Discussion: Patch Notes September 9th, 2015

@Sokolov Do you think that Salaman Ingenuity: damage should stack like it currently does? I feel that its too strong personally and should either not stack at all, or should have a small stack limit like 2 or 3. As it is now its a bit silly and can be abused very easily. You know its too strong when people are deploying relics in random spots where they gain nothing from it other than procing Ingenuity: damage.

The really high damage buffs from it stacking combined with the CDR from Ingenuity: CD creates some OP scenarios.

 

Wait, did Crystal Howler lose cost? It looks like it went from 77 to 74, even though it's ability went from 4 to 8.

 

His optimal kit is 78 right now? (Bravery + Distract).

 

I'm talking relation to base and default values. He's at 74 there, when even the old Poxbase version -- before the +2 for basic attacks -- is at 75 for the same build. No other part of the champion has seen a recosting between then and now, and neither has he gained or lost any stats.

 

this patch made the game so much better.

 

I was defintely wrong about spirits, they look pretty good now. The hex nerf was dumb though it messed up alot of champs with the ability.

I also dislike the ethereal cost change. I wish that it was now -3 instead of 0 or just reverted completely. Haunting spirit has also been completely destroyed, as well as haunt(why the heck did they change this to summons?) and haunting grip.

I really like what they are doing with spirits for the most part. They are moving it away from being a cheese bg and making alot of good changes to the theme.

The new leoss' art looks kinda lame but they did good with his in game sprite. Also he is decently strong in game and not as bad as I may have said he was.

 

I'll have the condensed version of these notes along with commentary coming out some time tomorrow.

 

nevermind, spoke too soon. spirits are still pretty terrible lol. almost no synergy, the champs are efficient but most are mediocre.

 

please take the fw map out of rotation, this map is dumb.

 

Thank you, hotfix.

 

the hex change needs to be reverted asap holy ****. @Sokolov

also the ethereal change was pretty odd as well. -3 sounds much better than 0 for ethereal at the most. what the heck is yeti spirit even supposed to do?

BUFF YETI! and draksar(yeti curate is freaking amazing now though)

 

Is the hex change that it is now affected by defence?

I thought I would kill a champ and didn't in my last match. Short by three which was his defence.

 

like wit revamp, if i remember

 

This post is deep

 

duh,loss of life doesnt go through defence

 

Hex has been impacted by defense for quite a while now.

 

Thanks. I am a bit of an idiot on occasion.

So was it simply a cost nerd?

 

Hex had its CD increased so that it can be used every 3 turns instead of every other.

 

It was a cooldown nerf and a massive middle finger to ethereal soldier and phantasmal creeper

 

now i can hit my FW enemy with that spell and this is not funny it's Hilarious