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…
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BUT they can gut their usefulness in challenges EQ/SQ and new content.
It's really dumb and I hate how they're going about this whole siutation.
The issue is is this is Kabam saying woops these champions are too good, sorry you can’t use them. These are the champions that players have ranked up because they are good and because they cover very important pieces of utility. If that’s the case maybe more effort needs to be put into balance at the outset rather than wait 3 years and just be like nah, you’ve dodged enough special attacks now.
Not saying it's wide spread, but that is the message that is being sent. If you rank this champion who needs miss or evade, there is a good chance they won't be usable in the newest end game content. AW boss island, SoP and now the champ challenge. It's stacking up, and over time, with more content it's only going to add fuel to the fire of not wanting to rank champions who use miss and evade.
I know that's not Kabam's intention, but it's a real by-product of their decision to lazily hack out ghost and quake from content, instead of choosing a better approach.
If they created this to target quake and ghost, they should at least acknowledge and follow through if they aren't willing to change their mindset.
As it is, Ghost/Quake are effectively nerfed anyways. Except with a real nerf we won't be locked out of using other miss/evade champions, and we'd get rankdown tickets to free up resources we invested in these champions.
I r3'd my Ghost at the start of summer, and haven't been able to use her for any meaningful content since. She's essentially banned in AW, and every piece of new difficult content. So I pretty much tossed that Tech T5CC out the window.
I get that it's frustrating that true focus counters all miss/evade champs, but there are plenty of characters that don't rely on those mechanics. No one complains that mystic ward prevents you from using all your nullify champs.
mystic ward doesn’t stop the basic function of champions like true focus does. Doom still Doom cycles, Sorcerer still regens and armour breaks, Diablo still poisons, claire still applies her debuffs. But true focus stops a champion working at their core.
Mr negative can’t evade intercept or get more than 1 petrify or 10 degens, half of his damage gone, and more than that of his utility
Tigra can’t miss projectile attacks, a necessary to the champion allowing 0 block damage against those champions
Stryfe can’t build charges anywhere near as easily, making his ramp up even harder
Prof X will find it harder to build charges, especially in content like today’s challenge where you can’t block
Hood can’t refill his bullets, an absolute necessary of the champions kit
Secondly, mystic ward isn’t everywhere in new, hard content. Tell me, do you remember the last time mystic ward was prevalent? Can you name a path or a quest without even thinking? Maybe one or two fights, but if you ask someone to recall true focus they’ll easily be able to tell you when it’s caused them problems.
Every new piece of hard content/game mode since the gauntlet has had true focus, SoP, AW boss island and now the champ challenge. If it was just one, sure, you could overlook it and shrug it off.
But I’ve recently ranked up my Mr Negative and sig 200ed him. Then AW changes was announced, I had been looking forward to trying him on boss island for those mojo’s, sasquatches, dooms etc. Unfortunately true focus affects him so much it’s safer to bring a different option.
I went into every week of SoP hoping to use him, and while most weren’t suited to his kit, I think 5 of the fights had true focus? So couldn’t use him there either.
Now I planned to use him for the champ challenge, his evade mechanic is awesome for invade, no need to ever block. Plus his reduced combat power rate for opponents can keep you close to an enemy for close encounters. But no, I couldn’t use him here either.
Do you see why it’s frustrating for it to be everywhere that is challenging to use rank 3 champions? all because ghost and quake need to be countered.
Why you even release the champs with miss and evade mechanic when we can't use them.
Better make a seperate tag for Quake and Ghost and leave other champs in peace.
Still it's a matter of time when we see other champs dominating the meta and then they will try to nerf them.
It's just ridiculous to see these type of changes.
And if you are going to same route,provide people rank down resources they invested in those champs.
If this keeps going to the same trajectory, I think there should be some rank down tickets.
We only know how to play the hardest champs in the game 🤦♂️
them to paste this node in every new game mode.