Whats up with the complete overhaul patches lately?

The August 19th one, now this one.

Everything gets nerfed, then everything gets buffed. Just a heads up, there isn't a world championship coming up, you don't have to pull a Riot Games and blow up the whole meta and balance every time.

Honestly

 

Except the meta before the last giant patch was IS, KF, and Skeez facerolling everything else. Then it was the same except skeezick suck. Didn't really blow up the meta tbh. Seems like the main goal is to knock down the meta dominating champs a few pegs and give some shoebox buffs, which is a good thing imo.

 

Yeah, I just wrote the same idea on that patch thread. Blows my mind.
Too much time/energy spent on wrong things, Im actually glad I dont play anymore.

 

I like the patch,nerfs and buffs are a constant,i dont really see the issue.

 

Well, you might not see it, but its a HUGE problem, at least for me.

 

Someone who has quit until we get back to 1000 players.

Why should we listen to you again?

 

Dude, whats up with all you guys taking jabs at me? Firk you all, I owe you nothing and neither you guys to me.
You should listen to me for the main reasons you always have and always asked for advice: I'm a guy who is passionate about the game, has great and deep game knowledge, have helped the game's design for 3 years and can get back into it at any time and reach top 10 spot. What do you have going for you, sport? Figured as much.
Either way, constant balance patches are bad because:
1) It doesnt let people adapt to the meta. Its much easier to just ask for stuff to be nerfed/buffed, if the balance patches slowed down it would help increase players skill;
2) Players have to be totally in check with forums/playing everyday to keep up with the changes. I have not played in 6 months now, I bet I cant recognize most of the runes I played with;
3) Balance is already a problem as is, buffing shoeboxed runes creates more problem and do more harm than good in the long run, because it takes a while for people to realize how good something is.

But yeah, listen to me or not, I dont care. Im not doing this for you, Im doing this for Pox. Take it easy champ.

 

I have no problem with you and never had any problem with you. But it seems like all you do is come back here to complain. Don't you see how that would be annoying after a while?

 

haha oh Bane Shift dude lmao we said it at the same time *high fives buddha*

 

Ignore that bozo. Dont get your noodles in a bunch. You're doing a great job.

 

maybe you could make a separate post at the end of the patch notes about nora cost changes. It would make the actual patch changes seem smaller.

 

I feel the nora changes are exactly what impacts the meta the most.
I don't buy this: "a rune going -3 nora isn't exactly blowing up the meta". It just might, since nora is such a important resource. I know, I know: Im not playing anymore, but nora costs changes are always very impactful.
I feel the changes are pretty big, specially if you consider that reducing an abilities cost affects all the champions with the ability, which isnt really a handful (or is it?).
Either way, maybe Im overreacting, but notice that this is just my opinion, now that I shared it Im done with this topic. Sorry for any rudeness.

Thats your impression, but not only yours. People tend to remember the negative and forget about the positive. Everytime something happens I come here and either complain or give props, depending on my perception of the change. Its all point of view, just like you thinking Im being annoying is a point of view. Im sure that are some folks who appreciate the message, even though I dont deliver it nicely.

 

I see, makes more sense. I gotta be honest here and say that I probably didn't notice at all, since to be fair I'm not playing so I'm not diving deep.
Constant patches, though. Ugh.
If there is something I learned from playing HS is that you definitely need to give people time to test stuff and not bend to players will of nerfing/buffing everything - I'm not saying you do that, I'm saying it as a general rule of thumb, if you will.
Heck, when I joined HS Ragnaros was the most OP rune of all and everyone wanted it nerfed, now look at it: iffy include at the most, and it did not get changed since then.
I still agree with BP, though, I think you can definitely cut on the amount of patches, specially the ones that concerns buffs to runes. I'd rather see the shoebox buff round once every couple of months.

 

Fair enough.