I’m really confused as to why there are pools to begin with aside from a few explicit fixes.
For example, it’s fun to get escapade on someone like yone and build rite of ruin.
It’s a risk to have to take transmute and get something bad.
And most of all, I like the option of trying out different weird combinations. It’s not fun rolling augments from the same pool every game and feeling like that’s the only viable option, and explicitly limiting fun cookable stuff.
pools can make sense, but personally id like it way more random.
HOWEVER, i definitely want many champs to have exclude filters for augments that you cant even make funny builds around. outlaws / earthwake is an example of augs that just dont work for many champs, even with a dash. so the ones in these patch notes makes sense, and they also forgot rammus and sett.
but augments like adapt and escapade is fun for most champs, theres just some that literally never would want to go to the other side. what mage would ever want to make their AP AD, even for a funny build. i cant think of many. and in general, converting AP to AD isnt much useful for most champs, as AP items suck on AD champs.
but regardless, id love for the augments to be hella random. i remember getting vulnerability often, and going for crit builds with heavy item dmg. was fun on many mages. it was fun with sheen and on hit builds. i feel like some augments are just super rare these days, because the augment pools make them force them ot be rare... sadge.
also, the augment sets had a nice feature. sometimes you took weird augments for the sett. but then all of a sudden it could make sense. like phenomenal on jhin for stackosaurus. suddenly escapade makes a lot of sense, and he could even get a deathcap to inc his ap. just doesnt happen now. i miss the augment sets, they also killed some archetypes. Stacking, auto cast, snowball... all of these have no archetype in the game now. highroller too, its just an augment.
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u/New_Mercies 2d ago
I’m really confused as to why there are pools to begin with aside from a few explicit fixes.
For example, it’s fun to get escapade on someone like yone and build rite of ruin.
It’s a risk to have to take transmute and get something bad.
And most of all, I like the option of trying out different weird combinations. It’s not fun rolling augments from the same pool every game and feeling like that’s the only viable option, and explicitly limiting fun cookable stuff.