The masteries on PBE are so perfect.

MealReadytoEat·Nov 2, 2015·1 votes·455 views

I make actual decisions around my champion and my playstyle, that are noticeable in-game, rather than mathematical optimization shared with a large chunk of the champion pool.

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eux0rNov 2, 20153 votes

thats what i thought too, at first... then i realised that basically every form of playstyle differntiation has been majorly shafted. want to play magic damage attack speed or physical damage burst? nope, our masteries are tailored for physical damage attack speed and magic damage burst. want to get attackspeed AND spelldamage on azir? nope, you are not allowed to opt out of defence/utility in favour of your own choice! playing aatrox? you are not allowed to get lifesteal AND ad! want to play something tanky without relying on the most boring but most effective stat: flat max hp? we dont care, youre not allowed to get regenration or tenacity AND resistances what about hybrid builds? haha, no, we already told you you have to CHOOSE between battering blows and piercing thoughts even though you would be willing to pay the points there insted of unlocking some tier 2 keystone in another tree you dont want! want to speck all your points into one tree? nope, instead waste points on masteries you do not want, not only in another tree, but also by forcing you to choose between bad and worse to get to something totally unrelated (want the execute damage increase? choose between runic affinity and secret stash first! you dont want either? tough luck, no damage for you. want to spend all your points for defensive increases? nope you gotta spend 40% into either damage or random shit!) you had widely differing mastery pages for many different mages in season 5? "rejoice", you have only one valid path for ALL the mages! there were situations and champions where going something like 13/17/0 or 9/14/7 was a good choice in season 5? please, everything has been "streamlined" and condensed down to 18/12/0 and its cyclings only with the ultra exceptional 6/18/6 somewhere! no need for needless thinking! ... its better to let people make tradeoffs by choosing in WHICH tree and WHICH bonus-combinations they put their points instead this meaningless limit of 18 points per catgory and pointless exclusion of stat-combinations. (and by that i do NOT mean i want multiple tier 3 keystones, that those are exclusive is a GOOD idea, the rest of the forced shit NOT.)