12/10 PBE Update: Minor El Tigre Braum tweaks, New Jungle Item Icons, Tier 3 Trinket Changes, and more!

A small update has been pushed to the PBE! El Tigre Braum has received minor color changes, we have new icons for each of the new jungle items, and several tentative balance changes for tier 3 trinkets.
Continue reading for more information!

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and iterative - what you see may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers! Manage your expectations accordingly. )


Minor El Tigre Braum Updates



While they may be hard to spot, his mask was brightened and several bits of clothing received minor color changes  including his boots and belt.
Interesting in a look at his visual effects? Check out our earlier PBE coverage!


Mass VFX Rebalancing

Here's Keyserito with info on the mass visual effect rebalancing that is currently testing on the PBE:

"Hey guys. Jason "Riot Keyserito" Keyser here. Once we saw old champ abilities on the updated Summoner's Rift, those of us on the VFX team decided to make some fidelity tweaks. So we made a sweep of all the champs in the game, making moderate to tiny adjustments on various (not all) abilities. 
If you notice champion ability effects displaying improperly on PBE, please let us know! If you notice any of the newly updated vfx, you get my heartfelt wink & nod!"

Updated Item Icons

Each of the new jungle icons has received slight tweaks to their icons

Stalker's Blade
[NEW vs OLD]

Poacher's Knife
[NEW vs OLD]


Ranger's Trailblazer
[NEW vs OLD]


Skirmisher's Sabre
[NEW vs OLD]


The Devourer Enchantment also has a substantially more fabulous buff bar icon.

Devourer Enchantment
[NEW vs OLD]

Miscellaneous 

Looks like both Katarina and Varus have had their files restructured. Nothing tangible has changed about them in-game but if you see "new" files for them this is why.

Balance Changes

* Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical changes. The changes you see below may be lacking context or other accompanying changes that didn't make it in - don't freak out! These are not official notes.

Items

Farsight Orb
  • Cost reduced to 250 from 475
Greater Stealth Totem
  • Cooldown reduced to 60 from 90
  • Cost reduced to 250 from 475
Greater Vision Totem
  • Cooldown decreased to 120 from 180
  • Cost reduced to 250 from 475
Oracle's Lens
  • Cooldown increased to 75 from 60
  • Cost reduced to 250 from 475

Jungle


[Context: Several of the changes originally implemented in the 12/9 PBE update have been reverted. Riot Reinboom noted that they were "MOST DEFINITELY an experiment" on the boards and Fearless noted on reddit they are likely not going to keep this specific approach.]

Ancient Krug
  • Move speed reverted to 285 from 310
  • [REVERT to a change from 12/9 update] No longer has and uses Gift of the Heavy Hands against players. The buff is back to just being a smite reward bonus.

Gromp
  • Damage reverted to 90 from 65
  • [REVERT to a change from 12/9 update] No longer has and uses Gift of theToadstool against players. The buff is back to just being a smite reward bonus.

Krug
  • Move speed reverted to 285 from 360

Miss out on previous updates from this PBE cycle? Check out THIS PAGE for a comprehensive list of the new content in this PBE cycle or catch up with the links below !

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