Vanilla Now? Sad situation....
This is my first post and maybe my only post. I am just a casual player, and l really did enjoy this game......
When I heard about the new RUNE pages and removal of the trees and ability to pick your specific runes I feared it will be like games prior who have died from doing this.....sadly it looks true.
Before this new RUNE aspects I knew when I played that there are classes I could not match up with early or late game OR maybe not all if they got ahead on levels and gear. I knew when I had to play passive or aggressive vs some classes. I knew when I had to buy certain gear Vs one team match up VS another. I know this because there can never be balance in a game like this.....
I know RIOT made these changes because lot of people complained about class balance. TO all those who don't know....Truthfully that does happen in any successful game.
IMHO sadly Riot is taking away what makes this game worth playing. Prior a player could spec the way they play, now with it is very limited runes setup it really isolate charc customization by the player and puts in the RIOTS hands now. Sadly it isolates play style options making the game Vanilla. It has happened in all popular games prior with similar type change like this. When you limit a players...more so customer's ability to customize a charc to their own play style, or the diversity of what a person can spec a charc too be like, history has shown it becomes the end.
Everyone has to know/understand that Riot will have to make changes at the charc BASE level. So for balance that means every charc has to start with the SAME stats or it will never be balanced, just laws of physics. At least prior you could pick what tree worked based on your RUNES... if you wanted AP, AD...attack speed....armor ...etc... there was an option. WE all know there are classes you could pick different trees, but you had to spec runes to offset what that class was missing...but doing so got you some balance. NOW pick 7 runes / stats and play and you pretty much know everyone will have the SAME spec too.... Not sure I see why that is fun. Seems like a similar game out there by Blizzard that is boring as hell.....
Speaking of Blizzard, those who played WOW PvP/Arena's in the beginning will know what I am taking about... it became what was referred to as "Flavor of the Month". Every time a Charc's update came from Blizzard it was way out of balance because they changed the base spec and having no customization to offset it from a player stand point killed it.
Again people need to learn that a game like LOL can never have perfect balance, no game can....
I feel sorry for NEW players coming to the game right now as they will need a STUPID amount of BE to get charc's to play ranked and have multiple's of different class types. They will not know what they could do before to a charc's abilities...
I am Hopefull but doubtful that Riot will figure out the potential mistake they are making. Sadly this game will loose players as this direction is turning a great game into a Vanilla game.
