Shouldn't Runic Affinity get a rework with JG changes?

ChurchSkiz·Nov 12, 2016·32 votes·1,146 views

I use to use the Runic Affinity mastery. I was playing my first game and looking at the masteries this morning and noticed it's almost pointless now.

Before you could get 15% longer on gromp/krug/raptor buffs. Now you just get 15% on red and blue buff and baron? If there's only 3 buffs it works on shouldn't they be much longer than 15%? Or have some other characteristic like Smite returns more health, or the buffs are more effective? Seems like this mastery just got a straight nerf.

10 Comments

EndlessSorcererNov 12, 201626 votes

Runic Affinity never affected Smite Buffs (i,e, Krugs, Gromp, Raptors) in the first place. It's power is completely unchanged.

It only affected:

Crest of Cinders
Crest of Insight
Hand of Baron
Glimpse of the Void
Aspect of the Dragon

I don't understand why people keep thinking it affected anything else.

AHarmlessTacoNov 12, 20167 votes

Probably because it SHOULD have and implied that it did so.

Bladerunner7777Nov 12, 20162 votes

Glad I'm not crazy

Oakleaf RangerNov 12, 20164 votes

wow I thought this whole time it did extend the buffs of other stuff. I pretty much assumed the mastery was garbage after the the new jungle was introduced but damn I would have dropped it last season if I knew that the buffs from the small camps weren't extended.

HupsisNov 12, 20161 votes

Useless mastery...

Riot says low rank masteries are supposed to be good at early game. Only the jungler benefits from red/blue buff in early game. And any competent laner would automatically opt to take either the assassin mastery (mid/top laner) or cookie mastery (bot laner).

30 seconds more zoning power everytime you manage to get a jungle buff? To me that just seems like 30 seconds more time for the enemy to kill you and snatch that buff from you.

I definitely support any rework for this mastery.