7.20 PBE Cycle

  

  

  

  

  

  

    

        

        

        

The new Runes are now on PBE! We're going to have an extra long PBE cycle for Runes so that we can gather your feedback and make changes. Please expect bugs, missing assets and weird numbers! 

Runes currently includes the following experiences: 

The Inventory 

Accessed from the "Runes" tab under Collection and dedicated to browsing and organizing (soon TM) created pages in the client. 

Editing
The ability to create, edit and delete new pages from the inventory or from champion select. Includes "line mode" and "grid mode" (grid mode pictured below) as well as short and long tooltips. 

Loading Screen
Updated assets showing teammate and opponent keystones and secondary Paths 

In Game
Yeah there's a lot here.

• Runes (Keystones and normal runes, VFX and audio additions where important)
• Runes panel
• Base stat adjustments
• Jungle tuning 

Runes do not yet include:

• End of Game adjustments
• Spectator mode adjustments 

Known Issues
(It is also a known issue that my formatting is bad) 

• Editing: 2 clicks are required on a secondary Path to display the bonus stat.
• Editing: Re-selecting secondary runes requires clicking the specific rune to de-select it and open up options (in both Line and Grid mode).
• Editing: Open primary Path drawers sometimes close when selecting a rune in a different drawer.
• Editing: The secondary Path icon stopped showing up in its home circle at 

• Loading Screen: Currently shows both Primary and Secondary path instead of just keystone & secondary path. Also looks butts. 

• In Game: Pinging the Runes UI does not properly display runes UI
• In Game: Runes icon for bonus stat is small and squished in the bottom right 

• Champion Select: The champion select dropdown has a pretty annoying bug we're working on where it's not properly switching equipped pages. Double check that you have the right page by opening the editing panel and using the dropdown within that as well so you don't end up in game with the wrong page. 

If you have feedback, questions or comments about runes please leave them below! The team will be monitoring this thread for your help catching bugs and iterating on all of runes. For in game feedback, it's very helpful for us if you also provide a screenshot of your in game runes panel AND the time your game ended (see example image below) as well as any details you think relevant. 

Simultaneous Draft Picks are now enabled on PBE! 

"Hey friends, it's ya boy SapMagic back at it again with some Champ Select changes coming to a client near you very soon. We just activated simultaneous draft picks on PBE for testing. We posted about these a few days ago if you need a refresher. 

Now, when your team has back-to-back actions in Champ Select, they will happen simultaneously, illustrated below on the right by light-gray boxes behind the circles. 

Jump into a draft pick game on PBE and let us know how it feels for you!"

Changes to gameflow now on PBE! 

"Hello PBE friends! QA analyst Chupaacabra here. 

Are you sick of having to re-invite your party members on the end of game screen or when you change game modes?

Do you want us to remember your position preferences so you don’t have to keep selecting them when you’re spamming draft games? 

Hopefully the answer is yes to both because we are fixin’ this stuff. 

Now on PBE: 

CHANGE YOUR PARTY’S GAME MODE, NO PROB!
The party captain can change game modes for the party without having to re-invite them. If you’re a party member, you hear a little sound, and BOOP you’re in the new mode. No need to accept another invite. 

READY UP WHEN YOU WANT TO ON THE EOG SCREEN!
Party members can now click “Play Again” on the EOG screen to return to the lobby—until you click it, everyone in your lobby will see that you are “not ready”. Click “Play Again”, when you’re “ready” to play. After all party members are ready, the party captain can enter matchmaking. 

REMEMBERED POSITION PREFERENCES!
Your position preferences will be remembered through gameflow. So if you’re playing multiple Ranked games (or draft games, anything with position select) we’ll remember your positions from game to game when you click “Play Again”. You’ll have to pick them again if you change game modes or relog. 

NOTE: This gameflow will occur in Normal Draft, Ranked Flex, Solo/duo, and SR Blind on PBE. If you’re in a different game mode, like ARAM, you’ll simply use the old gameflow of having to re-invite people. We’re working on getting this flow into all queues. 

We need your help! 

We’re looking for any bugs you may run into while testing on PBE. Post your bug in this thread with any repro steps you have. Screenshots, video or logs are also always appreciated to help us track down the problem!"

Leveling PBE Feedback Thread

"Hello everyone! I am Ranger XIV, QA on one of the many new preseason changes. Also monitoring the thread is the product manager Amirelle. 

We really want to know how everyone feels about the new leveling changes. So please, let us know what you think :D 

Here’s what you should expect to see on PBE:

Earn XP for playing matchmade games: You should see how much XP you earned on the end of game scoreboard, including bonus XP if you completed the First Win of the Day mission. Note, custom games are not eligible for XP. 

Level up: When you level up, you should receive a capsule. These capsules are full of different loot depending on what level you’ve hit. You can open them up in loot and see all the cool stuff you’ve gotten. 

View current level progress: We also updated the profile page to show you XP to level and also on your icon in the top right of your screen! 

Lastly, if you see a bug you can report it here and I will look into it. Thank you very much everyone and look forward to the comments! 

-Ranger" 

Miscellaneous 

• A indicator for your ping is back on the loading screen in this cycle:

• New game start tips with a Worlds theme have been added! Here is a pastebin with all the tips/trivia.

Examples:  

game_startup_tip_5000_worlds
Selected 129 times, Lee Sin is the most picked champion across all World Championships 

game_startup_tip_5001_worlds
Banned 86 times, Alistar is the most banned champion across all World Championships

• Tango Twisted Fate's loading screen has been updated to go along with the new Tango Evelynn splash. 

• Blaze (Passive)
• [New Effect] If Brand kills an enemy that is already ablaze he gains x mana.
• Mana: 6/8/10/12/14/16/18 at levels 1/3/6/9/12/15/18

• **Base movement speed lowered from 335 to 320
• **Base mana lowered from 409.52 to 350
• **Base health lowered from 525 to 500

• Gathering Fire (Passive) cooldown reducing effect changed from 2/2.5/3 (1/1.25/1.5 for basic attacks) to 2/3/4 (1/1.5/2 for basic attacks)

• Bellows Breath (W) initial fire damage change from [15/17.5/20/22.5/25% of enemy's current health] to [12/14/16/18/20% of enemy's max health]

Items

Ancient Coin line

• Unique Passive - Favor 
• missing mana returned from coin drops lowered from 10% to 6%
• minimum mana lowered from 15 to 10

Jaurim's Fist
[Context]

• Health increased from 150 to 200
• Unique passive max stacks lowered from 30 to 20

Spellthief's Edge

• AP increased from 5 to 10

Sterak's Gage
[Context]

• New Recipe: [Jaurim's Fist + Pickaxe + Ruby Crystal + 725g]
• Total Cost increased from 2600 to 3200
• Now MELEE-ONLY.
• Health increased from 400 to 450
• Base AD increased from 30% to 50%, and is now a UNIQUE PASSIVE.
• [Changed Effect] Unique Passive - Lifeline
• Shield now starts to decay after .75 seconds
• Lifeline passive changed from giving [+30% Base AD] to [+30% Tenacity]

Patch History for this cycle:

• 9/26 PBE Update
• 9/27 PBE Update
• 9/28 PBE Update
• 9/29 PBE Update
• 10/2 PBE Update
• 10/3 PBE Update
• 10/4 PBE Update
• 10/5 PBE Update