Jungle items don't grant bonus gold in S6

Randomonium·Nov 10, 2015·1 votes·667 views

I was playing some games on the PBE and I noticed that the jungle items no longer grant bonus gold when killing a large monster. I didn't see this on any of the PBE notes and no one seems to be talking about this. I know that gold generation is changing but overall this seems like a pretty sizable and hidden nerf to junglers since everyone benefits equally from increased gold generation. Anyone else got any information on this change or why they changed it?

9 Comments

Done25Nov 10, 20152 votes

The gold value of the jungle was increased and the monster's strength was lowered.

RandomoniumNov 10, 20151 votes

Do you have a link that details this?

SaltyKrackaNov 10, 20151 votes

http://www.surrenderat20.net/p/current-pbe-balance-changes.html?m=1#jungle

RandomoniumNov 10, 20151 votes

This makes the nerf less severe but it's still less gold per jungle camp. Also, I'm still very worried about laners "taxing" the jungle nowith that anyone can get the extra gold from jungle camps.

BluePolarizerNov 10, 20151 votes

it is to encourage ADCs taking jungle camps and making the jungler a 2nd support.

Kitten of EvilNov 10, 20151 votes

They made it so jungle items give more XP but not more gold for jungle kills. This was intended to prevent non-junglers from taking just one camp early and arriving in lane at level 2.

RandomoniumNov 10, 20151 votes

So was the exp per camp lowered so a non jungler can't get level 2 off a single camp?

On another note, this really doesn't address the issue. Now junglers are going to get significantly less gold in a role where they are already farm deprived. How are junglers supposed to make up the lost gold income? On top of this there's no reason anymore for the ADC or mid to not steal all the junglers camps. Feels like they are forcing the jungler to be a second support (while keeping cinderhulk nerfed to hell.)

Kitten of EvilNov 10, 20151 votes

Yes, that's the idea anyway, that laners would no longer get level 2 off a single camp.

There is a global gold generation increase as well, though I don't know that it will make a big difference. I guess we'll see how this affects the new season, though I do worry about these changes.

RandomoniumNov 10, 20151 votes

Yeah the problem is the global gold change helps everyone equally so the net result of these changes is junglers will have a much larger gold disparity between them and their lane counterparts. This will make carry junglers even harder to play because they will be so far behind in gold and tank junglers are already weak because of season 5 nerfs.