**WINTER OF WOE - BONUS OBJECTIVE POINT**
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
As previously announced, the team will be distributing an additional point toward milestones to anyone who completed the Absorbing Man fight in the first step of the Winter of Woe.
This point will be distributed at a later time as it requires the team to pull and analyze data.
The timeline has not been set, but work has started.
There is currently an issue where some Alliances are are unable to find a match in Alliance Wars, or are receiving Byes without getting the benefits of the Win. We will be adjusting the Season Points of the Alliances that are affected within the coming weeks, and will be working to compensate them for their missed Per War rewards as well.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
Additionally, we are working to address an issue where new Members of an Alliance are unable to place Defenders for the next War after joining. We are working to address this, but it will require a future update.
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You don’t think there’s a reason that in literally any conversation about top champs, it is always a conversation of who is top 3, there is no debate on top 1 and 2 because quake and ghost are so broken. 3rd place is debatable depending on who you’re talking to.
When do you ever see quake in the team of endgame players doing new content? Rarely. Why? Because she doesn't have the damage to be worth using over other champions, even if she can do it. Healthpools are getting bigger, and though she can still absolutely dominate most content, others can too, and faster. On paper, quake is still the best champion in the game, by a long shot. In practice though, she rarely makes the team.
As for ghost, she is a beast. She doesn't have the complete control that quake has but easily takes the cake when it comes to damage. However I would argue that 2 other champions are on her level. Hercules and Kitty. Hercules is basically death immune and has the damage to blitz through so many fights that he really shouldn't be able to take on paper. Kitty is still basically unreleased, so I can't make any real and backed arguments, but she at least looks to be absolutely insane
As i said I am aware this is a very unpopular opinion (though it's more of an idea I've been playing with than an opinion) but that's just my take.
I agree not everyone can quake, and I agree it’s not the same as pre-12.0 SWitch for example. But as you said, the game has progressed. It’s not a case that just because some can’t quake, it’s not affecting the game. It demonstrably is, true focus is *because* of ghost and quake. Clearly, it doesn’t matter that not everyone can quake.
“ I don't think any non-Quake players have the right to talk about a Quake nerf”. I’m not sure what you mean by that? I’m both a quake and ghost player, rank 3 ghost, 5/65 quake.
"When do you ever see quake in the team of endgame players doing new content"
Literally every endgame content that doesn't outright block her out.
She smoked gauntlet and would have done the same to most of the weekly sop bosses and the Shang chi challenge if true focus wasn't plastered everywhere.
Same applies to AW and AQ.
The only place she isn't as prominently used is act 7 but story content has been difficult enough to resort to quaking since they changed the design focus.
Herc is a great champ but putting him on ghosts level is a joke and it's far too early to even be talking about kitty in this context. If they keep feeding her true focus nodes she's got the potential but she's barely landed.
She is utterly, utterly broken. Maybe in 2 years when everyone has rank 5 6* people might not quake the healthpools, but rank 3 6* and even rank 4 6* don’t have the stat increase enough to wipe her from the conversation yet.
There’s a reason true focus was brought into stop quake and ghost, and it’s not because Herc is on their level.
I agree Kabam shouldn’t nerf quake and ghost right this second, as I’ve said time and time again. But at some point if they refuse to reconsider true focus (which I hope they do), it may be better to just nerf them as a lesser of two evils.
I really can’t imagine them getting rid of true focus now. Not after making a crazy champ who benefits from it.
Not that I’ll stop arguing for true focus to be removed, it’s just made more complicated now.
My position is all stemming from the assumption that Kabam won’t change true focus. This is based on no comment given, and Kitty Pryde’s release. I’d love to be wrong though.
It’s basically, should true focus be confirmed to be sticking around, we can’t use quake and ghost for that end game content *and* we can’t use the other 20 or so options to their full extent too. So in that hypothetical scenario, what’s better, not being able to use Q and G *and* those other 20? Or Q and G being nerfed and being able to use those other champs again?
In a choice between the two, I’d always pick the latter.
However, if the option to get rid of true focus and counter just quake and ghost is presented, thats obviously my preference.
I’m not just saying nerf them for the hell of it.
Also, atleast for me, there are other options. Even in the Shang Chi Quest. They could have put a lane in the middle with True Focus. Cuts Ghost/Quake out for that lane, and with the quest being so intensive, people would think of other options. They can still use True Focus imo. Just don't have to slap it as a global.
Yeah, I hated it as a global. Terrible call for me. I do like your idea of one lane having it.
If you think that Kabam must do either True Focus or nerf, then mind you we have gone through 3 years of content without that needing to happen. Simply reverting True Focus is more than enough imo and Kabam doing more than that is straight up unncessary, just like the True Focus node itself.
"True Focus is *because* of ghost and quake" if Kabam's intention is to prevent us from using a select few champions for endgame content, and mind you this is only happening due to their own ****ty node design, then WHY IS THE SHANG-CHI QUEST DESIGNED AROUND CORVUS AND CORVUS ONLY????? Complete hypocrisy on Kabam's part.
And the part about not having the right to talk about Quake nerf, apologies that wasn't targeted at ye and had no idea ye played Quake based on ye comments on her, but more at the others out there who I just feel like don't even know what Quake is, just shouting for a nerf because other players are using her and they aren't.
And please do enlighten me on how you would nerf a champion like Quake, are you going to nerf her damage but it's already not top-tier. Any sort of nerf to her Evade/Concussion will drop her multiple tiers. Are you going to make her playstyle even more stressful because, well, no. High stress, high reward, this is in terms of utility and not damage, the way I see it Quake is well-balanced in her current state. As for Ghost I would be more understanding if you're trying to tune down her damage, but even then she has been like this for 3 years, we have already used her for so much content (you and I should know with r3 Ghosts), and it would be EXTREMELY unfair for anyone who's still trying to complete the same content with their Ghosts (and Quakes). They have their rights to enjoy current Ghost and not nerfed Ghost. That's why nerfs imo are completely out of the equation in the current state of the game. If they wanted to nerf Ghost, they should've done it 2 years ago, when she was the single most popular champion for Act 6.
I think Kabam have moved on from that type of Act 6 node design in Cav EQ and Act 7, rewarding nodes were already effective in encouraging use of other champs while not banning Ghost and Quake from content. But why move backwards with the recent stuff and then punish players for reverting to the old Act 6 mindset of Ghosting and Quaking this BS? I respect ye mate and everyone on this forum, what I don't respect is the Kabam devs doing this and taking no responsibility for it, instead bringing up nerfs to some main staples of the contest and bringing down a bunch of other champs with it.
Sorry for the long post but I need to make myself clear that True Focus/nerf is complete and utter BS, that's just my honest opinion so feel free to disagree or rebut my points.
True Focus, a Ghost I can still use very well.
Ghost purifies more than Skill champions; special stronger than Mutant; gains more power than Mystic; more bonus than Cosmic, Ghost is the best of the other classes in a single champion and also with Hood on the team, it doesn't even take S3 damage.
I understand the competition will evolve and they'll introduce champ who will bypass true Focus and nothing will affect their phase or invisibility, but until then they're making every existing champ a chump.
When AA was the champ that could kill everything, they started making almost every node bleed immune.
When mystics were at top , they introduced blade.
So basically, Man-Thing and then 6.3 Acid Wash Mysterio but on a much larger scale
Just make a node saying "NO QUAKE" don't mess with ghost.
I honestly have no idea how a nerf would be done, but I don’t think that would be it.
For ghost you could maybe allow her to only remove bleed and poison debuffs with phase? Maybe incinerates too.
I like a solutions someone proposed: give Quake&Ghost a unique #op tag and restrict True Focus only to holders of this tag.
Also I feel like True Focus is a being bit overreacted to. Where has it been so far? SoP, Shang-Chi challenge, top tier AW. Yet there are people who go around saying "True focus now everywhere". Yet there's still Act 6, AoL, Act 7 and Variants without it. It is in TEMPORARY content only. All permanent stuff is free of this node. It is unpleasant but not as everpresent as some people put it.
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.