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PLEASE FIX THE ESSENCE PROBLEM, SAVE YOUR GAME.

dreamstalkers·12/28/2017, 1:43:19 AM·105 votes·3,857 views

Ok, I think we can all agree this game has taken a turn for the worse in the gameplay part..

Snowballing too quickly, matchmaking not being too reliable, too much damage, etc..

So I decided that i would stick with the game i've loved for so long, and even if the gameplay part isn't as enjoyable as it used to be, i figured there would be other things i could do.. like getting champ mastery 7 with each champion, or having fun with the lootboxes, or other miscellaneous things.

but, because youve completely ruined the essence, i cant even do that. It takes way too much essence to purchase level mastery tokens and the orange essence/disenchanting of skin shards has become downright insulting.

I refuse to purchase another skin or buy another hextech chest bundle until you fix this crap. Please dont become another greedy ass company just looking to drain your players of all the money they got.. The #1 reason i ever even started this game is because it was free to play, DO NOT GET GREEDY.

TLDR: disenchanting skin shards for orange essence is an insult. i have like 30 skin shards that i want to disenchant to unlock a few and i can't because i'll have to disenchant half of them just to get one. I can't level up my champions to mastery 7 because the cost is ridiculous to buy the tokens (6 and 7)... why is Riot doing this?

64 Comments

T4underbolt12/28/2017, 5:55:47 AM26 votes

They wont become another greedy ass company. They already are.

im so focusedbro12/28/2017, 1:59:38 AM12 votes

the orange essence needs to be fixed soon or you're going to lose a lot of players in a short period of time.

sry im fed again12/28/2017, 1:45:59 AM12 votes

agreed I stopped buying anything with RP also. you want to feel youre getting moneys worth as a consumer and it just doesn't anymore

Brutalitops0112/28/2017, 2:26:52 AM10 votes

I don't tend to disenchant skin shards. I reroll them.

Plus, everything that you just mentioned that are keeping you in the game didn't even EXIST just 2 years ago.

And you say the gameplay isn't as enjoyable? Gameplay is NEVER perfect or balanced in preseason! That's the whole purpose of preseason!

If you think the game was better or more balanced way back in the day, let me remind you of a couple of beta and season 1-3 things that were so batshit busted, NOTHING Riot has created today could possibly compare. Not even Cho'Gath being able to Stoneplate Ult a carry and literally kill them from full health with that 1 ability.

Zilean - W used to lower R's cd (removed S3-ish), R used to last 90 seconds on a target (beta)

Release Yorick - started out as many champions today do, completely unplayable because they're too weak. But before Riot buffed him, players figured out a super crazy early game trick for him. Queue jump from being unplayable to being unbeatable.

Beta Eve - You thought permanent camouflage was bad? Try permanent old stealth (you couldn't see her without pinks), stunning you for 2 seconds when she exited it, healing for 80% of her missing health on kill, and later, her stealth + 6 Sunfire Capes because they used to do more damage and it stacked.

AP Yi - Q 100% AP ratio, W 300% AP ratio. You couldn't kill him and he did a fuckton of burst.

Original Yi - Passive was random, Q was Highlander, W was same but much weaker, E was a toggle that drained mana on hit, and R was Alpha Strike, but would bounce 10 times and had a 300% AD ratio per bounce.

Beta Twisted Fate - Passive gave his whole team free crit chance, W Gold Card was an AoE 2 second targeted stun on a 4 second cooldown, R included a global slow on all enemies, and E was the teleport part of his current ult, but global and on a 30 second CD.

Also, on the subject of BE, if you disenchant all the shards you get per level up, you actually get MORE BE than you did in the IP system.

I'll agree that disenchanting skins for orange essence and the absurd costs of level 6 and 7 masteries in the new system are feelsbadman, but the rest of your complaints are complete nonissues.

does it hurt12/28/2017, 11:24:23 AM9 votes

i play league to try diffrent champs (since is lost intrest in ranked) but this shit esssence its making it ages for me to buy a new champion fuck this greedy company

dead accounts12/28/2017, 1:56:27 AM9 votes

ive talked to tons of people who are quitting this game just because of the essence

cause its like u said, if u don't want to play competitively and get into ranked, theres nothing else to do because the essence system is so trash

Hyp3rfocus12/28/2017, 2:04:42 AM7 votes

I also enjoy trying to get mastery 7 for every champion, and it is actually expensive now. Depressing really, because when I don't want to be competitive in ranked, I like to go for mastery tokens and now I can't even enjoy doing that anymore. The amount I play this game has drastically gone down

ImPrettyGood12/28/2017, 7:52:32 AM7 votes

Tho I agree with Orange esscense complaints, why are all you salty about mastery costs. It's meant as BE dumps for those who have extra. Mastery doesn't increase your chance of winning or make you a better player...

NocturnalSheild12/28/2017, 2:06:19 AM6 votes

Wut???

How is this anything like EA?

They could just flat out remove mastery. Would that make it better? Then you wouldnt have to use your FREE ESSENCE to purchase your FREE mastery tiers.

ThE vOrTeXx12/28/2017, 1:49:02 AM5 votes

I can understand fixing gameplay and things of that sort, but the essence system seemed fair, why try to fix what isn't broken??

mmxD2Nz3No12/28/2017, 9:24:21 AM4 votes

Please riot bring back the old IP/BE per game. I think almost everyone including me, thinks that League Of Legends players will suffer more and more because getting BE now is way too hard and players can't choose which champion to buy like we used to. I played this game for almost 3 years and have never thought of quitting the game before this new update with the IP gone and no IP/BE per game.

Oxyrotten12/28/2017, 6:55:02 AM3 votes

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I refuse to purchase another skin or buy another hextech chest bundle until you fix this crap. Please dont become another greedy ass company just looking to drain your players of all the money they got.. The #1 reason i ever even started this game is because it was free to play, DO NOT GET GREEDY.

Too late, Riot has always been greedy since day 1. We just didn't notice since it wasn't overt.

TLDR: disenchanting skin shards for orange essence is an insult. i have like 30 skin shards that i want to disenchant to unlock a few and i can't because i'll have to disenchant half of them just to get one. I can't level up my champions to mastery 7 because the cost is ridiculous to buy the tokens (6 and 7)... why is Riot doing this?

Riot is doing this to increase sales and profit. "Loot" rewards is the trend in gaming (caught on from irl mail loot boxes) because it means they can give you next to nothing and not only will you thank them, you will spend cash to make up for what you could have gotten originally. "But remember there's a chance you could get something nice!"

You said it yourself you were buying hextech chest's and bundles.. THAT is why they are doing this. Because it sells.

Riot only cares about the $$$

Ominarous12/29/2017, 6:16:29 AM2 votes

You know the game you've played since season 1 and reached diamond in is awful when you're starting to play destiny 2 more than it. DESTINY. FUCKING. 2.

help

ShinigamiOtaku12/28/2017, 6:47:26 AM2 votes

Hell, i would be happy if they would just take champ shards out of chests and just give skin shards. Im tired of getting champ shards out of chests when i already have a ton through leveling up.(i already have all the champs) At least then i could get a tiny amount of OE more often instead of a tiny amount whenever im lucky enough to get a skin shard out of a chest

DNFVixen12/28/2017, 1:29:22 PM2 votes

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Ok, I think we can all agree this game has taken a turn for the worse in the gameplay part..

Snowballing too quickly, matchmaking not being too reliable, too much damage, etc..

So I decided that i would stick with the game i've loved for so long, and even if the gameplay part isn't as enjoyable as it used to be, i figured there would be other things i could do.. like getting champ mastery 7 with each champion, or having fun with the lootboxes, or other miscellaneous things.

but, because youve completely ruined the essence, i cant even do that. It takes way too much essence to purchase level mastery tokens and the orange essence/disenchanting of skin shards has become downright insulting.

I refuse to purchase another skin or buy another hextech chest bundle until you fix this crap. Please dont become another greedy ass company just looking to drain your players of all the money they got.. The #1 reason i ever even started this game is because it was free to play, DO NOT GET GREEDY.

TLDR: disenchanting skin shards for orange essence is an insult. i have like 30 skin shards that i want to disenchant to unlock a few and i can't because i'll have to disenchant half of them just to get one. I can't level up my champions to mastery 7 because the cost is ridiculous to buy the tokens (6 and 7)... why is Riot doing this?

Riot is never gonna fix it's shit it doesn't gives 2 fucks about what us players have to say.

ƒiut Ðisa 12/28/2017, 11:13:06 PM2 votes

The amount of orange essence getting from disenchanting is so pathetic that I rerolled yesterday elementalist lux, baron corki and one other epic skin because disenchanting them is so worthless you woudn't get enough essence even for 1 epic skin. In the past I was buying a lot of lootboxes, most of my skins are from them, I saved so much money on skin and got really cool and rare skins from lootboxes. Now they're so worthless I rather spent my RP on new icon than lootbox with key. Riot is literally hurting themselves and they earnings by orange essence changes, or it was all planed to make people buy skins instead of cheap lootboxes. Conpiracy theories here we go!