**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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My concern when making this thread was one of design philosophy and irritation that i can’t use a champion I’ve heavily invested in in new content.
There’s no reason to get personal with people on here
Why should someone be able to pull one or two champs early on and steamroll 99% of content in the game? The whole point of a game like this is supposed to be roster building over time not get one or two of a handful of ridiculously unbalanced champs so you can punch above your weight and never need anyone else.
Just Focus Harder
If your point is, that the point of True Focus is to prevent Ghost and Quake from steamrolling every piece of challenging content, then I'd argue that they never did and never will be able to steamroll every single piece of hard content in the game. Take Abyss for example, few would Ghost or Quake that. Take Cav EQ and Act 7 for example, they rarely get used there due to the nodes rewarding other champions better. At the end of the day they're all just champions. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses. Ghost needs a strong sense of timing, an aggressive AI, and in some fights a full synergy team. As for Quake, well, I can bet 90% of you reading this post can't even play her properly lol. It's unfair to say, like, "Oh they're the best options for this particular part of the contest, so they shouldn't be used at all." With this logic why not just throw combo lock into Abyss and make guaranteed crits deal reduced damage in the new Shang-Chi quest, no? Since Aegon and Corvus also 'steamroll' these pieces of content, they should also be removed from the equation completely, no?
Stop being whiners and learn to use other champions too.
I have Ghost and Quake 5* Full, in case Kabam ever nerf them, the kabam will give us all the resources that were spent to evolve champions.
This message is for the once who saying nerf ghost and quake. You all have a choice to master ghost and quake but you choose not to, so why all these complaining?
If you want to pretend that only people who can’t ghost and quake want them nerfed as some jealousy bid, then feel free. But it’s simply not true.
For your message. For me it’s funny if someone using a generic a.g on ghost and sig her up and then saying nerf her. A.g and sig stones is more still pretty rare in the game, so doesn’t make sense for me.
And because someone played in master ally doesn’t mean he have skills. I’ve seen a lot of master players and big whales big rosters with no skills.
1. I get that toning down G&Q is a good idea, they are basically cheat codes to the game, but I don't understand why they are so intent on making them worse while introducing new champions just as, if not more powerful than them.
2. It almost seems like kabam is too scared of the backlash they think they would receive from either them nerfing G&Q or releasing a node that specifically counters them. Instead they are trying to do it indirectly, which as we all know has been a complete fail because they have received the backlash as well as destroying multiple other champs in the process.
3. (A more personal and selfish one) I ranked up my ghost because I have a lot of existing content left to do (act 6 100%, variants, etc) that does not have true focus that she will help me for. If kabam choose to nerf her, then that would suck, basically. However I accept that it is definitely a better way forward that true focus.
As for Ghost, I pulled the 5-Star after getting Cav. She was used, excessively, throughout the rest of Act 6. In 6.2 the nodes there were so annoying that no other champion in my roster could handle those, except for Ghost. Basically essential for multiple paths and ****ty bosses like 6.3.6 Cap IW. I did not, and still, to this day, do not own a Wasp, so there was a big learning curve in getting all the special intercepts timing right when ye did not have unblockable to rely on. Thoroughly enjoyed that experience with learning the champ and Ghost is to this date probably my favourite champion in terms of playstyle.
Apologies for the dive into my account history, the point I'd like to make is that by nerfing these two champions, you are effectively stripping players from being able to use them like I did. There are people out there who haven't done all the content that you and I have used Ghost and Quake for. Heck, myself included, not even close to exploring Act 6. And what if I enjoy using Ghost? Am I not allowed to use whichever champion I enjoy? And if the objective of True Focus is to restrict people from using certain champs, then why is the brand new Shang-Chi quest designed for ONE and ONE champion only???
Kabam devs, please listen. TRUE FOCUS IS ****. No one likes True Focus. Get rid of it asap. I will end by restating that there are much better ways to encourage use of other champions, clearly shown by the rewarding structure of Cav EQ and Act 7 nodes. Ghost and Quake are used way less for these pieces of content. Feels like the game is reverting back to a player-punishing structure for me with SoP bosses and Shang-Chi quest, which is going back against what you've established in the past year or so.
I don’t think many people today would argue that nerfing dr strange and scarlet witch was a bad thing for the game. Strange was nerfed too hard, yes, but having a very small group of champions that are so much more powerful than others is not a good thing. They needed to be nerfed to create content that was fun and enjoyable for everyone else.
When SW, DS and Thor etc were on top, content was made niche to counter them, and it got to the point that you needed them and only them to get through it. This time, Ghost and Quake are so powerful that Kabam have changed their tune, not making content so hard that you *need* ghost and quake, but making content that is easier, but clumsily ruling ghost and quake out of the content, and affecting many other champs too.
The issue is the same, but Kabam are handling it differently this time, and I think it’s worse.
-small group of OP champions that are walking through content
-content is being changed to accommodate these OP champions, to the detriment of other champions (last time it was by making content so hard the others couldn’t complete it. This time it’s true focus affecting other champions)
-last time Kabam solved the issue by nerfing champions because there was such a huge problem with them being so much more OP than other champions
-this time, I fear it’s heading towards that too, I just wish Kabam would either get rid of true focus and figure out a different way to stop them, or hurry up and do it and stop making the game less enjoyable for other champs
Nerfs and balances are not inherently bad for the game long term, it just feels bad short term. And it does feel very bad. In the aftermath of 12.0 there was an awful lot of terrible feedback for Kabam on nerfing those champions, but over time the community has seen that balancing the game, and having a more level playing field in terms of which champions are the best, is so much better for having consistently good, enjoyable and balanced content.
Don't use either, so personally doesn't affect me. But most of the top players have completed content without issue using skills+Quake/Ghost to save items. Now that they're done with using Quake/Ghost for those pieces of content, it's not as hard of a hit to them.
But there are players who are growing who still have that content to do. Should we just says sucks for them and let them burn items when the people who already finished content didn't have to? How is that fair?
To be clear I’m not saying Kabam should hit the nerf button right now and with no other option. First option should without a doubt be figure out a way to stop quake and ghost without true focus. All I’m trying to say is that if, and a big if, ghost and quake were nerfed. It may suck short term, and it would really suck, but long term game may be improved