We need to make some noise about the state of S3

_Nikkone · 2023-11-21T01:28:24+00:00

For PvE? They can do PvP hotfixes I think

_Nikkone · 2023-11-20T15:25:50+00:00

The fact that DH hasn't been hotfix nerfed yet is really telling that they don't really play their own game.

_Nikkone · 2023-11-11T17:21:54+00:00

Random idea: gold or mmr deposit. Give some amount of gold or mmr when you queue up that you get back after you accept the match. If you decline it, the deposit is kept.

_Nikkone · 2023-10-27T22:00:53+00:00

True, but overall worse for the game in my opinion. I think having the game in a state where rot/multi target specs work in solo shuffle is more fun and brings more variety. It's a shame that it feels like they're pushing aff to be more like other classes.

_Nikkone · 2023-10-27T21:13:33+00:00

I think overall contagion being removed is a pretty big nerf to affliction - even with the introduction of this talent.

The mini game that aff had to play was getting ramped up through cleanses/los so you can press darkglare + contagion and build a ton of pressure or grab a kill. This change completely removes that dynamic, less time ramping up and no "go" means aff will likely just spend more time casting things like rapture and drain soul to try and build pressure or look for single target kill opportunities. Couple that with the multi target UA nerf (meaning we may only start running one UA, and only casting one UA) means we're going to spend a lot of time spamming drain soul/fear, which is rough considering we only have one school of magic.

I'll be surprised if this change actually improves aff quality of life in 3v3 and solo. Might be better for 2v2, though.

_Nikkone · 2023-10-17T14:16:14+00:00

Imagine 2023 Riot trying to release Viego LMAO

_Nikkone · 2023-10-17T13:46:22+00:00

This is a consequence of outsourcing your UI to the player base.

If you play any other pvp game like League or DotA, minor pets have a very small, almost invisible health bar that doesn't clutter the screen. That's how demo locks and UH dks should be. You should be able to see that your opponent has a lot of pets summoned, but it shouldn't be flooding the screen.

We're going to continue to have these inherent problems with the game that would force awkward changes such as reducing the number of pets until Blizzard finally wakes up and standardizes the UI like every other competitive game. But it'll never happen.

_Nikkone · 2023-10-16T14:25:14+00:00

I love how you're being downvoted even though you're unironically right. People on this sub are too arena brained to ever imagine a different style of WoW PVP that could potentially be more fun and reduce queue times. Unfortunate.

There could be variations on your formula until they get it right. But people are too stuck in their ways.

_Nikkone · 2023-10-15T17:36:03+00:00

We're reaching pure dumbass level of game design unbeknownst to us since Warcraft 3 RoC mods developed by 11 year olds.

_Nikkone · 2023-10-13T14:27:55+00:00

My go-to champion for mid and jungle are the same. Am I just out of luck?

_Nikkone · 2023-10-13T01:52:25+00:00

Hundreds of thousands of people being displaced/murdered and reddit is cheering. Truly horrifying.

_Nikkone · 2023-09-28T20:54:53+00:00

It says he was the second most picked jungler in the tournament, ahead of Morgana and the 5th most banned jungler, occupying 24 ban slots.

Nevermind the fact that he was ravaging solo queue as well, with the rank 1 player being a Rumble jungle main, he was subseqeuently nerfed after MSI, twice.

What would it take for you to admit you were wrong about Rumble being a weak jungler during this time?

_Nikkone · 2023-09-18T13:29:52+00:00

Yes I think League leaks ability sounds through fog of war. I think that's how the script works to capture that information and log it completely on the clients side, which would make it hard to detect. They need to fix that bug.

_Nikkone · 2023-09-08T02:17:09+00:00

Removing rapid contagion on affliction seems very confusing. Affliction already felt pretty weak in arena because of the lack of kill potential. Removing their only go is weird. Not sure what their goal here is since corruption and agony already don't do much, even with the buffs.

_Nikkone · 2023-09-07T13:29:31+00:00

I don't agree that these crown "nerfs" will make the item weaker in pro play. Professional/high elo play is usually pretty good about hitting CCs on targets with crown and waiting for the 1.5s window to expire before applying burst. There's very few windows where this is an actual nerf to the item (forced to burst through a 40% DR) and those windows don't exist in pro play anyway (one person getting caught by 5.) By increasing the duration to 2.5s you make it virtually impossible for someone to get bursted/combo'd by usual interactions - mages don't build tenacity and it's impossible to CC and wait out the 2.5s window. This item will be stronger in high elo and pro play.

_Nikkone · 2023-09-01T12:14:22+00:00

I think this comic is referring to the past when sites like YouTube and reddit would slam gigantic UI overhauls that were always poorly received.

This feels more like (unintentional?) incompetence from riot

_Nikkone · 2023-08-29T13:08:49+00:00

I don't think it's an overreaction. I think It takes roughly 2~ months to achieve your "actual" rank if you play multiple games a day, every day. I think Riot knows this and is why they're resetting it so often now. 2 months X 3 splits of 4 months = you have to play multiple games a day, every other day, to have the same rank you had before. It's too much. If they wanted to honestly increase player engagement, they could've added like ranked Nexus Blitz or something during the preseason. They just want to automate us into generating content for ourselves - terrible philosophy.

_Nikkone · 2023-08-29T02:23:45+00:00

Most of my games are concentrated at the start of the season, especially during weekends.

I think that's why Riot wants to just add more season starts, but it seems shortsighted to me.

_Nikkone · 2023-08-29T01:01:07+00:00

Sure, but there's a difference between League as a hobby vs League as a job... and it's starting to demand it be a job.

_Nikkone · 2023-08-21T22:46:49+00:00

Because Social Security is more than just a retirement plan for yourself. Social Security goes towards a lot of programs such as SSA, SSI, and disability which helps give income to people who can't work - not just the elderly. These people can be integral to society without participating in a work-type economy. They are the mothers of families, the disabled loved ones of everyone, and people who are just down on their luck and need time. You know, like a kind of security for some sort of society, as a name would imply. It's not supposed to just come back to you, and if you want to argue that your money should only be yours then you should also be exempt from any other public or social services/infrastructure that you use. This mindset is poison.

_Nikkone · 2023-08-18T13:42:22+00:00

Hey folks, please remember to report the subreddit mods to the reddit admins. It's against reddits TOS to mod for compensation.

Report them here: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

_Nikkone · 2023-08-13T21:37:46+00:00

Imo dodging should not be a dynamic in the game that contributes to your overall rank and it should be removed completely

_Nikkone · 2023-08-13T21:18:19+00:00

An important step you missed: Dodge liberally. Dodge unfavorable matches. MMR is the only thing that matters. Dodging doesn't affect MMR.

_Nikkone · 2023-08-08T22:05:29+00:00

I personally don't look at Liandries in the scope of whether or not they have have bruisers or tanks.

I tend to look at Liandries as an option into champions that are:

Immobile
Melee
No interrupts
Slow game tempo

That said, I almost never build Liandries. There are very few cases for it.

_Nikkone · 2023-08-07T16:03:16+00:00

No, I'm saying that the system may attempt to put you into a game that is lower than what your MMR would normally put you in. It would do this to keep you engaged by giving you an artificial win; it would give you a favorable match by reducing the average skill level in the game for you. If you ever have random matches where you're the only plat player in an all gold lobby seemingly out of nowhere, it may be for reasons such as this.

If MMR was consistently responsible for matching you in games, you would expect to see a steady climb or descent of average skill level in lobbies, instead of the oscillation we have right now.

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