 100% boon duration would make it possible to upkeep Alacrity on 10 targets if the Alacrity was given to the player with lowest duration 😅 Currently it would be 5 closest but you are always closest so 4 closest 😏 5 people would be left out and if you swap the players around 1 player is now farthest from the 5 players and gets 0 alac because you give alac to yourself ........
@@MuklukRUclips You could pick up on that in a seperate video on healing priority. The video was already unbelievably long for GTTP. ;-)
Boons killed the game. RIP GW2. Hope it doesnt come back in GW3.