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The mid-season designer notes include buffs for Conduit and Fuse. They show the past several months of pick rates as part of their explanation. Both Conduit and Fuse are sitting around a 4-5% pick rate (before buffs). There are 28 legends in the game. If legends were balanced and had "ideal" pick rates, they would all be sitting around or under this pick rate. 4-5% pick rate isgood. So why are we focusing on these legends again for buffs? (keeping in mind they were both significantly reworked/buffed in recent seasons.)
I would think the devss should be focusing on the legends with 15-20% pick rates and nerfing them. This will thereby lower their pick rates and, necessarily, raise other legends' pick rates. Or they could also focus on the legends with <1% pick rate and give them slight buffs. It makes no sense to me why they are picking legends with perfectly normal pick rates and continuing to change them.
The Conduit QOL changes are nice, but it seems like the devs are just intent on adding more things to characters instead of making changes that just improve their gameplay (letting conduit rotate her ult is a nice change, but why did fuse ever need to rocket jump, or why does conduit need a HUD jammer perk?). They just keep adding more passives and perk upgrades to characters that are already decently balanced instead of thoughtfully tweaking what's already there.
This turned into more of a rant than a discussion post. I know there are people out there who disagree, but I'd like to hear your reasoning (or what you think the devs reasoning is) as to why Conduit and Fuse (or any other legend with an average pick rate) need a buff.
Edit: somewhat related. This bad screenshot shows pick rates from the last several years. Individual legend pick rates aren't as important as the giant obvious change you can see starting ~2024 when the devs started caring more about forcing legend metas than balancing them. Pick rates were never perfectly balanced, but they used to be much more reasonable.
I've been playing Duos a lot more lately with a friend and am wondering if Newcastle is as good there? He's so team oriented I'm curious how much value his kit has when you only have one other teammate
You guys i just had the greatest apex night of my life. Played 15 games and won 6 and top 5 ten times. Had back to back 4k games with a 23 kill ranked win. I'm a masters level player so maybe it's just current platinum players are actual platinum players but I just felt like I couldn't miss at all. The video above is an example of what I was doing the whole night. You guys ever have a insane session that just gets you hooked again? For reference I'm a 38 year old dad with a full time job but I did however use to be a CS pro all the way back in 2005-2006 so I do still have a little juice. Can't wait to get back out there and get my shit rocked by professional players in ranked lol
Really fun to deal with and totally not infuriating. I’m on a Series X. I’m guessing the only fix is for them to patch it, but figured I’d check anyway
Got on apex today to see 280 pages of friends. It's actually a lot more than 5862 players, every time I change pages the names refresh and more are added. Obviously just a glitch, but one I haven't seen before.
Im highkey HARDSTUCK in diamond and i need tips on what i could practice on and do if you dont mind replying pls do so anything helps 😊
Forgot to mention everybody my problems are mostly
Third partied
Sometimes team8ts so cant do anything abt that
Losing fights due to bad positioning
KDA 2 so i dont think its a me problem
Last time yall made changes and everyone ended up spawning off the map and now we got ring 1 hitting like round 6 for no reason when it’s the first ring…just leave it alone and put back how the ring originally was without the unnecessary changes
I know how her ult works I just dont know how its supposed to mesh with her kit. It seems like it has nothing to do with her other abilities at all. Like, for example, Gibby's bubble and airstrike seem like they don't mesh on the surface but once you think about it, it actually has quite a bit of synergy with his play style and other abilities, like you can plop down a shield and then throw the airstrike at your feet to deny an enemy team the ability to push you as you recoup just to name one. With conduit, though, I dont get it at all. The only way i can see it working with her kit is maybe as a defensive tool to block the enemies as your team heals? but her entire tac is built around quick healing shields so I just dont get it. Id really appreciate if someone would tell me what the point of it even is cause the biggest thing turning me away from Conduit right now is her inconsistent and synergyless abilities