Blue Essence System Problems
Ever since the season 8 changes to IP, blue essence, and the leveling system, I've noticed a big problem with the system. Particularly, blue essence and the "First win of the day" quest. Before this change, you could gain IP by just playing the game and you would get maybe 30-40 IP and around 200 if you had first win of the day. Now that BE and IP are the same, you only get 50 BE for first win of the day, and no passive BE for just playing. The only other way to get BE is to open champion capsules or hex-tech chests. I find this a very bad way for Riot to let newer players play a lot of the fun champs, and also older players like me who want a new fun experience with champs I've never touched. Making 50 BE a day and the occasional champ capsule from leveling up (about twice or three times a week at this rate), does not give me enough BE to buy any champions any time soon. To buy a 4800 champ you would need to get the first win of the day quest completed 96 times. THAT'S ALMOST 100 DAYS. Now I know that leveling gives you BE from champ shards, and hex-tech chest can give champ shards too. (For the record I can't open any chests because I got a chat restriction and lost all my honor, so now I don't get honor capsules or keys.) I just think Riot could do a better job at letting their players experience more of the game, and not have to grind so much to buy new champions. The free runes system was definitely a step in the right direction, allowing new players to only focus on buying champs, but I still think 50 BE a day is not enough. If they could do more quests that are more generic and not related to any event, that would give you BE or champ shards or key fragments, I think that it would be a lot easier to buy new champs. Kai'Sa is coming out soon, and she looks really fun to me, but I won't be able to buy her and will only be able to play her on PBE or 2 weeks after lunch in the free rotation. Rito, just make it easier to get BE.