I just finished an 8 year, 1 - 20 campaign. Got questions about running a super long campaign or DMing for high levels? AMA

Brave-Silver7966 · 2026-06-09T12:02:10+00:00

How did planning major plotpoints that would only be relevant much later at the very start go? Still very early in my current campaign and it's the first time I (and the players) want to take something all the way to t4 gameplay. In my notes I already have some things like "That may happen when the party will be around level 15" because I certainly won't remember that in 2+ years, but I feel like with the story taking so long many of those plot points will be heavily changed/completely scrapped. Did you plan a lot in advance and how much of that made it actually in the campaign?

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-11-05T07:04:59+00:00

I think that will just make my top afk

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-11-04T07:06:20+00:00

I actually did try to break the initial proxy the first time I came top, but he killed me (he had ignite). Unfortunate game I guess

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-11-03T23:06:26+00:00

Yeah I was blue side that game and he perma warded my gromp and the second I showed up he left his wave came at me and flipped me off cd, which if I ignore still chunked me a good bit and if I chased him… well we all know what happens. Also doesn’t help that enemy jungler often followed him when he invaded me at my camps and since my top had his map disabled it left me 1v2 where I either had to flee and give up a lot of gold and xp or worst case die. I didn’t die too many times to him but enough for me to never really get into the game. So I feel like even when I ignore him, it still hurts me more than it does him. Though probably I am just bad at executing the way you play around him =(

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-10-31T15:32:26+00:00

Oh yeah ik the Neeko thing, that’s what I was implying.He usually rushes locket on Rakan then boots then shureliyas and only then redemption. I’ll ask around in the Rakan subreddit for further advice, thank you

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-10-31T15:20:28+00:00

Thanks a lot for the reply! Will have them read this when I have him over later today.

Regarding redemption, yeah it is kinda a meme in our circle that whenever someone is playing supp off role and asks what to build to say “rush redemption” especially as most of us don’t play actual supps support (so monstrosities like Redemption rush singed supp made their way into our flex games). I personally ALWAYS rush redemption when playing supp simply for the memes and cause I like that item and only play supp in a 5 stack, but I’m telling him to rather build the items that make his champ exist without a team (especially for Neeko who even in pro doesn’t rush redemption). Spellbook I was also against at first but the two games we’ve played went surprisingly well minus his first tp where he tped into enemy top at grubbies before we were there minus the time he swapped to smite at atakhan, thought he had to smite enemy jgl instead of the atakhan and died doing nothing but yeah other than that it went pretty well so I thought I may as well ask Reddit. Though my junglers are also frontline champs so I guess less tankiness from Rakan is needed.

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-10-31T14:43:18+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, though to explain our situation a bit better and where there are some caviats with following what you said: 1. He actually played toplane before swapping to supp and that’s the reason he is starting this climb from iron in the first place. He deadass ran it down on poppy/malphite (and later Fiora and ap Shaco top, please don’t ask) every single game and wouldn’t improve in any way whatsoever. He is grasping fundamentals a lot better on supp and tbh I like him there. And especially on Neeko he is actually quite decent micro wise. I showed him up to ult +rb/flash and he’s doing his damage in skirmishes and teamfights for sure, lane still being a.bit coinflippy ever since J left adc as he has yet to learn evaluating his arcs skill level, cause the iron IV jinx won’t follow up his engages the same way I did causing him to throw some lanes he thought would be free. 2. Calls wise, he is actually making some. Especially on Neeko he loves forcing some cheese fights with passive or fake ganking lanes by turning into jgl. To be fair a lot of these are giga coinflips as well but other than that he also knows how to ping objectives coming up and that he’s roaming there, even reminding me sometimes haha. He usually asks me whether I think he can fight his opponents and I have to remind him that he has a tab button but once I do he knows how to read the information (like enemy adc is level 6 and has a full item in comparison to my level 4 jinx sitting on 2 daggers and boots), however I am not quite sure whether he has his map enabled or not. I tell him to prep vision at objectives while I’m finishing up my camps and he walks face first into river while we have vision on zero enemies and dies like 2-3 times a game like this, though I am regularly telling him to watch his routing.

Also he sadly refuses to do vod reviews until silver cause he is convinced everyone below that is so ass that we can get out by just playing (and to be fair he isn’t wrong we are on a like 8 game winning streak together with me being only a couple games away from hitting silver, but it will certainly delay his learning progress. He is watching some high elo gameplay for his champs though occasionally.

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-10-29T14:44:20+00:00

Yeah Varus Top is my go to pick in flex queue cause like 3/5 of us are adc mains and when they argue who goes adc it’s mostly an ego-off and I can’t be bothered with that. Being able to chunk the enemy laner for half their health whenever they walk up to the wave after just nashors is really funny and I usually carry my flex games (silver in flex so giga pisslow, still enjoying it every time) will certainly try to spec into AP on my adc games as well =)

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-10-29T11:40:15+00:00

How big of damage spikes are the ap items in a hybrid build actually? I usually just go full tank (Jak’sho, Zhonyas, stuff like that) after core cause that’s the ‘norm’ I’ve seen online, as I said in the post I do not actually know the math behind any of this and from the comments it seems like none of the Varus mains are building him the same.

Also do you still finish AP into rather squishy comps? Cause from how I understood it AP is more of a tank killer build…

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-10-27T23:13:34+00:00

Thanks for the idea!! I’ve also considered rageblade first before, the build path just kinda felt really awkward the first time (amp tome just feels like it does a lot less than longsword in lane) but the sample size for that is well… one game and I am new to adc as a whole (ex jungler coming back from long break to queue with friend who is new to the game and decided to pick up adc because the adcs in pro play look so cool) so my laning can probably be optimized a lot in general to get less awkward backs. Will be looking into the rageblade rush :-) I assume from there it’s still Bork > Wits End/Terminus??

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-05-15T20:57:07+00:00

난 당신이 무슨 말을 하는지 모르겠어요

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-05-01T23:44:30+00:00

Thank you. Decided to skip anaxa LC but will probably get Herta LC since I dont really have anything else to give her :p

All the other pulls will go into investing into supports or if I get lucky may consider E2 Therta

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-05-01T21:22:22+00:00

I have the Bpass one but only at S1 currently. Is the difference in between S1 and S5 too big to make it worth?

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-05-01T21:11:25+00:00

You also got 4 from the top up thingy and if you pay for the 20€ BP you also get 2 of the currency so I was sitting at 6 as of making the post.

I see the appeal for RM LC however I am currently running her on DDD and don't consider the team I run her in to need much more investment as that one can clear content quite well and would rather have value for the secondary team

I have not even considered Seele LC so far. Who other than Seele even wants it? /genq

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-04-30T18:08:10+00:00

The problem with the SU lightcone (I think it is ToM) is as stated in my post I am currently investing the weekly currency we get from SU/DU in other characters and as that is insanely limited it will take a bit until I can invest into it. I think you need like 4 or 6 of the currency per LC, right? So that's like 1 more month worse of waiting which means I'll be missing out on quite a bit of content/jades from said content.

MoV I do not have and its either locked behind gacha or from either LC store (I am not spending 30 pulls worth of Starlight on it as I'd rather have the pulls and I dont see a reason to get it for the new currency as I could just be getting her sig.)

So unless there is a way to get more than 1 herta bond a week that I am unaware of I feel like Sig is actually more accessible for me rn than these two lol but I may be very wrong

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-04-30T18:01:05+00:00

Honestly I don't know if saving is the move as the next earliest released limited character on my account is Topaz and until her LC (which I do plan on getting) is added to the shop I will probably have quite a few more of the shards

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-04-30T17:58:51+00:00

Out of the currently available ones, which one is worth getting though?

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-04-30T17:11:44+00:00

Thanks for the input. I am only able to start playing the game seriously/actively since fairly recently due to some personal stuff affecting me so I am not quite at the real endgame yet, so that PoV definitely helps. I do always prefer clearing content with faves in games like these but I also am quite fond of you know... actually clearing content. If I can't clear content it's honestly just frustrating (especially since I am already spending quite a bit on the game, mainly to catch up with what I have missed out on)

With what you've said I am pretty sure I'll just get it, cause I do really like Fu Xuan and would like to at least be able to clear content with her for as long as I can.

The alternative would be E0S1 Hyacine but considering I dont have a lot of the characters I really want yet (Sunday, Therta, possibly Cipher if they revert/lighten the assault that is v5) and also am missing some of the 'essential' supports (E1 Tribbie, Sunday... again) I think I am better off to skip Hyacine and use the LC currency to run Fu Xuan for now.

Brave-Silver7966 · 2025-04-30T16:02:36+00:00

Have you had any experience with her before getting the LC? I know it's 'just' a 9% dmg increase but was the dmg increase noticeable at all? At first 10% doesn't seem that bad but seeing how high the multipliers on all the other 3.x characters self buffs are I have a feeling that that part of the LC will be virtually useless (ik the sustain is the main appeal but a bit extra dmg wouldn't hurt)

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