"I thought the mage update was suppose to make mages stronger?" -Community

Guy Fox Teemo·May 5, 2016·5 votes·440 views

Patch Release, community starts complaining about how OP AF they are.

You got what ya wanted didn't ya? Eh?

8 Comments

H 3May 5, 20161 votes

They could of touched up some weaker ones and updated a good amount still while not making them mega OP. This is a middle ground and many were fine the way there were or could of been tweaked a little bit. I think the PBE needs a complete overhaul or more players who know what they are talking about should be added there or have a team designed to properly test things along with a number of players so things that are clearly ultra OP don't make it through.

ModWulf HelhammerMay 5, 20161 votes

PBE is not for balancing. It's for large scale bugs.

And they do have a play test team. If you haven't noticed, they put a post up after every patch

H 3May 5, 20161 votes

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PBE is not for balancing. It's for large scale bugs.

And they do have a play test team. If you haven't noticed, they put a post up after every patch

Could be multipurpose and more people could be accepted generally targeting higher rank players with maybe some incentive to do so and test. Also could increase the team.

ModWulf HelhammerMay 5, 20161 votes

This post explains why balancing on the PBE isn't really possible (and the comments. Most notably, the lag): https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/4hvu7b/people_saying_why_dont_the_pbe_testers_realize/

H 3May 6, 20161 votes

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This post explains why balancing on the PBE isn't really possible (and the comments. Most notably, the lag): https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/4hvu7b/people_saying_why_dont_the_pbe_testers_realize/

OK so invest in new better servers for PBE next. And don't say they don't have the funds either. Just because people say well people on the PBE are bad means nothing. That's why you change the requirements to join make it easier for higher levels to join fix the lag get better server give incentive to try and help even make a PBE only balancing team. I mean its so simple and easy to figure out and looking up their revenue obviously a lot goes on other things there is no reason they could not do these listed things. It seems as more of people have gave up on PBE being a balancing thing when it could and should have been one. PBE bug team and PBE balancing team.

ModWulf HelhammerMay 6, 20161 votes

Lag is a problem because there is one server, at Riot HG in LA, and the PBE is worldwide.

And again, the PBE was never intended for balance. They have a high elo playtest team on site that tests everything before it goes to the PBE even. Then they can see How well it is actually balanced when they have access to data from thousands of games all at once from across the globe; which is another thing: you will never be able to balance on the PBE alone unless you had a population equal to the size of the live servers.