A thought about the potential problems with the masteries.

I have noticed that last season (and its looking like season seven will be the same monster) have both had a large amount of damage creep in this game. And my thoughts are that its largely a problem with keystones giving bonus damage and the defensive tree being significantly less useful. I understand that people enjoy killing things and killing them quickly but is it possible that maybe we have gone a little bit overboard as of late?

At the moment keystones basically function as a additional spell or passive in your champions arsenal in addition to summoners spells and are almost as powerful. And the overbearingly powerful ones are the damage ones right at this moment. baring CoTC which IMO is the only keystone which stands up, by and large, to the offensive ones. currently we have a cesspool of things which increase damage in the game dealt by a percentage. Which is largely a part of the problem. I don't think that champions should have access to a passive which allows you to deal 7.5% bonus damage on top of 200 to 300 bonus damage TLD accessible from masteries. I am feeling that all this power put into the masteries creates a warped problem where in most games 1 or 2 people usually on the same team stack up that juicy 7.5% bonus damage and the other team is just getting smashed. and this creates situations where itemization is getting nerfed very hard to make up for it. The ap itemization specifically as the damage is far more noticeable in the AOE mages and control magee, and instead of nerfing the problem (rylies was a problem tho) they ignore the masteries and decrease the itemization which creates a more snowbally game as now the deficit is far higher because the bonuses are far more important. I respect the fact that riot has tried to create a more healthy game with the updates but I feel that masteries are what is breaking the game. not the items or anything else.

I am curious to see if anyone agrees with me and if there is any feedback constructively that which adds to the conversation either supporting or disagreeing with my thoughts. If this is the actual problem maybe we can work to resolve it.