Runes Reforged

[TsuyoyRival]

Hi fellow summoners,
Recently Riot announced that runes and masteries would be transformed. In order for someone to play a certain champion, we needed to buy expensive runes and sacrifice on buying Champions. Guess what? That is going to change. Riot in the next season is going to remove runes from the market and they will be completely free. Also, there will be just a page, where you combine masteries and runes. Keystones will have a greater impact in the game and during champion select, you can change runes and masteries.

What do you think of the new changes to come?

 

[Deathisue]

First of all, These changes will be in the following season ?, second, it is said that those who already invested their money in runes will receive a special prize ?, you know that? and I think they will give us only an icon, hopefully not so and what I think i think it will be a radical change in the meta, we will see how it turns out, it will give us more freedom of course but it will unbalance everything for a moment, I hope it does not happen.

 

[Gladdy]

Oh, I didn't know about this upcoming change. Will they finally let you change runes while in the champion select? as in actually be able to modify them like the masteries? If so, praise the lord! People have been asking and wanting this for as long as I can remember.

I also LOVE the fact that runes will be free. Buying the runes for different classes and pages can be so expensive... all of that IP wasted on them instead of getting more diverse champions. It is the main reason why I hate leveling new accounts - it takes forever to fill up the rune pages due to the high cost. I welcome this change and it makes me excited. Is there any information about the keystones? What will they be?

 

[TsuyoyRival]

First of all, These changes will be in the following season ?, second, it is said that those who already invested their money in runes will receive a special prize ?, you know that? and I think they will give us only an icon, hopefully not so and what I think i think it will be a radical change in the meta, we will see how it turns out, it will give us more freedom of course but it will unbalance everything for a moment, I hope it does not happen.

Yes, these changes are promised to appear at the next pre-season. Also, people who invested a lot in runes are getting some reward but still isn't been released by riot. I would personally love if they gave IP back, so I could buy some champions. It will be a bit chaotic at the beginning, but people will figure it out And who does it first, will become Rank 1.

 

[TsuyoyRival]

Oh, I didn't know about this upcoming change. Will they finally let you change runes while in the champion select? as in actually be able to modify them like the masteries? If so, praise the lord! People have been asking and wanting this for as long as I can remember.

I also LOVE the fact that runes will be free. Buying the runes for different classes and pages can be so expensive... all of that IP wasted on them instead of getting more diverse champions. It is the main reason why I hate leveling new accounts - it takes forever to fill up the rune pages due to the high cost. I welcome this change and it makes me excited. Is there any information about the keystones? What will they be?

Exciting "runes" indeed ahah Riot announced on the 20th of this month that summoners who bought runes from 30th of May forward will receive their IP back in the upcoming months. About keystones yes, there is some news. First of all, the new system will work like this. Summoners will select one of 5 possible paths, called: Domination, Inspiration, Precision, Sorcery and Resolve. Each path will open slots (up to 4), that you will place runes as you desire, being the last one and most powerful, the Keystone rune slot. But that is not all, this is just the primary path. Each champion will have a secondary path, with 2 more runes, in order to make the champion more flexible and adaptable to face the unpredictable. Let's say you thought you were versus an AP champion, but the secondary path will provide tools if you face instead an AD champion.
One interesting Major rune that has been announced is the Zombie Ward rune. When you destroy an enemy ward, a friendly Zombie Ward is raised in its place. Zombie Wards are visible and last for 180 seconds. This is an example of rune I would take as a support. Another Major rune is called "Overheal". When you life-steal and overheal, you will have a decaying shield, similar to "The Bloodthirster" passive.

 

[Gladdy]

Damn... that zombie ward rune will be a very interesting addition if it makes it live. Imagine how much havoc it will cause in the competitive games, haha. It could make them even more exciting, especially if those wards can't be detected... but at the same time, it might make teams more passive since they won't know if a bush is warded or not? hmm.. but regardless, I am always excited about changes. I think that it's good for the game or it would get very boring. Changes ensure that the meta keeps evolving and we find new ways of playing. Can't wait to see all of these things in the game

 

[Deathisue]

Exciting "runes" indeed ahah Riot announced on the 20th of this month that summoners who bought runes from 30th of May forward will receive their IP back in the upcoming months. About keystones yes, there is some news. First of all, the new system will work like this. Summoners will select one of 5 possible paths, called: Domination, Inspiration, Precision, Sorcery and Resolve. Each path will open slots (up to 4), that you will place runes as you desire, being the last one and most powerful, the Keystone rune slot. But that is not all, this is just the primary path. Each champion will have a secondary path, with 2 more runes, in order to make the champion more flexible and adaptable to face the unpredictable. Let's say you thought you were versus an AP champion, but the secondary path will provide tools if you face instead an AD champion.
One interesting Major rune that has been announced is the Zombie Ward rune. When you destroy an enemy ward, a friendly Zombie Ward is raised in its place. Zombie Wards are visible and last for 180 seconds. This is an example of rune I would take as a support. Another Major rune is called "Overheal". When you life-steal and overheal, you will have a decaying shield, similar to "The Bloodthirster" passive.

Whou, this going to change the game a lot, i am really comfortable with the actual system but that can make the games more interesting, i am glad to hear that, i going to have my pl back at least.

 

[TsuyoyRival]

Whou, this going to change the game a lot, i am really comfortable with the actual system but that can make the games more interesting, i am glad to hear that, i going to have my pl back at least.

The game will suffer major changes indeed. I'm not going to be comfortable at all for the first month of playing.

 

[luispas]

I knew about it when Riot start showing pieces of what this would be about and this change will be definitely something that we all enjoy and of course, would change the course of the game in a way because it's a different way to create new strategies.
I want to see they are going to do with the ones who invested so many IP or RP in runes, maybe Riot would give us our IP back, maybe they give us something like Icons or 1 skin, we will see.

 

[airfightermax]

Hi fellow summoners,
Recently Riot announced that runes and masteries would be transformed. In order for someone to play a certain champion, we needed to buy expensive runes and sacrifice on buying Champions. Guess what? That is going to change. Riot in the next season is going to remove runes from the market and they will be completely free. Also, there will be just a page, where you combine masteries and runes. Keystones will have a greater impact in the game and during champion select, you can change runes and masteries.

What do you think of the new changes to come?

I kinda appreciate Riot that they are trying to change aspects of the game to keep the game fresh. Not all game companies to this kind of risk to their games.

But, my question is, will I get refunded for all the tune pages I bought? Rune pages are quite pricey and I hope they refund it somehow so that I'll have extra IP for buying champs. I haven't all champs still so a refund would be pretty great. Even just for half the price of the rune page.

 

[Deathisue]

The game will suffer major changes indeed. I'm not going to be comfortable at all for the first month of playing.

In the last patch riot buff a lot of champions, with that, the previous idea i had about the new runes can change, but we have to wait for the moment, for now i going to climb to platinum before the runes change, is the best for not waste my time waiting for the new changes.