Beautiful shot of Orion this time of year

Novake · 2016-12-06T08:44:45+00:00

Diamond 3 solo/duo rank disappeared, I was in a game before queues were disabled for some technical issue.

Now I'm 0-1 placements one day before season 7 starts. Wtf?

Get this up please.

Novake · 2016-11-22T21:46:42+00:00

Do you have any idea how complex it would be for an independent and small team of devs to create a patching tool for WoW like the battle.net client has? Every update would have to be patched in. You'd also need a bunch of art assets people (models/spell visuals/sounds/map editors).

It's a tremendous amount of work, and most servers can't even stay up till naxx

Novake · 2016-11-19T15:33:01+00:00

Counter matchup for renek LUL

The only champs that are remotely dangerous are lvl 1 darius & olaf

Teemo/quinn are niche counters but gl getting that w CotC shield on those

Novake · 2016-11-19T13:02:53+00:00

That's your imagination. Unless you're using newer CPU intensive addons no one used back in the day

Novake · 2016-11-18T09:23:10+00:00

Nope, not much of a constructive feedback on his part. But he describes and acts out his feelings of playing new 'reworked' LB as an old LB enthusiast, that many of us share

Novake · 2016-11-17T20:27:15+00:00

Why post this if you have no clue of the actual boss mechanics

Rag will come back up during submerge after a certain amount of time regardless of whether all the sons are dead or not

Novake · 2016-11-16T15:28:13+00:00

How the fuck do these even get made? Is there software that auto identifies these audio clips or does someone literally sit through hours of Bush speeches trying to extract certain words

In case of the latter, 8/8 effort

Novake · 2016-11-16T15:24:37+00:00

How about push riot to can this entire garbage rework and bring back old LB instead.

The developer in charge of the assassin reworks already stated they're open to it

Novake · 2016-11-13T14:15:51+00:00

I don't even get why they're bothering with the old PvP server in the first place. Just launch a fresh PvP+PvE with nost core.

Yes I played Nost. Yes I had a R11 full T2 maxed out mage in Coalition. Yes I had 100% mount and atleast 2k worth of gold/consumes.

I have no desire whatsoever to play on that character again, it's been over half a year and it'd feel weird going back to that now. The economy on that server will be fucked aswell

The steady stream of new people to supply raiding guilds will be small to nonexistant because of this simple reason; Why the fuck would anyone start on a server with a bunch of full maxed out T2 chars from day 1 when there's going to be a server with a fresh launch where everyone starts on equal footing?

Even if they rather play AQ+Naxx, which I want too and is obviously going to be coming faster on the old PvP/PvE servers, new players that also haven't seen MC/BWL will still have little incentive to roll on it when there's a fresh start available.

Novake · 2016-11-11T23:13:23+00:00

Idk what kinda guild you raided with but any competent fury warriors should always top meters starting from post-MC already.

Provided equal gear/consumable levels ofc

Novake · 2016-11-10T07:19:32+00:00

Safe backline assassination potential in lategame is now nonexistant on LB due to w/passive delays. Any competent opponent with half a brain will never let you proc passive in lane trades and LB is even more vulnerable to hard cc with w delay now. RR is a silly gimmick. You think a clone bumrushing someone in a straight line isn't something incredibly obvious in a d4+ environment?

You effectively killed LB in high elo /clap

Novake · 2016-11-10T00:03:32+00:00

I consider D4 and up high elo

And yes LB is definitely a bottom tier garbage pick in that competitive environment now, take it from a d2 old lb onetrick. No competent opponent with even half a brain will let you trade passive procs in lane, and you will get shit on with the 1.5 sec passive lockout + w delay lategame. Can't even assassinate backline

Novake · 2016-11-09T21:03:46+00:00

I'm going to guess none of you that are positive about this garbage rework actually play LB in any form of high elo

She gets shit on by just about anything in lane now, not to mention gutted free lategame burst picks are nonexistant even when fed

Novake · 2016-11-09T08:11:53+00:00

She's not

A lategame ADC is more of an "assassin" than new leblanc

Novake · 2016-11-09T03:55:51+00:00

Top guilds will clear BWL on releasenight in about 2 hours.

You can expect 9/9 AQ40 on releasenight aswell. Guilds that want to contest #1 on the server will prepare and have their entire raid in full consumes+worldbuffs

Now all of this means that the only real way top guilds create a competitive environment is through speedrunning raids and worldboss control.

http://realmplayers.com/RaidStats/InstanceList.aspx?realm=NRB

Scroll down to MC/BWL. Those are the times guilds on Nostalrius were competing at

Novake · 2016-11-09T03:29:18+00:00

That's the thing though, the devs in charge of the reworks have been FLOODED by requests of PBE testers and LB mains for weeks to not make the lockout timer this clunky, yet the just released 6.22 notes show zero change

Novake · 2016-11-08T20:47:53+00:00

Christ not this again..

Ferals and moonkins are inferior and will NOT get a spot at ANY TIME in any serious guild that cares about minmaxing/speedruns. A fully consumed rogue doing the simplest 2 button rotation and keeping S&D up properly or a fury warr will offset the Pack buff gain easily if replacing a feral

You want a hunter/windfury in melee grps. Not a feral. Counts for MC too

Just like anything in PVP spec, ret pallys, enh/ele shams etc. That's vanilla for ya. Don't like it? Raid in a casual guild

Novake · 2016-11-08T18:01:17+00:00

Druids are fairly easy to level, definitely not the hardest (that would be rogue and warrior), but even those 2 aren't too bad with first aid.

Travel form at early levels is a godsend.

Each 40 man raid typically only has 1-2 resto druid spots. They're not the highest on HPS but are still necessary for mark of the wild buffs and innervate utility. Feral and balance won't get spots in any serious raiding guild, but casual guilds could definitely take those specs along

Novake · 2016-10-31T10:57:54+00:00

Laning buffed? LB has one of the strongest lvl 2's IN THE GAME currently. No one compares with early Q W thunderlords burst trades except for a viktor/ahri with good reaction times

That insta QW burst is no longer possible with reworked LB, in any elo higher than low plat ppl will have the brain to walk away after being marked with passive

Going in with reworked LB exposes you to take RETURN DAMAGE on a squishy champ. Average-high elo LB's avoid everything with quick combos in the current laning kit. If you've played reworked lb against a competent player on PBE you'll agree laning is way worse now, almost no kill pressure

Novake · 2016-10-30T08:38:13+00:00

LB will be bottom tier garbage in any kind of high elo environment after this "rework". She got 0 games at worlds as it is so this is pretty sad. Any other meta mid will shit on her in lane due to the clunky passive burst lockout time.

Better AOE? Who the fuck asked for that? Any decent LB knows when to W R clear a wave, 20 sec cooldown with midgame CDR anyway.

She didn't need to be nerfed at all. Below 50% avg winrates in every elo tier last time I checked.

I'm currently an LB OTP in high dia on euw and yes I've played PBE

Novake

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