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Sorry for the silence on this one. We've read a lot of feedback on True Focus, and are interested to hear a lot more. There's no "statement" to make because like all content, True Focus will be in some places, and not in others.
True Focus is not a sign that Ghost and Quake (and other Evade/Miss Champions) are no longer going to be useful.
Like all content, we'll be using it selectively and for different purposes. It is bad timing that we just introduced it in AW, and then SOP, and now the Shang Chi CQC Challenge. In AW, this was to shake up the Meta of the Champions being used, Summer of Pain was meant to be very difficult content where we purposely tried to encourage some variety, and the CQC Challenge is meant to be about Close Quarters Combat and we didn't want the answer to it to be Miss or Evade.
That's a lot of content back to back, but we have spoken to the team and we are aware of the sentiment here and are going to make an effort to be more purposeful with its use moving forward. You should not expect to see it on all difficult content going forward.
Can you give any indication to how prominent it will be in these coming events? Say the next 10 events, does “you should not expect to see it on all going forward” mean it’ll only be in 1, or that all but 1 will have it?
Obviously I’m not asking for a precise figure, “you’ll see it in X out of Y”, but do you see my point? Is it going to be a heavily used, moderately, or lightly used node?
Because (1) you’re punishing players for using Miss or Evade based champions and (2) there’s no “benefit” from being up close and personal with the challenge. In fact, you’re punished staying too close to the opponent (because of invade) but you’re also punished for being far away (as a result of Close Encounters). You guys did a poor job with this particular challenge and True Focus being a focal point when SOP just finished.
And I find it hard to believe true focus wasn’t targeted at Quake and Ghost. Do you have some OP quake&ghost-like characters in the pipeline? Anyways…
You can say, well you can still use X, Y and Z on the paths, but a lot of the time, I plan my team with boss island in mind. Who I bring on the path, is almost always who I'll use on boss island. If not all 3 slots of my team, then at least 2. That means when I weigh up my path and think, will I use Torch or Mr Negative here, since I can't use Mr Negative properly on boss island, he gets left on the bench. And with an awakening gem and 200 sig stones in him, that doesn't feel too great. If it were Ghost, I'd swallow that pill, seeing as the design for AW was that she is (rightly) too powerful. But Mr Negative (though awesome) isn't waltzing through defences.
This decision was outlined in the season 28 post, quake and ghost are running rampant on AW, so we know that you don't want Quake and ghost to continue doing so, which is fine and I agree they are too powerful, but why use a node that affects 10% of the champions in the game? Is there a hesitancy to put a node in the game that is more specific than true focus?
Lastly, SoP is a game mode that came and went. Same with Shang Chi challenge, but AW is here to stay, and while seasons change and nodes change, I can't see Quake and Ghost being kept out the meta of boss island just for 1 season, so it looks like true focus is here to stay for the foreseeable future in AW. That's why I think it should change. For a lot of players, AW is the only consistent form of entertainment and tough gameplay. As someone with a rank 3 Prof X, Mr Negative, Elsa, Spider-Gwen and rank 5 5* or Rank 2 6* of almost every other miss/evade champ, it's a really disappointing feeling to be unable to use them in a game mode I really love.