RIOT GAMES, 1 gold =/= 1 item

Seriously. At the very least, every single mob who doesn't drop an item should drop 1 gold.

played my first ranked today, not a single mob dropped an item, gave me a bunch of gold which undoubtedly led me to have a stronger early game than everyone else and then i was last pick on the first 3 carousels, where there were expensive champs with good items for all the people who already had items from PVE and now they get expensive champs which makes all the gold i received earlier less meaningful AND they have items, then after 3 carousels everyone uses their items to destroy me, 4th carousel rolls around, nothing but armor and MR and no expensive champs on 4TH CAROUSEL so i get my 4th item of the game, on a 2 gold champ, these 4 items i have dont make anything good, in my next fight i face someone with 4 completed items on their champs and a component sitting on deck, they wreck me and deal 33(+) damage and kill me

unless im getting 20 gold then i dont want gold instead of an item, and even still, id give up 20 gold for an item any day but rarely would i give up an item for 20 gold

also if getting gold is equivelent of getting an item then you should be able to sell items for gold, but you cant sell items for gold, because items are worth too much, but then why am i losing items for a pittance of gold? riot logic doesnt follow riot logic smh

You really can't put a price on items in this game when there's no other way of getting them outside RNG drops and carousels

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This logic is actually a joke

Truer words are seldom spoken on this forum!!

This happened to me too just in my first game after the patch...I couldn't believe it. I was expecting the items to actually drop and was excited for the box drop and was confused as to why I was getting Gold. Then saw that everyone had 2 completed items already I was shocked at the power difference. I'd rather much have items than gold. And no the stacking Econ if you're have to work with the end of the pool doesn't work because I have to assume I can match the items too. Items are what the game is about. The difference between have a PD and a RFC vs Assassins and Yordles is HUGE but hey let's have gold maybe you'll roll something to counter it. Like seriously getting shafted AGAIN by the RNG.

Everyone should get the same number of items. Doesnt have to be same items. Just the same number.

OP is right... the gold implementation is a joke

Yeah when I saw the patch notes I was like "oh alright maybe we'll get like 1 to 2 gold per item not dropped" particularly would make birds and wolves fairly okay to get nothing possibly. But yeah it's like 1 or 2 gold for the ROUND, not per minion/monster. Just oof, with how powerful items are it seems odd they'd think this kind of compensation is equivalent.

Personally I feel items should just have a variance of one, like the initial minion wave set should be 2-3 items, those who get 2 items only maybe receive an additional 5 gold, and keep the same mentality for the future waves.

everything about riot start be a joke, I bet their whole company will find an end in the next 2 years if they dont stop trolling their community so hard,

It seems very minimal but it compounds a lot into mid to late game if you save and reach tiers of 10 for interest. I wouldn't underestimate it just yet.

Also with a lot incoming QoL changes to champion abilities activating properly you may or may not even notice a 'NEED' for items.

1 gold > 1 item

[sg-ezreal]

live with it. Better than nothing And iMO its actually rly good, that there are not tooo many Items and Gold Drops by Mobs. Imaging every Game the Carries having RFCs etc, etc.

And also with the Gold: If your lucky and get something good going early you can try to Eco-- if not you probably have to reroll a bit more or lvl up to not fall too far behind. If every Creep would give you Gold thats like 20G for free, thats lots of rolls and lots of Unit Quality if your lucky- and in the End just another factor of RNG. Imo its cool that its not Ultraoverloaded yet.

imo they should just remove item drops and make a shop where you buy items with gold like normal league make managing your economy actually a skill and remove some pretty unbalanced rng in the process

WTF did you do to get only 1 gold? minimum I've ever gotten was 3, but I typically get 5, which is a solid amount of gold.

Riot's Response to this topic: https://twitter.com/Mortdog/status/1151873694320320512

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This logic is actually a joke

Ya, makes you wonder if they actually play their own game.

XP would be a better reward. Rare champion drops? Anything?

They don't want to create fair games, they want to create varied games. That is extremely clear.

The worst part about this is that they had it right on PBE for a few days before the patch. They had it to where everyone was going to get an item. They even released a PSA saying that everyone was going to get an item.

THEY HAD IT RIGHT.

And then at the last minute they pulled the plug on it and gave us this clusterfuck instead.

That's the worst part.

yea one game in the first 3 pve rounds i got 1 gold each round, next game i got 3 bfs swords what one is better

While an even distribution of item drops would be preferrable to a bit of gold, if they stick with gold they should double the amount you receive (same goes for pirates, even if that should be limited to 2 gold itself).

This may not seem significant in and of itself, but 2 extra gold is essentially an extra reroll, which would help you build your composition much earlier.

What is a point of having so many cool items where you can barely build 3 items before you get killed?

Games where I get low amount of items are not fun at all. Especially because I cannot get a single champ to 3star ever. I play basically only for the small chance of getting to top four and getting lots of items as at that point the game is incredibly fun. But it sucks not having chance to get there in more than 50% of games.