@Riot, Some Unanswered Balance Questions

I am copy-pasting this from GD in the hopes that I will get input from Rioters who prefer this site over GD. Here is a link to the GD version if you prefer. http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=4296965&highlight=

Before I get into the list of questions I want to just lay down some suggestions for this post and the responses to it.

My hopes for Riot responses:

You will not be asked or insisted upon to respond to anything outside of your area of expertise. I am not here to ask Hippalus about splash arts or Morgaggeddon about price guidelines.

Please answer what you can as clearly as you can. Vague responses can be more frustrating than no responses sometimes.

We are not asking for set-in-stone timetables or a release date, but something better than Soon(TM) is much preferred.

If you see a good question, please forward it to the proper department/colleague and encourage them to come and answer it.

My hopes for Community questions:

Please be reasonable. There is nothing more frustrating to legitimate dialogue than somebody being obstinate and unreasonable in their expectations. We want Riot to WANT to come and answer some of these questions.

Ask questions and don't make demands. We pay their bills, this is true. That doesn't give us the right to hold it above their heads and make unreasonable demands though.

If a red responds to your question or it garners enough approval it will be added to the post. I'll try to compile some of the most asked questions for visibility's sake.

My hopes from both sides:

Be polite. We are all trying to have the same result. A game, and an environment we ALL enjoy.

I originally planned to make this one giant super-thread but was advised against it so let us try to focus on Balance questions here only please.

Here is a list of questions I have assembled. Please feel free to post your own questions and add to them. And stop by my other 3 threads of a similar nature, but different topic.

DISCLAIMER: Most of these questions come from memory, and it would be too time consuming to link to every relevant post. I will make some assumptions from my memory, if my memory turns out to ail me in some regard, please help me correct the mistake.

1. What is the likelihood that balance patches are going to be more frequent? This trend towards one big patch a month is upsetting to people who feel the meta shifts faster than Riot is capable of balancing.
2. Void Staff and Last Whisper have been considered far too powerful by Riot for awhile. I remember somebody, probably Morello, mentioning that they were looking at it for changes in S4. We are nearly 2 months into S4 and this hasn't even begun to cycle on PBE. Is this still being looked at, and is there ANY chance that we will see these changes early in the season rather than later in it?
3. What happened to the “Fighter fixes” that keep getting pushed back on the priority list? There are a number of champions that remain unplayable because they cannot receive buffs since their entire class is getting looked over.
4. In S3 we saw a massive item overhaul during the preseason into the beginning of the season. In S4 we have seen massive overhaul of support items, but almost nothing has been done about items that are overwhelmingly considered bad. Ruunan's Hurricane and Ohmwrecker come to mind. Are there further changes on the NEAR horizon to items like this in S4 or have you made the changes you planned on making?
5. Comments made about Rune changes made it sound like we would see it early in S4. These changes have barely been spoken about except for the fact that they're being iterated on and tested internally. Is there a chance that we will be seeing these on PBE in the near future, or is this something we can expect near the end of the season?
6. Are you willing to admit that some recently released champion kits have been incredibly overloaded and are nearly impossible to balance. Examples would be how the community views Yasuo. Elise on release. Aatrox. (In light of Morello's comments the other night about how his kit has essentially everything.) And why do these new champions almost always HAVE to have kits that overwhelm older champions like Warwick?