7.10 PBE Cycle

Previous PBE Cycles in 2017

[7.1] [7.2] [7.3] [7.4] [7.5] [7.6] [7.7] [7.8] [7.9]

Table of Contents

• New Champion Skin
• Pulsefire Caitlyn
• Pulsefire Ezreal Update
• New Summoner icons
• New Ward Skin
• New Chroma Skin
• Brolaf
• Headhunter Rengar
• Skin Tweaks
• Pulsefire Caitlyn Login Theme
• Item Sets Return
• Ping Muting Options
• "Missions" Assets Update
• Your Shop Returns to LCU
• Miscellaneous
• Balance Changes
• Champions
• Items
• Howling Abyss
• Patch History

New Champion Skin

Following social media teasers, the new legendary tier Pulsefire Caitlyn is now on the PBE for testing - as a 1820 RP skin this includes full sets of new animations, visuals, a unique voiceover, and more!

Pulsefire Caitlyn

Pulsefire Caitlyn also has a ton of new special interactions:


Here's Riot KateyKhaos with a bugs & feedback thread for Pulsefire Caitlyn:

"“In the future, one of us is alive. Hint: It's not you.” 

On the hunt for Pulsefire Ezreal, a chrono fugitive, Pulsefire Caitlyn time travels to the modern world, where she doggedly continues her pursuit. 

Pulsefire Caitlyn will be 1820 RP (legendary!) and includes:

• New model and textures - Tactical and sleek! - She’s equipped with the latest weaponry!
• New particles - Digital technology that will have you hitting your target every time!
• New sound effects - Pew pew, pew pew pew!
• New animations - Complete with an evolving gun and hoverbike homeguard!
• New recall animation - Caitlyn timehops, always sporting the most stylish of hats for the time period.
• New VO script - The future's only hope is in the barrel of my gun.”

Pulsefire Caitlyn is now available to play on PBE! As players who experience this content firsthand, your constructive feedback is appreciated. Feel free to leave it in the comments below! If you have any questions, you can also drop them below and I'll do my best to answer them! ^-^ 

* Prices are subject to change."

Pulsefire Ezreal Update

Here's Riot TimeWizard with a bugs & feedback thread for Pulsefire Ezreal:

"All Forms:

1st Form:

2nd Form:

3rd Form:

4th Form:

“I'll make my own future.” 

• Updated VO script -- including lots of new time-lines! 

• New recall animation - who needs a map when you can go back in time for a Heart of Gold? 

• New homeguard animation - Ez finally makes good use of his jetpack thrusters! 

• Updated basic attack animations - new dynamic motions! 

• Updated all VFX - pulsing, technological energy! 

• Updated texture for all forms - polished metals and dusted off leathers!

PFE update is now available to play on PBE! As always, we'd love to hear any thoughts or constructive feedback, so please feel encouraged to share them with us!"

New Summoner icons

New Ward Skin

To go along with the new skin and updates, we also have a Pulsefire Ward skin!

New Chroma Skin

Two new chroma sets debuted cycle, including a set of four for Headhunter Rengar return of the eight Brolaf chroma that we saw assets for in the 7.6 PBE cycle:

Brolaf

Headhunter Rengar

Brolaf Skin Tweaks

Along with his new chroma, Brolaf's base was also updated to improve his texture, shape, & colors:

Pulsefire Caitlyn Login Theme

A new login featuring the upcoming legendary tier Pulsefire Caitlyn is now on the PBE!

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.

Gallery:

Ping muting options

As previewed in the 5/3 update, new ping muting options are now on the PBE for testing!

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."

Two new muting options available:

• /Pingmute or  /muteping- This will mute ping, smart ping, and UI pings from the player.
• /fullmute or /mutefull - mutes both text and pings from the player.

You can mute pings by either using the UI icon on the scoreboard (right beside the existing mute button) or by typing the /muteping & /pingmute or /fullmute & /mutefull into chat. Typing the command again or clicking the button will of course undo the mute.

Your Shop returns to LCU

"Your Shop" has returned to the PBE LCU - on the PBE is is currently accessibly by a button on the home page.

This is the first time this feature has appeared on the PBE LCU. Your shop typically includes a variety of champions and skins at varying discounts and has been previously seen as part of multiple promotions.

"Missions" Assets Update

This cycle also includes continued changes to the previously mentioned MISSIONS assets, a future system in the works to support event rewards and more in the client.

Starting with 7.9 cycle, assets have slowly been hitting PBE but it hasn't been enabled for testing yet.

Thus far in the 7.10 PBE cycle, we've have several new placeholder art as as well various strings and small icons referencing all sorts of various potential rewards for Missions. "Order Tokens" and "Chaos Tokens" not in strings but mentioned else where; Chaos Tokens also has an icon asset.

Keep in mind these are just assets and strings pulled directly from the files, the feature is not complete or enabled and very much a work in progress!
As a reminder, here's a comment on missions from RiotMartlet :

"Hey guys, you might have noticed something new in the latest PBE build called Missions. It is in the build but not visible yet. We’re building Missions to support event rewards and more. If you participated in an event like Project or Shurima you probably remember janky experiences like manually claiming rewards through a website, or just seeing a random new summoner icon in your account a week or two afterward. We’re fixing that with a much more clear, “do thing, get thing” approach that’s all handled in client. We’ve still got some more work to do before we’re ready to reveal all the details, so expect to hear more in the coming weeks!"

Again, this featured is forthcoming and these assets do not represent the functioning system.

Miscellaneous

• LCU assets have been added for Doom Bots / The Teemoing

• Cassiopeia's tail updated - From RiotMEMEMEMEME ~

"Ssssssssssssnaaakeeee - Work to hook up, and smooth out the Dragon Tech on Cassiopeia's Tail will be hitting 7.10 PBE today."

• A mysterious set of new Evelynn files popped up in today's PBE update, including two incomplete texture maps referencing Evelynn_Skin01. While these two files aren't particularly revealing, they are noticeably a different color from Evelynn's current skins. We know Evelynn is up for a large scope visual and gameplay update in the future. 

Lee Sin

• Movement speed lowered from 350 to 345.
• Dragon's Rage (R) cooldown increased from 90/75/60 to 110/85/60

Lulu

• Health lowered from 552.76 to 525
• Help, Pix! (E) shield strength lowered from 80/120/160/200/240 to 70/105/140/175/210

Malzahar 
[Previous W and Voidling changes reverted - more Malzahar changes likely to return in 7.11]


Maokai

• (Passive) - "Cast time of the passive attack lowered from .275 >>> .25s Can now cast other spells during this (sorry)" -src.
• Bramble Smash (Q) 
• mana cost changed from 45/50/55/60/65 to 50 at all ranks
• Knock back distance increased by 25 units.
• cooldown changed from 8/7.5/7/6.5/6 to 8/7.25/6.5/5.75/5 seconds.

• Sapling Toss (E): 
• Mana cost changed from 60 at all ranks to 60/65/70/75/80

• Damage changed  from 45/70/95/120/145 to  25/50/75/100/125

• Target max health damage increased from 6/6.5/7/7.5/8% to 8% at all ranks.

Rakan
[context]

• Gleaming Quill (Q)  ~range increased by 100

• Grand Entrance (W) Damage increased from 70/110/150/190/230 to 70/115/160/205/250

• Battle Dance (E) shield lowered from 50//85/120/155/190 to 50/75/100/125/150

Rammus
[changelist]

Zac
[Dated changelist/context]

• Attack damage growth increased from 3.375 to 3.4
• Stretching Strikes (Q):
• Base damage lowered from 50/70/90/110/130 to 40/60/80/100/120 
• [New] Damage now has 3% health scaling
• "Collision AoE size increased from 200 to 300
• Q's long range smack range increased from 100 to 125

• From Shrieve:

• "Q2 Passive Blob Generation: previously Q2 would spawn a second blob only if each attack hit a unique champion, now spawns as long as it hits a unique unit"

• "Q2 Targeting: redirects Q2 attacks to a non-grabbed target when multiple enemies are stacked on top of one another (i.e. jungle raptors)"
• "Spell Queuing: smoother queuing E when slamming targets together, W can be cast during Q2 and while slamming targets together"

• Elastic Slingshot (E): Knockup Duration: now scales from 0.5 to 1.0 second based upon how long Zac charges before release.

• Let's Bounce (R):
• Time to full charge time increased from 1 second to 1.1 seconds.
• [Full charge slow duration seems to be increased - 0.5 seconds to 1 second.]