Why waste the Bilgewater Black Market?

FluffMuffinz·Sep 7, 2015·24 votes·1,099 views

After the Bilgewater event, I noticed that all the items, brawlers, and upgrades from the black market remained. The Bilgewater event over all was pretty astounding; but the concepts brought to the rift for black market brawlers just seem too good to pass up. Instead of letting all the new items and brawlers go to waste, why not use them to spice up one of the less played game modes: Dominion. I've only played a few matches on the Crystal Scar; however, from those matches it seems like the game mode just needs a nice touch of its own to appeal to more people and adding the black market items to the game mode seems like a pretty good idea to do that.

22 Comments

Burnt LightSep 7, 20156 votes

I feel like it was an absolutely poor choice for them to get rid of Bilgewater Black Market, the map skin, and the narrator/music itself.

We need variety in this game, and Riot fails to see that.

Archon XSep 7, 20156 votes

The narrator was annoying, I am quite used to the normal Rift narrator and it's distracting to have a different voice.

Burnt LightSep 7, 201510 votes

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The narrator was annoying, I am quite used to the normal Rift narrator and it's distracting to have a different voice.

I rather have the option to change narrators.

Archon XSep 7, 20152 votes

No, I oppose you having that option.

Burnt LightSep 7, 20156 votes

[{quoted}](name=Archon X,realm=NA,application-id=LFfTlAky,discussion-id=ZEWpul1l,comment-id=0002000000000000,timestamp=2015-09-07T11:02:57.824+0000)

No, I oppose you having that option.

I oppose you opposing me in having that option.

Archon XSep 7, 20155 votes

I riposte your oppose Fiora

Burnt LightSep 7, 20158 votes

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I riposte your oppose

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TurquoiseYoshiSep 7, 20151 votes

No featured game modes stay forever. I wish they did (because URF), but they don't.

Archon XSep 7, 20153 votes

I liked the teleport boot enchantment.

Mister MackeySep 7, 20152 votes

Lol for the day it was there. Guess they thought when nobody takes tp AND still have huge map presense it must be OP.

DrCyanideSep 7, 20151 votes

It was there for several days at the beginning and several more at the end. But yes, double TP was awesome (and no, double TP wasn't disabled at the end).

ToasteySep 7, 20152 votes

i want the kiting blink ADC item back. after buying that, i finally felt like i had an answer to all the rampaging tanks in the game. and the cooldown was like 60s, too, so i couldn't abuse it multiple times in a teamfight.

Hotlin3 FlingSep 8, 20151 votes

That and rite of ruin are all I want

A Miss FortuneSep 7, 20152 votes

item 3744 was such an awesome item. It would be good on someone like Ahri who can roam really well but I just loved the item as a second choice of Athene's.

item 3840 was also really interesting and could. It was fun to have my Support use it. Would be cool to replace Frost Queen's or just be a new Support item in general.

item 3911 this could make huge plays or just blow up the tank on your team instantly. Basically a -60% incoming damage buff on your carry.

TurquoiseYoshiSep 7, 20151 votes

The thing is, all three of them would need to be nerfed to hell and back to be anywhere near balanced. Their stats are cost efficient without counting their passives/actives. Even the support item had a lot of power, despite being without great stats.

A Miss FortuneSep 7, 20151 votes

Yeah, I would definitely agree on heavily modifying their stats but I like their design a lot, especially the Globe.

TurquoiseYoshiSep 7, 20151 votes

The thing is, we would probably then be left with an empty husk of an item, only useful to be an extremely niche pick only for the active.

Except the Globe, that can be balanced.

kDrakariSep 7, 20152 votes

I just want Trickster's Mirror back. Then we can have the best team: Draven Draven Draven Draven Draven

XeroKimoSep 8, 20151 votes

One for all mirror mode being a perma mode would be better

Draven Draven Draven Draven Draven

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Draven Draven Draven Draven Draven

Mister MackeySep 7, 20151 votes

Well we got item 3742

iluvalarSep 7, 20151 votes

I expect those item to come back in S6. Right now we are approaching world. That's why riot wont make any other big change in the game. But yeah I thumbs up those items

MinardeSep 7, 20151 votes

Both the brawlers and the items would be terrible fits for Dominion. Brawlers would cause an awkward shift in focus towards minions in one of the only game modes that doesn't focus on minions. The items might be fine after some balance changes, yet would be another Mark/Dash fiasco until then.

it seems like [Dominion] just needs a nice touch of its own to appeal to more people and adding the black market items to the game mode seems like a pretty good idea to do that.

Dominion needs more consistent attention, not some items haphazardly thrown in. The mode itself has appeal, but simply doesn't know to whom it's appealing. Game mode complexity drives away casuals. Lack of ranked/rewards/ladder/anything drives away competitive players. Meta stagnation from neglect drives away fans of the gameplay. Yes, adding BMB items and minion-variants might temporarily pull in some players, but it's not going to change anything long-term.