Barbabaas

@SeffVII @kingofleaguetwt yeah with the amounts of smurfs and stuff.. ngl i cant even track my own progression due to smurfs.

@Barbabaas @kingofleaguetwt it would be sick to be able to see that kind of stuff, but until league accounts *everywhere* have age verification it probably wont happen lol.

like i'm ngl it's not even misogynistic to say this, females are unable to play shit like nautilus and all, you don't know how to play around waves, you don't know how to zone people, you don't know how to apply pressure, even if u have a samira you should pick enchanters

@SeffVII @kingofleaguetwt And these aren't super talented players or anything either, just young people with a lot of time on their hands and honestly an addiction pretty much, probably like this guy. he is just stagnating due to his massive ego I'm guessing.

@SeffVII @kingofleaguetwt Yeah i wont pretend to have any meaningful stats. I can just anecdotally say that within my personal ''league circle'' most people reached plat/dia within a year or so of consistent, serious play. Most people in low are really not even trying in my exp. And yeah he's a loser lol

@SeffVII @kingofleaguetwt I just stated that my opinion was biased, yes, and also that stat doesn't really mean much in a vaccuum. You have to look at the performance within his subgroup (younger 'gamer' that has a lot of hours on the game), you can't just compare him to the entire ranked population.

@Barbabaas @kingofleaguetwt being in the top 2% of every role is statistically impressive, your opinion is the only biased one here.

@SeffVII @kingofleaguetwt Depends on your perspective. It's really not impressive for a person who has been playing consistently for a while though, especially if you care about the game and put some effort into getting good at it. If anything it's the opposite imo but I understand that's a biased opinion

@Barbabaas @kingofleaguetwt dia on 5 roles is impressive, what are you on?

@kingofleaguetwt so what happened in your childhood then that you're within 2 divisions of the ''inflated enchanter player'' that you're preaching to?

@kingofleaguetwt its really funny that you keep going back to this point as if you have the capacity to discuss it when you're diamond

@Barbabaas idk if u're playing or not but the fact that u think engage supports don't do these basic things in diamond either mean u're larping and u're really low elo u understand nothing about the game or u're like master 0 lp 50% winrate and u think u're better than diamond players

@kingofleaguetwt also why am i old and not playing now randomly wtf

@Barbabaas in fact i'm attempting to do it lately, will keep u updated and if i don't reach my goals until the end of season (30 days) i'll reach them next season, the ragebait won't work btw i'm chill rn and i know u don't even play league and u're 30yo

@kingofleaguetwt what ragebait? im just mirroring your own messages back at you.

@kingofleaguetwt Thats a really nice dream you got set up for yourself there bro. What we thinking of maybe actually doing that? Oh wait it would shatter your illusion and force you to confront the fact that you're bad (no flame)

@Barbabaas bcz i have bad mental and i don't play enough + i tend to swap champs/roles too much, if i sticked to playing my main champs which i have 60+%wr on i would climb

@kingofleaguetwt Also nice deflection. You're probably pretty good at that. Have you ever stopped to wonder why you're hardstuck or do you just cope about not wanting to climb or whatever?

@Barbabaas pretty interesting how some people can be so heterosexual that they will somehow manage to gaslight themselves into thinking women are equal to men in terms of videogame performances on average, it's not misogynstic to acknowledge that btw i said nothing wrong

@kingofleaguetwt >i can do all these things >yo im diamond btw

@kingofleaguetwt Pretty interesting to see how massive an ego can be on a fella who is by all accounts quite mediocre. no flame, just an observation

@Barbabaas yo, i'm diamond on all 5 roles and i can do all of these things because i'm not a person who spent her entire playtime playing inflated enchanters

@kerberos_lol I think liandries instead of riftmaker and its chill

theres secret sylas tech if the enemy takes away my chogath but i dont know if the world is ready for it

@TheMightyBaloon @zac_gaming__ a lot of jgl (or any role for that matter) champs are just as micro-intensive as basically any adc, idk where this mindset came from where people think adc is more micro intensive than something like jgl top or mid

@zac_gaming__ In retrospect drututt actually has more adc experience than the average player by playing ranged champions top. He also otped camile which is a fairly micro intensive champion, so adc being easier for him isn't really a surprise.

turns out that the role which requires the least amount of macro and can be mostly punished by mechanical diff is actually not worse to play than the role with highest decision making in the game

@huncho1v9 I'm not 100% sure but I think it might be bc you open league too quickly after starting your computer, because then vanguard doesn't have time to open properly and league doesn't open because of it.

Anyone know the fix for when league doesn't open and goes unresponsive like the 2nd pic I usually just close the league client and riot client through task manager and it works, but today it didn't

@AggrendWoW I would prefer a fix or just plain warrior nerf at 60 in this direction than fundamentally altering how a warrior feels to play. Thanks again. (5/5)

@AggrendWoW meaning 10% increased damage causes the 60% weapon damage deep wounds was based on to increase, but it also then causes the bleed itself to increase. With all the damage modifiers, this is inflating warrior damage a lot, and is quite problematic. (4/5)

The team focused on SoD has spent a good chunk of the last few days chewing on a rather large list of class adjustments coming soon (likely actually soon, not "soon tm" soon). As always we want to prime everyone that it's not going to fix every single thing everyone wanted, but we are continuing to iterate. We've been watching discords and forums for ideas and suggestions as we go, and while that's fine and good, I figured it might be a fun exercise to probe for a few suggestions here to a few targeted questions. Disclaimer; there may be an excellent idea in here that you love that we can't execute on for whatever reason. Game dev isn't easy and sometimes you have to pass on a good idea for a myriad of reasons. It's nothing sinister and its not us being tone deaf. Many things are also too big to hotfix so we have to think about what we do now vs. next phase. So, feel free to post suggestions or links to media with good suggestions in reply. Please do keep it civil though both towards me/the team and each other. I've been increasingly having to mute/block folks with abusive or unhelpful commentary so let's all be chill humans together. Lastly, please try and frame your suggestion with both a) the issue to be addressed, and b) your suggestion--phrased as concisely as possible. We likely won't have time to read super long posts/threads to find the meat of your point, so this will help (he says, while typing a super long post himself). Anyway, here goes: 1. Shadow DPS - We'd like to increase damage while allowing them to still shine in terms of group utility, particularly because their utility/value is likely to increase even further at 60 with some new stuff coming. One thing we also keep coming back to as well is wanting to restore mind flay to having a place in the toolkit. With that in mind, how would you suggest improving Shadow DPS with those goals in mind? 2. Survival Tree for Hunters - We know a lot of melee hunters really want Survival to be a thing and we agree that it really fits that "RPG ranger" class fantasy. Currently, BM tends to outstrip it in terms of raw output. What do you think could be interesting to zhuzh this up and make a deepish survival investment interesting? 3. Holy Paladins - We did you guys a bit dirty by not giving you interesting buttons to push like every other healing class. Viewed through a level 60 vanilla lens holy is great, but in SoD it leaves a lot to be desired. One thing we've been discussing is a group heal or some sort of proactive heal mechanic for Holy, but interested to hear some concise ideas here. 4. Sword Rogues - We have some adjustments coming in the upcoming update but we are open to ideas for how to make Saber Slash and other sword gameplay compelling. Might simply be a "do moar damage" adjustment that fixes this in the end, but we are interested in "feelsy" adjustment ideas too. 5. Warriors - Rage is a problematic mechanic because more damage = more rage = more damage = more rage ad infinitum. This is going to become more problematic at 60 as well. If we had it to do over again, we'd likely have normalized rage (i.e. you don't get extra rage when you do more damage/crit) at the start of the season and focused on major changes to their gameplay to compensate. The way it works now really hamstrings the design options for Warriors as we have to worry about the historically best dps in the game becoming even better later and forcing us to do an absolutely massive nerf which everyone would hate. To you, what would be a good trade for some form of normalized rage at 60 if we had to do such a thing? To close us out--at this point, we are always open to novel ideas for any class, including things that don't just strictly borrow from future expansions. Our philosophy on this has shifted from when we started developing this season and now we'd love to experiment with totally NEW mechanics (that ideally fit somewhat plausibly into the classic ecosystem). Not to say we won't use future expansion spells, but there's a willingness to expand our horizons a bit. Anyway sorry for the length. We've had a lot of fun just trawling discords and forums recently but figured I'd just throw this into the maelstrom and see what we get here as well. Thanks! EDIT: I am not answering questions here, so sorry if you want to ask something. My thoughts are irrelevant to this discussion and we want YOUR ideas.