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The Recent Ziggs Augment Nerf

DaisyBlaster·9/18/2018, 6:24:02 PM·53 votes·20,244 views
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Not to mention the missions are super hard already, when players found a way to win this game mode, as always Riot changes it. It is an event, like the other players commented, it is supposed to be fun and rewarding, and now the chance has been taken away from us. If you want players to go through hard tough not even skilled missions, because the monsters inside just have out numbers you with tremendous health and atk, why would you even bother giving us the augments to play with it? Not to mention the last mission requires 2 augments to challenge and unless you are with friends it is so hard to get other players to work with you.

I can't help but noticed that there is also a recruitment mission, doesn't that already mean League of Legends has become a less fun game to play with? When players discovered a fun way to earn rewards, according to Riot Mort the Ziggs strat has no effort and apparently they (Riot?) are not happy about it. What Riot Mort does not know is that, it still takes a lot of time to practice and coordinate with friends and/or randoms to get the strategy to work out. This process actually made the mode fun and rewarding, because it is not an easy task to begin with. No wonder players starting to play less League of Legends, because we cannot even earn rewards for events! What I am most disappointed about is that, Riot Mort said the reward is not meant for everyone. Then what is the purpose of making a game mode with rewards that is almost impossible for most players to achieve for?

I don't know since when the opinion of a senior designer is greater than the vast population of League community. I really enjoyed the old League of Legends where missions are actually meaningful. I think rewards should be given to players as long as they spend enough time and/or play as fives, if Riot tries to get the community to be involved. One game I played also has extra hard stages for players who wants to be challenged, the reward for the extra hard mode will be in game currency, for League of Legends it will be BE, but all other exclusive rewards are earn-able for all players as long as they finish all the missions. Like when the first VS missions came out it was like that as well. I hope Riot listens to us, because with decisions like this (nerf the augments) will only push players away instead of keeping them.

Best Regards,

A player since the beginning of S3

112 Comments

Seaweed Banana9/18/2018, 6:38:02 PM30 votes

Yea I agree, the game mode is so discouraging and begging other players to help is not a fun thing to do...[slayer-jinx-unamused]

Beatrice falls9/18/2018, 6:42:06 PM29 votes

The presentation of it states that you are free to play it the way you want by being creative (something along those lines) but then they restrict you do to so -_-

ForgottenLuck9/18/2018, 10:03:15 PM12 votes

What kinda annoys me is how he says the strat is "unfun" which I disagreed with, since when can someone define what's fun or not, I enjoyed the strat a lot and find that if that's their "excuse" its an awful one

rtbf2216514129/18/2018, 11:40:04 PM8 votes

"So this wont be popular"

I thought you were making a videogame for the people. Not for yourselves. FFS.

Saitho Orihara9/19/2018, 11:46:27 AM7 votes

I'll be honest on why I'm mad about this decision : Yes, I wanted to abuse it, why ? Because I'm tired of this gamemode, it's so fun when you just play it for the hell of it, but the mission are so cancerous, all Sona or Ziggs ? Why ? All Yasuo ? Why ? Why should my mission success be in he hands of complete strangers, I only wanted the Jinx Icon so I did the SR missions, a friend of mine wants the ward but we always seem to get that one guy who decides to take full augments.

Missions where I my team as 100% of the power for success is dumb. Having mission like : Play with or against X champion with Y skin is good, it can happen or you can do it yourself. But missions where ALL the team as to sit down, have a talk and all agree on the mission they'll do is dumb, we aren't all at the same mission. In future events I hope there won't be other "Begging the team to do X thing" because I can't even be mad at them, maybe they already finished the mission, maybe they're on an other mission or they just want to play the game. These missions aren't healthy if you aren't in a Five to Four Men, it's just a purely made event on the mission side.

But the gamemode and augment system is super fun, missions are a failures for me tho

saltran9/18/2018, 6:45:20 PM7 votes

I spended a moderate time yesterday and did the 2 Augment mission 3 times (because I had to do the 4, 3 and 2 missions) because I knew that they would hotfix it.

Cooldoggy9/19/2018, 2:23:35 AM7 votes

For those who are disagreeing on this post, I'm disagreeing on you. Just because you are able to get it doesn't mean you are the better one. Plus it's PVE and it is meant to let everyone have fun not suffer.

Tahminatrix 9/18/2018, 6:47:09 PM6 votes

So they would prefer to reward people who go all out single player mode rather than the ones who coordinate?

Isnt that sending a message to all players that coordination shouldn't be rewarded? If you wanted a gamemode that didn't involve multiple people buffing one person (IN A PREDOMINANTLY TEAMGAME) then why have multiple players in that mode along with access to champs like sona and malphite in the first place.

UnDeuxTrois1239/18/2018, 6:46:01 PM6 votes

I have always been a big fan collecting icons, right now knowing that I am not going to be able to earn the icons I am super sad... the star guardians mode was actually better than this odyssey since it is achievable. I think Riot Mort is right about "it is a mistake to offer that kind of challenge", and I agree with the post that event exclusive rewards should be given out to players who spends time and participates. [sg-janna]

Rismosch9/18/2018, 10:47:24 PM5 votes

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5050BS9/18/2018, 11:36:34 PM4 votes

This is like WOW when a Guild would get world first with a tactic and then Blizzard would remove the tactic and EVeryONE else was SOL and those that used it got the rewards while others had to work a LOT harder to get the same rewards.

So Riot you going to take away the rewards from those that now cheated?

Corrupt Bliss9/19/2018, 6:47:14 AM4 votes

I honestly agree with Riots choice. The Sona/Ziggs mission is not that difficult. Onslaught 2 Augments was substantially harder, but even then it doesn't require five Ziggs and a brain-dead camp abuse strategy. It was cool while it lasted.

My friends and I have all had a blast completing the missions. Some are difficult, some are relaxing, and some help us realize how cool the different augments are (ON HIT ZIGGS AND SONA AMARITE?).

Even after obtaining all augments and completing missions I'm always super down to help others out, regardless of what mission they are on. I've found similar success and mindsets in this gamemode as well.

EDIT:

And as for OP, the gem gives you a substantial amount of free skins. My friend rolled the entire Lunar Revel skin line from a birdie bag. That's A LOT of free skins. I've rolled a total of 9 free skins as well, having obtained two gems. We worked hard for those gems. We didn't use cheese strategies and we worked together with others to complete the mission. Rewards should NOT be easy to obtain, especially for the casual gamer. Give BE to the casuals, not exclusives. You've got it backwards.