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Numy
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
South Africa35471 Posts
January 25 2013 14:05 GMT
#2641
Well Locket was also a perfectly viable use for cloth armour if you started it. In fact it might still be superior to this new item right?
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
January 25 2013 14:21 GMT
#2642
It is, but if you want to build zhonya you'll probably still want seeker's somewhat early to be able to stack it (it isn't cost-effective until you start stacking it, if I made the math right) or the completion of locket will only delay your "core" (or at least "AP granting") item.
Seeing how one "issue" evoked by the people whining about "having" to buy cloth is that it's less gold spent on damage (cue another angry "you won't deal damage if you die because you have no idea how to play without a cloth, smart ass!" rant from me), the fact than Seeker's grant AP while Locket doesn't probably means that Locket isn't perceived as a "viable" AP mid item.

Which is dumb, but whatever.
(I edited my post at the bottom of the previous page for a tl;dr of my arguments, btw.)
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
January 25 2013 14:38 GMT
#2643
How are you supposed to play Jayce? Just realized how obnoxious Muramana is with his W(cannon) and E(hammer) Do people max Q or E on him? Seems like youre trading good damage vs champs for better waveclear.
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AsmodeusXI
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States15536 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-25 14:50:07
January 25 2013 14:49 GMT
#2644
On January 25 2013 23:38 arb wrote:
How are you supposed to play Jayce? Just realized how obnoxious Muramana is with his W(cannon) and E(hammer) Do people max Q or E on him? Seems like youre trading good damage vs champs for better waveclear.


Not entirely sure, but I think Q is preferred now with the E nerf. Also, I do believe there are some who tout the benefits of W max.

+ Show Spoiler +
Also, this.
WriterTL > RL. BNet: Asmodeus#1187 - LoL: DJForeclosure - Steam: asmodeusxi | www.n3rddimension.com
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
January 25 2013 14:52 GMT
#2645
On January 25 2013 23:49 AsmodeusXI wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 23:38 arb wrote:
How are you supposed to play Jayce? Just realized how obnoxious Muramana is with his W(cannon) and E(hammer) Do people max Q or E on him? Seems like youre trading good damage vs champs for better waveclear.


Not entirely sure, but I think Q is preferred now with the E nerf. Also, I do believe there are some who tout the benefits of W max.

+ Show Spoiler +
Also, this.

Yeah I know i just wanted a faster response tbh.
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
thenexusp
Profile Joined May 2009
United States3721 Posts
January 25 2013 14:57 GMT
#2646
Does the bonus armor/AP from seeker's armguard get "rolled into" zhonya's stats or are they applied on top of zhonya's?

And you can still buy chain vest on AP mids, just make it into a GA or FH or something

On January 25 2013 21:17 clickrush wrote:
thoughts on some of the new adc items:

- bork deals more damage and steals more life than bt as a first / second item + has some added utility.
- hurricane loses about 10-20% (depending if you have IE) single target damage compared to PD but gives 80 - 90% more overall damage if you hit 3 targets with it, 30-40% on 2 targets.
- if you combine bork and hurricane you deal more than 50% on each side target because about half the damage from bork is an on-hit effect.
- the on-hit from bork scale with attackspeed and arpen, the arpen on-hit from cleaver is applied with every hurricane attack.

never tried it but based on guessing i think you can do an adc build with those three items that works very well given the right circumstances.


How did you do these calculations? 20% crit chance will give an AD carry vastly more damage than 20% attack speed, mainly because most ADs get something like 50% natural AS from level up and AS increases are only applied to an AD's base level 1 AS.
AsmodeusXI
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States15536 Posts
January 25 2013 15:00 GMT
#2647
On January 25 2013 23:52 arb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 23:49 AsmodeusXI wrote:
On January 25 2013 23:38 arb wrote:
How are you supposed to play Jayce? Just realized how obnoxious Muramana is with his W(cannon) and E(hammer) Do people max Q or E on him? Seems like youre trading good damage vs champs for better waveclear.


Not entirely sure, but I think Q is preferred now with the E nerf. Also, I do believe there are some who tout the benefits of W max.

+ Show Spoiler +
Also, this.

Yeah I know i just wanted a faster response tbh.


Figured. =)

+ Show Spoiler +
laziness 2 stronk
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JonnyLaw
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States3482 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-25 15:01:29
January 25 2013 15:01 GMT
#2648
*wrong thread
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
January 25 2013 15:09 GMT
#2649
On January 26 2013 00:00 AsmodeusXI wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 23:52 arb wrote:
On January 25 2013 23:49 AsmodeusXI wrote:
On January 25 2013 23:38 arb wrote:
How are you supposed to play Jayce? Just realized how obnoxious Muramana is with his W(cannon) and E(hammer) Do people max Q or E on him? Seems like youre trading good damage vs champs for better waveclear.


Not entirely sure, but I think Q is preferred now with the E nerf. Also, I do believe there are some who tout the benefits of W max.

+ Show Spoiler +
Also, this.

Yeah I know i just wanted a faster response tbh.


Figured. =)

+ Show Spoiler +
laziness 2 stronk

Pretty much.
2 plats in 1 game, moving up in the ELO.
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101toss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
3232 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-25 15:11:36
January 25 2013 15:09 GMT
#2650
On January 25 2013 22:55 Alaric wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 22:49 upperbound wrote:
This seeker's arm guard thing seems pretty strong for ap mids; glad to see that you get something decent for stacking those cloth armors now instead of just selling them later.

Don't stack them, lose 90 gold for selling one and surviving through laning phase?
It's weaker than a chain vest if all you want is defenses, and you get it later. Then you have to stack it to make it worth it. I already spammed quite a bit about it, but cloth wasn't required in any way to survive an AP vs AD/bruiser lane mid, and I really dislike how Riot screwed over the chain vest option just so people could "not feel bad" about getting a cloth and not turning it into anything.
Hey, you dislike cloth? Why do you buy doran rings then? You lose even more money when selling them back!

Or "oh, no, chain vest doesn't provide AP, I can't buy that item at all, my damage would suffer from it!" but Seeker gives you some AP for a big initial price and then ramp-up time to make it cost-effective, and people think it's a goddamn buff because they'll have less armour but more AP than currently at a given time. So you whine because you can't do without armour, but you call having less armour than usual "a buff"?

Fuck you, ignorant masses.

i tell mid laners to buy dodge boots, but no one listens

nvm, riot just nerfs khazix/talon/insertadcaster anyways, proceed rant

edit: yeti changes are buffs to top yeti, gg noobs
Math doesn't kill champions and neither do wards
zer0das
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States8519 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-25 15:34:29
January 25 2013 15:10 GMT
#2651
On January 25 2013 23:38 arb wrote:
How are you supposed to play Jayce? Just realized how obnoxious Muramana is with his W(cannon) and E(hammer) Do people max Q or E on him? Seems like youre trading good damage vs champs for better waveclear.


Maxing q first has been pretty normal on Jayce for a while. I also prefer maxing w over e (in most situations), because you get two damaging skills instead of 1, and you get the full benefit of an accelerated shock blast with one level of acceleration gate. The cooldown on hyper charge goes down a lot per level, so if you have a phage/frozen mallet you can latch onto someone and never let go.

Also, I think it is fairly normal to completely ignore his ult until the final levels, because what it gives is pretty paltry compared to his other skills.
Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
January 25 2013 15:15 GMT
#2652
It's "rolled-in" (stacked Seeker's is 50 armour, same as Zhonya, and Zhonya's AP is raised because Seeker's + NLR is more than 100 AP).
And that was what I meant: FH, GA are options from a chainvest, same as thornmail if you want it, but these are more niche items for AP champs, and their cost is pretty high compared to something like tabi or locket (worst case you sell tabi for 700, making the cost for replacing it with sorcs only 400 gold, for example, while you have to value GA's passive at ~1100 gold for it to be cost-effective, not even talking about how it's less useful for an ult-reliant AP champ if he died after getting said ult off or how armour shredding will reduce its value even further compared to a Locket's HP+shield or tabi's passive).

So the cost for buying a chain vest to "pad" your armour is 420 more (while being a bigger opportunity cost because you should already drop 600 into 2 cloth armors for Seeker's), selling back costs you 216 instead of 90 (while dropping more than twice the amount of armour). This makes it harder to rely on chain vest as a "transcient buy", while its upgrades aren't as cost-effective/good as cloth armor's.
(Another way to put it is that you upgrade chain vest slot-efficiently rather than cost-efficiently, emphasising the need for the upgrades to appeal to you. But if they did, you shouldn't have any qualms with buying a chain vest in the first place.
Zhonya's appeals to most AP champs, the other options not as much (though Galio, Swain, etc. can obviously put FH to good use).)
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
thenexusp
Profile Joined May 2009
United States3721 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-25 16:12:22
January 25 2013 16:11 GMT
#2653
Isn't a fully-stacked Seeker 45 armor? Also, does that mean that buying a zhonya's directly will give the same armor as getting a seeker, stacking it up, then upgrading it to zhonya's?

basically it feels kind of silly that they'd make a stacking item that you could automatically get full stacks by upgrading it
MattBarry
Profile Joined March 2011
United States4006 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-01-25 16:13:27
January 25 2013 16:11 GMT
#2654
Urgot/Thresh has stupid level of synergy. Urgot ults the enemy carry the hops on a latern into his own personal peeling machine support

Edit: I really like the new item for Morgana. It fits the niche where you don't have 1600 gold and you don't need a chain vest so you would go double doran's into plate of the warmage or whatever it's called now.
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Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
January 25 2013 16:13 GMT
#2655
50 armour, and yeah, building Zhonya gives you the 50 armour immediatly compared to building Seeker's, stacking it then converting it to Zhonya's (you can prob buy Zhonya before you get the 30 stacks anyway).
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17922 Posts
January 25 2013 16:25 GMT
#2656
On January 26 2013 01:13 Alaric wrote:
50 armour, and yeah, building Zhonya gives you the 50 armour immediatly compared to building Seeker's, stacking it then converting it to Zhonya's (you can prob buy Zhonya before you get the 30 stacks anyway).

You still get the 50 armor if you dont need Zhonyas right away though. That's always pretty nice
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Alaric
Profile Joined November 2009
France45622 Posts
January 25 2013 16:40 GMT
#2657
Yeah but for 720 you can get 40 armour immediatly, while Seeker's gives 30 for 600 until you fork out 550 more then kill 30 minions/monsters/champions (or at least 20 to reach 40 armour). You get it some earlier, then you get the rest much later, which is what annoys me as to the "timing" part (as I said, 3 things annoy me: the idea of fucking up stuff just because some people are too peeved to deal with the viable current state, the constraints it puts on your options while pretending to give you more of them, and the fact that you actually only get more armour later than currently).

It can be better overall because it gives AP too, but from a survivability standpoint (the focus of the item), it is worse.
Cant take LMS hipsters serious.
obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
January 25 2013 16:51 GMT
#2658
On January 26 2013 01:11 MattBarry wrote:
Urgot/Thresh has stupid level of synergy. Urgot ults the enemy carry the hops on a latern into his own personal peeling machine support

Edit: I really like the new item for Morgana. It fits the niche where you don't have 1600 gold and you don't need a chain vest so you would go double doran's into plate of the warmage or whatever it's called now.

Thresh seems to provide a lot of interesting utility with his lantern. They can greatly nerf his damage if he turns out to be too powerful but it's always going to have the utility of his lantern which is really unique to him.

Good thing too. I was getting tired of all the lee sin clones.
I think in our modern age technology has evolved to become more addictive. The things that don't give us pleasure aren't used as much. Work was never meant to be fun, but doing it makes us happier in the long run.
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
January 25 2013 17:02 GMT
#2659
On January 25 2013 22:04 Gahlo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 19:31 TheYango wrote:
If that Triforce buff stays, that will be the most ridiculously cost-effective recipe ever, rofl.

Locket got a minor nerf, Sunfire and Warmogs got gutted.

League of Warmogs -> League of Locket

Am I missing something here? How is 180 gold "gutted"?


Also, Triforce price change intentional.
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=33877588#33877588

Yeah I misread the Warmog's change. Not as bad as I thought.
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onlywonderboy
Profile Joined August 2012
United States23745 Posts
January 25 2013 17:07 GMT
#2660
On January 26 2013 02:02 TheYango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 25 2013 22:04 Gahlo wrote:
On January 25 2013 19:31 TheYango wrote:
If that Triforce buff stays, that will be the most ridiculously cost-effective recipe ever, rofl.

Locket got a minor nerf, Sunfire and Warmogs got gutted.

League of Warmogs -> League of Locket

Am I missing something here? How is 180 gold "gutted"?


Also, Triforce price change intentional.
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=33877588#33877588

Yeah I misread the Warmog's change. Not as bad as I thought.

Good, I was worried you were going to drop some crazy knowledge about how having to buy an extra Rejuv Bead makes it trash or something. Triforce change is interesting, wonder if we'll see a resurgence of Jax/Irelia.
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