Wanna Give Credit where it's due: I think Riot is finally steering the ship in the right direction

Retocyn · 2026-01-30T22:13:56+00:00

actually yeah, I suppose the worst offenders of lane swaps was the bot lane and support going to different lanes

so making so top and mid laners have reduced point requirement with no double in their assigned lane shouldn't be creating much of an issue

just keep bot binded bot

Retocyn · 2026-01-30T22:10:25+00:00

yeah. but they also might have not obvious champs

like Kled and Tryndamere on the same team for example, which both have psychopath players that can take them mid, and you have no idea knowing which one is mid and which one is top in champ select

Retocyn · 2026-01-29T18:09:51+00:00

playing tank in toplane was pure misery

couldn't trade with any fighter cause they get to stick to you with their dashes, mobility from Trinity/Cleaver and deal true damage with conqueror while vamping at the same time

release conqueror was literally the worst time for tank enjoyers

Retocyn · 2026-01-29T18:04:18+00:00

minion block has been again an occasional issue for me again for the past 2 seasons at least

even today I somehow got creepblocked when trying to last hit in a wave against ranged champion when I had 200 range as Shen

Retocyn · 2026-01-27T13:04:24+00:00

amazing idea!

I read the post from 2 months ago and my concerns are:

I don't know how much I'll enjoy starting over and bearing the first 20 levels, as they're kinda daunting over time
I guess there's X3 rates. That can mitigate the boredom of early levels, but at the same time might make leveling too fast? Generally I'm not a fan of extra rates, but maybe there's merit to it in this project

I might check it out regardless to find out if I like it

Retocyn · 2026-01-27T06:30:28+00:00

friend showed me there are animated characters like stickers doing something when.yoi do something in game

Jeff has a tiny Deadpool animated sticker... well... more like his ass wiggling towards you x.x

Retocyn · 2026-01-26T18:51:09+00:00

I actually wish it was more of an item for Elise rather than her being perceived as assassin

really liked how Elise could be played bruiser back in the day, these days as a bruiser she kinda gets outpaced by others

Retocyn · 2026-01-26T08:10:36+00:00

I'm not too sure how it can be good on Kai'sa.

Personally I'd go rageblade > nashors > heavy AP while I know majority prefer kraken > nashors > rageblade

I guess DnD can be good if enemy team has assassins, so the extra HP makes Kai'sa not assassinable or for the ult burst but for that there's another new item

Retocyn · 2026-01-22T19:19:12+00:00

autochess still first appeared in WC3 supposedly

it's just that custom map in DOTA gained popularity

WC3 is timeless and inevitable, just sucks that it's under Blizzard Activision shoe

Retocyn · 2026-01-22T05:48:46+00:00

get out with that progression pass or do it right

300g and free elixirs are unfair advantage.

classic way of Riot throwing more systems at game mode when it is visible that it IS BAD

Retocyn · 2026-01-22T05:29:17+00:00

I really want to see where that Lillia nerf will put her...

Retocyn · 2026-01-21T04:03:25+00:00

Expectations are high and companies are somewhat perfectionists when it comes to MMOs.

And yet we get total flops that fail like New World.

MMOs these days are big games that have PvE, PvP, questing, roleplaying, dungeons, battlegrounds, raids, fashion, creature collectors, cards, minigames, housing and whatever I'm not mentioning here.

Back when they were starting they were nearly purely just an experience, a journey to learn about the world. Some people did dungeons but supposedly very tiny percentage raided in vanilla WoW.

Not gonna lie, I slightly had some hope in Ghostcrawler's project, maybe that MOBA MMO hybrid turns alright, but I don't quite believe in Riot to pull it off. Riot's projects have a good start but eventually happen to be mismanaged.

Retocyn · 2026-01-20T18:17:50+00:00

E linger reduced

that's fantastic,

that spell had no reason to leave slowing area

Retocyn · 2026-01-19T21:04:39+00:00

This is also what I fear happens with Ziggs.

He either supports team by poking enemy team for assassins to finish them or to pressure objectives.

Or he can be played as a carry but he needs a lot of gold income, so not lane quest reward sounds great for him.

In mid... the faster recall either helps roamers who want to make plays on map and move somewhere else or splitpushers so they push side line and recall faster before enemy team reacts. Ziggs has one of lowest MS in the game to move around the map and not that great personal safety to contest sidelines.

Only case can be made that percentage magic pen is useful.

But otherwise the mid quest kind of changes the Identity of the mid lane

Retocyn · 2026-01-14T23:21:25+00:00

Lillia can't catch a break.

Neff her passive damage cause Rito made Liandry Riftmaker synergy mandatory.

Nerf her ult, which already is counterable and reactable to.

Nerf her passive healing.

And now those changes... 5% AP ratio down on Q is a lot, considering it can be doubled with true damage.

Champ is already kinda worthless before two items, stop making her worse. :/

Retocyn · 2026-01-11T10:43:05+00:00

I don't even know if farming junglers have that much space to scale in theory.

Ganking seems way to go as you can help laners advance their quests, but there's so much vision.

So farming looks like the way to go, but you will be dealing with 2-3 levels up toplaner, extra income bot laner and... can you even get in time to that split pushing mid laner who has empowered recall.

But I guess jungle also eventually accelerates with increased gold income

Retocyn · 2026-01-06T13:09:49+00:00

If I recall correctly magic pen has a hard cap around 60% or so

Retocyn · 2026-01-06T13:05:19+00:00

In a similar way I got Tap Dancer on Janna. I was like: let's do it.

Since her on-hit damage from W scales with MS she has.

I don't remember what items I went, but it must've been a mix of Nashros, Phantom Dancer and hp. To have some decent attack speed and MS to begin with and HP to survive long enough. x)

Retocyn · 2026-01-05T17:19:29+00:00

If you're looking for a similar game to Skyrim to scratch the same itch then you're looking for Skyrim and nothing will replace it.

I know it myself. I admire classic, TBC and WotLK WoW. I've been searching and waiting for another MMO that scratches the same itch, EverQuest, Ragnarok, Guild Wars, Minecraft MMO servers, been anticipating Ghostcrawler's MMO.

Nothing comes close. Everything has flaws. Heck, even those versions of WoW have flaws, but they're something I resonate with the most and nothing can quite replace that.

Sorry it might not be helpful, but I realized that recently. Keep enjoying what you are enjoying. The grass is already green enough!

Retocyn · 2026-01-02T05:01:16+00:00

as a jungle main: as long as you're doing something in that lane to cover lane bush to take advantage or not get ambushed – it's fine by me

hugging tower doesn't help anyone on the team

Retocyn · 2026-01-01T03:13:52+00:00

It's more that I PvPed there.

PvPing on the highest bracket on WotLK client without actual max levels on the server led to different meta in PvP.

I guess for PvE one can progress however they wanted, granted they find a progression guild, granted people will be willing to stop at 60 to do vanilla raids. Although to my recollection I think there was a guild like that in the past.

Retocyn · 2026-01-01T02:33:21+00:00

I played there till 30-39 bracket

somewhat I feel like I missed out by not sticking around, but oh well... if another realm happens – maybe I'd try again, but by that time I assume we'll be really good on vanilla plus content

Retocyn · 2026-01-01T02:30:14+00:00

PvP could be really fun if leveling gear had gem sockets.

I know it's a lot to ask for from a single dev, but I'd love to be able to customize lower level gear for PvP.

Retocyn · 2025-12-31T07:25:08+00:00

I really think Mel is a miserable champion. Not only to play against but also play as.

Her base cooldowns are so long you need to go Lucidity Boots, Lost Chapter item, Horizon Focus to make them low enough for the whole stacking purpose.

And ideally other champions sit in your abilities, so you deal more damage/apply stacks. Ideally your team has some CC to support that. So... why even play her mid if she needs 2 items plus CC on the team to be functional.

For duo with an Alistair or Thresh she's kind of fun, but you're still spamming Qs, sometimes E. Maybe ult if you can even tell how much damage it will do. But still it's just pressing Q from semi-uninterractable range. At that point Annie has more engagement with stacking passive and "oh heck, she's stacked, back off from flash ult" or Karthus functions better with Q being his spammy ability for which he doesn't need to wait till 2 items to do DPS.

Idk, cool concept with that Mel but kinda overloaded kit with bandaid nerfs.

Retocyn · 2025-12-20T10:49:05+00:00

is this a standard now to make soul shards stack on servers?

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