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      We’re on for tomorrow night (FG LoL Mondays!) [UPDATED]

      August 15, 2010 /

      Be there or be square!A few weeks ago I asked if you guys would be up for some Monday night in-house games and it looks like we can finally kick it off tomorrow night! You guys up for it? The name in the title will be the name of the chat room I’ll use to get the night started. Chat room. Read that again. I don’t want you to miss out on games because you tried to join a practice game instead of checking your chat rooms. For the uninitiated, just click the little chat bubble at the bottom of your PvP.net client and click the little door picture. Type “FG LoL Mondays” into the text field and you’ll be in the right spot.

      From there we’ll figure out how many games we can get together. Hopefully we’ll have at least 10 for a solid 5v5, though I’d be more than willing to run 4v4 on SR. I will say our minimum is 3v3. Below that I think we’ll scrap it and push it for the next week. Feel free to invite your friends along for the fun. Also, if anyone has a vent they’d be willing to donate for the evening, that would be fantastic. I may be able to procure one, but it’s doubtful.

      UPDATE: How about a time! I’ll be starting things up at 9:30PM EST. Be there.

      As an aside, you get some strange results if you type “be there or be square” into a Google Images search.

      league of legends, News

      What’s the funniest insult you’ve seen or received?

      August 14, 2010 /

      Penny Arcade anonymity.

      There’s a funny thread in the forum right now, simply asking for the funniest insult you’ve seen or received. There are a few immediate classics inside, though my favorite has to be from Zileas. He says his funniest was the following:

      Your Mom is like a free to play game. You can unlock her with effort, but it’s a lot quicker just to pay $5.

      So what’s your funniest in-game insult? Though this doesn’t exactly qualify, one of the more hilarious things I’ve seen lately was a Vlad on my team who had taken mid and started to rage after a buddy I was playing with used Shen’s ult on a low health Ashe instead of the similarly low health Vlad. He started calling “gg,” threating to feed, and verbally abusing my friend for his use of Shen’s ult. At the time, Shen was 0/1/9 – pretty much a textbook definition of a solid tank – our team was up at least 10 kills and we were up on turrets. The other team surrendered at 26 minutes, but to read chat you’d think we had been losing since the five minute mark.

      league of legends

      I think we’ve hit post Season One stability

      August 13, 2010 /

      Cup o' Rage.I don’t know how much time you guys spend on the forums, but I’m there pretty much every day just to keep up with what’s going on in the game, even when I’m out of town or otherwise engaged throughout the day. If there’s one thing I’ve noticed over the past week or so, though, it’s that things seem to have stabilized.

      I’ll be the first to admit that Season One brought enough frustrations to warrant a lot of the grief that happened on the forums, on this blog, and even in-game to an extent. Some of those things have been reverted or changed – the level requirement for ranked, some of the matchmaking algorithms – but for the most part it seems people are settling in to the new mechanics around the game. If the biggest thing the community complains about is the price of a rune page (which is expensive, but not totally unreasonable), I think things are definitely calming down.

      What has your experience in game been like? Most of my recent games have been pretty tame. There are the random idiots that seem to make the world explode, either by their own rage or encouraging it from others, but even the typical “we lose because of x” has slowed back to what I consider normal levels.

      league of legends

      Galio impressions

      August 12, 2010 /

      Steampunk Galio

      It’s no secret that the last several champion releases have been heavily overpowered. The working theory was that Riot was trying to encourage sales by releasing strong champions and then slowly nerfing them back to reasonable levels. There are a few obvious reasons that’s not the case. For starters, Xin Zhao and Vladimir have remained relatively unchanged and still sit at the top of their respective role lists. Then there’s Galio, who bucks the trend with a completely mediocre presence in game.

      From the Champion Spotlight, you’d think Galio is meant to be a tank. His passive – converting a percentage of your magic resist to ability power – also points that direction, but only his shield skill is great for tanking. I find Galio a bit more like Morgana, though people have also called him Nunu 2.0. The big problem with Galio is that building as a tank means your damage output is minimal, even with his passive, and his ultimate is easily countered by stuns.

      Galio feels just about right around the level 5-12 range. His Q and E skills hit hard enough to deal reasonable damage and the laning phase is just about perfect for his ultimate – not enough people to interrupt him. Beyond that point, though, he feels extremely vulnerable. His ult can actually be a bad thing. Consider your situation – you ult, causing 3-4 champions and whatever creeps are nearby to attack you. Granted, you get some beefed up resistances, but if you miss your shield or the shield wears off, you take a good bit of damage through there. If someone interrupts that ult, you have 3-4 people attacking you and there’s very little you can do about it. The speed boost is nice, but it’s not going to get you out of that situation.

      As you cruise toward late game, you start to feel the pain of your MR stack. Your abilities aren’t doing much damage and they’re on a fairly long cooldown. By this point the people you taunt are blowing through your shield quickly and giving you some hefty damage for your trouble.

      This isn’t to say Galio can’t be useful – he can. I think he’s best placed as a support character like Morgana. If you have a solid tank Galio can be good for getting your carries into position or even helping Amumu close the gap for bandage toss. Also, you don’t necessarily have to make use of your passive, even though it would be nice to. Galio has pretty solid AP ratios, so building for magic penetration could actually yield some interesting results.

      Champions, league of legends

      Extra rune pages now for sale

      August 10, 2010 /

      Rune books for sale.One of the biggest parts of this patch is the ability to purchase additional rune pages from the in-game store. In my mind, Riot really should have made at least one more page free of charge. After all, this is nothing more than a convenience charge for people who want to customize for several types of characters.

      A single rune page can be purchased for either 6300 IP or 590 RP (hello, IP dump), while a book of pages can only be purchased using RP, at a price of of 2600 RP. I should also point out that once you buy one page, you can no longer get the 7-page bundle, which would still be a reduced price over buying them separately. A little message appears that says, “Purchasing this Bundle will put you over the Rune Page Limit.”

      Despite the high cost, this is still a good thing. I’ve been sitting on 25k+ IP for months now, buying the new champs whenever they drop, including the recent 6300 combo of Vladimir and Galio, so it’s nice to have another place to spend my IP. Honestly, though, I don’t see myself buying more than two pages. I’ve picked up one for now and I can’t really think of another option I’d like to have around.

      league of legends, Patches

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