Madreds please

Paraphrased due to length.

Back when Madreds bloodrazer existed, it was a noob trap. For the price, and the damage it did, it was a really, really bad item. Even if the enemy stacked health, you didn't get this item. It wasn't enough then.

BoTRK is a bit better, because of the lifesteal, activated slow/heal, and # damage, for a low price, it's good for what it does but there needs to be more against health stacking.

Only because they can jungle and it's hard to counterpick top laners when you can't guarantee who is there.

Meta causes this, making bot lane ADC/Support the best choice, making junglers/top laners hard to detect as being the laner and leaving soft counter picks as safer choices.

Blade of the ruined king worses this because top laners being tricked into soft counters and losing lane often can't do their mid-game job of destroying carries and mages, it needs attack speed and there simply arent enough synergies for fighters.

Carries beating tanks and being good with Blade of the ruined king means if I as a top lane fighter need it too and I'm more caster based, it's a tremendously overpriced cost/effect scenario for an item that does very little with 1.0 attack speed.

I feel like this is what you've been saying for awhile now.

Honestly man as someone who as supported your company for a long time and invested alot in to it, to me it feels like Riot is baiting people with the whole spend money get icons thing currently going on. Almost like you are preying on peoples completionist tendencies. If your gonna have people start collecting icons make them all accessible or let it be known early that it may not be possible to get them all. Don't get people all hyped into collecting stuff then put out ones that only the best of the best can get. Or if you do don't make people pay money then find out later they can't get them all.

Have you seen a Garen with 4k HP? The carry isn't going to beat him. Even if the AD carry is fed, Garen can pretty much walk through your team and focus your carry hard while his team deals...with the other team.

Same with Vi, Olaf, Hecarim. It's all about positioning and using what your team has.

Morello - The biggest question I have to you, and it falls in to the only disappointment I have with RiOT as of late ( and I will always support RiOT, whether financially or just here on the boards. ) is that you guys have recently decided that transparency is not as important as it once was. I like the new MMR system, but I really dislike the fact that it has lost a lot of transparency.

With the new makeover, people are having a hard time understanding where they are in relation to where they should be, and it makes them feel bad. Their hidden MMR creates far more problems than the new system fixes. Again, I'm a fan of the league / division system. I'd just also like to know where I -really- am. I'm sure that goes for everyone.

I dunno. It's hard to quantify, and I'm going to go find a few more examples of what I mean, because it's not just League stuff - balance changes, design decisions, even so far as rework questions seem to be abandoned in favor of 'feel good' answers.

99.9% of the time, I avoid sharing my opinions about other developers...

Welcome to the .1%

I actually was a massive Wakfu player and was top 10 in Dofus Arena for quite awhile in the beta.

Ankama has hit a very sweet spot of ways to upset players - have some things that are literally genius game design, while having everything not in the genius bucket be absolutely confounding. I've never seen anything like it in that way.

I don't know the people who work there personally, nor can I mind-read; but my analysis is that they have a lot of intuitive design talent, with almost no deliberate design capabilities. You'll see something like the Seed mechanic on the Sadida, only to have it adjacent to a progression system on usage similar to UO. This is criminal in a game which has a core combat loop about single-character decision-making on an limited action economy, where what skill to use, and when to use it, is a large part of the engagement.

I feel like their games tend to be a beautiful ****-shoot, where everything that's wrong only feels worse because of how good what's right is. I'm not sure if they have a domineering senior designer driving poor direction, or if they have insufficient ground-level talent to do the needed problems-solving, but if I ever find a meteor full of billions of dollars of rare minerals, there's little I'd want to do more than buy that company and fix things :P

I love riot but i hate the favoritism of some champs compared to other. ryze is an example of this comparative to say, xin or karma or sej. xin finally got the remake he needed but karma and sej and viktor have been on the back burner for how long? i know its hard to change a champ and make them viable but cmon, karma is as close to a no brainer in terms of fixing that it should have been done months ago.

zyras also a good example, she was blatantly overpowered on release and still remains a strong AP. this was the right way to handle it in little nerfs but then you have other champs that were blatantly overpowered on release and got smacked with a nerf bat so hard extremely early.

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/....php?t=3089271

Hey look its a thread about warwick. Who put that there?