Ultimate Skin Shard Changes

Before you read all this, an opener. This post is about hopefully improving the current loot system to make it feel more rewarding to all players including players who already have a large amount of skins and/or all the champions. Providing more variety to what you can do with the materials you receive in the loot system.

Edit: I hope that anyone who reads this doesn't just see it as another rant by someone trying to get more free stuff for nothing, because its not that. i genuinely care about the game and it's community. I "as you will see in my writings below" have been playing the game a long time, and sometimes certain things in the game "can" seem less rewarding to veteran players than that of newer players. I made this post in hopes of providing another "rewarding" dynamic to the game for veterans as well as anyone who starts to feel less rewarded by the loot system over time. As some point the loot system stops providing anything of value to certain players and I am hoping this post will reach riot so maybe ideas about "improving" the loot system can be implemented to positively impact the community. These are my thoughts anyway and I am 100% to any criticism or "hopefully" support :)

Let's just jump right into it. I have been playing league since season 1 and I have seen many things change. One of the biggest changes was adding the loot tool for skin shards and other various novelty items.

One of the biggest controversies I have with this system is how little "customization" or "variety" there is when choosing what to do with your skin shards. I either don't have the skin and I like it and want to buy it or I can turn it into a very small amount of dust, or turn 3 into a random, Possibly terrible, skin.

Here is where I have a problem with the system and am hoping to get enough up votes and or discussions started off this so that Riot will consider implementing a change. I have seen threads like this before and yes, they all died shortly after creation. I don't like that the quality of the skin has no effect on your options of what to do with the skin shard other than more orange essence. I have 5 ultimate skin shards and they do nothing special other than become a few hundred orange dust or re-roll into possible a terrible 120p yi skin. I am hoping that riot will implement a "quality" based system that will positively effect your outcome when re-rolling skin shards or even implementing a new option that I am unfortunately not creative enough to think of at this moment.

Here is an example of why I feel so strongly about this. I bought my first Pulsfire ezreal skin long before the loot system even existed. I now have 3 pulse fire skin shards that are completely useless to me since I also have more orange essence than i care to use anytime soon. I would love to feel slightly more rewarded for receiving a ultimate or even a mythic skin shard that I already own more so than the current system provides.

For those who don't have the skin they are full of joy and excited they got something so cool, I merely scowl and am sad that YAY i hit a super rare skin that is utterly useless to me and i can't even put it towards one I don't have. There are also those player like forgone who have everything. It would be cool if he could save 3 ultimate skin shards and re-roll them into the new skin he doesn't have yet, rather than a random one he already has, yay 3 skins i have for 1 i also already have.... Maybe 3 ultimate skins let you pick a skin you don't own. Even if this specific skin is lower quality it's still nice that I feel rewarded for these hard to acquire yet "to me" useless items.

Please leave thoughts, please up vote, I'm sure everyone out there would not mind a few more options for what they can do with the loot system. Some issues are with keys and chests but here are my thoughts on skin shards, hope this wasn't too painful to read, thanks again.