Can we discuss dominion again, again?

Queen Scylla·1/13/2016, 6:30:12 AM·10 votes·1,091 views
Can we discuss dominion again?

I don't like big walls of text so I will try to keep this as to the point as I can.

About a year I ago, I posted this thread (on another account, I liked that name more lol) looking for feedback from players on why that do/don't like dominion and what might make people like it more, and for Riot to give us some kind of reminder that they know we exist care about us. Player response was good, but Riot response could have been better, especially since, to this day, there doesn't seem to have been any changes.

Noticing my missing ranked border (made sense, I stopped playing for a while), I remembered being asked what the dominion community would want as recognition or reward since we couldn't get ranked. Despite my break from the game, I checked patch notes for dominion updates, and didn't find any. Playing again, it seems the same.

We, the dominion community, were asked for ways to encourage growth, and what we wanted out of playing. Both had many responses, but neither have had any action toward them. Seeing as the dominion summoner's rift maps & modes sub-forum is gone, I am reposting here, once again hoping for discussion from players, and with Riot about what can be done to improve the experience for dominion fans, past, present, and hopefully future.

11 Comments

Insentience1/14/2016, 3:42:23 AM4 votes

Riot's being dumbinion with dominion

Queen Scylla1/13/2016, 10:43:59 PM3 votes

it would be nice to see champion mastery come in for dominion, but I don't know if Riot even knows the strategies for dominion to properly reward performance, judging by the old personal score system.

I'd still like to see blind pick with bans. bans to help with annoying champs, blind so champ select doesn't take longer than the match (especially at high levels where queues are already longer). With the new champ select coming, it could be a good time to implement something.

Minarde1/13/2016, 11:31:15 AM2 votes

Despite my break from the game, I checked patch notes for dominion updates, and didn't find any. Playing again, it seems the same.

The only thing that's happened is that eight months after the release of Champion Mastery and right before beginning testing on champ/skin drops from Mastery, Riot has confirmed that, yes, they're discussing adding Mastery to the rest of the maps. No specifics though because, y'know, don't wanna inundate us alternate maps players with information or hype or hope or something.

Does MWAB (or anyone, actually) even work on Alternate Maps now? Last we heard, MWAB is on the SR balance team.

PDE5 Inhibitors1/13/2016, 11:32:56 AM1 votes

What's a dominion?

Penguin Eclipse1/13/2016, 6:20:11 PM1 votes

The pure neglect of Dominion makes it clear they plan to just kill it off eventually and be done with it. Maybe turn it into a feature mode. They can't even fix the fucking score board or the mismatched colors on purple side that show the team's nexus crystal health.

The release of Hextech just furthers that. Now rewarding players who play SR.