The Blitz nerf is harsh. He barely has even enough mana to cast 2 Q at level 1.
I don't like the nerf on Blood Boil, somebody suggested "it gives less benefits to targets other than Nunu" that keeps the good steroid on him while nerfing its use.

Huge Galio buffs, flat mana cost on Q and cd going down from 7 to 5 makes him an even more powerful pusher.
Nerf bat on Ezreal, ouch. Less MS, less AoE on ult, passive nerf...
Dshield buffs, good to see.
Giant's belt nerf, not surprising.
Minor Locket nerf, nothing of consequence.
"Plate of the warmage", probably building from cloth armor + Amp tome, or maybe double cloth armor + amp tome, armour/AP item with a stacking mechanism similar to warmog to go up to 45 armor.
We can ignore the sightstone changes I think, they'll be reverted soon enough when Riot realizes how broken it is.
Sunfire, BC and BT cost nerfs.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

January 20 2013 22:48 GMT

#1306

I'm more irked by how there are more nerfs to Ezreal when it's been less than a week since the BAT nerf was put in place. Way too early to even see where the hero is now.

Sven Stryker

United States423 Posts

January 20 2013 22:49 GMT

#1307

Sightstone is still 700 on PBE as of 30 seconds ago. Not sure where people are getting that from.

Numy

South Africa35471 Posts

January 20 2013 22:50 GMT

#1308

On January 21 2013 07:48 TheYango wrote:
I'm more irked by how there are more nerfs to Ezreal when it's been less than a week since the BAT nerf was put in place. Way too early to even see where the hero is now.

Well clearly they wanted to kill him good and don't think BAT nerf killed him good enough.

EDIT: As for Blitz change. Seems a lot more like a dota hero now than a league champion. A spell costing over half his mana pool in league?

Dandel Ion

Austria17960 Posts

January 20 2013 22:53 GMT

#1309

wtf blitz nerfs

why would you do that
he's only "OP" sub 1k Elo atm. At best.

Slusher

United States19143 Posts

January 20 2013 22:55 GMT

#1310

I like how they buff all the NLR items except deathcap....

this is not a good look for nunu.

samthesaluki

914 Posts

January 20 2013 23:06 GMT

#1311

where are people seeing these changes?

Alaric

France45622 Posts

January 20 2013 23:07 GMT

#1312

Here for me. There's also Surrenderat20 but I prefer RoG.

MoonBear

Straight outta Johto18973 Posts

January 20 2013 23:10 GMT

#1313

Is it just me, or does the new Garen skin look like a Cygnar Stormblade (from Warmachine)? Also, since we have Steel Legion Lux I think this is going to be a new set for the Demacia Champios. I don't think Riot's even finished with the Crimson Elite series for Noxus either.

TheKefka

Croatia11752 Posts

January 20 2013 23:14 GMT

#1314

I wonder if Riot will ever be content with how the game is and stop meddling for a while.
Like,I have the feeling that they just are always trapped in this notion of change where they always have to nerf a part of the game and it's not even because they are sure it's OP.It's such a short time span between patches that you can't even tell anymore if something is genuinely OP or just FOTM.
Yea sure new champs come out and it changes a whole lot but the old(or items) ones always see at least some change in every patch.

Craton

United States17274 Posts

January 20 2013 23:16 GMT

#1315

On January 21 2013 07:45 arb wrote:
What the fuck is with all these random blitzcrank nerfs?

The problem is that they're trying to nerf him in the dumbest of ways rather than nerfing Q itself.

Gahlo

United States35166 Posts

January 20 2013 23:17 GMT

#1316

On January 21 2013 08:10 MoonBear wrote:
Is it just me, or does the new Garen skin look like a Cygnar Stormblade (from Warmachine)? Also, since we have Steel Legion Lux I think this is going to be a new set for the Demacia Champios. I don't think Riot's even finished with the Crimson Elite series for Noxus either.

Looks like a metallic marauder with a sword to me.

Doctorbeat

Netherlands13241 Posts

January 20 2013 23:18 GMT

#1317

I like the change to Yi Meditate, it's a really dumb ability that needs a rework.

Cho silence duration nerf is ok-ish. The silence is incredibly long, and not being able to use item actives makes it very strong in S3.

Blitz nerfs way too harsh. Same goes for Ez. Don't know how I feel about Nunu nerfs. Elise Q mana nerf is going to affect her quite a lot. Maybe going to have to take Chalice/Tear now. Shen nerf is ok.

Sightstone buff is stupid and flat AP increase along with the current FOTM items being nerfed is not the right way to equalize mages to ad casters imo.

samthesaluki

914 Posts

January 20 2013 23:19 GMT

#1318

TL hang your head in shame nobody noticed viktor buffs also so many awesome skins coming out = me being poor

checo

Mexico1364 Posts

January 20 2013 23:20 GMT

#1319

wow, again with the ezreal nerfs.... what the... dude... come on...

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

January 20 2013 23:22 GMT

#1320

On January 21 2013 08:19 samthesaluki wrote:
TL hang your head in shame nobody noticed viktor buffs also so many awesome skins coming out = me being poor

They're not guaranteed buffs until we know the ratio.