Can we talk about the cost to upgrade mastery tokens

7WingedFoxes·Feb 16, 2018·17 votes·934 views

To upgrade two mastery 6 tokens it costs 3250 BE (Blue essence). For mastery 7 it costs 3900 BE! It seems crazy compared to how upgrading tokens with blue essence used to be.

13 Comments

KitsuneChaos18Feb 17, 20189 votes

I've been playing the game since around Bard's release, and I only have 75 out of 139 champs. I did take a pretty long break from the game, and I don't play a ton, but I still want to be able to play who I want. How they make it for people like me is "Do you want to show mastery of a champ, or do you want new ones?" Which I really hate. [slayer-jinx-unamused]

WardBaronFFSFeb 17, 20181 votes

Hmmmmmmmmmmm Do I want to show the fact im mastery 6 riven or get a completely new champion that I may be a beast on and enjoy even more then riven????Hmmmmmmmmmmm A question ive asked myself way too many times.

MagicalDemonsFeb 17, 20181 votes

Agreed. I've been playing since Kalista's released and I own 109 champions, and trying to acquire them all. But it's either a new mastery or a new champion.

7WingedFoxesFeb 22, 20181 votes

Ikr

AJStarhikerFeb 17, 20183 votes

Ok, quick question: How many champions do you actually reach mastery 6/7 on? Also, you no longer need to spend on Runes, so I have no doubt you'll pick up plenty of the BE you really need for both champions and Masteries.

AetherArisingFeb 17, 20188 votes

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Ok, quick question: How many champions do you actually reach mastery 6/7 on? Also, you no longer need to spend on Runes, so I have no doubt you'll pick up plenty of the BE you really need for both champions and Masteries.

Although you "dont have to spend money on runes", lets just realize for a sec that runes aren't RUNES anymore. they are masteries

do you recall masteries ever costing $$

for all intents and purposes, they deleted runes and reworked masteries xD

Also, enough to warrant being upset at about 4k BE which could be spent on champions being the cost of proving you're not garbage at a champion at first glance.

TequilaZombieFeb 17, 20181 votes

Mastery 5 is usually more than enough to prove that you're not garbage, 6+ is just for bragging rights, and IMO, bragging rights should be expensive and require some level of sacrifice, otherwise you're just not bragging enough.

Hella KaiserFeb 17, 20187 votes

let's not forget that now "mastery pages" cost $$

AetherArisingFeb 17, 20181 votes

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let's not forget that now "mastery pages" cost $$

Indeed, and instead of the like 20 you used to get for free now you get t w o

good luck scrambling pre-game to sort your runes for different champs if your main 2 picks get banned or are bad picks

RootloFeb 16, 20182 votes

Its an Ip sink for players wiht 100K ip.
Now every level you get champ shards. If you happen to get the one you are upgrading it costs 0 Be for you to upgrade. You have a chance to upgrade for free, and if not you get from like 810-1200 so you have at most 5 levels before you can afford an upgrade.
In the old system you didnt get Be unless you bought a chest with RP or got 4 a month, OR you had to spend 1700 IP on a token and convert it to a champ shard, which wouldnt even give you enough to upgrade to level 6 or 7.

All in all its not that bad now

MerevelFeb 17, 20181 votes

I am level 45 and encountered only a single Gnar shard. So yep, totally gona wait for the shard since I still have a lot of champions to snag. [slayer-jinx-unamused]

Jet SettFeb 17, 20181 votes

Did all the mastery I needed to before this update, but I'm a little sad that upgrading the mastery on any champions in the future will cost an arm and a leg.

ZenaSpiritdragonFeb 22, 20181 votes

Initially I too wigged out about how expensive it was, but now that I'm again well over 20k blue essence i'm not that worried about it because I have all the champs I want and have plenty of essence if I decide I want more. I do admit that it kinda sucks for newer players or those who don't play as much and want to have the mastery and new champs but I'd honestly suggest either just getting the mastery for the champs you play the most often or waiting to get more champs before upgrading, depending on what you want. For me it actually feels easier to get mastery levels but that's just how I see it.