This is an actual question. I've seen tons of people complaining about the rework, and I'm trying to figure out what Riot did wrong on Cassiopeia, because I legit forgot, so can somebody fill me in?
OverpoweredSoap3 votesThey basically shoehorned her into being an E machine gun.
Before her other abilities were more useful and she didn't rely as much on her E. (Though she still relied on it a far amount.)
Basically, people wanted her to be reworked into a poison mage, and we got a machine gun mage.
A good amount of people didn't want the rework in the first place.
That and the interaction with the rioter who was in change of it, was really bad. He promised things and didn't deliver and then never responded back to anything.
Mathbalnase1 votesWorse, he wasn't even the one to deliver the (eventual, partial) apology for his horrible mistakes. Such integrity.
LegacyDAP1 votesSo is there a reason nobody likes machine gun mage? I still find her fun to play. Is it just that nobody expected to get what they got and were disappointed with the results?
The Fast1 votesBefore, Cassio's damage came from her poison, and her E was used to help poison melt people. Now cassio's damage comes from E, and her poison does basically no damage for 90% of the game.
Cassio's W used to be one of the most dangerous AoE spells in the game. Now I literally walk through it early game.
Only Play Darius1 votesOld Katarina you could play either DOT poison mage, E mashing DPS mage, or a mixture of both. Now the only way to play her is by mashing E because the rework reduced her poison damage to almost nothing and made her E overloaded as hell. Also her old passive was similar to Rumble's in that it gave her benefits for continuously casting spells, but punishes her if she gets too spam-happy (in her case she would run out of mana). It was a challenge to use correctly but was rewarding for someone who mained her and mastered it. Now her new passive does nothing but make her ridiculous once the game timer reaches a certain point because it's essentially 4 small passives that are granted over time and gives her ridiculous amounts of AP.
She is overall just extremely binary. They somehow managed to make her just as difficult to play as before, except now you don't feel as good about doing well with her because she is essentially AP Urgot.