Focus System (Fix made easy)

[Gahrzerkire]

All focus trees come with an ability you get every minute. 

The ability doesnt activate passives, you just have the passives. (You can just stand at spawn until you get off cooldown. Ive done this. there is no reason for the passives to not be passive 100% of the time specially in extended duration hour long missions, that 5 minutes didnt balance anything)

You have two focus trees your ability tree, and your passives tree.

Your ability tree is smaller and you design it so that you can only access 1-1.5 branches at a time, all abilities / passives in this tree change the usage of the main ability. At the end of each focus line in this tree you get an "ultimate" which inherently changes how your focus ability functions in a drastic way making it significantly more powerful. Yes even with an ultimate it has a flat one minute cool down. (but it makes it so powerful!: yes however you can only have one ultimate node unlocked at a time due to having the pool that limits you to a specific number of nodes, exact same system as before, but the cap isn't the entire tree, its part of it.)

The second ability tree is the passives tree, these are passives that will are activated when you have the tree unlocked, and that is that. done. Make it just like the above tree, so you can only have 1-1.5 passive tree lines at one time, and cant use the whole tree at once. 

You still have to unlock the entire tree with focus to be able to quickly swap from focus build to focus build, and you design the passive tree so that the ultimates at the end can be used in place of mods ASSURING value. (and good mods, not freaking "you can now see through walls" that is so useful, its not like animal instinct does that for me.) 

Either way, my two cents on the focus system, and why its utter junk right now, excluding a few passive abilties and thats it. (yes DE no one cares about abilities you get for 20 seconds after a 12 year cool down, a one minute cool down is manageable and worth it, you get tangible benefits, in combat, 5 minutes, is a long time.)




 

Edited February 16, 2017 by Gear-hart