Hextech Crafting Feedback:

Alright, first off, thank you for adding Hextech Crafting, Riot. I do appreciate it and am enjoying it for the most part. However, there are certain aspects of it that feel frustrating and could be improved.

1. Chest VS Key drops are EXTREMELY SKEWED. It takes 3 key fragments to unlock a single chest, yet chests seem by far more common than key fragments. I have 4 Hextech Chests right now and only 1 key fragment. With the drop rates skewed this badly, I can imagine that I will end up with dozens of unopened chests rotting in my inventory within a couple months. Chests probably need to be rarer and keys definitely need to be more common. Chests should probably only be rewarded for S and S+ rather than including S-. Keys need to be at least 11x more common from my experience to match chest drops. That is skewed WAY beyond an acceptable level to be honest. Doing something like making a key fragment guaranteed as a drop from the first win of the day would be nice.

2. Blue essence and Orange essence should be combined into an all-purpose essence. As it is, people with all champions unlocked can only disenchant champions into blue essence, which is only useful for unlocking champions... This creates a bad experience where customers may end up feeling extremely ripped off when receiving redundant champions, especially if they purchased chests/keys with RP. Having only one all-purpose essence type granted by all disenchanted items would be more straightforward and would be far more satisfying for players that cannot unlock more champions or are uninterested in unlocking champions. I personally don't have all champions unlocked, but I still see this as a legitimate concern.

3. We should have a way to keep track of which champions we are currently able/unable to receive chest rewards for and we should be able to see what our current key fragment drop rate is. For people that have a varied champion pool, it can be a bit difficult to keep track of which champions you are currently eligible for a chest drop on. Likewise, since the key drop rate isn't static throughout the course of the month (each fragment is rarer than the previous), it's annoying not being able to see our current drop rate for a victory.