Karma Changes 8.14 Counterproductive As Always
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What are these changes going to accomplish until the next 4 months?
- The splash damage to Q was never an issue.
- The blast explosion on Mantra Q is still horrible mid to late game, is blocked by minions, and is unreliable.
- Great, more incentive to use shields at a lower mana cost.
What should have been done in the meantime so Karma can get her large scale rework, which should be classified as a large scale rework at this point:
- Shift some of her early game power more towards mid to late game. Make Karma more of a presence mid to lategame.
- At least make Mantra Q ground targeted and not blocked by minions.
- Stop working on Karma's shields and work on other parts of her kit that matters. Buffing the strength of shields has not worked. Lowering the cooldown on shields has not worked. Nerfing the mana useage of Karma's shields will not work. Removing Shield Bomb was a mistake and never should have been removed by Ricklessabandon.
- Make Mantra W to fit a mage more and not a tank. She is abusing it now and there are ways to make it benefit a mage more.
These changes to Karma are not addressing problems with Karma . . . if even in the meantime. You are just making her early game more annoying to play against and you are yet again working on something involving her shields. Stop with the shields already and work on what actually matters. Players do not like playing against Karma early game because she is too powerful, but at the same time Karma mains don't like how all of her power is funnedled into early game and some of her only damage moves are blocked by minions. Mantra Q in general could be 10x better than what we have right now but making it ground targeted and not blocked by minions would solve the problem in general.
Yet again, Ricklessabandon not working on what matters and not listening to Karma mains. You didn't listen years ago when you got backlash from the Karma community for removing Shield Bomb. Here we are again still upset with your work ethic and not listening. These changes are not going to make her better to play as and against.
