yep... Morello nerfs + that is why everyone rushes Frost Queen on AP mages now. The build path is a little ugly (double dorans > book > 1500 gold), but it's probably one of the best single-item thresholds you can hit as a mage nowadays.
No, i agree that nearly every class was nerfed this or last patc, and i'm generally relatively neutral about Malz/Anivia nerfs (except i wish they focus on DFT first), and Brand clearly needs to be tuned. i believe that Riot wanted to "only-slightly" increase the "power budget" of all classes over the entire course of the game, but did want to specifically reduce some classes "power budget" specifically (Morellonomicon mages being the big one). Some classes got too much power (Yas
RE: #meta: Thunder, i'm a bit surprised with you! You generally seem to understand Riot's ... predisposition for balancing around #LCSBIGPLAYS by allowing certain champions to have "assured viability" but being rather heavy-handed on other champs who honestly haven't had enough time in the spotlight yet. HOWEVER: ever since the juggernaut patch, champs like Brand, Anivia and Malz have had favorable metas and correspondingly high winrates. Of course, a lot of their
i'll throw in my expierence... Back when i used to play the game a few years ago, i had pretty high DPI settings (3200?). i think the high DPI always contributed to my poor CS the first 5-minutes on Anivia :) Now that i play a lot less, i have much lower DPI settings. i'm currentlu only 1500, and thinking of dropping it down a little, since recently when i "panic flash" half the time i move my mouse too far and move the screen completely off my cha
Should just nerf the Deathfire Grasp mastery \: A lot simpler than nerfing everyone who uses the mastery "too well". Plus, didn't they just nerf it? Or are nerfing it? i'll freely admit that Anivia has been in a favorable meta for a few months now (good against Juggernauts, TP midlane has always been decent on her, most recently: Deathfire Grasp OP), and planned tweaks that will make the games a little slower will benefit her as well. She's clearly not weak if she's be
Nice table :P [quote] Valor buff being an instant mark is helpful, but its buggy. Instant means you need any aa's in progress don't proc it as it appears. Any attack that you queue up instantly after it appears or starts to appear seem to proc. Kind of weak imo. [/quote] Quinn not proc'ing her passive mid-air has always been a design intention... ever since she was released. When she attacks a marked target, she gets a buff. The p
Boots are mostly for melee matchups since you get "free" blue cards early game or if you're worried about being ganked early since TF has to push to be aggressive and is SUPER squish. You would probably want to go dorans against mage matchups. The boots aren't really for the level 6 teleport since you'll often be hoom/oom.
[quote]OK - lets give that start a go if it ever happens again (you know... because junglers let ya start gromp all the time). I'll take full xp in that instance and attempt to bully and get relic procs. You think that's the best way to do it? Support hits 2 prior to lane? Not really sure. Not going to complain about that start though. [/quote] <div id="ctl00_ctl00__Content__Content__RepeaterReplies_ctl22__ReplyBody" clas
[quote] re: 1 - that's either something I did wrong or you did wrong, and I'm not quite sure which. In one game, we did a gromp or dbls start. The main reason to that is either to get 1 of us to level 2 or to take an all in shot if we hit level 2 first (which we should hit 2 first). We didn't hit 2 first though, which had a lot to do with you not pounding down cs to give us that all in opportunity. Eg lack of communication - but I will add that I re
Yo pacov, nice games botlane recently. Since i know you've been working on your Thresh and stuff, couple comments. Hopefully it doesn't seem too out of place - but let me know if it is! Obviously i am rusty as well, and there have been a few miscommunications either with me being oom or me using Ez E just as you use lantern, etc, so i'm sure i have stuff to improve on also! Espiecially since i'm still getting used to my mouse and i sometimes press the recall button ins
[quote]Ping went from 135 down to 75 now. Which is funny because that is the same ping I remember having 4 years ago when I first started, no clue what happened during that time.[/quote] The servers moved from LA to Portland. If you live somewhere in around Texas that is semi-equidistant to both Chicago and LA, but far from Portland, that could explain it. </div
[quote] No, I'm boycotting SR games for the time being. Skarner is two of my friends favorite champion and I'm not going to play this game until he's buffed back into viability. Hedgie and Karl warned me that his rework would make him horribly underpowered and in honor of them I'm only playing ARAMs until Skarner is good enough to take onto The Rift. Or the rework that made him not viable is undone. #Solidarity [/quote] Hey man
[quote] to wherever the oceanic cables from Hawaii end up in the mainland. [/quote] San Luis Obispo! Or did you forget intentionally so that i get to ramble about my favourite building again :)
Thunder is gonna get /destroyed/ i disagree with the evaluation of their "central west coast" getting sub-80 ping... i'm currently getting a stable 80 ping which is perfectly playable, but it's suppose to increase by another 20-30 ms, and 100ms is where i know it becomes harder to "do" certain things. Frustrating. That said, pinging a random Chicago servers gives me a roughly 67ms ping for some and 77ms ping for others. So /maybe/ it'll get better, or stay the same
[quote] I've been playing quite a bit of marvel heroes lately, some other folks are super into hearthstone. [/quote] Yeah i think a bunch of people here screw around in hearthstone. None of us are super high rank though... i've been trying to beat Sword of the Stars: The Pit, which is a Sci-Fi Roguelike in the SotS Universe (which is one of my favorite <3). i've already had about 100 hours into the game, mostly being stubborn and p
oh, and that one guy who got upvoted a ton on some random whine thread talking about how he was a "UI Expert" and mentioning that Riot should be using "HTML5" in their game client so that "Everything" can be customizable. Yeah, let's put a freaking web-browser in our C++ game client. That's a really efficient use of CPU, memory AND programmer resources!
i need to figure out how to make my health bar bright gold again \: keep losing myself Also i think it's *really funny* how mad people get about the items being on the left. Like, Rito, everyone knows items go on the left!!!!! That's how every culture ever puts its items!!!!! You dumb asses this is so stupid!!!! Like, items being on the right/left is no better/worse... It's a completely arbitrary thing. The only justifica
[quote] People who can play all roles competently will be negatively impacted since being well rounded probably helped them climb to where they are currently. That's the boat I feel I'm in. Being good at an unpopular role like Support is an advantage for you and I. When this new version of Team Builder goes live, we will no longer be occasionally facing last picks who have been forced into the role and don't have a clue how to play it. When we Sup
Curse is a LOT more than just Curse Voice. Its original claim-to-fame is mostly as an add-on manager for WoW. It also runs like.. most of the popular wikis for video games (except, LoL funny enough). Riot may be thinking that with HotS being released, a partnership with Curse means that they can poach Blizzard-loyal players due to well-timed advertisement and services. Or other advertising options. It also could be Tencent is actually doing the investing, not Riot Games, whi
Yeah i'm not super sold on 4K (i've heard about games not handling it super well from various sources) but figured 2K was pretty reasonable and a nice jump up :) You're happy with the R9-280? Gonna pick up a the R9-390 that was just released. MSI has one with great one that has supposedly fantastic cooling. And it's partially overclocked so it's only ~40 MHz slower than the 390X (and missing 10% of the Stream Proccesors and TexUnits). But giving up < 10%
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