The Loot/Leveling system is bad

BooRiri·7/6/2018, 1:26:27 PM·2 votes·896 views

Ok, let me start out on a good note by saying I love League of Legends. It's the first game I've ever taken really seriously. However, even though it's such a simple thing to do I really don't understand why you guys (Riot Games) don't make the loot system and leveling system attractive for longer-term players. I have all champions, so the leveling system is basically worthless for me. As of the moment I have 13k+ blue essence stored up and I can't do anything useful with it. Now you might say you can get a higher champion mastery level, but frankly those things don't matter since realistically they don't show if I'm good at a champion and I don't think they're pretty. You could respond by saying, but ahahahah.. you could just save up for our blue essence shop. Which let me say once more is completely worthless. The essence collector ward is decent, the emotes are not good and overpriced and the superrare Urfwick skin has such a high cost that I might aswell forget of having a chance to buy it this year(also the shop only comes along once in a blue moon). And the chroma skins, well yes I'll be honest, those are nice, but oh wait I can't get any of the new chromas if I don't already have the skin. Which I can't get because I don't have any more money to use on LoL and it's impossible to get any of them with the loot system. So let's talk about the loot system. A great system if you compared it to what we had, nothing. Compared to other loot systems(except maybe loot system like PUBG) it's extremely horrible. First of all, last year it was already so hard to get a 1350rp skin out of the system, because you had to get 2 other 1350rp skins, which are pretty damn rare. And now you've made it even worse by butchering the amount of orange essence I get from a skin. Like honestly I could get that you make it harder for people to get free skins, because that imposes on the amount of money you can make, but COME ON it went from 2(actually more like 1.5) skins needed to craft a 1350rp skin to AT LEAST 5 1350RP SKINS, LIKE THAT'S INSANE. Second of all, gemstones, the skins are hella cool and nice I'll be honest so good job on the skin department, but the department that decided that it was a good idea to require gemstones to craft them is downright insane. To get ONE gemstone is already insanely difficult since it has a 3.6% chance to drop, but now you have to get TEN OF THEM. Like honestly did you think through what you put in the game. If someone were to open 100 chests, on average they would get 3.6 gemstones. Meaning it would require 100*(10/3.6)=277 (rounded down) chests to get ONE HEXTECH SKIN. Using masterwork chests(which honestly are also bad but I'll explain later) you would need to buy that pack of 10 masterwork chests 28 times: which would amount to 282250=63,000RP which is $420(using the $100rp packs). Now I don't know who thought that amount is funny, but hehe xd IT ISNT. Now using the 10 pack Hextech Chests bundle this would come up to 281950=54.600RP WHICH IS $364. Like this amount is practically just insane. An easy solution would be to let go of gemstones all together and just put Hextech skins on a 1% droprate. So that every 100 chests you would theoreticaly get 1 skin, which is(using hextech chests, the cheaper version) 10*1950=19500RP and that's $130, which is still a lot but a lot more reasonnable for a rare skin. Lastly, hextech chests and keys themselves have a huge flaw. Let's start with keys, in my opinion it takes too many key fragments to open one hextech chest. I would prefer you make it 2.5 key fragments or 2 key fragments. Because frankly there isn't much of a reason to not be toxic. Sure you might get banned and all, but if you're not toxic before the end of the season you get your ranked rewards. Like I don't know why toxicity has gone down with the new honor system. Key fragment drop are seldom ( like even if you get about 5 honors from random people every day, you'd be lucky if you get one key fragment every day), the rewards are bad. I was SUPER hyped last year for the honor rewards since I got honor level 5, but all I got was a ward skin, which I frankly didn't even like the color. I preferred the honor level 4 ward. Anyways I diverged a bit, but all of this comes back into the loot system. It's so hard to get honors and key fragments to open hextech chests(for people that play a lot). Right now I have 9 hextech chests I can't open because I have no keys and it's been like that for some months. Getting hextech chests feels super good, I compliment you on that, but getting key fragments feels like a chore and it is. When the loot system was announced and I heard that you would implement randomly getting key fragments and not just keys I was super confused at why you would do this, but I was fine with it. Now honestly I'm just tired of how hard it is to open the chests I have. Another problem with hextech chests which is honestly the reason why I wrote this entire rant. WHY AS A PERSON THAT HAS ALL CHAMPIONS(and has used REAL LIFE MONEY to buy at least half of these champions) DO I STILL GET CHAMPIONS SHARDS IN MY HEXTECH CHESTS. Like why? It makes no sense, now you could be saying you could use the blue essence for the blue essence shop, but I already explained why the blue essence shop is bad. Please Riot, for people that have all champions, just please give us the option to turn on or off whether we get skins or champions from our chests or just automatically give us masterwork chests. Like I almost have enough orange essence to craft this nice 1350RP varus skin(which was excruciatingly hard to get) and then I open a chest hoping I get a skin. Nope, I get a champion shard, but luckily I got another chest and key in that chest. I open that, oh look at my luck I GET ANOTHER CHAMPION SHARD, WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH THAT. The loot system feels so bad for people that have all champions. Like why would I use money to buy hextech chests when there's a 25% chance my money is going to go to waste. And why would I use my money on masterwork chests when I have to pay MORE MONEY just to assure that I'm not going to get a champion but most likely a BAD SKIN OR GOD FORBID I GET AN EMOTE OR A SUMMONER ICON. Please just make the loot system better for people that have all champions. Also for the leveling system. I'd appreciate it if you guys would just like give me one or two key fragments every level instead of a champion capsule which ONCE AGAIN I'M NOT GOING TO USE.

If you read all this, thank you, god bless you, hope you have a great day and please help fix these issues. Thank you

Yours truly,

Riangelo

P.S I wrote this originally for riot support and they told me to put it on the board so I just copy pasted, that's why I speak like I'm speaking directly to riot

1 Comments

Jamaree7/6/2018, 1:29:28 PM2 votes

BE shop still needs to be a year round thing.

/thread.