Suggestions on how to improve Hextech Crafting.
I've had my own personal experiences with the boxes, and have viewed other people's experiences via YouTube; some spending $500 dollars on them. From this, I have to say I'm disappointed but not let down.
The boxes do exactly as they should. Give you random character/skin/ward-skin shards, crafting materials, and icons. The problem is... It does this all the time. If you say.. have all champions, then there's no reason to get champion shards or blue crafting material as there's nothing you can do with them. As it is right now, even if you own a champion or the same skin/ward-skin, you can get its shard-- sometimes even multiple times over a large opening of boxes.
What I propose as a fix to this is the ability to take three boxes, and turn them into specific types of boxes. If you want to turn your three boxes into a specific box (Lets say champion shard only box, skin shard only box, ward-skin and icon only box, etc.) then you should be able to. I also would want to be able to take three of these special boxes, and turn them into a special box. This special box would always contain at least one Gem shard, have a high chance of something 'good' and cost two or more keys to open.
This way you can sate everyone's wants and needs, and do it where it's more costly but also more rewarding to do.