So I’ve been on the PBE for a little while, trying out the changes, seeing the items, and well there is some cool stuff, I don’t dislike it. But a trend I saw in the past continues again. Armor items getting really cheap and cost efficient, but kind of weak as a full slot.

It’s general knowledge that 1 armor is not as valuable as 1 mr.
Then why do we have a fat new 80 mr item with 18% max health magic shield, a force of nature that goes up to 110 mr when stacked (though its probably worse than the % magic damage reduction iteration) and we have 70 armor frozen heart, 55 armor (?) randuins.
Like, Frozen heart is 2300 gold. Wow. Now that’s cost efficiency, it’s really strong and viable. I kinda… don’t care? We as players want fantasies fullfilled. Having one item slot filled with a big armor number is a fantasy.
And I firmly believe that while Frozen heart will see a whole lot of play in competitive, creating an item that gives a ridiculous (100,110, even 120 ?) armor but is expensive as shit and not really worth the price would be cool. It fullfills a fantasy and makes people happy cause big number, yet isn’t overbearing cause well… it’s bad (not cost efficient).

  • SasogwaOPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s not about buffing armor. It’s about having the option to get a kinda bad item that is really slot efficient but gold inefficient just for fantasy purposes because the “really high expensive armor item” niche is empty. This will only slightly be game changing at 6 items if you have excess gold you can replace a cheap efficient item like frozen heart by this, but it really wouldn’t be the end of the world to have 30-40 more armor at 6 items when carries are really damn strong and tankiness is outscaled.

    Think about heartsteel, it’s always been pretty bad, Jak’sho has pretty much always been a better option for pure tankiness. But it gives a scaling fantasy and makes you happy for a little bit (before you realize the enemy evelynn does 125% max health damage with 70% magicpen or something like that, you know the drill). A high number doesn’t mean an overpowered thing.