The best part of LoL is the matchmaking system. It's really worth playing *just* for that. You can play with a buddy and auto-match into a 5v5 team, it puts you and your friend on the same team. It's just really fast to get a game going with almost no effort (10-30 seconds average for me in 5v5). I also like that it doesn't show your opponent's characters until your team has chosen theirs.
[quote who="Obscenitor" reply="72" id="2346084"] I would argue that it IS a great mechanic because it allows games to be decided based on more than just generally ganking. It actually helps add to the overall map strategy.If the base portal flags on Cataract took longer to cap I might agree, really it just downgrades the game to tedious minimap watching with wildly disproportionate consequences for letting someone sit next to your tower for more than 3 seconds. [/quote]T
I think it's funny the way the metagame has shifted for a lot of folks. Early: Swift Anklet is great! You move fast, and movement is evertyhing. Mid: Blood of the Fallen is great! You get to outlast people, and against people focusing on speed you just stand there while they keep running away. Now: Cloak of Night is great! You get to suprise people with movement. It's like Swift but better! Personally, I
[quote who="folytopo" reply="68" id="2344928"]Just because it is symetrical doesn't mean it is a great mechanic. There has to be a change in the game so that other choices than chain portal lock offer simialr risk and rewards. Early game there are more possible choices to make and it is more interesting. The game would be better if there were more ways to win.[/quote]What does this even mean? This is hot air. The "only way to win" is to kill their citadel. You can win withou
I see no problem with cap locks. Both sides have equal access to them and they help speed up the game.
[quote who="ibrahimhmz" reply="28" id="2336534"]If preists do not scale, they will be OP or useless depending how much fixed healing they do. If it was too little, they would be OK early and useless mid and late game. If its too much, they would be OP early and blalanced mid to late game. [/quote]Items and abilities that have +health regen are fixed values, yet many players feel they are useful. I don't think they are overpowered. Priest heals with fixed values would be ident
I'm not really trying to prevent HP stacking. I think it should be a viable tactic. I'm trying to prevent how much regeneration becomes passive. I play a premade team 90% of the time. I have a monk idol at the beginning of the game with me in my lane no matter what demigod I use. If I am on Beast then my teammate will send his monk over to me. If I'm on Oak then I'll send one over to my partner. Generals always ALWAYS must get idols both for thems
There is a bit of a problem with how priests work. They currently heal for a percent of max health, which is one of the biggest reasons health stacking is so powerful. [Edit] I'm not really trying to prevent HP stacking. I think it should be a viable tactic. I'm trying to prevent how much regeneration becomes passive. I play a premade team 90% of the time. I have a monk idol at the beginning of the game with me in my lane no matter what demigod I use.&n
The community has definitely gotten smaller recently, at least at the peak hours I play. Saddens me a bit. Hopefully it picks up again with updates and whatnot.
[quote who="dyingsole" reply="32" id="2331322"]You have to spend an extremely valuable skill point... to take down towers for free. Thats the balance. A whole skill point just to be a tower killer, where everyone elses skill is usefull almost anywhere.[/quote]I wish Uproot were 1 skill point... Off-topic :P
SoFFacet, I meant I prefer Oak as a partner for UB in 2s. We play Oak/UB now instead of Oak/LE. Beast is just too broken to ignore and is almost a requirement in premades. The demi's around UB are preference and style. As an aside, I'm not sure what special tactics you've made reference to a couple times in different posts. We didn't have any particular survival strats in the games we played against you. Our team put out more damage than yours,
[quote who="X-Raider" reply="6" id="2322558"]I like oak + UB combo better[/quote]Agreed. Sedna is overrated in tough matchups. She loses steam when both sides know how to survive.
It's just stats that are the problem for late game. In theory she should be able to stay in open form and pressure people. Mitigation from Goddess is her only late game advantage, but without keeping up with stats then she's not catching up to other character's effective 'time to live' even with Goddess. Change her level 15+ stats (HP and AA).
I gotta say, it doesn't feel like the number of premades are that high. I play with my friend(s) almost exclusively, and we rarely host games. We join games as a group (usually 2 of us joining 3v3 games). I feel like we often still don't end up playing against premades, even tho that is one of the reasons we join other players' games instead of hosting our own.
Great news all around!
[quote who="Obscenitor" reply="2" id="2314133"]Zero map rotation enforcement, aka Big Game Hunters Syndrome. This will become more pronounced if more maps are added to the game [/quote]Mmmm, great point. And yeah, making the matchmaking more popular for competitive play has got to be the goal, so that makes sense too.
I agree. Stats tell enough to be useful and should be shown in game. I don't see any reason to stop ranking custom games even with matchmaking, just make sure all stats/rankings are separate and independent by type.
Mist is not an escape, it's a delay and/or counter-move. This is extremely different. Sure, Mist can be useful here and there in very isolated situations, they all are best used in short bursts to prevent specific things. No change is needed to Mist. As for minions, there is a bug with one of the favor items to make this particularly powerful. If anything should be fixed, it should be that first, then we can see where night walkers stand.
[quote who="Aroddo" reply="7" id="2312876"]I just wish mulch would be in open form and uproot in closed form... That build works? I have totally given up on dueling with QoT and dedicated her to Siege and Support.[/quote]This build is obsolete in some ways for me. This isn't a dueling build. Every Queen build that isn't morale based is gonna be siege and support. The build is technically still the build i use if i play Queen, but only up to around 10 or 11. 
[quote who="Aroddo" reply="1" id="2312863"]By "These are everyones'" I mean that I gather all opinions and suggestions and put them in the original posts. And I actually read every single post to find out how these opinions are received by everyone participating in this thread. And to clearly reflect the diverging opinions I use colors and other font styles. And I don't see what I did to you to earn that kind of displayed depreciation.[/quote]Hmmm, this
[quote who="Aroddo" reply="8" id="2312260"]Anyway, these are not all my opinions. These are everyones.[/quote] No, they are not. This is blatantly false. You do not speak for the people. It's obvious just from the replies in this thread that most people don't agree on what changes should be made. You are deciding which ones you agree with and using those as your suggestions. My suggestion is: make one change at a time. Even with that suggest
Way too many changes to consider changing at once. After changing all of these you'd end up with a list just as long with things unintended. This is funny to me: [quote]Also, I'm not looking for single-skill complaints - everyone knows by now that QoT's Tribute skill sucks (at level 15 at least) - but rather how the overall performance of a demigod skilling strategy compares to the rest of the game.[/quote] And yet your list is a line-by-line opinion about how yo
Mard's Hammer is assassin only.
[quote quoting="post"]But if it looks like that the game might last til lvl 20 I will become less and less effective except for killing buldings. I was thinking if it might be worth switching from offense do defense if the game might take a while after lvl 10. Theoretically going for goddess of thorns and bulwark of ages should give you 40% dam reduction´to everything while having armor of 4k+ gives you 60%+ dam reduction against auto attacks. Would put you dam reduction to almost 80% a
It's useful when used right.