Feedback regarding the new runes...

Acheron16·11/9/2017, 5:11:21 PM·3 votes·640 views

So, preseason is finally here and I can finally give feedback on it without needing to have a PBE account. Many of the problems that were present in PBE carried right over to live, so let me list the thing I find problematic:

->** "Starter rune pages"** - Look, I know you made these generalist pages so that people can fallback into if they pick a champion they are completely not used to, but why not let us customize the runes themselves without being able to change trees? That way, they still are fallback "preset" pages without being constrained by the fact that some preset runes are downright terrible choices for a champion that fits the overall tree (I.E. I will NEVER pick Iron Skin or Mirror Shell over Conditioning from the Resolve tree, even on squishies).

->** Only being given one rune page to customize AT AL**L - this is a HUGE problem that I honestly don't understand how even got through after all this time on the PBE. Why don't we have an option to buy rune pages?! Why do we have to wait for the stupid "BE shop" to come by so we can buy them. This is an incredibly stupid design and business mistake: people are constrained to trash preset pages filling up their tabs while only having one page to customize EVERY MATCH. All the while being unable to buy more pages AT ALL, costing Riot potentially lost money. Such a moronic business decision...

-> Rune selector not reminding our customization options - having to tick that damn box at the end of the page that I want to see all options and details gets tiresome quickly. Once again, a major oversight that I don't know how got through PBE unfixed.

->** Damage somehow got even higher** - people were complaining about damage and snowballing the entire season and this update only seems to have made things worse: snowballing is more rampant than ever and damage has achieved ridiculous levels. Anyone that isn't a tank dies obscenely fast, I think it is time to make a global damage nerf to all champions by 30% and start from there, this has gone on for long enough.

-> Some champions synergize too well with certain runes - this one is less serious because it is innevitable from such a massive change, so I expect Riot to aggressively (and I mean a patch every week to fix these things) balance these. "Gathering data" or "Wait-and-see approach" is all fine and dandy, but there are some situations where runes are clearly being abused that should be fixed.

I know the update came yesterday, but the fact that it was on the PBE for so long and STILL brought some glaring issues is concerning. You shouldn't need feedback from millions of players to realize that being completely unable to customize preset pages AT ALL while being unable to buy more pages is clearly a bad decision.

11 Comments

Vermonster11/9/2017, 5:19:23 PM2 votes

HoTS. See ya there. League is trash now for all the reasons above and more. It's been a solid 4 years since I've seen this game near balance.

At some point you have to stop giving Riot the benefit of the doubt and need yo give up on them. These changes were completely unneeded, floped on the PBE, and yet they pushed them through anyways.

YouremyboyBleu11/9/2017, 5:20:47 PM2 votes

I agree that base stats are super out of wack. You know maybe either damage reduction but that doesn’t seem right because farming seems consistent still, it honestly feels like such poor adaptation of resistances with rune pages gone.

LiL Bunnie FuFuu11/9/2017, 5:13:26 PM1 votes

"I think it is time to make a global damage nerf to all champions by 30% and start from there" I hope this is sarcasm