Rune Pages Are Too Expensive

Bopbants·Mar 12, 2019·3 votes·2,212 views

Runes play a huge role in how a LoL. The fact of the matter is that there is way too many champions with so many different interactions with runes. Rune pages, or extra ones, are for CONVENIENCE sake. No one, should have to be essentially be forced to fork over money for a QoL improvement that would seem so small but is actually so impactful! Such a change could help those who fill tremendously!

And don't even think about defending this awful monetization, this is greed in it's purest form.

8 Comments

MíelláMar 12, 20191 votes

I just use 1 rune page although I've got 15

xDogMeatxMar 12, 20191 votes

i use 3. the 6300 per page Blue essence absurdity is to help with piling blue essence users.

SuicidePlankMar 12, 20191 votes

I just use one, gets me ready for the start making new runes and checking what I've got. Would just be lazy to have several ones I can just swap to.

ValyrianBladeMar 12, 20191 votes

I have 10 rune pages, all of which were bought when you couldn't edit your runes during champion select. They weren't for convenience then, they were an advantage.

When the switch came out and BE was partially refunded for purchased runes and rune pages, I lost a net of about 30K Blue Essence in invested value (I believe the partial refund was about 50% and I got about 30K Blue Essence back). The runes are all gone, but the 8 extra rune pages are what I have to show for it.

I got a small advantage for about 2 seasons, and it cost me 30K Blue Essence. Now I get a convenience.

I think it would be a bit of a low-blow to now devalue that convenience as well. Especially with role-select now, where you can queue for 1 of 2 roles. Fill out the two pages you have for the two roles you will queue for and the champion you feel like playing in each of those roles that match before you queue up. Then only in cases where you got filled or your pick was picked/banned would you need to change (and if you're counter-picking or flexing your champion pick, then even with more rune pages you would still end up editing them in champion select).

Frosted TipsMar 13, 20191 votes

You should be changeling your runes almost everygame or atleast looking at them. Also you lucky soul that didnt have to use the old rune system. Back in the day it cost 4 full priced champions to buy the runes for a single rune page. That is 25200 IP which is now called BE.

QuephaMar 13, 20191 votes

It's better than the old system but it still sucks. Seems like 5 (one for each main tree) would be a better baseline number.

MrFawknSunshineMar 13, 20191 votes

you really can get by with just 2 now that the runes have changed and the fact you can change them every champ select.

hrooza dota Mar 13, 20191 votes

just learn to change in champ select i do it everygame in blind, and you can do it if you have plans on what you wanna play pre game as will.

anyway someone can argue the same about champions and frankly i prefer paying champions over more pages even tho i would play some of those 1 in a blue moon.