Get out there to the Crystal Scar and enjoy, folks. I’ll be online playing with some friends (sorry, we have 5). Shoot me a message and let me know how your games are going!
If I don’t respond it’s because I’m getting the “Error – not on your friend’s list” bug, but I promise I’ll respond when I’m out.
I realize it was a bit of a tease to post that I was playing Dominion yesterday without a full writeup. Well, there was no writeup because I was busy making this video! It’s a full game of Dominion with lots of commentary by yours truly.
For those of you at work or who can’t otherwise watch the video, here’s a quick summary. Bascially, Dominion is pretty cool. I only got 4-5 games in yesterday, so my impressions are based on limited experience, but still, it was a lot of fun.
There are loads of new items in the game, which you’ve surely seen in the store on Summoner’s Rift. There’s also a new buff in the game, which is pretty much my one complaint about Dominion. The buff gives the bearer’s attacks a nuke proc and also grants the bearer a shield that refreshes if he isn’t hit for 10 seconds. At max rank it’s a 525 hp shield. I think it’s a little broken, but I explain more in the video.
Check out the video, and as always, comment, subscribe, and like the video if you enjoyed it.
Can it be? Could good news beget more good news? Yes, dear friends, as the title of this post suggests, the Dominion beta does indeed start today, with the first window starting…now!
I’m actually loading into a game as I type this. I’m playing Zilean, hoping that his speed will bring the kind of mobility and pain that you need for Dominion to work.
Alrighty, first game was a win. Went into the second game as Teemo and did really well in the early game but was up against a Jax. That champ could very easily break this game mode from what I saw (mind you, in one game). I’m going into a third game now playing as Jax to see what I think.
If you’re at home, jump online and get into some Dominion. It’s been a blast so far!
I really hate doing this, but I’ve had some technical issues that are going to delay the Veigar Champ of the Week wrapup by a day or two. To keep it short, I now need new hard drives in both my laptop and my desktop. Bummer.
In the meantime, I’ll give you a little teaser. For starters, I’m going to do my best to keep the video from looking like a highlight reel, but Veigar is prone to making highlight reels. It’s tough to keep the video from looking like it’s being skewed due to the nature of his combo. I did have some great teamfighting moments that I think will also highlight what he can do beyond just blowing up a target.
I had hoped it was just Fraps giving me trouble today, so I jumped into a game in the hopes of LoL Recorder providing at least a game upload for you to enjoy. No such luck. Again, the hard drive issues, but I also got stuck mid against a Kassadin. His new passive utterly wrecks Veigar through the early game, making it very difficult to lane against him. I think that’s more an issue of Kassadin’s design than it is Veigar’s. Kassadin can’t quite hang with the AoE casters like Annie and Brand, even with the increased damage absorption on his passive. Now he just pubstomps poor toons like Veigar harder than ever. If the game were draft mode, I probably wouldn’t have tried to play Veigar.
Keep an eye out later in the week for Veigar. Again, my apologies for the delays. As soon as my new hard drive is up and running I’ll be putting the video together. Promise.
Today’s maintenance was supposed to remove Normal Draft mode from the list of available queue types, along with re-enabling ranked game modes. I was pleasantly surprised when I logged in and found that Normal Draft was still enabled.
Later in the day, Tamat followed the surprise inclusion with this post:
We’ve heard your feedback, and as a part of our ongoing commitment to making League of Legends an even more fun and awesome experience for players of all preferences, we are officially introducing Draft Mode into Normal Games! Now you can play like the pros without any impact on your ranked rating!
I have to say, this is probably the best feature launch we’ve yet seen in League of Legends. Why? Because we didn’t expect it. It wasn’t overhyped (unless you count the rumors/occasional red posts saying it may have sort of might be almost is kinda getting worked on). Hell, we were even told we wouldn’t be keeping the feature.
And yet, here it is, and it’s pretty awesome. Good on you, Riot. Good on you.
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