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Regarding Champion Mastery

hazushikatta·10/16/2015, 3:48:55 AM·5 votes·550 views

Does Riot have any plans for Champion Mastery, or is it just going to go the way of the Honor system; cool for a while then just blending into the background?

I really feel like Riot missed an opportunity to make it something really awesome with the Chroma system rather than Champion Mastery just being some mediocre system that doesn't do a lot, it would give players who don't want to spend money on skins to feel like they're actually getting something for being dedicated to a champ (or multiple champions), instead of some pretty meh emote and a symbol that only your team can see and only in the loading screen.

I understand that making a few chromas for every champion in the game would be a lot of effort but on a similar note, as I've said before here I don't think charging RP for them was the right idea. It shows how gullible the community is that they actually believed Riot when they said that RP was just a "temporary method" while they tested the waters, we're half a year down the track now and oh look they're still purchasable only with RP. I'm not surprised, are you? I think IP would have been a much better idea for Chromas, we really do need an IP sink in this game for the players who've been playing for a long time, and a lot of Chromas are for skins only purchasable through RP anyway. It's just greedy.

But this thread is about Champion Mastery, not Chromas, woops. A very popular suggestion that has been requested since the game came out which would tie in very nicely to the Champion Mastery system is, of course, Champion summoner icons. I honestly don't know why Riot hasn't implemented this. The necessary files are already there, the icons used ingame are the same format and I believe even dimensions as summoner icons and it would be an extremely simple matter to tie them into Mastery.

I don't really expect Riot to reply to this thread (since they, understandably, prefer to not talk about upcoming things too much in case they don't work out (see: replay system)), but I wanted to make it anyway, even just a "We're working on something, but no promises" would be nice.

2 Comments

Althea10/16/2015, 3:54:52 AM1 votes

I still feel like this is a better discussion of Chromas than mastery. But to focus on Mastery, after level 5 you've got points just to go up. Most people are rolling with a saddle and an emote, but we need to spam our CLG icon anyway, so just the loading screen saddle. Shrugs I wish there was more to it, but I guess it was nice to have it anyway in that regard.

Minarde10/16/2015, 6:39:20 PM1 votes

even just a "We're working on something, but no promises" would be nice.

That's almost exactly what they did say, so just be patient in terms of SR. Unfortunately for alternate maps players though, the only news Riot's said about expanding the Mastery to the rest of the maps is that they aren't working on it.