The S5 Ideas/Discussion Thread
First off, I love this game! I'm a three season player who's finally partaking in ranked play and it's thrilling. I was a veteran from the WC3 days but could never get into your competitor because of the terrible toxicity and I'm glad Riot is making a strong effort to encourage fair play and kindness!
Second, what do people think should be added/changed in S5? :)
My own ideas:
Gameplay: --#1 priority: Continue to fix the tox! This game is amazing but all freemium games with chat suffer from toxicity and about every fourth or fifth game I play still disintegrates into near-violent cursing. Give custom skins like the Victorious Morg skin for players who maintain an honor crest all season! That would really help I think!
- The slight changes you made to make support viable in S4 were amazing! Kudos on that; it became my main role this season and was fun to play. --That's why I'm also asking to toss junglers a bone and slightly improve the exp payout for jungle monsters, so they can level equally with lanes. (Though it may be dangerous and tip the game in favor of expert junglers who can be everywhere and gank at level 0; I don't know! I have not mastered this trick yet, but I play people who seem to be capable of it.) --Please don't drop Clarity! I may be the only player on umpteen servers who takes it, but I need it. Every point of mana is healing or damage to me. :> I continue to think it's underrated and can't count how many weary champs I've refreshed for a sustained push and a lane turnaround! --Fix more lag! The game actually plays really well when lag isn't happening. The mechanics are great right now.
Items:
--Expand the Sightstone upgrade path with Topaz (Cooldown), Amethyst (Mana/Mana Regen), Emerald (AP), and Jet (Armor/MR) upgrade paths and add health regen to Ruby. It would just make vision such an appealing choice for so many more players. I continue to think under-awareness of the importance of vision kills more games more quickly than anything.
--The new gold paths were really fun to play this season. Expand the gold income upgrade path with some options tailored to top and ADCs - maybe a Rogue's Smallsword with +2 gold income and +5 attack damage to start, or a lane armor item (Gambler's Buckler?) with +7 regular armor and 2 gold and 1 gold per time damaged by champion (limit 5 per minute)?
Graphics: --Add a "realistic graphics" option. May or may not be feasible but I could help with some shaders!
Balance: --Instead of the usual policy of nerfing the top rank of champions, slightly buff any champion who remains below 47% winrate for too long. (I own such a stable of champions that we were all punished for being too good with! ^_^ )
Fun: --Keep up the Sunday Morning LOLs! The Brolaf/Taric one had me rolling. "Is it outrageous...really????" ^_^ --Make a League of Legends anime or weekend cartoon! I would love a One Piece style, youth-oriented, raunchy-but-clean-humor anime franchise oriented around the lore! I think the lore for the game is great, and there's so much opportunity for humor around all the culture! Every episode could be a different champion matchup and the season finales could deal with lore politics like the corrupt Noxian conquest attempts against the rest of Demacia! If a really clean art team did it and funny writers were allowed to really be creative...I mean, wouldn't Draven be one of the funniest villains ever? Couldn't he be? Couldn't amazing tavern dialogue in Bilgewater between Gangplank and Sarah Fortune be scripted? Please? :> There's so much potential for mirth there. --KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
I'll open the floor! Thanks Riot and community for making League a worldwide phenomenon!
