Focus drain since 52....

Discussion in 'Skills and Combat' started by scorn, Mar 31, 2018.

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  1. Cora Cuz'avich

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    I'll get to it when I get home tonight, if nobody else has.
     
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    I'm not aware of any changes to focus use at all for this release. I just looked at an old client in offline compared to the new client and I didn't see any listed difference in skills. If there is an increase in focus cost, it is not clear where it is coming from.
     
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    Hm. I really wish I'd paid attention to what costs were before. But then, since I wasn't ever really running out except in really long boss fights, I never had much reason to.
     
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    Well, technically if you weren't having to think about focus at all in long fights then THAT is the bug! Seriously though, only changes I'm aware of over in R50 and R51 were the increases to focus for AE spells.
     
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    No no no! I absolutely had to think about it in long fights! It's just that since I'm not strong enough yet to engage in them regularly, it didn't come up that often.
     
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    I'm not having any focus issues, but I didn't really have them before, either. However, I typically fully charge (offensive) skills when I use them.
     
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    As a Tamer I can say there is 100% a focus problem. :D
     
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    Hey thank you all for replying, I wish I had something to compare it to, I have since worked around it was just trying to see if there was an increase or not, btw I use archery, use food dragon soup and obsidian wolf and get devotion for 1.5 reg, and thank everyone for replaying fist time I had to respond since I posted it
     
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    And you can use 2 foods at a time and have 2 devotionals active at a time as just an FYI;)
     
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    No not aoe archery doesn't have but 1 or so so no aoe, ill have to look at how much its taking when I do that ill post on here
     
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    well 4 if you get the new ones as well ; P
     
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    I lose focus with the same build more so now than in prior releases. However I have come to the conclusion that for me at least the cause is the "leashing" going on with the mobs. I used to be able to position myself high, or behind mobs I was addressing but now it is almost impossible to get position (especially against siege engineers). Some of these mobs keep running straight towards you and through you to stop way behind over and over. The focus loss comes from less critical hits in my case so I use many more hits than what was normal before.
     
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    Not usually. I'll have some buffs up (Air's Embrace, Celestial Blessing if there's mages) but otherwise it's just Rapid Fire, Aimed Shot (both unstacked, but that's how I've always done it, so that shouldn't make a difference) and the occasional Dodge or Flurry.
     
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    Did you recently lock any glyphs in your deck?
     
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    Nope, same deck I've been using for a while now.

    I haven't played in a few days, though. I'm sure there are several new patches. Plus, I can't discount the possibility that it's all in my head. I don't think it is, but without any hard numbers to compare I can never be sure.
     
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    What is with the long updatetime for the focusbar?
     
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    If you're referring to the fact that it no longer increases every second, it was a change from a few releases ago. Focus and health increasing per second was taxing on the servers, so to reduce lag, it changed to updating every five seconds, but five times as much. So you still get the same amount of focus/health regen per second.

    If you're referring to running out of focus more quickly than you were previously, we're trying to figure out if that's a thing.
     
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    You regenerate focus and health every 5 seconds.
     
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    Yes and it might be helpful to those who are stating they are running out of focus to say what they are doing to help their focus. Because bare focus with no help is one thing and focus enhanced by using buffs, potions, etc is another number. lol hope that made sense ;)
     
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