Will Pure skill ever be fixed/updated or will we get our 4650 units back?

Firelord_Ozai

Hello Summoners, it's coming on to our one year anniversary of 12.0. /balloons

That means it has been a year since the mastery pure skill has been broken. What are your thoughts and feedback on this mastery issue that has been pushed aside?
-Firelord Ozai

phillgreen

11.x scarlet witch, How I miss thee.

juST4fUN

Thats No & No, No they are not planning to fix PS and No they are not planning any reimbursment.

DaMunk

Either way I want the community to be reimbursed for their units that they used. (4650 units)

They really need to do something about pure skill. The devaluation of it without any reimbursement lends itself to a shady image. 4k+ units is a significant amount of resources however you got them. If you spent 150 dollars for something at walmart and after a few months they took it back a normal person would be extremely mad.
But hey they said they would look into it...
Oh btw...it actually more effective now..lol
In before the lock....

The_One

There's an option missing.
There's needs to be a "no they won't fix it and no we won't get any units back"

G-Hun-Gear

I don't have the mastery unlocked, so I am not quite aware: In which way is pure skill broken? Does this also apply to pierce?

Stewman

I have lost hope.
12.0 in general has curtailed how much I spend on the game.

DrZola

Either way I want the community to be reimbursed for their units that they used. (4650 units)

When people look at the forums and wonder why there is so much toxicity, this is a good example. I'm not excusing the toxicity--just providing an explanation for it. The class masteries were trumpeted when they were released then mostly abandoned post 12.0 (except for MD).

What's particularly disappointing is that there was engagement between the game team and the community on Pure Skill--in fact, we were advised that fixes were potentially in the works (kind of like CM Sp2). But other things took precedence, and other fixes got done first.

I've removed all my Pure Skill points because they don't really do anything. Ultimately, I would like to get something back for the units I used to purchased Skill cores. It's been a long time and by now it doesn't look like a fix is happening anytime soon. Just throw some stuff our way, tell us nothing is happening to fix the mastery, and let us all walk on. And as an ongoing matter, stop giving out class cores with XP levels for players below L60--with the lone exception of MD, they really don't do anything.

Dr. Zola

Chris_L_H

NO. Kabam will not fix/change Pure Skill as stated they would many.. many months ago.

I don't think they'll ever do anything about it. It's not even listed on their "known issues" page is it?

shchong2

NO. Kabam will not fix/change Pure Skill as stated they would many.. many months ago.

Kabam is one of the best gaming companies in the whole wide world, if not in the Universe. They made their name in upholding quality, integrity and customer orientation to the highest quality. Make no mistakes, for each of the current problems acknowledged by Kabam, they already have a dozen of hardworking and highly talented engineers working days and nights to resolve them permanently! It now lies among us to show them our trust and faith! In Kabam, we trust! .... wait, why did I just vote? ....

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Mrjboyd

Now can a moderator explain this And give an actual update on the pure skill mastery

DaMunk

Either way I want the community to be reimbursed for their units that they used. (4650 units)

That "more effective " explanation is such a load. If you did significantly more damage prior to the update than after, how can the later be more effective? It's a completely different mastery now that just scales faster. A broken mastery that scales faster doesn't help anyone. Pushing that more effective line just makes people more upset because your basically insulting our intelligence.

DrZola

Either way I want the community to be reimbursed for their units that they used. (4650 units)

@Mrjboyd I'm not surprised at that response. I think we have a general understanding from the game team in the responses from Miike et al. over the past few months.

In October 2017, Miike replied:

"Sorry for the slow response on this. Pure Skill is still something that we are looking at. It's a tricky situation that we're in, because Pure Skill IS still working, and is in fact MORE effective than it was before 12.0, but for most cases, it's about as effective as it's going to be at Rank 3. Please don't spread misinformation about it not working at all.

At Rank 3, it's basically able to ignore 100% of the armor on most Champions (except Hulkbuster). After that it's really only added effect is against some super buffed Champs (like those found in LOL). We have some plans that we're going through, and which routes we can take, but we're not sure yet.

We're getting closer, and I totally realize it's been quite some time that this has been an issue for you all, and I am very sorry about that. It's not like we've let it fall off the radar, it's just taking longer than we would have hoped.

We'll update you all as soon as we have more information."

Then he closed the thread.

In November 2017, Wolf stated:

"Hey everyone. I just wanted to touch base with you all and let you know that Pure Skill is still being looked at, and that we will hopefully have an update on it before long. Thanks so much for the feedback, and for bearing with us while we work on this."

On January 29, Miike noted:

"Sorry guys, I know that this has been a long standing issue, but we still don't have any information here.

As we have said many times, we are still working on Pure Skill. This is not an easy situation, and not one we can just "revert" because that would make it significantly less effective than it is now. We don't have any more information to share at this time."

Then he closed that thread.

There was this comment from Patatat in April 2017 (yes, April) which set forth the basic position on Pure Skill post 12.0:




But it really doesn't appear to be on the radar anymore. They claim it works fine to 3/5 and it shouldn't be used beyond that. Not a satisfying response, but it appears to be the official one for now.

Dr. Zola

Kabam Miike

Hey All,

First, I want to say that Pure Skill is still on our radar. I know it's been quite some time, but this is a complicated situation. I want to reiterate, Pure Skill is not broken. It is more effective now than it was before our 12.0 Update. The issue is, that because it's so effective, the last couple ranks are sometimes not useful unless it's against a Champion with a bunch of extra Armor, or against Hulkbuster specifically.

This means that Pure Skill needs to be completely reworked. There is no more that can be added to Pure Skill as it currently exists, and if we were to do something that reverted it to its previous effectiveness, you'd notice a drop in the performance of the mastery.

We're gonna keep looking at ways to address this, and will let you know when we have more information.