Would it be better to buy Champion shards then disenchant them before Preseason?
Because 6.5 multiplier that will be applied to your current blue essence, before your IP gets transfered into it. What do you guys think?
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you start to gain if you get 790 rp and up champions, so I think it'd be a fairly worth it gamble if you have fairly good amounts of ip stored up. 35 champ shards out of 138 possible ones let you lose blue essence, while the remaining give you slight bonuses and up(capping at +400 if you get a 975 rp champ shard) Also if I'm not mistaken don't the lower tier random champ shards tend to give extra blue essence when you get them since the vast majority of players have them, or is that only when you get them in chests.
Surely they've considered this. I just did a test, bought champ shard. Got Janna (already own Janna) but it disenchants to 195... x6.5 is 1267.5... so 500 loss. Janna is 1350 IP right now. But the disenchant cost isn't from IP, it's RP.
A 975 champ would be 325, x 6.5 = 2112 but you spent 1700 to get that shard.
You might get 25 Ashe shards.
It's a gamble on which champion you will get from the shard. I think you loose value on 450 champions and earn it from everyone who costs more
Hmm, I think of things a bit differently. I now have all of the champions. I bought several of them with RP at 50% off and that really good starter pack. I got some from chests and many of them from IP. I bought the lowest IP cost ones first. (waited for 50% off RP for the rest)
Eventually, I only had 6300 champs left to buy. I bought Hextech Mystery Champion Shards and rerolled 3 champs for a permanent. 3 shards at 1700 a piece is 5100. Once you have only 6300 champions left to get it is a better deal. Of course you don't get to pick which one you get but you save 1200 IP getting them randomly.
Now my question is: The new champions that will be coming out will likely be 6300. Should I buy mystery shards and dissenchant before the changes come for 6.5x or should I just save 3 shards to reroll into permanent champions. It might not matter since I will have excess blue essence in the future. Maybe I will use your math and decide which ones to dissenchant and which ones are not work dissenchanting. (3 to reroll no matter how much they are worth....keep the low blue essence ones for that purpose I guess)
They may be on to my way of thinking here. I just noticed that I have Ryze who is worth 87 blue essence. He is not worth disenchanting. I have Aatrox and Xayah that are both worth 325. (2112 when you get 6.5x) They would be worth disenchanting. The rest are all 263. Oddly, that is 1709 after 6.5x. Almost identical to the cost of the shard.
I had bought and disenchanted 24 champions to test this, and have profited 3k IP. In my case the gain isn't much but if you really want that extra IP this will more than likely be profitable. If you do this know there is a chance you do not profit anything, good luck!
It's just straight up gambling, which is why for the past few days I've been doing it haha, So far I'm profiting 2k ip, not really worth doing but is definitely some fun :D Also if you want to buy them with RP this is a lot more worth it. This is one of the few ways of "buying" BE before preseason hits. If you were short a couple thousand for something I'd recommend just buying with RP and not gambling with IP.
so i just disenchanted like 23 shards and gained about 8k worth of ip, i guess if ure not the unluckiest person in the world it is pretty worth :)
So i did some math and tried it out. Actually the multiplier is 6.46153846154. The avarage blue essence value ull get converted into ip is slightly below 1700, but since u get extra blue essence quite frequently, it's worth it. I did it by 5 shard groups, and a 6 shard group at the end, all of the purchase-disenchant processes were profitable for me, so I think it's pretty safe even if you have IP for a couple of them. My overall profit is 4800 ip from 26 mystery shards.
https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/6xhri8/is_it_worth_converting_your_ip_into_blue_essence/ This guy did the math, enjoy.
More specific question, is 6.5 x the disenchantment amount of blue essence for a champion more or less than the IP amount. I don't have any champion shards, can someone with one take a screenshot of the amount they would get from disenchanting it?
EDIT: You would need at least 262 BE from the shard for this method to be cost effective and a net gain of eventual BE.
Well it is risky since u might not be lucky enough to get gud champion shards. But if u have ip like 6300, it might be profitable.