5/3 PBE Update: Items sets, Ping mute assets, and more!

[UPDATE: Item sets now enabled for testing!]

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 7.10 PBE cycle, tonight's update includes assets for ping mutes, an item tab added to the LCU, tentative balance changes, and more!
Continue reading for more information!

Table of Contents

• Item Sets
• New Mute Options - Pings and Full
• Balance Changes
• Context & Notes

Items Sets return

As mention in the latest LCU article, ITEM SETS have returned to the League Client! The feature is now in the new client and ready for you to assemble your customized item sets,
You can access the item sets feature by going to COLLECTION and clicking ITEMS.

The main item sets menu includes a browser for your custom item sets, management options like editing, copying, and deleting as well options at the bottom to browse recommended item sets.

Clicking into an existing page or creating a new page brings you into the set viewer, allowing you craft up your custom item set for your favorite champion, champions, or even all champions for the map of your choosing.

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New Mute Options - Pings and Full

While not enabled for testing yet, assets for new Ping Mute options popped up in today's update!

Here's Riot NaKyle with a boards thread on the upcoming ping muting options in testing:

"Hey everyone, 

Earlier today we shipped some code for ping muting to PBE. We'll be turning it on for testing on PBE in the next few days, and hope to have it live around the world within just a couple patches. This is a new button we're adding to the tab menu. It'll axe standard, smart, and HUD pings from the player you ping mute. 

The mute button that's already in the game is not moving or changing at all. It mutes chat, and extracurricular animations and emotes. The idea is to give everyone granular mute controls.

He added:

"Standard, smart, and HUD pings will be axed by this button. It's a new button that'll live right beside the chat mute button that's already in the game :)"

A muteping command has been added to mute player pings:

• game_console_chatcommand_muteping_help

Ignores or unignores a specified player's or champion's gameplay-related pings.

/muteping [player] - Blocks player's gameplay related pings for this game. Also see /pingmute

HUD assets were also updated to include new markers.

• game_console_chatcommand_fullmute_short

"Ignore all a player's pings and chat."

Context & Notes

Contextimania is running wild on WIP brother.

1) ManWolfAxeBoss on ARAM changes in today's update:

2) Riot Exgeniar with details on upcoming 7.10 Riven changes, -".

"7.10 Riven - More Deterministic, Less Random 

Calling die hard Riven mains everywhere, 

Coming soon to the PBE for testing is a set of changes to Riven slated for 7.10. These sets of changes are meant to embrace her animation cancelling, and make them more consistent, and at the same time let's us do some house cleaning on her. Since Riven’s scripts are more on the intricate side, we are looking for feedback about these changes. 

Before the hurling of pitchforks, please note. Excluding emote inputs, we are NOT removing any combos, and are more so embracing the animation cancelling aspect of Riven. If there are any removed combos, please let us know! 

Change 1: Q Animation Canceling more consistent in 5/3

Juicy technical details on Riven’s Q animation cancelling: 

Q has a min lockout time of 0.4 seconds. If Riven is moving (before or after pressing Q), her animation is unlocked after an arbitrary delay based on server tick rate (0 - .25s). This timing is pretty much random. So your ability to animation cancel is more determined by your latency and luck. 

We are trying to make this no longer random, but deterministic - If you cancel your animation via moving, it will reliably cancel your animation. 

Change 2: Emotes no longer cancels animations NOT FULLY IN 5/3

And are locked out during Q W and E. 

• With the changes above, we don’t need this anymore. No more hiding and breaking of spell animations. 

Change 3: Q spell buffering internal cleanup 

(Buffering and targeting better calculates the location of a target in the case of high latency) 

• Cleaning up old scripts so that the 0.4 cast time of the Q is more exactly 0.4 seconds every time.
• The targeting change might not be noticeable, but the visual indicator of a targeted cast will guarantee a targeted cast of Q. 

Change 4: E can be buffered during Q in 5/2

• If you press QE really fast, your E didn’t queue up previously. Now it does. No more dropped commands. Sorry, it wasn’t lag’s fault... 

Change 5: P, Q and R buff icons now appear in their spell slots 
 in 5/2

• House cleaning."

3) Video previews for Brolaf and Headhunter Rengar Chroma are now up.