The New Runes REALLY Hate Certain Classes

Smitemuffin·11/10/2017, 3:20:28 PM·7 votes·592 views

I like tanks. I like mages. I like supports. I like caster ADCs and Draaaaaaaven. And the new rune system has put all of those things at a major disadvantage by definition, because there are no options even remotely as good for them as for everything else.

Comet? What a joke. It's an inferior version of electrocute that's only helpful to poke mages who can't use electrocute, but with the sarcasm little problem of it being almost impossible NOT to dodge. And there's no skill involved to improve it's effectiveness.

Tank runes just screw them over early by making them too weak to lane, ensuring they'll always be behind before they ever get the benefits of something good. Their runes don't even negate the buffs to everyone else from runes like Cheap Shot, or the free 50% tenacity marksman have now. Or the massive attack speed buff they get, or the free kiting they get. Hell, even assassins are coming out ahead with runes and tanks are INTENDED to shut assassins down. Whoops.

Don't even get me started on supports. There appears to be a support tree, but nearly everything is about half as effective as what certain other/favorite classes get. Yes, I said favorite. I'm calling it out.

But what about Draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaven? Well, he can't use Precision (the marksman tree) effectively at all. Huge amounts of attack speed are mostly wasted on him because the whole point of him is throwing Qs, which have a very specific timing. Once he gets one vanilla auto between catches, the rest is a waste. Same with movement speed, because not standing on a very specific place at a very specific and widely-telegraphed time guts his DPS and practically disables two of his spells. So that leaves him stuck with the 3-hit heal and - unlike everyone else - he'll still be stuck with it after you nerf it. We all know you have to nerf it because too many other ADCs abuse it far too hard.

3 Comments

Hexs Fortune11/10/2017, 3:47:08 PM1 votes

3 hit heal?