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First Win of the Day - Bad Mechanic - Preseason 8

Lyndgaard·11/14/2017, 10:42:47 AM·10 votes·1,550 views

Hello Community,

Today I want to talk about the "First Win of the Day" mechanic. Up until preseason 8, I didn't really care since I had plenty of IP and nothing to use it for. I actually stopped even noticing that I was granted FWOTD.

But now that preseason 8 is out, IP has been converted into blue essence and experience is suddenly what drives both your level, but also in a way acts as your currency, I feel the FWOTD mechanic needs a change. There are just so many scenarios where it is not rewarding people correctly. Just to mention a few;

  • People who are not able to play at the same hour each day, will not be rewarded. So if I on one day is first able to play at 9-11PM, but the day after at 3-5PM, there is no reward, even if I win three games in a row.

  • Last night I was also playing with my friend from 4-7PM, we won 4 games in that time, but no FWOTD. Then later I played again when the mission was actually available, lost the first game, won the second. The result; I was super annoyed at my team both games because I needed this win and I actually should be sleeping at those hours.

To recap, I would love for Riot to give us an explanation of why it is as it is. The reward of 575XP is A LOT! it is 3 victories worth of XP, 1/5 of the required XP to level.

Now that I have taken my time to write this, I hope you guys will comment and that Riot will try to be more open about this. I can't see why the "reset" can't be at 12 PM, please enlighten me Riot.

10 Comments

kattzkitti11/14/2017, 10:50:56 AM5 votes

There's really no debate to be had here. It should reset at a specific time every day (12 AM server time will always be objectively ideal). The 22 hours since last completion has never been a good design, and needlessly punishes those with variable schedules.

ModThe Djinn11/14/2017, 2:06:55 PM5 votes

My personal suggestion for this is to let FWotD stack up to 2-3. This gives a bit of leeway in when you can play those games, and helps soften the losing streak. Then, if you want, lower it by, say, 150XP per win and put a 150XP bonus for playing your first GAME each day. You keep an incentive to play a game each day, but you give more flexibility in when players need those wins.

PhDs Nuts11/14/2017, 2:30:59 PM2 votes

My complaint is that they changed how it works when it resets during a game. Up until this preseason if you started a game before the timer reset and the game ended after the reset, you got the FWotD bonus. Now you don't. You have to start the game after the reset.