In fact, Rekindler could make a good canary in the coal mine for detecting troublesome Champions in general.
This is a pretty shocking suggestion. Leaving a card in the game as a "canary in the coal mine" is a disastrous way to design a game. This design philosophy basically means that every time the balance team screws up in a way that interacts with that card (in this example, makes a broken Champion), the resulting problematic metagame is worse than it needs to be.
If this were Hearthstone, I'd be inclined to agree, because those guys have no qualms about letting a bad meta fester for months at a time.
But Riot is committed to biweekly patches, so by the time a broken card surfaces and becomes truly oppressive, it's probably only another week at most before it's corrected.
But they mentioned a balance patch is something they will do monthly.. the second patch of the month is a content/light patch, They could for sure put a nerf if it's pressing enough but it wasn't for them last patch so I think they will wait until 2 weeks from now.. We are expected to see QoL,skins and bugfixes this Tuesday, and no balance changes.
There is ONE card that benefits from a highlander build and it's Purrsuit of Perfection.
(you can run 3 copies of that..) but why would you ruin your deck for it.. you could also play heimer/karma and be able to fulfill the requirement eventually.
They saw the year of the dragon packs did sale that's why they do this experiment.. but I think they should make classic packs of specific classes and give it to new accounts.. hope it indicates about that direction.. that's what gwent and LoR are doing..
Galio is not the biggest champion in league, Malphite, Cho'gath and Zac are equally big, Malphite is much bigger in lore he is a mountain..
And Aurelion Sol passes through the galaxy I doubt he is that small actually..
A few points:
1.I don't like the art on the level up it's too bright.
2. a champion levels up when it's played and never does in hand so the level up extra text doesn't make much sense.. it only works from the second copy onward.
3. the +5/+5 is not something any other champion does.. the level up different shouldn't be that drastic, most champions go by max 2 stats from their none level up.
About the spell it's probably really useless, reminds me of Rebuke but worse.
Don't put your hopes up it's Activison Blizzard we are talking about it will look good on paper but in the long run they will take more money from us if we want to continue playing.
Hey dude. Believe me or not but ATVI-Blizzard is changing. They've been kinda scared from past community issues about HK and MTX.
I expect some big news this week, something that will change the way we see Activision forever: -Probably today, they will announce a F2P Battle Royale Game called "WARZONE" -Thursday, New Year Announcement will introduce some substantial change to HS economy, aiming to improve the F2P Experience.
That's enough to think that they are shifting their business-set. And probably it's just the beginning...
How do you know that?
W3:refunded and HK case are really stuff that showed the true face of Blizzard
also VARIOUS bugs that went live like adventure card rewards in arena and adventure cards in random effects...
As well as Runettera showing that.. yes you can make the economy F2P, and be enjoyable..
in HS it's just.. you can't experiment at all... that really turned me down.. I am only doing quest to keep up with the game RN..
Don't put your hopes up it's Activison Blizzard we are talking about it will look good on paper but in the long run they will take more money from us if we want to continue playing.
How you play around a 7/6 elusive on turn 3? Or a 6/6 fiora? Landing stand alone on a key unit on turn 3 is normally game over. Unless you specifically have purify or will of Ionia.
I really like the world building around champions in this game, I mean in league you got the champion.. and that's it you don't really feel like they have so much influence themselves.. but runettera give them allies they work with and organizations they belong to, looking forward to more champions to have interesting followers! can easily see police enforcers for vi or thugs for urgot..
merfolk for nami or pirate crew for gangplank..
also I really like the design for the crimson crew it fits them to be emo/punk.
No.. Keep it in standard but as a reward, don't want to open him in packs.. Just give him for free to everyone (and give 1600/3200 dust to people who own the card).
I don't like it, it will clutter your collection, also 1000 times is a lot of times..
Would rather have achievements with real rewards, have no interest in full arts, specially since you can view them online.
You still get 100 gold for completing the classic set lol.
The collection manager currently needs some kind of overhaul IMO. Like I shouldn't be seeing a regular and golden copy of a card, it'd be nice if they were on the same screen when you clicked the card. Also if you wanted, you could disenchant the "Vanilla" version of the cards once you've earned the full art versions.
The numbers can be played with, I just threw those out there as an example. But I do feel that these should not be easy to obtain, these are free after all.
We need achievements, period. Viewing full art in card form has its' appeal to certain people, if you don't find it interesting that's fine.
It's be nice to earn some sort of reward if you completed card sets as well.
You know what I think the achievements don't need to be tied to playing that card but in general(like draw X cards in priest to get the northshire) and then you could get alternate art which is quite more interesting.. and gold/packs to go with them (with the achievements). I know I wouldn't appreciate this kind of reward much but I think I sounded quite mean.. your ideas are great, I like reading it but we will see what blizzard actually does this year in a few days.. there won't be systematic changes until next year..
But they mentioned a balance patch is something they will do monthly.. the second patch of the month is a content/light patch, They could for sure put a nerf if it's pressing enough but it wasn't for them last patch so I think they will wait until 2 weeks from now.. We are expected to see QoL,skins and bugfixes this Tuesday, and no balance changes.
Why wear armor when the boss one shots you anyway?
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I just wonder how did he not get hit when they nerfed elusives, wonder what's the actual win rate of decks containing 3 hecarims.
Don't you guys think the card is a bit overtuned?
How would you nerf him? or maybe nerf the rekindlererBADCARDNAME probably The Harrowing as well.
I mean dealing with a Hecarim is hard but manageable the problem is the next 2 Hecarims that come Back to Back turn after turn..
For me.. I had 2 copies and crafted the third one today.. it feels so unfair to play the card or against it.
How would you nerf him? 7 mana? remove overwhelm(only shadow isles with this keyword IIRC)? nerf riders?
Maybe you think he doesn't deserve nerfing and it's ok every second deck is shadow isles.
There is ONE card that benefits from a highlander build and it's Purrsuit of Perfection.
(you can run 3 copies of that..) but why would you ruin your deck for it.. you could also play heimer/karma and be able to fulfill the requirement eventually.
Shame on you blizzard, another buggy as hell patch.. As usual..
The mage bundle is not only expensive, but misleading as well...
They saw the year of the dragon packs did sale that's why they do this experiment.. but I think they should make classic packs of specific classes and give it to new accounts.. hope it indicates about that direction.. that's what gwent and LoR are doing..
Finally making class specific packs- good.
Selling it at a ridiculous price - bad.
Seems like those types of packs will be paying only.. which is kinda sad.. I mean... they sell it at the normal price anyway.. and why only mage?
Just curious how goes everyone's region progress so far for everyone has anyone on the forums already done with the region rewards?
Mine:
Demacia- 16
Freljord- 12
Ionia - 11
Noxus- 16
P&Z - 11
Shadow Isles - 11
Galio is not the biggest champion in league, Malphite, Cho'gath and Zac are equally big, Malphite is much bigger in lore he is a mountain..
And Aurelion Sol passes through the galaxy I doubt he is that small actually..
A few points:
1.I don't like the art on the level up it's too bright.
2. a champion levels up when it's played and never does in hand so the level up extra text doesn't make much sense.. it only works from the second copy onward.
3. the +5/+5 is not something any other champion does.. the level up different shouldn't be that drastic, most champions go by max 2 stats from their none level up.
About the spell it's probably really useless, reminds me of Rebuke but worse.
Sorry but, I didn't like the design of the card..
How do you know that?
W3:refunded and HK case are really stuff that showed the true face of Blizzard
also VARIOUS bugs that went live like adventure card rewards in arena and adventure cards in random effects...
As well as Runettera showing that.. yes you can make the economy F2P, and be enjoyable..
in HS it's just.. you can't experiment at all... that really turned me down.. I am only doing quest to keep up with the game RN..
Yeah I know that, it's so frustrating to face such combo you can't really do much on most cases if it lands on a Fiora
Baited arrow saw enough play.. And also the 5/3 pirate in hooktusk decks.. Wouldn't call it a fail
. Oondasta too.. The problem is when you need to overkill with a slow card otherwise it's OK.
Don't put your hopes up it's Activison Blizzard we are talking about it will look good on paper but in the long run they will take more money from us if we want to continue playing.
How you play around a 7/6 elusive on turn 3? Or a 6/6 fiora? Landing stand alone on a key unit on turn 3 is normally game over. Unless you specifically have purify or will of Ionia.
I really like the world building around champions in this game, I mean in league you got the champion.. and that's it you don't really feel like they have so much influence themselves.. but runettera give them allies they work with and organizations they belong to, looking forward to more champions to have interesting followers! can easily see police enforcers for vi or thugs for urgot..
merfolk for nami or pirate crew for gangplank..
also I really like the design for the crimson crew it fits them to be emo/punk.
Stand Alone is such a [powerful card, specially on elusives,Rivershaper or Fiora..
you get a burst permanent +3/+3 for 3 mana, and it's VERY hard to play around the card..
No.. Keep it in standard but as a reward, don't want to open him in packs.. Just give him for free to everyone (and give 1600/3200 dust to people who own the card).
You know what I think the achievements don't need to be tied to playing that card but in general(like draw X cards in priest to get the northshire) and then you could get alternate art which is quite more interesting.. and gold/packs to go with them (with the achievements). I know I wouldn't appreciate this kind of reward much but I think I sounded quite mean.. your ideas are great, I like reading it but we will see what blizzard actually does this year in a few days.. there won't be systematic changes until next year..
"It would confuse new players" - Blizzard's excuse for everything.