TFT Beta Pass V.3 Coming Soon!

Riot·Oct 7, 2019·3 votes·43,014 views

The third Teamfight Tactics beta pass is coming! For the next five weeks, you’ll earn icons, emotes, arena chromas, and a Little Legend egg by completing missions and playing TFT.

Here's how it works:

Timing: You can start earning beta pass XP in patch 9.20 in all regions. The pass ends with the start of patch 9.22.

Rewards and XP: By leveling up your pass you'll be able to unlock the “Storm Rift” arena chroma, two new emotes, and three new icons. As a special thanks to everyone that has played this beta season, this pass also includes a Set 1 Little Legends egg. There’s 5760 XP available to earn over the course of four weeks, and it’ll take 4000 XP to unlock all of the rewards.

Orb of Enlightenment: You'll receive 70 XP just for logging in, and 10 additional XP for each of your next five games. Not including the missions you complete, you can earn 120 XP every day by logging in and finishing five games.

Missions:
Missions will be mostly the same as last time. Each week you’ll get 6 missions that you can complete to earn XP. Two will require you to play a certain number of TFT games. Two will be easy challenges you can complete in a single session. The last two will be more difficult, requiring your to complete something challenging or stretching your understanding of rules of strategy within Teamfight Tactics.

We've heard your feedback on the missions requiring you to play a certain number of games, so we changed their requirements.These missions will now read:

Play 6 games of TFT to Stage 3-6.
Play 10 games of TFT to Stage 3-6.

Combined these missions will take 7 less games per week to complete. We also lowered the stage requirement because you shouldn’t miss credit for a game just because you tried making RFC Braum a thing and got eliminated early. Now at least those losses will have a silver lining.

Best of luck in the Convergence!

43 Comments

KshawayOct 7, 201940 votes

Good to see that we can actually get eggs without spending money.

dnsupOct 7, 201912 votes

More TFT?

Yuck. Let me know when you go back to making League of Legends.

JaroseOct 7, 20197 votes

[slayer-jinx-unamused]

BigHiggensOct 7, 201923 votes

Wouldn't it make sense that they have separate teams for each game mode so as to not unnecessarily remove focus, thus improving both game modes simultaneously?

dnsupOct 7, 20193 votes

No, it pulls focus from other modes. Period.

ModWulf HelhammerOct 7, 201923 votes

Not at all how that works. Period.

dnsupOct 7, 20192 votes

[{quoted}](name=Wilk Rycerz,realm=NA,application-id=Ag8jgd8Q,discussion-id=A0hlKl9O,comment-id=0000000100000000,timestamp=2019-10-07T19:43:49.214+0000)

Not at all how that works. Period.

Except that it is, period. Read previous updates.

LegãcyOct 7, 201910 votes

Just find it funny you basically put 3 "periods" in a row by saying that.

Morgan le FeyOct 7, 201910 votes

yeah that's really not how companies work y'all. Bureaucracy operates positionally, not fluidly. In other words, even if they pull people from League to work on TFT, they still have to refill those League jobs, unless they are cutting back on League for unrelated reasons. Divisions may interface due to share shop and loot (+ ARAM Little Legends), but it's not like individuals are running back and forth between two different games. The existence of Sprite does not cause the Coca-Cola Company to stop investing or invest less in Coca-Cola. They're different products, with different teams, in different divisions. They interface in distribution, but as long as both are profitable they don't interfere with each other save perhaps in scaling problems (which are more complicated than that, before you start saying "yeah I was talking about scaling!").

dnsupOct 7, 20191 votes

[{quoted}](name=Morgan le Fey,realm=NA,application-id=Ag8jgd8Q,discussion-id=A0hlKl9O,comment-id=0000000100000001,timestamp=2019-10-07T20:03:58.166+0000)

yeah that's really not how companies work y'all.

[...]

even if they pull people from League to work on TFT, they still have to refill those League jobs, unless

[...]

Divisions may interface due to share shop and loot (+ ARAM Little Legends), but it's not like

[...]

but as long as both are profitable

[...] (which are more complicated than that, before you start saying "yeah I was talking about scaling!").

Clearly your argument requires no hedging at all.

Morgan le FeyOct 9, 20191 votes

ambiguity? in my organizational policy?

it's more likely than you think.

no literally there is no such thing as discrete unambiguous answers in this sort of thing - ambiguity is the glue of politics. Unlike you, I do not plan on making categorical statements about inherently non-absolute subjects with no knowledge of the internal workings.

dnsupOct 15, 20191 votes

[{quoted}](name=Morgan le Fey,realm=NA,application-id=Ag8jgd8Q,discussion-id=A0hlKl9O,comment-id=000000010000000100000000,timestamp=2019-10-09T18:21:33.482+0000)

ambiguity? in my organizational policy?

it's more likely than you think.

no literally there is no such thing as discrete unambiguous answers in this sort of thing - ambiguity is the glue of politics. Unlike you, I do not plan on making categorical statements about inherently non-absolute subjects with no knowledge of the internal workings.

Thanks for mansplaining to me. You've said nothing that actually answers my reasons for saying what I've said, and nothing that I don't know equally well or better than you do.

GlacialScionOct 15, 20193 votes

While normally that's true, the recent situation with Riot has been a special case. Their hiring process is very slow by design, and other factors have resulted in Riot dealing with a shortage of labor for all their efforts.

Legal issues and employee walkouts on top of needing to rush TFT to jump the market on top of the aforementioned glacially-paced hiring process caused regular League of Legends to drop significantly in priority. People were pulled off of the primary team to work on TFT, and replacements weren't acquired quickly enough to offset the labor loss due to so many complications.

dnsupOct 15, 20191 votes

Thank you for recognising the sense of it & providing some context here (as I didn't explain at length).

ItsFreakinHarryOct 7, 20194 votes

If a mode is popular, why is it bad that it pulls focus? League still gets the main priority, but some people enjoy TFT enough to play just as much TFT as normal LoL if not more, so giving it some focus would please more people than if they just left it to rot while LoL was the only thing worked on.

La BelloOct 8, 20192 votes

I mean it WOULD make sense but Riot literally doesnt do that. they yoink designers from normal League to work on TFT. Agust the Kayle designer literally couldnt touch Kayle for months due to this. CertainlyT was the designer behind the item system which means he spent time doing this instead of maybe working on a upcoming champion or system.

a bunch of old coders got dragged off to a different realm to work on TFT while normal league is left to suffer and make due with whoever is left which has basically lead to champion hot potatoe or champions not being able to get attention they deserve.

dnsupOct 15, 20191 votes

Thank you for recognising the sense of it & providing some context here (as I didn't explain at length).

GlacialScionOct 15, 20192 votes

I don't mean to jump on any kind of hate bandwagon, but he's not entirely wrong. They did pull quite a few resources from their primary LoL team to crank TFT out fast enough to capitalize on the auto battler craze. The teams have always been separate, but a significant part of the TFT team is composed of people who would otherwise have been working on LoL.

Now, I actually love TFT and as far Riot is concerned, it was an exceptionally good call, but regular League has demonstrably suffered from the diversion of resources. There's a reason events and systems updates have been nonexistent for the whole season.

Well, that and all the legal trouble Riot has been battling along with the employee walkouts.

All that said, TFT has the potential to be a top tier game in its own right, and I'm glad to see it receiving the support necessary to achieve that.

stormageddon15Oct 9, 20192 votes

Shaco get it, cause he's a clown. Like you.

dnsupOct 15, 20191 votes

Not at all, not at all.

JurdnOct 7, 201910 votes

The type of anger and energy people put behind absolute speculation in this comment section is a direct reflection of the same reason league of legends is an insanely toxic game.

Wowie.

A Frisky JacketOct 7, 20195 votes

I hate you comment. Because it's accurate.

ErdoS Is HereOct 8, 20191 votes

Not unique to LoL at all, nor would I consider LoL toxic (at least not in my MMR), but otherwise true! Frustration over speculation is silly

Mundo MarsOct 7, 20199 votes

I think you should be able to earn exclusive skins to use in other game modes from TFT. Like a whole skin line. (TFT Xerath, TFT Skarner, TFT Zac.etc) Or different skinlines that you can only earn by playing TFT.

Dark Star Xerath, Nanobot Zac, KrustySkarner

Also make little legends rewardable from play. Not just series 1 and not only 1 from so many missions.

Getting so many beta pass points gives you a new legend Getting 1st place 25 times gives you a 2start or 3star upgrade to a current legend Completing 15 missions gives you a series 2 legend Getting 9 units on the board 5 times gives you a series 1 egg Winning a game with 6 gunslingers gives you a 2star upgrade to a current legend

I'm sorry but arenas and emotes arent inticing.

WHILE WE ARE ON THE SUBJECT.

Lets add some more champions to TFT. New Origins/Classes. Would love to see some crazy ones like teemo.

And new boards (Not arena skins) but different angled and shaped boards with a different amount of spaces on it.

HOW ABOUT a 1v1v1 Limited TFT Game mode

3 people on a triangular board all face each other every round.

LarrietOct 7, 20198 votes

I don't agree with skins. The rewards should be for TFT players, not for League players. That would feel bad for people who play only TFT, because they couldn't use the rewards. It would also feel bad for people who play only League, because they would have to play a game they don't care for to unlock something they want.

I personally like the arena skins a lot, and I also think getting Little Legends through the pass is GREAT. Currently, Emotes, Little Legends, Arena Skins, and Icons are the things you can use in TFT for player expression, so those things make sense as rewards. But if there's anything else that can be added for TFT players, I'd be all for it!

Since this pass will mark the end of the "Beta season", I wonder if we can expect a new Set (that is, a set of ALL new units) to replace the current one for next season. I'm excited to see it!

A Frisky JacketOct 7, 20191 votes

Based on how it was previously explained the current roster will form the "core" set of the champion poll and won't change. Then every season they will add a decent chunk of temporary seasonal champs and/or items that should spice things up for that season.

LarrietOct 8, 20194 votes

Also can you guys not downvote a post of ... totally reasonable suggestions? I don't agree with the guy, but as someone who plays both League and TFT now, I see where he's coming from and why he would want those things. What is up with the internet

the ever gloomOct 9, 20191 votes

different board shapes would never work, the boards are mirror for a reason so you can you know actually choose where to place the champions? if it was different shaped someone who doesnt 1 own the board or 2 isnt using the board would be at a disadvantage because they will be moved o that board in spaces they dont want to be, have extra open spaces pon the sides which would endanger soft carrys in the back cause a wall they had can just be gone if they were moved to a different board, so if someone isnt using or have the same board will be handicapped and its suppose to be a perfect mirror for a fair chance balance, different boards will give assassins to much ease to kill back lines if walls just disappeared or moved, the boards have to always be the same for a balance reason, they are mirrored for a purpose

Deep Terror NamiOct 8, 20194 votes

I feel personally attacked by thet RFC Braum comment. I made it and I did fine (that one time)!

LarrietOct 7, 20193 votes

You're calling the "Storm Rift" an arena CHROMA, but will it function as an entirely new Arena skin ith it's own spot in the drop-down menu? Or do we need to own the original Rift Arena Skin to unlock it?

Old JoyceOct 8, 20192 votes

Its a chroma for the default map.

YamanokiOct 8, 20193 votes

"The third Teamfight Tactics beta pass is coming! For the next five weeks..."

"There’s 5760 XP available to earn over the course of four weeks..."

So... is this pass available for four weeks or five weeks? Please clarify :(

espurrfecttOct 8, 20192 votes

It would be cool if we could apply owned skins to the board champions

ChakraDarratOct 8, 20193 votes

that wouldn't work for technical resons. imagine if each player has a different skin for each champ. imagine the loading times

StygianDuskOct 9, 20192 votes

Am I able to use the Storm chroma for the Rift Arena if I never got the Rift arena in the previous pass?

the ever gloomOct 9, 20192 votes

riot this could of been your chance to make a pumpkin arena btw with halloween being during this pass, pass isnt loaded yet and im hoping to find a pumpkin arena

the ever gloomOct 9, 20191 votes

or a spooky one, pumpkin patch, cobweb, witchcraft with caldrons, something for halloween

toritaterOct 8, 20191 votes

No date for when the patch occurs?

I am liking TFT more than regular LoL lately.

HilsunOct 8, 20191 votes

7 fewer games*

How Do You MetaOct 9, 20191 votes

So does it mean we can't earn the current beta pass swag and our progress will be wiped to zero again?

the ever gloomOct 9, 20191 votes

wait so, we get ONE egg, "series 1" beta pass 2 had no egg and series 1 egg was same as beta pass 1, since then there are now 4 series, we should be able to get TWO eggs cause pass 2 didnt have an egg, a series 2 and a series 3 for diversity, giving ONLY series 1 means we might get stuck with ONLY a basic 3*** of the same exact little legend i dont want to be stuck with only a mole, i would like choices, beta pass should of been series 1, 2, and 3 for respected beta passes

also beta pass 1 and 2 both had 3 arenas, does this pass only have 1 arena since they only named the one?

the ever gloomOct 10, 20191 votes

so they made the pass just as long, just as grindy with the same points being needed, 1 arena when they done 3 for the last 2 passes, only a series 1 egg, they could of made it a pick your egg or just make it eries 1-3 random like they are for the worlds event rewards (cause only good 1 series 1 is grumps), and half the rewards over all, so it takes just as long for half the rewards