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The Runes and Masteries system

Lagrein Rosa··3 votes·226 views

I've just start play League for months. After I reach level, 18 I just realized how the mastery impact the game for lower level player. It just create quite unbalance between player under level 18 and over level 18. Champion like Yasuo can have his power rocketed if the player reach level 18. Also when I looked at the Runes system, a full rune page can give you almost 1,000 gold worth of stats. I feel really frustrate when I want to buy a new 6300 ip champion which I don't have a proper Runes for. I mean I have to save more than 10,000 ip if I want to play Ahri with her proper runes and that took me a month. I really don't understand why you guys create such system which leads to unbalance state of the game that should be balance. If you want to make player feels the progress from being level up in the game, it shouldn't create unbalance gameplay to the game. I still think that the mastery and runes system are very good because it can affected your play style but I still think that it's unhealthy for new player.

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Cherysse3 votes

It becomes balanced once you reach level 30, stop complaining just level up, you are not even getting up to the competitive phase of the game.

Lagrein Rosa1 votes

Balanced? I think you don't understand the problem. Let say you are level 30, you have all the mastery points so it's not in concern. However, there are players who prefer to buy new champs over build a rune page. This is where the problem came. It's unfair for new player to save up to 10,000 IP, which is 'massive' for them, to prevent you from almost insta-lose in the laning phase. Also, I don't want to hear a level 10 player talk about competitive phase of the game...

Cherysse1 votes

Then don't play the game.. it is not gonna change, play more, or spend $ to get champs and save IP to buy runes. You wan't something were the level doesn't matter? play HoTS or Dota.. stop complaining otherwise, level up, buy runes, buy champs, make an effort, we all had to level up and you are bitching out because you have to level up your account.

PLAY ARAM AND LEVEL UP QUICKLY. YOU NEED IP? PAY FOR IP BOOSTS

LaoBushido1 votes

this mastery system is new infact that level 18 spike used to be a lvl 21 spike. but i digress the mastery system is good cause it gives incentive to play the game to lvl. imo the incentive to play rank at level 30 is not appealing due to toxicsisaty levels. the rune system is annoying to deal with as you said because ip is grindy to get. a riotor said they will rework the rune system but it probably wont be till next preseason. as far as your new player point new players will be playing with new players ftmp

ValyrianBlade1 votes

When I was leveling up I found the runes and masteries exciting. It gave me something to work towards. Every level meant I unlocked a new point to spend in masteries and I'd immediately race over and try to figure out which way was the best to spend it (admittedly a lot less exciting under the new masteries).

Runes were another monster. Interesting and something to save for.

Runes are ridiculously costly and terrible towards newer players. As someone who's played a year and a half now, I understand that entirely. I hated it at first. Now, I've spent over 25k IP on rune pages and probably more than that on runes. Have you any idea how furious I would be if Riot just changed it? Over 50k IP wasted when I only own about 40 champions...

Which simultaneously proves the point that runes are out-of-this-world-expensive and it's really unfair to newer players. You get through it though. And you'll benefit from the permanent 50% price reduction on the core tier 3 runes that happened a few months ago (which as someone who had bought those runes at full price, it was frustrating to see that come around and not even a temporary sale on the runes I was saving to buy).

For 6300 IP at the right time of year (when there's a sale) get 2 rune pages. Buy the core runes that were discounted. Fill out your 4 rune pages (ADC, AP, Tank, and whatever unique page you want) (easy to repeat some runes such as armor seals and MR glyphs across multiple pages) and then sit on that for a while. Those 4 pages will be more than enough to give you nearly the same power as any of your opponents and will probably cost around 15k IP in total.

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