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I realize I'm likely speaking into a void, but would it be possible to revamp the champion shards?

Promising Garden·5/22/2018, 2:31:16 AM·1 votes·904 views

As in, give champ tier shards instead of a set champion.

The purpose of the shard system is to lower the cost of champs, while limiting the availability of more expensive ones. I am missing 40 champions, and haven't gotten a shard of a champ I don't own for over 20k blue essence now (so, roughly 18 levels -- plus buying a few hextech chests). I don't know if other players' experiences are quite this extreme, but I've heard others express frustration with the current system as well.

There should be some kind of bad luck protection from this. I know Riot has implemented something similar with gemstones, but I think it should be applied here also, if nothing else. I'm only talking about the way champions are acquired. 6300 BE is really expensive.

I don't have the time or energy to go into this in as much detail as I would have liked -- suffice to say: I know Riot is a money-making company, but wouldn't making champs more readily available encourage more skin purchases? Personally, I've spent MUCH more on skins than champs (Not even getting including how much I spent to get Soulstealer Vayne -_-;)

I also think this would be a good system for mastery -- still allowing for disenchantment of the same value, and mastery shards drop at a lower rate (also with an assigned tier 6 or 7).

EDIT: This may be the wrong category for this post, but I don't know where else it would go...

3 Comments

ModThe Djinn5/22/2018, 3:05:07 AM1 votes

Making champs more readily available might encourage more skin purchases, but if that were the case I suspect Riot would make all champions free -- the fact that they haven't implies that they feel there is either financial or gameplay value (possibly both, as new players aren't as overwhelmed) in somewhat limiting champion acquisition. If you give "tier shards" and let players target specific champions, I suspect champion sales would take a steep dive -- and I'm not confident skin sales would make up the difference.