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XP for leveling was reduced....

ThatH1N1·3/15/2016, 5:04:49 PM·70 votes·6,500 views

Yet, IP gains and Costs remain the same..... How is the XP reduction useful if IP gains and costs remain the same? All this is going to do is make it so smurfs and new players can enter ranked faster. How is this helpful when they will just focus on getting the required number of champs for ranked and not getting their rune pages in order...? Ip gains need to be increased OR rune prices need to be decreased. Not to mention 1 and 2 runes are COMPLETELY USELESS. Tier 3 runes cost too much, extra rune pages cost too much.

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Brimaz The King3/15/2016, 5:17:56 PM19 votes

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Meddler (NA)

  • 10 days ago

4 of 5 Rioter Comments

Yes, that'll definitely happen. It's one of the reasons we went through last year and halved the IP costs of a general set of tier 3 runes. That lack of IP's also likely to limit many players from getting into ranked as soon as they hit 30, since they won't have the required minimum number of champions. That's not a bad thing on average (ranked as soon as you hit 30 can be a pretty rough experience for many people).

That's what meddler said here's the link. http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/gameplay-balance/MxjyfJB6-riot-would-you-be-willing-to-add-a-200-xp-bonus-to-the-first-win-of-the-day-reward?show=flat&page=4

LegitBusinessman3/15/2016, 5:27:47 PM15 votes

My favorite part of this is now people will be queing ranked and getting into mid silver elo with even half the game experience than before :[

ltmetal3/15/2016, 8:25:39 PM7 votes

You unlock your masteries and rune slots faster.

NotClarkolas3/16/2016, 3:16:28 AM7 votes

The only thing xp reduction does is help smurfs and toxic troll accounts get into ranked and ruin games faster. Thanks rito.

Malhammers3/15/2016, 5:10:40 PM6 votes

It does exactly what they intended...force you to spend CASH on champions and force you to spend ALL your IP on RUNES. If you buy a single champion with IP from 1-30, good luck with filling out any type of rune page when you hit 30. Its making League go from "you can play for free if you really want to, your just going to have a small champion pool" to "good luck playing for free...you wont be able to buy enough champs for ranked and/or if you do spend your IP on champs to be able to play ranked, good luck competing with empty rune pages."

TLDR - They basically removed the "free-to-play" aspect of this game with the XP nerf.

TheVishual3/16/2016, 4:56:04 AM4 votes

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Yet, IP gains and Costs remain the same..... How is the XP reduction useful if IP gains and costs remain the same? All this is going to do is make it so smurfs and new players can enter ranked faster. How is this helpful when they will just focus on getting the required number of champs for ranked and not getting their rune pages in order...? Ip gains need to be increased OR rune prices need to be decreased. Not to mention 1 and 2 runes are COMPLETELY USELESS. Tier 3 runes cost too much, extra rune pages cost too much.

it's almost as if Riot wants you to use RP to buy champions

Akesgeroth3/16/2016, 3:58:22 AM3 votes

You are actually bitching that we get too much IP.

Barkhoof3/15/2016, 7:33:23 PM3 votes

The XP reduction was implemented after they halved starter T3 runes: Marks - AD, MP; Seals - Armor, Glyphs - MR; Quints - AD, AP.

Das Rune Reduction!

I would LOVE for further reductions but I think they're done reducing the prices for now. There's the possibility of them having a rune sale in a couple months (when people have leveled their smurfs/helped their friends level).

WadeWilson13373/15/2016, 7:59:23 PM3 votes

I used to play bot games when i just wanted to chill and try out random stuff like AP DrMundo , but now they are so flooded with new smurf accounts where they are so toxic because they know that if they get banned it wont matter much considering how easy leveling is. In over 700+ bot games, i experienced 3 bot accounts in this last week alone, more than i have ever seen in the entire time ive played bot games.

ScarnMichaelScar3/16/2016, 2:53:20 AM3 votes

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Yet, IP gains and Costs remain the same..... How is the XP reduction useful if IP gains and costs remain the same? All this is going to do is make it so smurfs and new players can enter ranked faster. How is this helpful when they will just focus on getting the required number of champs for ranked and not getting their rune pages in order...? Ip gains need to be increased OR rune prices need to be decreased. Not to mention 1 and 2 runes are COMPLETELY USELESS. Tier 3 runes cost too much, extra rune pages cost too much.

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Yet, IP gains and Costs remain the same..... How is the XP reduction useful if IP gains and costs remain the same? All this is going to do is make it so smurfs and new players can enter ranked faster. How is this helpful when they will just focus on getting the required number of champs for ranked and not getting their rune pages in order...? Ip gains need to be increased OR rune prices need to be decreased. Not to mention 1 and 2 runes are COMPLETELY USELESS. Tier 3 runes cost too much, extra rune pages cost too much.

i made this thread 2 days ago, and got downvoted into oblivion and berated. fuck this community.

The Sword Saint3/16/2016, 2:26:02 PM3 votes

They already lowered the cost of the generic tier 3 runes that fit every page drastically a while back in preparation for this, and they tested this system in russia for three months before bringing it here.

IreliaCarrlesU3/16/2016, 3:07:52 AM2 votes

Lol, we already reduced rune prices, for the most used runes. I am dying at the lack of research on this on. OMG

ItsOrval3/16/2016, 4:05:15 AM2 votes

You know what I like the most about the xp thing? The fact that im getting people who've played for a week in my rank ques.

JVP153/15/2016, 7:20:27 PM2 votes

The funny thing is, I literally just hit 30 before the patch was released.

Rikirie3/16/2016, 10:08:46 AM2 votes

I for one am happy. You should NOT be going into ranked as soon as you ding 30 anyway if you're new. You're going to need to try out your rune pages and masteries you finally unlocked. LoL experience doesn't even start until 30 anyway.

Xosra3/16/2016, 1:48:17 PM2 votes

So let me get this first people complain about the early player experience being crap then when they lower the experience to make it better people still complain. I mean really.

Ant Reformed3/16/2016, 8:01:42 PM1 votes

Please do this, also reduce rune prices and increase number of innate pages.

KidKaiser3/16/2016, 2:36:58 AM1 votes

tbh. T2's are completely trash

T1's on the other hand are great placebo's until you get T3's.

A Basic Island3/17/2016, 12:06:14 AM1 votes

they didn't even really lower the xp required, at least not the way one would think it would happen

If i have 22 levels of xp, and you lowe rthe xp required to be 30, logically my lvl should've gone up

but nope

DeynaTaggerung3/16/2016, 2:48:11 PM1 votes

Tier 1 and 2 runes are already dirt cheap (100 IP for quints), and I think that Riot would still like to gate new players from entering ranked right away by some IP costs, just not making them feel frustrated by a long XP grind.

Also hexetech crafting will help a bit towards getting champions and skins.

Sentinos3/16/2016, 4:16:46 AM1 votes

Dude, you'll have enough to get more than one champ, plus the free rotation. The point of smurfs isn't diversity of champs, it's to get champs you need to win (as for high elo people who want to get smurf really high up) or to boost somebody else or just play low elo. If people are making smurfs, runes shouldn't be a HUGE problem, just a little slow, but it's still a lot faster than before. Don't complain, riot is already giving us something free. The only problem is less experienced people queueing ranked and ruining or freelo other people.

CurlyFriezzz3/16/2016, 3:59:56 PM1 votes

I think that the cost of rune pages need to be reduced for sure.

TheAmazingBrofox3/16/2016, 6:49:55 AM1 votes

Play with 5 people... I get a ton of IP.