Support Item Missions

Liveey·9/13/2017, 12:04:07 AM·1 votes·2,421 views

This is my first post and I am really happy to have the opportunity to question and learn more about the game, recently I have been playing support. I seem to have missed a few updates and perhaps patch notes. So I am very curious about the support item quests as they do not seem to work anymore.

The item 3301 which when the quest was completed gave you a skill point, which was very promising for an early advantage. (Ex having a level 2 heal on soraka instead of 1 at level 3 etc)

Of course these missions were never completed at around level three, the earliest I would ever complete the coins mission was around level 6-8.

The item 3303 line however was different, offering less gold for supports to passively gain (As it encouraged supports to deal damage and poke the enemy bot lane). However I never could complete this quest, 650ish gold to gain from only 8 gold per hit made it seem like you had to upgrade the item to get any results fast. The mission description however made it seem like the item would automatically transform to the next item in the line. ( item 3098 item 3092 etc).

So when the missions came out I found having the amulet coin was not only the better option, but the quest was easier to complete.

However now when I complete a mission, nothing happens. I really enjoyed the support quests and missions for their items even though I do admit they both needed more working out. (For example the mana regain in coin made supporting and staying in lane much easier than it would be with spellthiefs, sometimes the passive on coin made me believe that it was just better overall)

Back to the point of this post though, did Riot disable the missions? If so, are they updating them? The missions reward nothing now and although I greatly enjoy the changes to the items and how they work, I main support and use both the coin and the edge very often. The missions really gave an edge to how supports got ahead with their adcs, rather than falling behind in order to feed their adcs. However without the adcs or team getting well ahead the support doesnt keep up with their own growth, making it impossible to help the team if alone, or impossible to fight without someone right beside them. The missions arent really fun now, since I see them but there is no reason to complete them.

Im not saying supports should be strong enough to fight an adc or anything, however being able to have a small advantage in gold to make an early redemption purchase or a tank item so you can defend a tower should be something a support could do at the very least. I understand the issue with this, being "If you do not have to get kills, or farm, to be fed why shouldnt other roles just choose support items etc"

I get it, its really hard. The missions were enough of an edge to help, but since the rewards seem to be disabled I guess they were too overpowered?

Sorry for the long paragraph TLDR: Support items disabled? Are they coming back/Reworked? They were not here for very long and I liked the rewards they gave. ):

PS: If you are reworking them, I would advise that you buff spellthiefs to give mana as well as gold (more gold than 8) Considering it was really under powered in comparison to the coin.

Thank you for reading!

2 Comments

ElevenFlops9/22/2017, 5:11:50 PM1 votes

I have just the same question: How can I upgrade the support item when I complete a mission?