Locked Focus vs Unlocked Focus

In QA I noticed that I am chewing through focus like crazy.

I use a hybrid deck - 6 unlocked, 4 locked. One of my locked glyphs is Healing Touch. This one locked glyph uses 36 focus to cast. The unlocked glyph uses only 8 focus.

One of my locked glyphs is Dodge. It uses 19 focus. The unlocked glyph uses only 4 focus.

I haven't tested every glyph, but at least for those two glyphs, there seems to be a huge focus penalty locked vs unlocked. This is just using each type glyph once. This is not using the locked glyph multiple times.

Is this focus penalty for locked glyphs expected and by design?

 

I did some testing in live and the glyphs use the same amount of focus whether locked or unlocked:

Healing Touch - 8 focus
Dodge - 4 focus

So again I am wondering if there is a focus penalty for locked glyphs heading down the pike?

 

Hmm... i just checked and my Healing Touch (lvl 95) tool-tip reads 14 focus but it costs 17 focus on the first use. Dodge reads 4 focus but costs 5 on the first use.

After more investigation, I discovered that all the locked skills cost second-use focus amount on the first use.

[edit] Made this but report.

 

I've tested this repeatedly and in all cases I jump from 8 focus unlocked to 36 focus locked on Healing Touch the *first* time around.

I jump from 4 focus Dodge to 19 focus.

On both that's more than quadruple the focus.

 

I'll bet it adds as many icons as you have added into your deck to the focus cost. It has to be a bug.

 

I agree - it has to be a bug. I made a video, but the bars are so small it's nearly impossible to see the difference in focus drain.

 

I agree, I created a fixed test deck on QA and I burned all my focus on one mob, even trying to keep the heat down. That is compared to almost being able to farm endlessly now in R41.

 

I hope *the powers-that-be* pay attention here and to Barugon's bug post because right now the focus penalty on the locked glyphs is goofy...lol.

 

@Chris