Talk:Focus/@comment-71.158.175.65-20160317215756

This was supposed to be a way to make end-game interesting...but instead it's just become an endless source of frustration. Unless they delibrately choose to farm for it, no one hits their daily focus cap. No one wants to farm for it, because Draco is boring and the abilities are largely lackluster. Almost all of the abilities that are interesting are simply the base abilities, with no real need for additional investment, or passives.

Madurai is one of these. Normal Phoenix Gaze is generally good enough to take down almost anything every few minutes, and the passives increase your damage output, but ONLY if you're using ISP.

Vazarin's base ability is easily outclassed by the many healing Warframe abilites that don't have a massive cooldown, although the instant revives and damage reflection aren't awful.

Naramon is just "Chaos in a can" that, while useful, again can't be used often enough to compete with an actual Nyx. However, the melee passives can turn weapons like Dual Ichor and Dual Cleavers into absurd slaughterfests.

Unairu is fairly universally considered a joke, being Atlas's Stone Gaze that can only be used once every few minutes. Turning enemies to stone isn't awful, but it's basically a worse version of Zenurik. Some of the passives have limited usage, but against anything but the Grineer they're virtually useless.

Zenurik's incapacitation can be useful, but again, it can't be used frequently enough to be any sort of reliable. The passives are good on frames that don't channel very much, and Umbra Lance can be used as a bit of a discount Phoenix Gaze, but any other uses are very niche.

The biggest problem with Focus abilities is that they have such absurdly long cooldowns, especially with heavy investment, that they're basically a panic button that you have to charge for ages in between uses. Often, if you've had enough time to invest heavily, then you already have the ability to clear a mission before your Focus ability is even done charging, and at that point, what's the use of it? The only time these get used are high level endless missions, and at that point, half of them fall off in effectiveness.