*** League of Legends ***

[MeAnBoY]

well they just spoke about the new patch notes on the dreamhack stream and theres actually some interesting changes. from what i can remember:

- vlad nerf is more of a change.. his q is getting stronger early game but cd is getting increased at max level from 3 to 4.
- rumbles ulti is getting nerfed, mainly the damage and slightly higher cd
- jarven's armour buff is getting slightly nerfed and i think they said his passive and a few other numbers are getting decreased
- vanye is getting damage nerfs across the board on q, e and r
- eve is losing her stun D!!!!!!) and will now be a slow, think they said it was a 2-3 second slow
- gp is getting a new passive which has stacking slow + damage
- fiddle is getting buffs, some higher ap ratios and slightly shorter cast time on his ulti

they also mentioned general gameplay changes but i didnt catch all of this:
- gold per 5 is now unique. you can build one of each type of gold per 5 and still get full benefit but stacking the same item eg. 3 HoG means you only get the gold per 5 from 1 HoG
- they mentioned something about ignite and spirit visage effects all types of heals and lifesteal now (not 100% on this one)
- they said something about attacked shields now grant assists, you also gain lifesteal from hitting a shield and attacking shielded people now breaks stuff like strut and boots of mobil

thats about all i can remember, its mostly accurate(ish)

Well you already know what I think about the Eve nerf! She definitely needs it but as she is such a game breaking champ. Oh well like I said, it's time to spam games with her to get it all out of my system before they make her useless

Don't really like the change for killstreak stopping reward. The whole point is to allow the losing team some kind of way back and they are decreasing the chance of that? Very well.

GP5 stacking - meh not that bothered by it, I never stack them anway but do quite often by philo stones, this won't affect me.

I haven't got a scooby about the spirit visage thingy, please don't break my favourite WW item

 

[Dist]

Congrats to fnatic, $50,000 1st place prize. Some great matches in this tournament, shame there was no gragas in the final though

 

[ojste]

I haven't got a scooby about the spirit visage thingy, please don't break my favourite WW item

its a buff for both ignite and spirit visage currently they both only effect healing but not lifesteal, but after the patch it will include lifesteal. will have to wait for official notes but thats what i got from it

 

[kieves1]

ok worked it - system.cfg NA or EU

Sorry i wasnt on to tell you.I might have a look at that program that was under the post i quoted

 

[tals]

Sorry i wasnt on to tell you.I might have a look at that program that was under the post i quoted

It seemed to work ok, although the solution people found was copy the whole program directory in it's entirety and then change the .cfg files EU to NA and gb to US

If you use the same directory NA/EU you stuff your masteries

 

[roid]

Epic Dreamhack games, some fantastic play. Some of the escapes were brilliant.

That Ashe arrow from Yellowstar in the first final game was amazing on janna in bot lane.

 

[cHk4]

Just reiterating what oj posted

Experience: killing higher leveled chamions grants more, lower leveled less
Kill streak bonus gold capped at 500 (for killing legendary champions)
Gold per 10 items: unique passive per item type (so you can't stack the same items, but different gold items provide the passives individually)
Attacking shielded champions grants assists
Attacking shielded champions procs out of combat-based abilities (Boots of Mobility / Strut)
Ignite and Spirit Visage now affects Lifesteal / Spellvamp
Rumble: ultimate cooldown and damage nerfs (both initiate and DoT)
Vayne: overall early game burst nerfed, AD percentage scaling on Tumble decreased, Condemn base damage decreased, Final Hour loses the free AD component, main role defined as carry rather than assassin
Vladimir: Transfusion damage buffs on early ranks, nerfs on higher ranks, level 5 cooldown increased to 4 seconds
Jarvan: passive damage decreased to 8% from 10%, flag armor bonus decreased to 10 / 13 / 16 / 19 / 22 from 10 / 14 / 18 / 22 / 26
Eve: slow instead of stun (scales with levels)
GP: passive remake, slows and deals damage at the same time with each attack, can stack up to 3 times (DoT or flat damage not defined)
Fiddlesticks: Dark Wind base damage increased per levels, Crowstorm AP ratio increased to 0.45 from 0.4 and channeling time reduced to 1.5 from 2.0 seconds
Nunu: Ice Blast slow nerfed on early levels
Nerfs:
Rumble's Ultimate will now be nerfed
Vayne's Q damage will be reduced by 15%
Vayne's E damage will be reduced by %
Vayne's Early game is now nerfed from that. Late game is still well.

Vlad's Cool Down is now from 3 sec to 4 sec
Jarvan's Passive is now 8 magic damage instead of 10
Jarvan's flag armor was from +2 per level and now is +1 per level
Evelyn's Stun is now changed to slow and is 20% slow instead of a 3-5 second stun.

Buffs:
Gangplank's Passive will now be adding a 10% slow that stacks 3 times [his passive will change from 10 seconds to 3 seconds]
FiddleStick's E will be buffed to 5-10-15-20 by level due to the leveling did not help until level 5
FiddleStick's Crow Storm is now being AP buffed [Ultimate]
FiddleStick's Crow Storm channel ratio is comming from 2.0 to >> 1.5 << [Ultimate]

 

[Archy]

Loved the Dreamhack weekend overall. Great job from Riot on casting the lot, and great to see Fnatic (and EU in general) come out on top.

Now just looking forward to them sorting the EU server problems and new champs / S2!

 

[avec]

They've mentioned almost 100 servers are on their way to being installed in Frankfurt, this was two weeks ago.. so it must surely be close now. We've had to deal with US servers for 3-4 months and it's been 2 months since they said they ordered new hardware.

Just have to hope the growth hasn't outstripped the hardware performance before it's even installed.

 

[cHk4]

I don't really know what to do at the moment.

In preparation for level 30 I've started playing numerous champs. I got really good as Vlad as I kept playing him day in and day out. Then I went on to another champ as I found out he gets banned a lot. I think I'm a OK players and play the below (some I've not played in a while but at one point I was ok with them)
Soraka
Mordekaiser
Vladamir
Vayne
Warwick
Malzahar
Amumu
Nunu
Nocturne
Irelia
Brand (Honestly last nights performance as him doesn't reflect my skill, the US lag was horrible for a skill shot char!)

As you can see that's a fair few champs but I don't know if that's a problem. Currently using Vayne/Malzahar (Only got Mal yesterday) and am ok with Vayne and getting better with Mal (Went 10-0 in a game with him yesterday before dieing 4 times -.-) I don't know if I should stick with 1-2 chars for a week then switch or what. I mean I want to buy Swain I have done for a while but I don't know.

I'd say my 3 best chars are Amumu(not jungling), Vayne and Vlad.

 

[MeAnBoY]

As long as you are good with 1-2 champs for each role then I think you will be doing just fine.

 

[ColEx]

Will there ever be new maps introduced to the game? While i love the game, having one map on 5v5 is kinda dull.

 

[Archy]

Yes, there is a new map in development, hopefully due to be released during S2 at some stage (though most people were hopeful it would be out at the start of S2 ) It's called Magma chamber. (http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Magma_Chamber)

 

[Borrish]

Magma Chamber has been cancelled. Apparently they're making a new map but it won't be released till near the end of this year AFAIK.

 

[Archy]

Magma Chamber has been cancelled. Apparently they're making a new map but it won't be released till near the end of this year AFAIK.

Not sure it has been cancelled totally, but it certainly has been shelved for now, yes.

 

[Borrish]

Not sure it has been cancelled totally, but it certainly has been shelved for now, yes.

I can't find the red post about it because I'm at work but they basically confirmed that they had scrapped Magma Chamber completely and that they were instead working on a new map. They haven't released any information about it though.

 

[MeAnBoY]

Was there any reasons stated as to why Magma chamber was cancelled?

I'm not bothered about new maps really but surely creating a new one isn't that difficult?...

 

[petemyster]

Was there any reasons stated as to why Magma chamber was cancelled?

I'm not bothered about new maps really but surely creating a new one isn't that difficult?...

Its costing them too much money. If only they'd fire half of the champion development team to free up the money for a new map/better EU servers...

 

[Silent UK]

Its costing them too much money

Riot have all the money they need to build the servers needed and as many maps as they like, as I forget the amount they got but its was in the range of £200nillion to sell the rights of LOL to asia?

(I'm sure McKnight can give me a link for the exact amount)

 

[MeAnBoY]

^^ Sounds about right, but as with any business deal it's not as simple as "here you go, £200mil deposited into your Natwest account..Enjoy!"

It's spread over time and who knows what clauses are in it - most likely performance/growth based

Saying that it's not like they don't have money, it's obviously making them quite decent money and that looks like it's only going to get bigger from here.