new mastery system is just a step backwards

Carnarius·11/17/2015, 4:52:37 AM·6 votes·300 views

current masteries are really atrocious. Riot took away the most important thing i liked in them - freedom of choice. i could take anything i wanted, even 0/30/0 if i wanted full tank, now i'm forced to take masteries which are completely useless for my class. and if we are talking about tanks, let's be honest, these defensive masteries are horrible, except the keystone which really doesn't matter, it's one mastery after all. the difference in taking defensive masteries and not taking them, is 1 auto from adc. and let me add, previous masteries would be much better at dealing with all these incoming crits in preseason, would actually separate a tank from a squishy (especially that tanks have enough problems on their own), and VERY probably would be healthy in balance terms (but it's preseason, so who cares about balance) but the saddest thing is, there is absolutely no diversity. for example, there is dedicated tank player who wants to go full defence. he HAS to go (let's say) 12/0/18, while any ad champ will usually go 18/0/12. now i'm sorry to bother you, but what's the difference? 300 hp and 15% tenacity? that should be the difference between 2 completely different classes, damage dealer (who ignores defence) and a full tank? sorry, but for me it does not have any sense at all, and instead of improving masteries, you destroyed them and made both diversity and balance worse

4 Comments

Kazaashi11/17/2015, 4:19:51 PM2 votes

The old masteries were pretty bland. Pretty much every single champ other than supports went 21/9/0. The new ones are pretty fun. Deathfire Touch on Singed and Rumble is super, super fun. Gnar is pretty crazy with Grasp of the Undying.

The new masteries are about fitting your playstyle, the old ones were about fitting your champions playstyle.

RogueWill11/17/2015, 4:56:36 AM1 votes

on the plus side it lets mundo go to top lane again since masteries sync with his kit fairly well. But then again, if enemy is smart he/she will freeze lane close to his turret and make it a farm lane successfully deleting mundo.

Jamaree11/17/2015, 4:59:10 AM1 votes

Personally, I think the opposite and like them more now. Will go into detail more as I review.

Honestly, as a tank, you don't really need more then 18 in defenses as they currently stand. Then the last 12 go into offense if a damage tank or cunning if a defense tank.

Honestly, I felt like there was more wasted space in the season 5 masteries especially if you didn't want to go full 30 in defense.

EcchiOtakuTM11/17/2015, 4:07:47 PM1 votes

The resolve mastery may not look like much but they give more reward than old masteries ever did