New Honor Season Rewards are Terrible

DeadUnborn··5 votes·1,736 views

As long as you play daily you will run out of chests, so the extra key fragments are useless, Flooding me with BE that I already gain from playing the game doesn't feel good either. There is also a reason no one buys ward skins/emotes.. people don't care about them.

Now before you call me an ungrateful freeloader, I personally don't care whether Riot gives me free rewards or not. I want the rewards to be good so players are encouraged to be nicer, these rewards suck, sorry. No one is going to actively bother to become nicer to get an emote and some blue essence; the only good rewards are the limited skins, and I seriously suspect only a small fraction of the player base will care about them. I think Riot has missed the point of what the honor system is supposed to accomplish. By having the honor end game so drawn out, people that need the system to be nicer will give up and not care for it.

Here are the rewards in case you haven't seen them:

Level 1

  • LEVEL UP 1 Key

Level 2

  • LEVEL UP 1 Key

  • CHECKPOINT 2 Key fragments

Level 3

  • LEVEL UP Level 3 Capsule containing 3 Key fragments, a ward skin, and 300 Blue Essence or a higher value Champion Shard

  • CHECKPOINT Level 3 Orb containing 2 Key fragments and 150 Blue Essence or a higher value Champion Shard

Level 4

  • LEVEL UP Level 4 Capsule containing 4 Key fragments, an emote, and 630 Blue Essence or a higher value Champion Shard

  • CHECKPOINT Level 4 Orb containing 2 Key fragments and 200 Blue Essence or a higher value Champion Shard

Level 5

  • LEVEL UP Level 5 Capsule containing 5 Key fragments, Grey Warwick or Medieval Twitch, and 960 Blue Essence or a higher value Champion Shard. If both skins are owned, you’re guaranteed an emote or ward skin instead.

  • CHECKPOINT Level 5 Orb containing 3 Key fragments and 250 Blue Essence or a higher value Champion Shard

10 Comments

xelaker1 votes

I was just sad to see ww and twitch skins both champs I don't play as a support...

DeadUnborn1 votes

maybe if they made one exclusive skin for each role and gave you the one you palyed the most of... I still think this is a miss. I am sure around 80% of the people the honor system is intended for wont care for the rewards. People that are toxic are either really good at which point the extra keys won't help them, or really inexperienced in which case they won't have any chests to open.

Keys is a terrible rewards because the amount of chests you can get is capped.. there are just so many keys they can give you before they become useless

Cavesloth1 votes

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maybe if they made one exclusive skin for each role and gave you the one you palyed the most of... I still think this is a miss. I am sure around 80% of the people the honor system is intended for wont care for the rewards. People that are toxic are either really good at which point the extra keys won't help them, or really inexperienced in which case they won't have any chests to open.

Keys is a terrible rewards because the amount of chests you can get is capped.. there are just so many keys they can give you before they become useless

Only if you don't have enough champs to earn chests on. I've earned 57 so far this season, and I'm usually waiting for the damn key fragments to open them. (usually to be disappointed when its a champ shard or now frikin emotes or even better ICONS!)

ModWulf Helhammer1 votes

You misunderstand.

The honor system isn't supposed to be a "carrot on a stick" method, where people are motivated to be good as opposed to whatever it naturally is.

You are expected to act honorably and sportsmanlike at all times. That's the standard. The things you get from honor capsules are bonuses, not awards for being a certain amount of good.

In that aspect, the rewards fit.

DeadUnborn1 votes

you really think Riot would invest so much time developing a system just because people have to behave a certain way? Why not then just leave it at loot boxes like now and only use the honor system for penalizing rewards when on the negative side? The rewards are there to encourage people that otherwise wouldn't behave, to do so.

The way the honor system is set now is to encourage people to be consistently not toxic, whether it works or not is an entirely different discussion.

Cavesloth1 votes

Not to mention the big fuck you they gave us for being honorable last season if you didn't want the ugly Orange ward. Everyone and their dog told them, if you are LVL5 you should get all 3. They said ok we're working on it, don't go down in honor to get the color you want.... End of season comes, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah we're not gonna do that for you mkay? We'll do better next year. Honestly that was handled so damn poorly, and it all could have been prevented if just ONE of them had a brain, or ya know googled "Popular favorite colors" and realized that orange being someone's favorite color is about as likely being hit by a meteor.

Mysticman891 votes

They seem pretty much strictly better than the old honour rewards, which was the occasional capsule with extra fragments/champ shard/chance of grey ww or med twitch. There were those who reached 5 honour and only got maybe one honour capsule (since they tweaked the drop rate to be guaranteed after a point, but it also locked out out from getting further ones for awhile), which could have had 2 fragments and an annie shard or something of minimal value.

Now honourable players are necessarily going to get at least one of the honour exclusive skins, along with a half dozen or more champs shards, and some random emotes/ward skins. Even if the cosmetics don't appeal to you, it's still 'free' BE for doing nothing special (possible some OE too if the emotes/wards are DE-able instead of directly added).

And while chests/keys are in theory balanced for those who play enough to max out their fragment drops (and bother to grind random champs enough to earn their S chests), theres plenty of people out there who don't quite cap out on fragments and have slowly been accumulating chests (maybe they only play a couple games per day or less), so the bonus fragments can be nice in that regard too.

ThePromiser1 votes

So basically everyone will be stocked up with key frags and keys and since you only get capsules from level ups. There won't be any more skin shards and you'll have to spend more time playing to get that S- or higher just to get a chest. In the end, Riot'll be making more money in the long run (Also taking into account the limited amount of chests you'll be able to earn per season). Everyone'll be working their ass off in Season 8 and playing till or past bedtime just to get that S.

I guess there's some good in this since more people will be obligated to expand their champ pool. Thus, games' could get easier since those players won't be as proficient with the "newer" champs and the opposing players can get their S's with much less effort as opposed to the former using their main, or one of their main champs.

But I'm pretty sure what Riot had in mind was; More Playtime ='s More MOOCHA.

P.S. Arctic Ops Gragas is TOTALLY worth 1350 RP. [sg-miss-fortune]

ThePromiser1 votes

Forgot to add, I prefer this system over the coming one mainly because you get (If you're lucky xD) skin shards in those capsules. Tfw you finally get your capsule and open it to find an "ok." champion shard. item 3070 item 3070 item 3070 item 3070

Warios1 votes

From the number of posts I have read since the ingame currency change, I think you are a minority not wanting another method to gain BE.

Not everyone has all the champs, and just stockpiles BE waiting till the next time a BE store is offered with something that interests them.

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