sunfire hotfix?

LilxPaprika·Jun 8, 2015·2 votes·292 views

i miss the old sunfire gave 40 magic dmg to minions immediately.

Damage to champion scaling per lvl can stay as is, but its not that great at wave clearing early game.

All we have left is like hydra for wave clearing.

4 Comments

IcyPepperJun 8, 20152 votes

Too much pushing power early game on a defensive item might not be a good thing. I'm not sure, but you shouldn't just rely on it for waveclear until late-game.

shrugs

I don't think hotfixes are for simple balance changes. This kind of thing would require testing and decision making, not a rash decision based on an emergency. Sunfire stopped dealing damage server-wide? Hotfix. Change how sunfire damages minions? Testing, balancing, add it to the patch notes.

LilxPaprikaJun 8, 20151 votes

Well it was like that for the longest time. Figured no need for testing.

ProfDrDeathJun 8, 20151 votes

Sunfire was great at clearing early game, true.

Which is exactly why it was nerfed in the first place.

LilxPaprikaJun 8, 20151 votes

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Sunfire was great at clearing early game, true.

Which is exactly why it was nerfed in the first place.

I thought the reason was because it did too much damage to champions early gsme and the nerf to champions just happened to of inadvertently affect wave clear early game. As they might not have taken this into consideration. I've seen them do this a lot they fix one thing but don't see the ramification / what it entails overall.

Guess it was a secondary reason then, I just don't recall people saying its clear speed was an issue. Especially now with ludens this shouldn't be that big a deal.