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Does Anybody else miss the old Runes?

Muffinsong·11/21/2017, 10:19:07 PM·3 votes·777 views

To recap the recent change to Runes and Mastery system; Riot removed the term "Masteries", and now call them runes. my guess is to hide the fact Riot got rid of runes.
Runes are flat stat buffs. Like: Armor, or Magic Pen, Move speed etc ( we know these) Masteries are effects like gain a shield when hit below 25% health, or faster speed in or 5 secs after leaving a bush ... that's a mastery, not a rune.

Ultimately, I don't care what they're called, that't not the point. I miss the choice of a flat stat choice on top of masteries.

I used to a full armor per level page for rammus and malph. I had every expensive % health runes to get 9% health for mundo. On top of masteries, I got another 4 or 5% depending on the season. I used to have a mage page with 20% magic pen plus armor. My attack speed /armor pen page for jungling

I understand the pro of the new runes is to setup a quicker game, but this is a new game.

6 Comments

Śhunpo11/21/2017, 10:57:32 PM2 votes

The old runes were ironically enough MORE strategic than these new "runes".

Those runes were also balanced, unlike these abominations which will likely never be balanced because certain champs will be broken with X keystone or tree.

I think Riot just has a hard-on for changing the game 24/7 so they can do what they do best as a business, which is: lure new consumers in, keep current consumers interested and make tons of cash. From a business POV the game will become stale if they leave it "balanced". Honestly they don't care for balance when they can instead be using this game to exploit people of their money through gambling and overpriced garbage.

SciFi Scrivener11/21/2017, 10:22:08 PM1 votes

No, not at all. The new system is so much better. Lots of options and cool effects. Thanks to Riot for this new feature!!

splendido11/21/2017, 10:28:51 PM1 votes

For old players, most of them would. We've been playing with those runes for forever, and now we have to find out everything again. When we get accustomed to a game we dont want it to change, we want to get better at what we wanted to get better at.