Champion Mastery Levels 6 & 7
I love this new system for champion mastery! I wish I could say that.
I can understand that a lot of players need some way to dump all of their champion essence, but this is not the way to do it. By making mastery 6 and 7 virtually locked, there is no way to progress on a champion. Why should their be a luck factor in getting champion mastery levels? If you don't already have the essence or champion shards to upgrade the champion, it's impossible to move forward. Here is how I would rework the system:
Keep the Mastery Tokens. They are a great idea. Though, instead of using champion shards or essence to complete the upgrade, simply increase the number of required mastery tokens to maybe 5 and 7 for levels 6 and 7 respectively.
As for the champion essence problem a lot of people are having, here is my suggestion. Create a conversion system in which a player can trade in their champion essence for cosmetic essence. The ratio could be anything really, and it would provide a dump for all this champion essence that people have no use for.
Let's go Riot.
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