Star Guardians Quest New Horizon Difficulty Rediculous

ForFoxSakes··12 votes·1,676 views

@RIOT Were any of these quests ever playtested before they were thrown into release?

Our premade team of 1 diamond, 2 plat, 1 gold and a silver - already much higher than the average skill level of your playerbase, nevermind those who dont even play ranked, havent played these champs before or sub level 30s without full runes or masteries.

We spent the last 4 hours failing the mission. Over and over and over again it would be at the 2nd last map with the 30 velkoz spamming across the map, skarners moving faster than you can move and chogaths who tank multiple rotations from casters before going down, all while restrcted to a small circle with no front line and no consistent CC

I'd like to see you show us the playtest results of ANYONE passing A Guardian's Origins with team New Horizon. Soraka - long ass cooldowns, minimal damage and delayed CC. Deadweight Ezreal - we tried blue build, AD build, straight AP build. Too focused on single target Syndra - decent aoe but lacks single target. Ult long ass cooldown to burst one target most of the time not even killing them but long CD on E for CC MF - good Ahri - lack of Aoe CC and CD reliant Extreme lack of CC, lack of reliable damage, lack of a front line and super weak sustain. Even tried building 2-3 champs as tanky to take some hits or block for others, but nothing works.

Compare this to the other team who has: Janna - superpeels, massive healing and shields/ardent user to Lulu - major CC for team to burst w poly and nonstop shield/ardent Poppy - nonstop dash/dive deny vs reksai/khazix maps while being a front line tank where the other team doesnt have one. Ult to clear the zone when getting overwhelmed Jinx - hypercarry with permanent ardent censer buff from Lulu. Traps for CC Lux - even more CC with slows and snares. Low CD AOE damage with empowered autos and massive AOE ult. Shields on top Every single person has CC and AoE damage

What the fuck is this?

Good luck getting a teamwide solo play A ranking as well. Id like to see the % of the playerbase who you think can do this. Pretty clever actually to have rewards never given out before in the form of a ward skin and perm champ dangled in front of players to make them actually unobtainable

Usually for events I do them on my main and at least 1 alt. This time I'm not even going to bother doing them on my main

Then after all that grinding with poorly designed quests, poorly designed unfun restrictions you expect people to come back to grind out an S rating?

Show me that your design team actually beat these quests. Show me something to make me half believe you think even 5% of the playerbase is able and willing to complete these because I'm willing to bet my house and bank account that it wasnt done

Expecting people to run the same thing, especially with how long it takes to run the gauntlet, over and over just for a fraction of progression in the quest chain is insanity

15 Comments

Glîtchy6 votes

Don't forget, Syndra ult can't be used against the boss.

ForFoxSakes1 votes

Because it's not a champ yeah, but never got to the boss with Team Ahri. Team Poppy did it twice with 1 shots each time. W team Ahri though I'm sure the boss level is easier than the vel/skarner/cho gauntlet anyways since you actually get room to kite when you dont have a front line or sustain

ABlueQuaker5 votes

Don't forget that you have to win the mode at least 8 times.

EDIT: And you're forced to do it with a 5-man premade.

Glîtchy4 votes

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Don't forget that you have to win the mode at least 8 times.

One of them being without ANY marksman, which is truly absurd

ForFoxSakes2 votes

And 2 without Poppy which is even worse

2Charmnot2Charm1 votes

https://i.imgur.com/cK6eKLv.png

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it's funny how your group is having such a hard time with a diamond, 2 plats, gold, and silver while my group were doing these missions with just 1 person above plat while everyone else is gold or worse.

:thinking:

RIP Tahm Kench4 votes

And the AD keystone mastery that makes killing Cho's everything reasonable doesn't stack against the boss

Cavesloth3 votes

The sad part is they could have easily fixed all this bs before release by doing 2 things.

1 Make it so you can finish the quests on Normal, and 2 remove the premade req. Boom everyone's happy except the masochists who like pain (and seriously fuck those people).

ForFoxSakes2 votes

FYI the group I was in with 1 diamond, 3 plats and a gold failed Team Ahri too and called it quits

So much fun right?

Glîtchy4 votes

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FYI the group I was in with 1 diamond, 3 plats and a gold failed Team Ahri too and called it quits

So much fun right?

Ikr nothing screams "fun" like Dark Soul's asshole of a sibling we call, "Invasion"

GigglesO2 votes

The only one I'm stuck on is the no support...

DemainaNyx1 votes

Play Lux support with Stoneborn Pact and Ardent rush. Don't pop E's, just let it sit on the floor so your team gets the Ardent from the slows as enemies walk into it.

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2593566116/230464500?tab=overview

Cavesloth2 votes

All the other threads about this seem to be missing the point, I'm really glad you made this one. People in the other threads keep saying "You need to find a group and communicate and you can beat it" Ignore the fact that just beating it doesn't complete the ludicrous mission requirements, and outside of getting carried a lowly silver like myself has NO shot at even getting 4 tokens, let alone 8.

I'm fine with having hard modes, I enjoyed trying to beat lvl 100 doombots with friends but don't tie missions to that shit when most of you playerbase CANNOT complete them. You wanna give out an icon for proving you can beat some masochistic slogfest that's fine, but don't put missions on them geezus.

I'll be showing RIot my disapproval of this BS by voting with my wallet. No money for them anymore.

CudyDarkyz1 votes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZQUEbwkHf9sWX1hcpKI6TEj8CtMnGO2EZkXAVIa4-SU/preview

Me and my silver-gold friends did it second try.

edit: 2 of them not being in the call and one of them never playing the game mode before.

DemainaNyx1 votes

Have Soraka take Stoneborn Pact and build Ardent, Warmogs, Spirit Visage. I normally finish that with Lucidity and Athene's or Redemption.

She is now healthy enough to tank when necessary and literally hitting any ability heals your teammates. Plus the combo gives enough for Warmogs to regen her to full, meaning infinite health for your team. And the heal from Stoneborn is stronger because you have a ton of health (not as much as a Stornborn Poppy, but it isn't bad).

http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2593522013/230464500?tab=overview

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