Tier 3 Runes NEED to be cheaper

CEO of Swag Inc·7/7/2016, 11:00:21 AM·76 votes·2,003 views

First of all I want to applaud Riot for making all the Tier 2 runes 1 IP. Anyways, Riot sent me a survey yesterday via email and it asked me what my thoughts would be if ALL tier 3 runes were reduced to 1 IP. There was also disclaimer basically telling me Riot may or may not actually be thinking about implementing such a feature. I can understand why a lot of people would NOT want tier 3 runes to be reduced to 1 IP and why it's ok to have to grind to get all the runes you want but at the current price, many of the runes are just WAAAAAY too expensive for the average player. It hurts to calculate how much it costs to make a full rune page and that's not even including the 6300 price of a rune page. I've just given up on any tier 3 runes except the cheapest ones like flat AD and flat armor. I'd rather spend my hard earned IP on champions or even champ shards than buy something that has very little to no perceivable impact on the game and how I play. I don't want to throw any specific numbers out but they definitely need to be cheaper. The only people who can actually afford all the runes they want are the people who already have all the champions or play a ton and that's kind of unfair because it puts more casual and newer players at a (slight) disadvantage.

35 Comments

Dealth7/7/2016, 8:52:46 PM4 votes

I think runes are fairly priced. You really only need 2 pages.

underscores2227/7/2016, 11:11:54 PM4 votes

Runes have already gotten much cheaper (40--60%). I don't think they need to be reduced to 1 IP, at that point, just make them free. Runes fill a strategic niche in league that is often overlooked, and managing IP to get the right runes is something that is important.

Serpents Embrace7/7/2016, 4:33:11 PM4 votes

I'd be fine with them all costing 1 IP, even though I bought every rune I'd ever use years ago.

Funny, though, that the Tier 1, 2 & 3 system they've set up to "teach" things like this punishes attempting to learn them on your own. You pay a lot for a Quint and it turns out that it's completely useless. And new players are the ones attracted to things like Less Time Dead that don't have any noticeable impact on the game.

Marshbouy7/8/2016, 1:28:28 PM3 votes

nah. I like saving up 2015 IP for a single quint.

Xeruon7/9/2016, 1:05:08 AM2 votes

The prices of these runes are too damn high! (Sorry for stale meme)

Seriosuly: Tier 3 Flat CDR Blues: 720 each, 9 = 6480 Tier 3 Hybrid Pen Reds: 820 each, 9 = 7380 Tier 3 Flat MS Quints: 2050 each, 3 = 6150 Tier 3 Flat Health Yellows: 820 each, 9 = 7380

So it basically cost me 27750 IP to put together a decent TF page, ty rito.

Jo0o7/7/2016, 6:21:36 PM2 votes

As a new-ish player (start of this season), I'd love to see cheaper runes. I want to buy more champs, but it's demoralizing that I'm still stuck grinding for the runes of the champs I already have.

I mean, I'm already willing to shell out X amount of my expendable income on this game, and that's not something that's likely to change, so I don't think this would impact Riot's bottom line. Either runes are cheap and I can spend my IP on champs and RP on skins, or runes are expensive and I spend my IP on runes, RP on champs, and don't get as many skins as I'd like.

xTropicalPenguin7/8/2016, 5:28:44 PM2 votes

if not 1 ip, i would be happy with like 100 ip, that's like one rune per game or so

oSEXYPLATYPUSo7/7/2016, 10:37:04 PM1 votes

i understand where every one is coming from when it comes to cost of runes and dont think riot is being fair in having tier 3 costing so much ip. every one wants to spend ip for their champs but riot dont want that even though they allow you to do so. if you were able to buy all your champs with ip and not have to give ip for runes then what incentive do you have to actually buy RP with $$$$ and buy your champs. Riot is a "free" game but they are a business and like all businesses they are here to make a profit. they have to pay all the employees, overhead and ect and still they wanna make $$ instead of breaking even. i get it alot of people dont have the extra income to spend $10 on a champ or even $10 for skins (average cost ). but there are ways to work the system.... every day when you log in and your 1st win of the day bonus is aval go play a bot game get ur bonus IP for 1st win of the day, take 20ish minuets to do so, so 7 days aweek aprox 215-250ip per win ends up being 1400-1600 IP points plus you can try builds, practice champs or just practice last hitting. use it as your so called "warm up" for rank as i hear about so often in normals when people play bad. i know its still a grind and its not free but its an easier way to boost your IP to get your champs/ runes faster. or quit being lazy get off the damn game get a job earn some $ and buy the damn champs/skins you want. i say that having a career and a good paying job. i know its rough in the real world

junkgummybum7/7/2016, 11:29:31 PM1 votes

Rip my crit dam multiplier runes for Twitch adc when I was bronze 4

Komatose7/8/2016, 5:08:31 AM1 votes

I say just reduce their prices by 50%. Good compromise.

Samflash37/8/2016, 9:33:36 AM1 votes

I wonder...since tier 2 runes are 1 ip, you could get 5 and rune combinator them for a tier 3 rune. Thus you only pay 5 ip for tier 3 runes.

#breakingnews

Niaphim7/8/2016, 9:34:57 AM1 votes

All tier 3 runes costing 1 IP is stupid, I think. If they ever decide to do this it would be better if everyone just had access to every tier 3 rune in the game by default after reaching level 20 or as soon as level 1 (remove tiers, leave t3 runes only).

Carl Steiner7/8/2016, 12:21:49 PM1 votes

I don't think Runes have to be dirt cheap, Its just when I got to buy the expensive rune pages, 6 300 IP each, and then go to buy runes for a new playstyle and such, I still have to pay up to 10 000 IP more. It hurts.

With Hextech Crafting and Champion mastery available, there is just too many ways to use IP relative to the amount we get.

Cubíx7/7/2016, 8:29:52 PM1 votes

Runes should be free, and work like masteries, Tiers 1 already got taken away now T2 shouldn't exist and 3's should be the only ones. There really isn't a beneficial reason for runes to cost IP.

R FLASH XD7/8/2016, 1:46:13 PM1 votes

Just do it.I won't even buy tier 3 runes on this account.I don't want to grind for them again.(My last account that got banned had tier 3 runes and fuck that grind man)

BatchBustsMeta7/8/2016, 2:23:19 PM1 votes

I've been playing since season 1, and STILL don't have every rune. :-O

Reaper Soraka7/7/2016, 11:18:30 PM1 votes

I'm like three years old into this game, and I haven't purchased all of the runes OR champions. It isn't too important for me to own them all, but I think they should reduce or remove the price, simply so I can play and experiment with them. They are like an expensive mini-game that you can even lose at (I'm looking at you, 2% spell vamp runes for 2000ip each.)

I hope they do an overhaul on them, removing ones that just don't make the cut, and then lowering or removing the prices for the others. Ever seen a Zed use energy regen runes? No. Because even if that energy regen mattered to him, he would still be on ability cooldown.

Swaid7/7/2016, 8:25:54 PM1 votes

Then I could finally afford those spell vampirism quints for Dr. Mundo.

Elikain7/8/2016, 6:27:22 PM1 votes

I am not OK with T3 Runes costing 1 IP. This could be one possible direction Riot is looking towards but if T2 runes cost meager IP, then why not make T3 Runes cost double that meager IP? T2 Runes are not expensive and actual stats from T3 are only barely noticeable but it still plays to have them in the end because of the better stats. Also, Rune Pages are too expensive as well so why not have it cost 2025 IP, just like certain T3 Quints now? Paying this much for a single Quint is damn expensive but rune pages should be more expensive than the rest (a place for all 30 runes) but also it's definitely not a champion's price IP price worth. Just imagine a new player just switching to an AP champ and then having to acquire the rune page for it and default mage runes + a champion...

Some grinding should be present and i agree that with champion tokens and actual champions already cost a hefty amount of IP (all of them), you're not suddenly going to collect them all in a months of playing. So it's not ruining the economical system that exists in LoL for IP.

dw we outscale7/9/2016, 12:12:20 AM1 votes

League of Legends is the only competitive game that puts newer players at an immediate disadvantage in the game itself.

Last hitting/jungling without runes sure is a great experience!

UnholyFerret7/8/2016, 4:03:39 PM

Didn't riot say something along the lines that rune prices would be adjusted / free after the new client came out? Or am I mistaken?