Thanks a lot - this answers to several questions I had :)
A few more:
- is there a limit / expiration date for wildcards or can I collect as many I want and keep until I am ready to use?
- which champions do you think are the best (and the worst, in addition for Teemo)?
- will "vaults" expire ? (i.e. if I cannot connect on tuesday, can i open it later in the week?)
Thanks
- There is no limit or experiation date for wildcards as I know. You can collect and stack how much you want.
- In my opinion Zed is one of the best because fits so much decks and archetypes. Worst is Teemo right now probably. That being said Karma is one of the worse ones too because she needs late game to be efficient but She is my favorite so I won't call her bad. :)
- Probably you can, I don't think they will expire. We don't know because we didn't play that long before :)
The Open Beta begins in less than 10 hours for players who pre-registered and who played in previews so I wanted to write some advices here for who couldn't follow news and couldn't play in previews.
Firstly, here is the countdown if you want to check how much times left to release.
Don't forget it is open beta state - There might be more aggressive tweaks/nerfs/buffs on cards so be cautious to craft cards and be cautious to choose your starting Region.
Firstly, You will play tutorial and Prologue and game will give you these starter decks;
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If you want, you can build some decks with these cards but for some time before some rewards, They will be ok while you are learning the game's mechanics.
After your prologue, it probably chooses Noxus for your region. If you want to change it, you can change it in regions tab.
Choose your region according to what you like to play. I mean, The Archetypes. Don't choose it for its power in my opinion because there might be some aggressive tweaks in a month because it is beta. If you want to go for aggro, you may choose Noxus or Shadow Isles, If you like combo style more, try Ionia or Piltover&Zaun, there are some fancy combo opportunities in Shadow Isles and Demacia (Fiora)as well but the other two has more resources for it, If you like control you can choose Shadow Isles or Freljord, Midrange is best with Demacia but all of the regions have great Midrange canditates except Piltover&Zaun, and lastly if you want ramp style Freljord will be your choice.
Also try to get 8 level in every region instead of focusing only one. There are Champion Capsules as a reward at 8th level for every region. It will also help you to collect some rares and commons of every region and you might build more efficient decks.
After you choose your region to start, it is time to play !
Weekly Vaults will be your main source to collect cards with your regional rewards and it will give you Expedition token if you reach 10+ level. With Open Beta, There will be also a free Expedition token at start. Don't forget to play your Expeditions with your token because up to 3 Expedition runs, you will get 1x Champion wildcard. Weekly, it will give you 3x Champion Wildcards if you play all. There will be no rewards unfortunately if you play your 4+ Expedition run.
Weekly Vaults will be reset at Tuesdays so play as much as you can until tuesday to be able to open at least level 10 Vault. Maximum Vault level is 13 but doing just daily quests will give you 10 level Vault according to what Riot said us.
You will be given experience points also for your losses until 20 lose and wins will give you experience until 30 wins. If you reach the cap, Play some AI games because AI games will also give you experience points and their experience points are seperated from versus player experience points. I really liked this because it makes us more happy to try some of our shitty decks on AI and we will get rewarded to doing so!
It will be like;
PvP - 30 wins - 20 Losses
PvAI - 20 wins - 10 losses
There will be no experience points after this moment. Only extra experience poins different from these are Expedition run's bonus experience so;
I recommend you to play all(3) Expeditions until Tuesday to be able to collect champion cards. It will be also wiser even you don't like draft mode because it costs only 4000k Shards which Champion Wildcards is also same cost and it is guaranteed to get a champion card even you lose your drafts and Expedition runs will give you bonus experience points when you finish them.
If you will buy wildcards with coins, don't hurry to craft some champions. Wait for a bit, because;
1- You might regret after a while
2- You might get what you want from Capsules (i'm saying this but there is no-duplicate rule in Runeterra for Champion cards and Epic Cards. The reason I'm saying this, You might want to save those Wildcards for future.
3- If you can be patient for 4 months and you are planning to buy all of the wildcards as you can in next weeks, you can save 48 champion wildcards for next expansion and that means total of 16 x3 champion wildcards. You can craft whichever champion you want from next expansion ! You just need to be patient and play like a f2p player at start while you are stacking those wildcards. Be Patient !
And don't take it serious but don't craft Teemo at start !
No, I'm serious ! Don't do that !
I am saying this because almost all people are planning to play hyper/normal aggro at first day and all of Teemo decks are vulnerable against aggro sadly except Full Elusive deck without puffcap cards.
There will be also some account statistics with deck tracker if you open an account on Mobalytics. Noone tried the decktracker yet so noone knows how it will be but it is the only one I know.
For a compensation, I can say this; Versus AI and Versus Player experiences are seperated from each other so you can continue to your grind against AI too. :)
Also - and I apologize for calling this to the attention of active players, because if you're anything like me, it'll irk you to no end - while the Power value is centered on its orange gem, the Health value is slightly right of its red gem's center. Woopsie.
Well, You don't need to go mono for this effect, 30+ cards would be enough most times. Teemo + Kinkou Wayfinder is one example.
Also, Demacia's Allegiance guy is one of the best Allegiance in game. That card is just enough for mono Elite deck.
and Mistcaller might be good with new buff it gets.
But if you ask me, So much Allegiance cards might broke the game because their effects mostly will be so impactful. Consider there are too much Highlander cards in Hearthstone. That would be bad probably.
we don't know unfortunately but probably one month because Riot is planning to do monthly patches so it should be like "every season patches". It's my personal thought tho.
It should be replaced with 2x Back to Back and 1x of another card if you really want but it is better in Shadow Isles/Demacia decks in my opinion.
With Silent Shadowseer, Dawnspeakers probably would be cool in this deck but I don't think you can fill the board with Ionia/Demacia so much times so it can't buff minions so much times and well, you know Burst spells are better in most ways thanks to Spell Mana.
But Dawnspeakers are probably one of the best cards of the set but as i say above Shadow Isles is better target for it. I would use it in this deck than Ionia/Demacia one;
I always recommend new players (Which are new to CCG, We all are new to Runeterra after all) to level your regions up for at least 5 and jump to another.
Yes, you can change your regional rewards whenever you want and if i remember correct all of their level 4 reward is a Champion Wildcard, which it will help you complete a deck probably after you leveled 6 regions to 5.
You would collect lots of commons and rares too probably with this way. So, instead of following only one region to its best reward, cycle it.
Also, Region rewards are not limited as well. After you complete, it will still reward you so cycling seems best option for progressing.
Not a market spin because those random cards are obtainable only with in-game progression. All you can buy with real money are Wildcards which you can choose any card to craft and expeditions like arena of hearthstone and those expeditions are also giving 1 champion Wildcard.
You don't need those Jeweled Protectors. That card is just too slow for this kind of deck.Shadow Assassins are more useful and because you don't have draws.
I would change the deck completely like this if you want to go with Zed/Lucian;
Some guys were talking about they are playing it in their tablets with a program, on reddit so maybe it might possible with something in Mac too. Search reddit a bit. There was a thread about mac, i didn't read it because i never used Mac but maybe there might be more information there.
I was wondering when you can add a feature to check all of our Legends of Runeterra decks.
I mean, we can find them by searching them in decks but it will be so hard when people keep adding their decks to site.
I had tweaked my decks by searching them one by one with leaks but tomorrow official patch notes will be there and I will want to tweak them once more and add all of my decks from mobalytics.gg to here so that will be nice to have a tab as "My Runeterra Decks" in my profile.
I can guarantee that none of these cards will change in open beta unless they change them right now because I know almost all of the changes and none of the cards in this deck changed according to current leaks.
There is also a variant of swimstrim which has no Lucian in it. You can find it around web. That will be also a wise choice to start since game will give us 2x copies of Elise in starter decks after we played prologue.
Also choosing shadow isles as an aggro starter will give you an opportunity to play some control variants as well so I think best choice will be Shadow Isles for start.
But hey ! I'm a fan of Ionia so I will start with them simply because of Deny
- There is no limit or experiation date for wildcards as I know. You can collect and stack how much you want.
- In my opinion Zed is one of the best because fits so much decks and archetypes. Worst is Teemo right now probably. That being said Karma is one of the worse ones too because she needs late game to be efficient but She is my favorite so I won't call her bad. :)
- Probably you can, I don't think they will expire. We don't know because we didn't play that long before :)
Hello Guys !
The Open Beta begins in less than 10 hours for players who pre-registered and who played in previews so I wanted to write some advices here for who couldn't follow news and couldn't play in previews.
Firstly, here is the countdown if you want to check how much times left to release.
LoR Early Launch
First things first;
Don't forget it is open beta state - There might be more aggressive tweaks/nerfs/buffs on cards so be cautious to craft cards and be cautious to choose your starting Region.
Firstly, You will play tutorial and Prologue and game will give you these starter decks;
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If you want, you can build some decks with these cards but for some time before some rewards, They will be ok while you are learning the game's mechanics.
After your prologue, it probably chooses Noxus for your region. If you want to change it, you can change it in regions tab.
Choose your region according to what you like to play. I mean, The Archetypes. Don't choose it for its power in my opinion because there might be some aggressive tweaks in a month because it is beta. If you want to go for aggro, you may choose Noxus or Shadow Isles, If you like combo style more, try Ionia or Piltover&Zaun, there are some fancy combo opportunities in Shadow Isles and Demacia (Fiora)as well but the other two has more resources for it, If you like control you can choose Shadow Isles or Freljord, Midrange is best with Demacia but all of the regions have great Midrange canditates except Piltover&Zaun, and lastly if you want ramp style Freljord will be your choice.
Also try to get 8 level in every region instead of focusing only one. There are Champion Capsules as a reward at 8th level for every region. It will also help you to collect some rares and commons of every region and you might build more efficient decks.
After you choose your region to start, it is time to play !
Weekly Vaults will be your main source to collect cards with your regional rewards and it will give you Expedition token if you reach 10+ level. With Open Beta, There will be also a free Expedition token at start. Don't forget to play your Expeditions with your token because up to 3 Expedition runs, you will get 1x Champion wildcard. Weekly, it will give you 3x Champion Wildcards if you play all. There will be no rewards unfortunately if you play your 4+ Expedition run.
Weekly Vaults will be reset at Tuesdays so play as much as you can until tuesday to be able to open at least level 10 Vault. Maximum Vault level is 13 but doing just daily quests will give you 10 level Vault according to what Riot said us.
You will be given experience points also for your losses until 20 lose and wins will give you experience until 30 wins. If you reach the cap, Play some AI games because AI games will also give you experience points and their experience points are seperated from versus player experience points. I really liked this because it makes us more happy to try some of our shitty decks on AI and we will get rewarded to doing so!
It will be like;
PvP - 30 wins - 20 Losses
PvAI - 20 wins - 10 losses
There will be no experience points after this moment. Only extra experience poins different from these are Expedition run's bonus experience so;
I recommend you to play all(3) Expeditions until Tuesday to be able to collect champion cards. It will be also wiser even you don't like draft mode because it costs only 4000k Shards which Champion Wildcards is also same cost and it is guaranteed to get a champion card even you lose your drafts and Expedition runs will give you bonus experience points when you finish them.
If you will buy wildcards with coins, don't hurry to craft some champions. Wait for a bit, because;
1- You might regret after a while
2- You might get what you want from Capsules (i'm saying this but there is no-duplicate rule in Runeterra for Champion cards and Epic Cards. The reason I'm saying this, You might want to save those Wildcards for future.
3- If you can be patient for 4 months and you are planning to buy all of the wildcards as you can in next weeks, you can save 48 champion wildcards for next expansion and that means total of 16 x3 champion wildcards. You can craft whichever champion you want from next expansion ! You just need to be patient and play like a f2p player at start while you are stacking those wildcards. Be Patient !
And don't take it serious but don't craft Teemo at start !
No, I'm serious ! Don't do that !
I am saying this because almost all people are planning to play hyper/normal aggro at first day and all of Teemo decks are vulnerable against aggro sadly except Full Elusive deck without puffcap cards.
And last ! There is already a deck tracker here;
Deck Tracker
There will be also some account statistics with deck tracker if you open an account on Mobalytics. Noone tried the decktracker yet so noone knows how it will be but it is the only one I know.
Well, I've finished now. Don't forget to check Open Beta Patch Notes and Open Beta Economy Updates !
Also, if you have any other advices, feel free to share here.
Good luck on your run and See you in Runeterra in 10 hours !
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I'm f*****g blind !
For a compensation, I can say this; Versus AI and Versus Player experiences are seperated from each other so you can continue to your grind against AI too. :)
Source from a respnse of a Rioter
Omg, Why did you do this to me !
Well, You don't need to go mono for this effect, 30+ cards would be enough most times. Teemo + Kinkou Wayfinder is one example.
Also, Demacia's Allegiance guy is one of the best Allegiance in game. That card is just enough for mono Elite deck.
and Mistcaller might be good with new buff it gets.
But if you ask me, So much Allegiance cards might broke the game because their effects mostly will be so impactful. Consider there are too much Highlander cards in Hearthstone. That would be bad probably.
we don't know unfortunately but probably one month because Riot is planning to do monthly patches so it should be like "every season patches". It's my personal thought tho.
you can drag all "can't block" cards with challenge btw so this change doesn't change anything for that situation.
Well, Patch Notes came and the only card That I couldn't got the change is Vladimir which also triggers from also itself with new change.
I'm proud of myself. :D
Glimpse Beyond can no longer counterable by killing the target minion which means an indirect buff. It is only counterable with Deny now.
Bad for game I guess. It doesn't need any skills to use now. Just use it and draw cards, don't care if they can counter or not.
Well forget this, I've missed the "fizzle" part.
ah sorry for that. I woke-up yet and it's not my main language. It might be confusing sometimes. :D
Thanks for warning ! :)
It should be replaced with 2x Back to Back and 1x of another card if you really want but it is better in Shadow Isles/Demacia decks in my opinion.
With Silent Shadowseer, Dawnspeakers probably would be cool in this deck but I don't think you can fill the board with Ionia/Demacia so much times so it can't buff minions so much times and well, you know Burst spells are better in most ways thanks to Spell Mana.
But Dawnspeakers are probably one of the best cards of the set but as i say above Shadow Isles is better target for it. I would use it in this deck than Ionia/Demacia one;
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Allegiance's word occurs if the region of the top card of your deck is same with the card with Allegiance.
For Example;
Kinkou Wayfinder summons two 1-cost minion from your deck if the top card of your deck is from Ionia.
So, They should be in decks which has 30+ cards with same region.
I always recommend new players (Which are new to CCG, We all are new to Runeterra after all) to level your regions up for at least 5 and jump to another.
Yes, you can change your regional rewards whenever you want and if i remember correct all of their level 4 reward is a Champion Wildcard, which it will help you complete a deck probably after you leveled 6 regions to 5.
You would collect lots of commons and rares too probably with this way. So, instead of following only one region to its best reward, cycle it.
Also, Region rewards are not limited as well. After you complete, it will still reward you so cycling seems best option for progressing.
Yeah, nice feature to check current state of the board when you are confused.
Not a market spin because those random cards are obtainable only with in-game progression. All you can buy with real money are Wildcards which you can choose any card to craft and expeditions like arena of hearthstone and those expeditions are also giving 1 champion Wildcard.
So no, it is not a market spin.
I would replace 3x Sparring Student with 3x Greenglade Duo. This card is just so powerful with with Zed + great target for Dawn and Dusk.
You don't need those Jeweled Protectors. That card is just too slow for this kind of deck.Shadow Assassins are more useful and because you don't have draws.
I would change the deck completely like this if you want to go with Zed/Lucian;
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If you want you can change 2x Stand Alone with 2x Scaled Snapper .
I don't think handbuff from Jeweled Protector with Highwaymans will work with Lucian/Zed package tbh.
Great to hear !
Thanks for quick answer and interest !
Some guys were talking about they are playing it in their tablets with a program, on reddit so maybe it might possible with something in Mac too. Search reddit a bit. There was a thread about mac, i didn't read it because i never used Mac but maybe there might be more information there.
I was wondering when you can add a feature to check all of our Legends of Runeterra decks.
I mean, we can find them by searching them in decks but it will be so hard when people keep adding their decks to site.
I had tweaked my decks by searching them one by one with leaks but tomorrow official patch notes will be there and I will want to tweak them once more and add all of my decks from mobalytics.gg to here so that will be nice to have a tab as "My Runeterra Decks" in my profile.
Thanks. :)
Well, I wouldn't say noxus because of the hyper aggro/token part of Shadow Isles.. ehm.. Cursed Keeper.. ehm
I would suggest to give Elise-Dawnspeakers deck a go which I have a version in the site which I also tried and felt it being solid in previews.
https://outof.cards/legends-of-runeterra/decks/27-the-crawling-pursuit
I can guarantee that none of these cards will change in open beta unless they change them right now because I know almost all of the changes and none of the cards in this deck changed according to current leaks.
There is also a variant of swimstrim which has no Lucian in it. You can find it around web. That will be also a wise choice to start since game will give us 2x copies of Elise in starter decks after we played prologue.
Also choosing shadow isles as an aggro starter will give you an opportunity to play some control variants as well so I think best choice will be Shadow Isles for start.
But hey ! I'm a fan of Ionia so I will start with them simply because of Deny