Dev Question, Dissonance versus Harmony?

StoryDuck·3/12/2019, 4:46:48 AM·6 votes·3,849 views

I was wondering why does dissonance disable harmony? I mean, I get that the words are opposites but I was curious about the reasoning behind having one disable the passive of another. Normally it is just a unique passive but this is the only case in which one item removes a passive from another. Were there major balance issues? Was this a thematic choice? Does it have something to do with Athene and Mikael? Was something else going on at the time?

16 Comments

Done253/12/2019, 1:08:49 PM5 votes

To prevent them from being too efficient with each other given how both scale off mana regen. Even though Harmony is a piss weak effect in the first place and most enchanters have low HP/5 anyways...

Rathar Dashing3/12/2019, 12:43:34 PM3 votes

Pretty sure it's to force people to choose one over the other, or to remove synergies between the two leading to them being bought together constantly. If they're gonna do that with these two items then they should do the same with Tear items.

xDogMeatx3/12/2019, 8:05:36 AM2 votes

word wise you cant have order/chaos. in that logic theres only chaos reigns due to how order basically breaks down trying to force chaos to submit equals more chaos. effect wise its probably will cause a infinity cycle similarly how rageblade jhin worked.

Sire Hippington3/12/2019, 2:11:54 PM2 votes

It was mostly to prevent haveing both and stacking other regen items. However, it's questionable wether this is still needed. Back when Athene's was changed, we also had redemption at it's prime and ardent on it's way, so stacking those mana reg items already was strong and enchanters were the dominant type of support. Now enchanters are basically bottom tier sups and ardent+redemption got nerfed, so maybe allowing them to stack would be a nice way of helping them out. Though thematically, haveing dissonance and harmony at once is kinda tricky...