“Boss” (and “Tower”) is a troop type, which spells/traits can react to. There isn’t anything similar for Journey, you get to fight random teams, which can’t really be coded into spells/traits (other than “If they are not a Hero, deal 3x - 5x damage, based on my Ascensions”, which isn’t going to fly).
The quick and dirty solution would be to give the Journey Captain a significantly larger magic multiplier within Journey events. It’s currently x2, same as for Raid Boss and Invasion, it should be x10 to make up for the missing inherent spell damage multiplier that Godslayer and Siegebreaker get. This shouldn’t require any coding effort, just changing a configuration value (provided that whoever designed and implemented this wasn’t entirely unqualified for the job).
Is it though? Because the game can tell when you put a pathfinder in a journey that isn’t their own - why would it just not be a token to say “Oh, I’m in PVP, this skill doesn’t get the bonus”?
It’s not “the game” as such that can tell. Think of each type of event as an entirely separate game that just shares the same look and feel, it gets launched whenever you play an event. The Journey game knows about Journey Captains and the effect of Pathfinder traits on its scoring rules, because that’s hard-coded into the Journey game. All the other games (like PvP, Dungeon, Underspire, Delve, …) don’t know about this, and definitely won’t ever want to know about this.
PvP just got reworked last year. As much as has been communicated about their development cycles, any features that require changes to PvP coding will at earliest get considered in 2027.
I never liked the Journey, not even with the old pathfinders, way too many casts on higher lvl fights before it was done.
I was 100% with the change that made it possible to play a different weekly event every week instead of having world event every week. BUT as the game keeps changing so does my preferences.
How about we just forget about Journey and add World Event to replace it?
The reason I got tired of WE was that I didn’t much care about medals, back then the kingdom power levels seemed too impossible for me.
Now that we finally get those books of deeds I’d love to get more of those medals.
Long story short, no more Journey, I’m tired of guildies being tired of it.