True Focus

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Is every new piece of high level content going to have True Focus? The reason I ranked Ghost was to use her in high level content…

BitterSteel

I mean....the only other alternative I can see is a percentage-based chance to fail. Then people are at the mercy of the RNG.

That would make them useless in my view. Even at 99% chance for quake to fail, it’s too little.

I honestly have no idea how a nerf would be done, but I don’t think that would be it.

A nerf for quake could be by adding some way for the opponent to gain power. Maybe they gain 34% of a bar every time her aftershock activates. That way she could still quake like normal but wouldn't have the complete shutdown she normally has, plus you'd need to break rhythm to bait specials.

For ghost you could maybe allow her to only remove bleed and poison debuffs with phase? Maybe incinerates too.

Ok, bit of a wild thought, and feel free to shoot me down lol, but I just thought what if Quake got an entire overhaul, and Kabam gave her a really amazing kit. I’m thinking some sort of buff that was Diablo level good. Made her a genuinely amazing champion and have her play normally, not like quake does now. Then she’s not so broken, and quake players still have a really amazing champ worth ranking and using.

My reasoning is that the Dr Strange nerf took way too much away from those champions. And left people with a shell of a champion nobody would rank.

And remember this is all along a hypothetical of what if they HAD to be nerfed, not that I would do this no questions asked.

So instead of having nerfing quake to have a 95% chance to evade, or one that has 50% AAR, that we just wouldn’t use, instead of ruining the champion and going way, way too far with a nerf. Go for more of a rebalance, which keeps quake as a useful champion, with a brilliant, useful kit, and one that people would be happy to rank.

I like the idea in principle but I'm worried about the application. We were told that the Dr. Strange nerf, for example, would leave him as a top champ in the game, albeit closer to the pack. He's been irrelevant since the nerf and they have felt no obligation to make good on the promise.

Yeah it’s an absolute relevant concern. And I’d definitely have the same concerns. Dr strange does still sting.

To be fair, Kabam have had a lot of time to learn from Dr Strange, and we didn’t have the buff program.

Maybe they could work with the CCP to test Quake’s new kit to make sure she’s still a genuine top option.