PBE: No More AD + Crit Chance Items

Zullar·May 24, 2018·1 votes·930 views

Right now on live there are 2 ways to get crit 1: Attack speed (zeal items) 2: AD items (Infinity edge + Essense Reaver)

Sometimes I opt for #2 and go for big crits. I've done 4x Infinity Edge + Essense Reaver on Jhin and you see massive numbers... its fun. But on PBE Essense Reaver & Infinity Edge are losing their crit chance and the only way to get crit is to buy Zeal items.

On PBE Zeal + Infinity Edge will be the only way to go? Multiple Zeal items doesn't make sense without IE. And IE doesn't make sense without Zeal items. So there won't be any item diversity if this PBE change goes live because everybody will be forced to buy Zeal + IE. Isn't the whole point to add choice and interesting options... but this is taking options away?

Can some AD + crit chance items be added to PBE? Thanks.

3 Comments

saltranMay 24, 20182 votes

Also RIP MF's crit build since stacking Zeals is awful on her.

I understand that crit changes were needed but I also dislike how they did it. For not talking about the adcs like Xayah-Sivir and in half Ashe that have their Core iteam (removed) reworked into a non crit item that sounds cool but if they buy it as first item they are delaying too much the crit.

ZullarMay 24, 20181 votes

Yeah I don't like the PBE changes. It seems they are adding new problems and not fixing the existing ones.

Issue #1: Ghostblade + Duskblade + Edge of Night + PBE Lord Dominik's = 83 armor --> 0. This is going to make AD assassins really crazy... a 29% damage increase compared to live. Issue #2: Forcing people to build zeal for crit builds pigeon holing. I want the option to build crit chance + AD chance items instead of attack speed + crit chance. Issue #3: Still crit chance lottery. Fights can completely swing one way or the other based on crit luck. Issue #4: Still crazy exponential scaling on ADC's (damage x attack speed x crit chance x IE). Other champs do not scale this way and tanks must be so tanky to survive the ADC's that other classes can barely hurt them. Issue #5: Still seems like there will be a clear best build choice for a given champ. No meaningful options. Also due the crazy ADC scaling they can't have the option to drop 1 offensive item for a defensive one... it's never worth it... not a viable option.

TwinkieProMay 24, 20181 votes

I have to disagree stormrazor is a very solid item that give 100% crit every 3 seconds thats scales with attack speed. On ADCs that rely on a burstier playstlye. By the time most champs buy it its closer to 2 seconds. Super strong on gp btw.