@RiotKateyKhaos

Krys Star·May 22, 2016·3 votes·1,885 views

Hello love!

I was playing a bit of URF this weekend, and I noticed that Ionian Boots of Lucidity no longer reduces summoners' cooldown as it used to previously last time. Just thought I'd share this for next time URF mode goes live. :) I used to buy this frequently, along with the Distortion enchantment (which is removed now sadface), so it definitely worked before! But now it no longer does its intended effect. ><

Also, this isn't really a bug but urf doesn't feel like urf with the death timers still being long around 20m. I remember Rioters mentioned this being players' main frustration with urf mode. Will this be resolved next urf mode, so it feels more ultra rapid?

6 Comments

RiotmoonstonesMay 23, 20163 votes

Hey there! Long time not talk! :P

Lemme poke some friends who work on the rotating game modes and see what may or may not be intended. :)

Krys StarMay 24, 20163 votes

Thanks, that'd be great!

RiotRiot StephirothMay 27, 20162 votes

Hello Frozen Sovereign!

Base Lucidity Boots never actually reduced the cooldown of these spells (minus one pretty egregious bug that we had on PBE... which was really OP... soo...)

Distortion Boot enchantment also was not meant to change the cooldowns of these spells on URF. So if this was working before, it was a bug :) We think that having these spells (that are already on such a very low cooldown), at an even lower cooldown causes some weird game mechanics that we think are unhealthy for the mode overall.

On the other note regarding Death Timers; Death Timers have been greatly reduced since the initial pre-season change. The first run of URF mode this year was run with the longer version of those Death Timers. However, since they have been reduced, we have seen less bad sentiment overall regarding URF Death Timers. We do still playtest internally though, and have discussions about what types of balance changes we should make, so there may be changes in the future but not now.

And as a last note, there were some bug fixes that we did for the latest round that helped make the game feel a little more rapid-firey. We had some bugs where gold generation slowed down to normal levels, which caused a lot of weird issues around game length and snowballing.

Hopefully this answers your question!

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