What Happened to the RoA Changes?

Frosted Tips·11/17/2019, 6:52:01 PM·47 votes·15,926 views

Rod of Ages Rework

Dev Update

So Riot didn't want to add it in the middle of the season even though it was testing well because it may cause big fluctuations in the middle of the season which is fine, but where are the changes now for the preseason? Please don't forget about it. They spent time and effort and now they are wasting a great opportunity to test them out for the community.

42 Comments

Emperor Talquin11/17/2019, 7:16:57 PM35 votes

Ryze would be super ultima broken 9000 if this was in the game. Thank god.

WoonStruck11/17/2019, 7:29:42 PM10 votes

That item should definitely not exist.

Infernape11/17/2019, 7:20:28 PM7 votes

Riot's allergic to fixing itemisation for AP fighters/bruisers lol

RandomYuki11/18/2019, 4:27:16 AM3 votes

I hope this shit never sees the light of day.

fervor of battle but for mages

Corvega11/17/2019, 10:36:36 PM3 votes

I liked the changes to the eternity passive but the madness passive change doesn't make any sense. Many AP fighters and battle mages have low AP ratios because their kits revolve around DoTs or low cooldown spells, so getting AP from the passive instead of % damage increase sucks for them. I also don't think it should build into RoA. They just have to make item 3010 as expensive and worth building as item 3802 and also add another item for it to build into that isn't stacking like item 3030 used to be.

LightswornLance11/17/2019, 11:19:44 PM2 votes

I think this version of item 3027 would work better as a completely different item that is melee only. Ranged champs could just cheese the passive too well by stacking it with poke abilities. IDK if this would even be used first item on champs like Sylas and Diana because item 3152 gives that instant spike you can use to force fights. Theres a reason the current item 3027 isnt used by them and thats because AP bruisers don't really scale for jack so they need their power early game. The only champs that use it are ones with mana scalings that already are scaling champs ex Ryze Kassadin (who I rarely see using it nowadays most just go item 3003 and never build item 3027 ). I've been saying this for a while but we already have decent AP bruiser items, it's item 3089 which is forcing them to go full AP. We need an alternative to item 3089 that scales with HP (like steraks) or at least give the AP bruisers health scalings in their kit.

Modl Ryden l11/17/2019, 10:23:01 PM2 votes

That's way too good of an item to only cost 2700g with meaningful immediate core items.

General Esdeath 11/18/2019, 3:01:33 AM1 votes

Well you see that's an item that scales with battle time, and here at Riot we want games over in 17 minutes or less for our Asian Overlords in the gaming cafe so it's either burst damage or bust.

Elewd11/19/2019, 5:07:17 AM1 votes

This item would be better off used as a new item completely, (and preferably made Melee only) so we could actually get our mage bruisers back without them being "tank OR Assassin" although thats currently somewhat both atm..... I want to play a mage bruiser but they just dont work with the items currently...

Yordle Xayah11/19/2019, 7:08:17 AM1 votes

Ruck Fyze.

Tusutaki11/19/2019, 6:45:20 PM1 votes

So they want to give Mages even more sustain on top of having access to Ravenous Hunter? Do they not already have some of the best defensive utilities in the game in both skills and items?

Playtests and feedback were pretty positive on the changes

Literally who and why do they seriously think its a positive change? How is this going to at all be healthy for the game and not upset the balance further into the Mages favor? What can melees do in response to Mages when said Mages out sustain them while being ranged at the same time?