NOTICE: Undergoing heavy reconstruction. Feel free to look around at this very old design from the earliest days of the republic! I mean... the forum! Whot yeu see here, is a failed experiment, when I was toying around with resource systems before I fully understood them. This helped in learning whot not to do, and why it doesn't work, but I think I'm now ready to go back and fix this design. As such, keep in mind that anything yeu see here is quite expendable, and subject to change shortly =3

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Resource system: Affinity

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I highly doubt I'm qualified to give a complete review, but I'll do my best.

First and foremost, the entire concept is waaaay too complicated and unintuitive. I didn't even understand that these were supposed to be two interchangeable movesets until after I had already read the thing over more than once. The idea of swapping between two sets of three attacks already exists in LoL and doesn't need to be brought out again. On top of that, most of these abilities are simple point-and-click spells that cost no mana and force Noesis to use another ability if she ever wants to use it again. I think your entire concept is a little to needlessly complex and cluttered. There's no real flow between the abilities. Okay, so you have one that steals life from enemies and one that gives life to allies. Yet somehow you took that simple, boring idea and bogged it down with extra fluff and technical specifics.

My suggestion is to go pretty much back to basics with this idea. The light/dark resource is interesting. Make the mana bar be half white and half dark to indicate this. It's the same thing you suggested, just more intuitive and easier to read; comparing the length of the white and black sides of the bar is much simpler than comparing the length of two different lines. Make a champion similar to Rumble and Renekton who simply uses an alternate resource without all the enforced spell switching. That I'd be interested in seeing.

Anyway that's my opinion.

hmmmm well this definitely caught my eye, so at least its an interesting design i love the new cost system, really is kinda epic. However ..... I agree with Snes Controller on some points. Due to your passive and cost system swapping between stances is a neccessity not a personal choice. What happens if you need to heal an ally, or want to use Q's partial shield ..... but you have no affinity for that type? what happens is u are forced to use a separate ability, possibly messing up attack chains/team fights, as well as being over-complicated and hard to use in general.

The passive of this champ is pretty cool, just like the cost system, however I'd make it for every 5 infinity the gain/loss is 1%, otherwise abilities will be very unviable at the extremes (this just takes things even further in the wrong direction, especially when combined with the other issues ....) so, the abilities are set out poorly and i cant tell whether they have a massive amount of utility/damage or whether they are just everyday abilities, so i would change the set-up a bit (just a bit more viewer-friendly). And all these suggestion amount to nothing, as my most important suggestion is to take Snes Controller's suggestion and go back to the drawing board. the cost system = awesome. how you've applied it, not so much. the passive = another cool concept, however it is definitely not synergetic with the cost system and the abilities. i know it seems harsh to have to start over again, but you've got a couple of good ideas to build on. just think about how the champion would be played, and whether or not you would enjoy playing with and against him. gl man, im sure you'll work it out

A question perplexing
And also quite vexing
And yet fear yeu not
I'll untie this knot
After this review
She'll be good as new
A remix to her face
And with all due haste
She'll be filled with vim
And made out of win!

...I dunno.

Anyways XD

The points yeu bring up, and those of Samus93, are pretty valid, I must say.

The original idea got a little bit too complex needlessly, and wandered out of the original boundaries that were supposed to be given.

This led to too many abilities, several which don't really fit, which messed up the ultimate, which in turn broke down the resource system into being forced into two bars, since I really did try to cram it into one and it didn't work with the way she was built.

Fortunately, a little outside insight fixes this with ease! The cost system can be easily updated by moving a few spells around and fixing them into 4 main ones instead.

So, thanks for saying so! No one person can see all ends, and sometimes we're blinded simply because we like an idea, no matter how bad it is XD

I'll update her in a few minutes, since I think I know how to fix her =3

I'm sorry, I tried to understand this champion, but I just cannot wrap my head around her. She seems good and I'll bump the thread in hopes of a more enlightenned mind finding it.

I don't get why people say this is hard to understand, I got the main concept on my first read.

Here's what I think.

The affinity thing is really good. I'm stumped Riot haven't thought about this, hell I'm stumped Blizzard haven't thought of this.
The problem I've found is, she gains/loses affinity in a VERY un-even pace.
Her Q charges it very fast, her w needs to be cast constantly to lower it, her E is again very fast to lower it, and her ult gives her a MASSIVE boost.
I know this is your idea, but the way I'd do it is:

Hmm... now that I think about it, I might actually do a version of that hero myself some day, probably Inspired by the Masari from Universe at War.

Appearence wise, it's hard to take the design seriously, not that there's anything wrong with it. But the way you describe her it's hard for me not to think of this, and well, yea. **** you, childhood.


The Q spell sounds like a really good heal. I actually made a spell with a similar mechanic on my first hero, Helios. The idea that she stands in the back, healing allies in a line would work very well for a support.
One suggestion I might add is to change the name. "Pillar" suggests something vertical, and since your spell is a beam, it might throw some people off.

Her W is stupidly overpowered. I'm not sure I read this right, but it apparently only has a 1 second cooldown, and costs nothing to cast. Soooo.... what's stopping you from casting it in the laning phase on EVERY minion in the wave, then rushing at your opponent with HOOOOGE health regeneration? Not to mention it's not a good idea to have DOT on a support champion, since you'll steal kills without wanting to. Also, as said earlier,abusing it in the laning phase would mean stealing creep kills from your partner, not a thing a support should be doing.
Seriously this has the lane-pushing potential of Malzahar's E, without any of the drawbacks.


Her E, although strong, is kinda easy to dodge in my opinion. Unless you have a CC heavy team, what's stopping you from just, getting out of the way? ESPECIALLY when the radius is so initially small. Hell, it's easy to dodge Maokai's ult, and look how large the radius for that is.

As for her ult, you didn't specify how many times it can bounce. If it's infinite, then it's pretty much instant faceroll when you cast it in a teamfight.
Now this is a personal opinion, but i DESPISE chain-lightning type attacks, and hate Brand for having one as his ult. They're too unpredictable , and have a lot of luck factoring in what they hit. Here it's even worse since it gains damage per bounce. So your last 800 damage bounce could be wasted on a caster minion.
Luck based abilities are NOT fun.
Also, having the ult give such a massive burst of affinity will throw your combo off.

Wrapping this up....
Overall one of the most impressive ideas I've seen so far, and I especially like the new affinity system, and the beam-heal, but her other 3 spells kinda need a second look.

Cheers.

I've officially spent an entire hour reading and responding to your 4 posts.

This champion is far below your other two. Sorry :-/. It is interesting enough, but the best way to sum up why I don't like it is simple:

UNSATISFYING to play and to play against.

Her 3rd is highly demoralizing to play against, but will be under appreciated by your own team. Heals are kind of passive to begin with, and your leech nuke is Vlad level irritation (complete with no mana as a limiter). At the same time, DoT is the most unsatisfying thing in the world. No one keeps track of how much damage singed is dealing with poison trail in major fights, what is satisfying is doing baller suicide tosses to isolate a champ for instant death.

Eh, it was a neat idea, but it kinda failed XD

I was actually trying to overly simplify a previous champion concept which had gotten too far out of hand. This completely new one, based vaguely on the same premise, didn't work out too well.

Happens, noone gets it all right every time sadly.

All yeu can do is learn from yeur mistakes and try to figure out why it didn't work so it doesn't happen again XD

i think its kinda sad, i really did liek the whole light/dark affinity thing. Oh well, gl with your other champs man

Um yes blizzard have in a way, the druid abilities where each time you cast a eclipse spell your lunar bar
increases and once lunar is at full you lunar spells are magnified and casting those depletes your lunar
and raises your eclipse.