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Almost all of the 7.9 item potential updates are failures, but this is by far the worst.

Talinis·4/7/2017, 4:28:17 AM·1 votes·1,152 views

So, a big reason that you wanted to pick wardens/initiators was to rework itemization so that they are attractive for tanks while not making it attractive for "bruiser/tank" builds like yasuo, fizz, ekko etc.

THEN!!!

[REWORKED - WIP] Abyssal Scepter Total Cost: 2800g Build Path: Spectre's Cowl + Negatron Cloak + 880g +300 Health +70 Magic Resist +100% Base Health Regeneration +10% Cooldown Reduction Unique Passive: Nearby enemy champions take 10% more magic damage.

[REWORKED - WIP] Banshee's Veil Total Cost: 2900g Build Path: Fiendish Codex + Negatron Cloak + Amplifying Tome + 845g +60 Ability Power +60 Magic Resist +10% Cooldown Reduction Unique Passive: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next enemy ability. This shield refreshes after no damage is taken from enemy champions for 44-8 seconds based on level.

Literally what the fuck. First off, this pulls a 100% opposite. First, the "new" abyssal scepter gives "tank" fizz and ekko and other aps 10% more bonus magic damage really????????????????????????? So now I can go tri, gunblade and get 10% extra damage on my abilities by going a full tank item AND it comes with CDR sweet!

Then, because we really want fizz and other melee AP assassins to be well, AP not "tank" Enter "new" banshee veil. If those pesky backline AP's with their zhonyas and long range cc wasn't enough, let's make it so they get a low CD bubble. As if they aren't already safe enough in back with their range. LB with 8 second bubble come in, oh can't cc me I have banshee "port back" Meanwhile ekko and fizz and other melee APs will get it instantly popped off from ambient AOE damage and now they lose 10% magic damage.

Riot really seems dead set on giving +magic damage bonus to tanks, they've been on about making abyssal scepter a tank item for years. But for the love of god don't be idiots and keep the banshee veil the way it is now. Make it a shield so that when they are hit by an ability, it doesn't BLOCK the ability but pops a shield that absorbs X damage for Y seconds like MAW. Especially now that you are showing blatant favoritism and giving AD their "AD zhonyas" with the new reworked GA and taking the option away from mages. AND ESPECIALLY so it doesn't fuck over so many champions and turn others into demi-gods. It will be blatantly overpowered on back line mages who cant' really be caught and when they do it's because of a well timed ranged cc.

If I sound hostile, it's because I am a bit. I've never seen such poorly thought out ideas. Like it's one thing to test. It's another thing to basically do 100% the opposite of good balancing and everything you've complained about for a while that you were going to fix.

2 Comments

Stellafreyja4/7/2017, 5:48:21 AM1 votes

These items haven't even gone live yet (and won't for another patch cycle).

Talinis4/7/2017, 6:23:26 AM1 votes

When they put things on PBE, this is basically the gist of what we are getting. Minor tweaks and adjusts but there are almost never major changes, the only time they don't is when they are testing something that is never going to live such as a weird champion passive. They are making changes to these items in the next patch. What is seen is almost certainly going to go live. Riot history in 7 years has shown this to be nearly 100% true in every way (look at edge of night). Given how WAAAAAY far off the mark these items are (edge of night was like 1 beer compared to this pass out drunk), there is no hope of their minor tweaks fixing what the monkey from the zoo decided to throw at us. All of these item changes will absolutely break the game beyond anything we've ever seen.

But be my guest, provide no feedback and watch the game be absolutely destroyed. I have played league since S1 but I think it's time to quit because watching Riot flounder around for half a season, this is the nail in the coffin that will kill the game with how horribly thought out it was and how imbalanced it will make every champion in league. I wouldn't be so overly harsh to Riot but if they wanted legit feedback with no hostility then they should've posted actual well thought out changes for testing. Not something a monkey threw together standing against everything riot said they wanted to fix for the past year.