Mastery 6 and 7. Pay for them why???

TengenToppaGnar·Dec 30, 2017·22 votes·2,542 views

AS the title says, why do we need to pay for Mastery??? Seems like the dumbest requirement in existence. We should be simply be given it in general. Its Mastery of a champion, MASTERY, there is no added bonus besides a fancier emblem you can spam while playing Yasuo at 0/21/0 but making sure everyone knows you're an M7 YASUO!

Any reason we can't make this free, whats the honest to god reason? There is as many champs as there are Generation 1 Pokemon! This just seems like a futile and cosmetic thing like skins, despite the fact it requires ACTUAL EFFORT on our part to even be able to up it. :/

11 Comments

PaladinNODec 30, 20177 votes

Yasuo at 0/21/0

That's not what usually happens though.

https://pics.me.me/0-13-0-52-16-07-job-here-is-done-but-you-didnt-14381909.png

So at 0/21/0, he must have been really keen to show off his mastery emote!

Me, when wanting to flash my mastery emote, I mostly just get:

You have not unlocked BM on this champion!

...Aw-shucks.

On a serious note: I too have been asking why mastery upgrades cost BE in the first place. There is no logical reason why it would cost gamemoney in addition to the clears throat (or was it trout?) "obvious display of skill in the acquisition of the champion mastery tokens themselves".

"Balanced".

PeachyPosteriorDec 30, 20174 votes

It's a BE sink. Some people ended up with more BE than they know what to do with, so paying for mastery as well as the BE shop is for them to spend it on.

You still get your master 5 you can flash, and upgrade to m6 or m7 using a champ shard. Since it's just something to flash around and isn't in anyway necessary to the game I don't see why paying BE for it is a problem.

ExpStealerDec 30, 20172 votes

It used to be 500/600 BE, but it was separate from IP. Now there's only BE and the cost has been multiplied by 6.5. We all got stabbed in our in-game wallets as a result.

PeachyPosteriorDec 30, 20173 votes

We also got all of our BE multiplied by 6.5. And they made sure to tell everyone about it.

BE used to be harder to obtain as well. Really I don't think it's a big deal. Especially now that we don't have to buy any sort of runes.

flibitydooDec 30, 20171 votes

and 500/600 BE was about two champion shards from the store

which costed ~~about~~ exactly 1700 ip each.

which meant you spent at least 3400 ip to get a mastery level.

and assuming you ONLY PLAY YOUR MAIN (which yes, was a lot of players, that's why they added 1700 ip champion shard tokens to the store after complaints on the boards/reddit) , you aren't going to be getting chests from S ranks since you aren't playing new champs. Which means that you aren't getting shards from anything but playing your main to get IP.

DanjengDec 30, 20174 votes

At least mastery levels don't actually affect gameplay, like Runes which used to cost IP. It's just something to spend your BE on if you have too much,

HügöDec 30, 20172 votes

BE sink.

ExpStealerDec 30, 20171 votes

Not sure if you're joking, but the mastery system is cosmetic and does not represent your actual skill level with a champion (hi, Yasuo). Besides, here you only pay 3250/4000 BE. In Paragon you pay 25K Reputation (Reputation = BE) to unlock Rank 1 on any hero. For Rank 2 you have to pay 75K and Epic Games knows how much for higher ranks as there is no cap. But I have to agree that while you may not get any emotes like in LoL, one gets rewards every level (10 per rank) and every rank. Skins, cards, chests, crowns... In LoL one gets only an emote. On that much being unfair I can agree.

deepfriedchickenDec 30, 20171 votes

goooood thing i alredy got mastery lvl 7 temo :DDDDD

XonraDec 30, 20171 votes

I'm just collecting champion shards like pokemon and using them, otherwise I'm not bothering. I've got multiple 6 and 7 mastery tokens just sitting in my loot tab waiting. I'm not spending thousands of blue essence on some arbitrary colored sticker on my loading screen.