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gold issues on supports

vasheenomed·10/17/2013, 10:44:56 AM·5 votes·425 views

I think the big way to make supports more powerful is by putting their power into somewhere that other classes won't get... so either assists, gp5 items, masteries, or a combination of them

imagine there is a mastery that makes gp5 items give way more gp5 and then they lower the base for them and gut the stats on them

imagine they make a talent that gives you 10x your gp5 for 10 seconds (to make beating your opponent grant you gold)

an alternative would be to have assists give a support 100-200 extra gold

another possibility is to give either static or scaled gp5 after so long of not killing a minion creep (still not matching lane csing though or else supports would never want to cs)

I think the fact that supports use gp5 runes and masteries, mostly go for assists, and use support masteries, those would be the best places to put their gold. putting them anywhere else makes no sense. but overall I don't see any major changes needing to be made to how the game plays, just minor adjustments to how things that normally don't give much gold affect supports...

p.s. the most important thing is to make sure the gold you get as a support is acheived from good play, and is NOT given for free

tl;dr- put extra gold in either assists or masteries and possibly that scale with passive gp5 so that suports with their support masteries and gp5 runes can take best advantage of them.

8 Comments

TimmyWimmyWooWoo10/17/2013, 12:00:13 PM2 votes

My biggest problem with supporting is limited item choices (locket change) & general disrespect for the role.

IE Gold is fine.

RiotRiot LilyHaze10/17/2013, 2:36:22 PM2 votes

The problem with your suggestion is that it too easily puts money back into the hands of Junglers like existed in Season 2 when all junglers built Heart of Gold. If you want gold easily attainable, people will find a way to sacrifice a few stats (masteries) to easily get them on non-support roles.

And without a new system added, how would you propose to give supports additional gold for assists without giving all champions assist gold? If you put it in the support mastery tree, I fear this too easily gives way to assassin mids taking it and then roaming to get even more gold than they already do while also more easily feeding other lanes by giving them kills more often.

djump10/17/2013, 5:14:01 PM1 votes

You guys should just wait a few weeks(maybe few months?). It's been stated that one of the big changes for season 4 that they have/are working out is gold flow changes for junglers and support.

so not to dismiss your good suggestions, but they have already done a TON of work on this problem and will be implementing what I'm sure are well developed solutions as soon as season 4 hits

I know there are more detailed discussions than this, but here's the most recent reference from morello talking about how they're buffing support gold soon.