Will Top Lane see changes for Rift Herald?
Top Lane has always been the lonely island, distanced from everyone else; and it seems like the addition of Rift Herald only barely helped Junglers make up their mind about priorities. Botlane double kill and a free drake is still too tempting and gamechanging as it is right now, making the whole duo lane insanely frustrating and oppressive when there is a consistent 4 v 2 - 4 v 4 battle going on there.
In my opinion at least, Herald failed to live up to the expectation. I think it would be way cooler if Herald would respawn every 3 minutes in the game and provide the whole team with minor buffs like drake does. That would give Junglers an actual reason to hang around top lane and not just bot lane all the time like they currently are.
For example, slaying Herald once grants your team +4% damage reduction and he respawns every 3 minutes after being slain, so if you're persistent and successful you can get up to 20% damage reduction before Baron Nashor spawns. That means for a team to get the full damage reduction up, they'd have to pay a lot of attention to Herald.
Now some of you may think that's overpowered, and maybe it really is, but the current Herald buff doesn't exactly do what people expected of it. It doesn't appeal to Junglers as much because it's a top lane only buff that really just helps out the top lane and nobody else. It's also a one time event, so once Herald is down the Jungler has no reason to stay up there when he could camp bot lane for a consistently respawning drake instead.