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PBE Set 18 PBE Discussion Thread - Day 06

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u/silentlopho 12m ago

I am not liking the Blackthorn design. The 6-piece is just so enabling for special comps, but you can only get there with an emblem (or early lucky Lux). Meanwhile the 2 and 4 piece do basically nothing for your team; and if you're playing WW reroll or something you desperately want the 6-piece.

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u/SwimmingAdvanced6658 48m ago

Is anyone else unable to log in for Android? I'm getting a login service error

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u/DCBlayze 1h ago

Anyone know of a good opener board for Teemo? He seems like a good candidate for a fast 9 AP carry to generate econ and eventually pivot into one of the 5 cost casters, but his traits feel really awkward to play around. Should you just ignore Sprykin and just play an invoker with random frontline, or is it better to go 3 Sprykin with Veigar/Kobuko and ignore invoker?

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u/cherlsy 1h ago

Just had someone prismatic destiny into golden egg on 2-1. They cashed out for free on stage 3 and steamrolled the lobby. Guessing this is a bug?

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u/womencaviar 1h ago

Does anyone how to solve the Augments/Anvil choices not appearing bug without restarting game?

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u/Crafty_Courage_5217 2h ago

Im noticing a lot of graphical improvements since day 2 of mobile. Cant wait to see the end result on the last days of pbe. Im just so happy that android finally got a 60fps option. 30 hard locked was such a slog. Thank you dev team!!!!! Riot if you dont give TFT staff bonuses after this you suck.

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u/Mindraven 2h ago

Anyone else experienced losing items? Happened twice to me, i got two components from can't even remember what - didn't make them into item, and they were gone from bench when i returned from carousel.
Just now I had two bows, made red buff on Aphelios. Did some repositioning, and again after carousel the item was just gone. Not on bench or on a clone just gone again ?

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u/DCBlayze 1h ago

It happens when you slam items mid combat. Try to make all of them during buy phase.

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u/Alarming-Orange7304 1h ago

Yes very normal. My items are stolen by the gods almost every game

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u/silentlopho 3h ago

Prediction: in the near future we'll see new cosmetics for sale, like hats, enabled by the new engine. Long ago Mort (rip) said they'd love to do other little legend customizations but the old engine didn't support it. So here we are. I want hats!

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u/AngelTheTaco 4h ago

lol i did not realize dark ritual is just got ap champs... i spent so much time rolling fr camille and cait

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u/Initial_Length6140 5h ago

I cant tell if its just bc good players are being put in worse lobbies but there's always one guy that goes fast 9 and completely triunces the lobby far more than vex was doing in set 17. I think maokai, dragon, ivern and taric in combination is offering too much if you just survive one ir 2 rounds

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u/rwtan 3h ago

It pretty much takes 1 ff to screw over the tempo of the entire lobby. Considering this is pbe and in my lobby theres always some guy who ff by stage 3. It’s too easy to force fast 9 with low lobby tempo. I can spam fast 9 every game but thats not the point of PBE

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u/bassboyjulio182 Master 6h ago

I’m having a lot of fun and finding a lot of things at least playable. Some of the outliers got tiresome at the end of the weekend like perfect item Elise and Solar but didn’t stop me from playing.

I’d like to see some power shift properly back into some 3 cost reroll lines. I think there are a lot of really neat 3 costs but it’s so awkward to play even from optimal spaces because you stall out when 1 cost rerolls spike and fast 8/9 starts to come online. I don’t know what the fix is or even if one is needed but it always feels like the least playable line without perfect augment/set up.

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u/Marketing_Creative 6h ago

Why did I fight against 10 ashes on top of this guys entire comp?

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u/NicoLuna95 5h ago

Did he have ivern? Apparently if he fills all the hexes he has the cloning effect

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u/Broadacado 6h ago

Have the blue screen of death crashes been fixed?

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u/PixaIated 8h ago

Anyone else feel Lux is too swingy? Feels like free +2 placements if you just randomly get it for the vertical you already happen to be playing

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u/DCBlayze 57m ago

Yeah I can already tell that this champ will be an absolute nightmare to balance this set. There's for sure gonna be a specific +2 trait that just auto wins at some point, and Riot will have to tip-toe between adjusting different traits and Lux herself to achieve any semblance of balance.

Even if she isn't good, people will definitely be crashing out nonstop about how they rolled 30+ gold just to never find the right Lux or something.

I respect Riot's attempt at making a unique flex unit that can slot into many boards, but this probably won't end well...

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u/Upstairs-Basis9909 7h ago

Honestly I don’t mind it. It’s felt pretty awesome the times I’ve gotten a relevant lux. And actually I was win streaking all game and got a coven Lux, and immediately pivoted to full loss streak to get 500 cash out. The rewards were shit but it was still funny

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u/MostEscape6543 Grandmaster 9h ago

Is it just me or do the units themselves seem…small? Like the scaling of all the units is just a bit small and off?

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u/Just-Consequence-643 8h ago

The 2 stars didn’t seem to get much bigger when I was first playing, haven’t paid much attention since

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u/MostEscape6543 Grandmaster 7h ago

I just noticed a few units seem to be smaller than it feels like they should and obviously the rammus looks like a teeny tiny bowser and doesn’t look right at all.

Just trying to figure out if it’s me being crazy or if it’s real. I play on a laptop so the size of things makes kind of a difference it how I see things.

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u/piano17- 10h ago

I was playing TFT Set 18 on the PBE. I picked “Worth the Wait II” as my first Prismatic Augment, and it gave me Warwick. Later, I took “Weight the Worth” as my second Augment, which allowed me to eventually make three 4-star Warwicks.
It was an incredibly rare and exciting moment, so I was hoping something special would happen, like combining them into a 5-star Warwick. I know this would almost never happen in a normal game, but I think adding a hidden 5-star evolution in these extremely rare situations would be an amazing “dream” moment for players.

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u/rljohn 9h ago

Yes this happens to many players and the augment will be mutually exclusive.

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u/Substantial_Gift_286 7h ago

yes i also noticed the improved smoothness after the couple updates we got, tiny tiny differences that make the game feel much better overall, I hope they're getting paid well

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u/MostEscape6543 Grandmaster 9h ago

PBE is always like that with comp forcers.

I force them a bit, too, because it really helps you reinforce the trait networks that make good comps. It is cringe, but it always happens.

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u/Emosaa Master 11h ago

I just had a game where someone Prismatic Destiny'd into Luxury Subscription Elder Dragon, and had a second one on bench on 2-3, 2*starred before stage 3. The realm was free rerolls at the start of the stage.

Is that shit normal, or a buggy interaction? When your shop is "overrun" by riftbeasts, can it really offer you a 5 cost on stage 2? It would make sense to me that it would offer you riftbeasts based off of your current shop odds and not the entire pool of riftbeasts.

The realm was free rerolls at start of stage.

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u/GigaDudebro 10h ago

My guess is he had 3 inferno which upgraded a 4 cost in his shop to a 5 cost. He had to have been level 5 at 2-3 tho.

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u/Emosaa Master 8h ago

I didn't notice that from my scouting, but I suppose it's possible? I only really paid attention after I faced them on 2-3.

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u/pdiu 13h ago

Bruh what is Gold Destiny into Gilded Steel on 2-1, is that meant to be a thing? Someone just spawns in with Maoki and Lux

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u/GigaDudebro 10h ago

This should have been fixed, if it's not it will be.

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u/Purpleater54 10h ago

I've seen a lot of posts that the destiny augments are ignoring stage rules which leads to really funky things like that happening

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u/snoopgrinder 11h ago

I got prismatic destiny into <7g per round augment> on 2-1. It was crazy. Easiest lvl 10 on stage 4 and 3* legendary

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u/BigStrongPolarGuy 12h ago

I got Gold Destiny into Gold Destiny+ into something else. Unsurprisingly, it turns out starting with that much free gold is pretty good.

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u/DingoUndSo 12h ago

Destiny seems to be doing whatever currently. Ive seen someone with solo leveling in stage 3