5.4 PBE Cycle

Veigar  Event Horizon (E) VFX

• Attack damage reduced to 40 from 45

Sweeping Lens

• Level 9 upgrade now reduces cooldown to 75 instead of 60.

[New Item] Mandrake Ward - [TEMPORARILY REMOVED, NOT COMING IN 5.4]

• Total Cost: 50g
• "Click to Consume:Places an invisible blind sentry in a brush for 5 minutes.  The plant will ping the map if a visible or invisible enemy enemy is within 900 range."

Item 3285 [TEMPORARILY REMOVED, NOT COMING IN 5.4]

• Total Cost: 3100g
• Recipe: Needlessly Large Rod + Aether Wisp + 650g
• +120 Ability Power
• +7% Movement Speed
• UNIQUE Passive: Gain charges upon moving or casting. At 100 charges, the next spell hit expends all charges to deal 100 (+15% AP) bonus magic damage to up to 4 targets on hit.

• [Note: Additional context from ricklessabandon available here. This item is experimental and is not shipping in 5.4.  Name, VFX, and SFX should be considered placeholders. The name "Luden's Echo" has been removed]

• +X AP, 
• +X MANA, 
• +X% CDR
• UNIQUE Passive - Expanded Mind: Increases maximum Mana by X and generates stacks of Insight when spending mana (X conversion rate) up to X stacks (X of maximum Mana).
• UNIQUE Active - Mana Burst:Releases a shockwave, consuming all stacks of Insight. Enemies hit by the shockwave are dealtXmagic damage. Allies hit by the shockwave restore X mana.

• + X Mana
• UNIQUE Passive:X% Cooldown Reduction.

[Experimental] Mandrake Ward

"Note: The following item is highly experimental and probably won't ship any time soon, if at all. All assets are temporary and are absolutely not final. 

Hey guys.
I'm putting up some experimental content for exploration. 

Mandrake Ward
50G 

Click to Consume: Places an invisible blind sentry in a brush for 5 minutes. The plant will ping the map if a visible or invisible enemy enemy is within 900 range. 

(Counts as a Stealth Ward)
(May only carry 3 Stealth Wards at a time.)  

This is intended to be an early game ward to protect the lane against the jungle without revealing a jungler's prospective health or directional pathing. It's also an answer to early game stealth for lane protections now that pinks are fairly woefully inequipped at dealing with the task. There's some neat tricks (it can sense over walls) that it has currently - but it still needs a ton of iteration to feel usable personally.  

Will be doing some polish work over the next couple days trying to get it in a cleaner state - last I checked, I missed a file somewhere and it's probably super bugged on PBE - also need to think about ping throttling the thing in terms of sounds and motion. 

Eventually it'll require a custom ping sound and error handling - but for now, everything is highly temp and experimental.

1. I'm curious to see whether or not people feel like the item's purpose is clear.
2. The item hopefully doesn't feel like it's worth a slot end-game and make end-game consumable purchase cycles even worse."

[Experimental] New AP Item - "Item 3285" - Available for Testing

"hello friends~

so, the title pretty much covered this but we've got a new ap item hitting the pbe soon! as we mentioned in the 5.2 patch notes, we've been spending some time exploring a few different options to add another "late-game mage item" into the game. we're now at the point where we want to share one of those directions with our pbe testers and see how the item is received with a wider audience. one of the goals of these explorations was to discover something that is especially exciting to a particular mage play style, and as you'll quickly notice, this item takes the basic actions of moving around the battlefield and repeatedly slinging spells and rewards them by casting its own spell into the fray! we have some initial thoughts on which play styles are in want of something like this, but more importantly we're interested in seeing what the community does with the new item.

alright, let's talk about our current timeline! this item should be on the pbe soon (tomorrow if everything checks out okay) but will not be shipping in the 5.4 patch—we've still got a bit of testing and number crunching to do on top of getting non-placeholder art and sound. if you're wondering exactly when this would be shipping, the honest answer is that right now we're focused more on getting the item into the hands of testers and confirming that we're happy with this direction than we are about shipping anything by a certain date. the classic "when it's ready" shipping date, if you will.

with all that out of the way, here are the item stats of the first pbe iteration!

Item 3285 (3100g)

• Needlessly Large Rod + Aether Wisp + 650g

• +120 Ability Power

• +7% Movement Speed

• UNIQUE Passive: Gain charges upon moving or casting. At 100 charges, the next spell hit expends all charges to deal 100 (+15% AP) bonus magic damage to up to 4 targets on hit.

Please note that this is a work in progress and that its name, as well as any art or sound assets, is to be considered placeholder. 

that should do it for the item's introduction (i'll update this post if i forgot something). looking forward to the discussion about the item!

"it's a bit different since one of the triggers is spell casts instead of basic attacks, so the cadence depends more on which champion you're playing. 

i believe the tuning in the first iteration that should hit pbe gives 20 stacks per spell cast, and gives a little bit less from moving than statikk shiv does."