[Tragedy]

So, there's this game that came out a year ago I guess, and it's extremely addicting. It's not really an MMO, it's a MOBA. Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. The game offers over 59 champions to play as so far - with a new champion released every two weeks. The community is listened to and they release things based off of how the community reacts. The only downside to it right now is that it only has two maps. A 5v5 and a 3v3.

Here's the skimmy:

You are a summoner who summons a champion to the battlefield in order to help other summoners and their champions to take out the opponent team's Nexus. The Nexus is what allows the summoner to summon a champion in the first place. If it gets destroyed, then obviously the team that destroyed it wins. Everyone has a summoner level and a set of masteries that are determined by your current summoner level. You maximum level possible is 30. You get a mastery point for every level you gain which you can put into a set of skills that aid your champion. For example; if you were level 14, you could put 14 points into your Mastery chart. You can gain increases in abilities, cooldowns for champion spells, XP earned per kill, etc.

The next set of actions you'd take is setting up a rune page. Runes are available for IP (Influence Points) in the shop and also, like your masteries, add another edge to your champion. Filling up a rune page can determine your strengths and weaknesses on the battlefield in LoL.

https://signup.leagu...ecd6be934871004

The game is free to play and the only thing you can really buy with real cash are Champion and cosmetics. So really, no one is buying power (you can only buy runes with IP, points you earn by winning or losing a match).

[KennEH!]

Name's KenEH. Gangplank and Rammus are my weapons of choice. Bring it.

I'm not sure if I like the pay system they have set up. Sure, free champions every week; but if you buy them they come to about 4 to 6 buck per charcter, plus costumes are about the same price as the characters themselves or more (special skins can be up to 15). I have spent money, but almost feel tricked into spending so much.

I could've just spent 30 bucks and got Heroes of Newerth, not the better game, but a one time fee.

[Tragedy]

Cloper. Mains are Shaco, Twitch, and Jax.

I had money to toss around so I got some skins. Really, the champions could be less expensive if you bought Riot Points.

[Green]

Just joined yesterday, I was surprised at how balanced the champions are, at least the ones for this week. I'm gonna have to save up for Olaf the poor mans way, no way am I buying something with actual cash when I can get it for free (sort of). RedTetra is my user name if you see me around, I'll probably be doing 3v3 on twisted treeline.

[KJ]

Well, tried this out, and it's a pretty fun game! Though there are some drawbacks to it that I've noticed...

One is that I've noticed some of the main features of the game are glitchy. The chat doesn't seem to work in the game, though I'm thinking it might be an installation error or something. Another is that I had my Champion chosen for me, when I believe I should be the one choosing it? Is there some option to make something like this happen?

[Tragedy]

KJ, on 19 September 2010 - 11:18 PM, said:

Well, tried this out, and it's a pretty fun game! Though there are some drawbacks to it that I've noticed...

One is that I've noticed some of the main features of the game are glitchy. The chat doesn't seem to work in the game, though I'm thinking it might be an installation error or something. Another is that I had my Champion chosen for me, when I believe I should be the one choosing it? Is there some option to make something like this happen?

Were you doing the tutorial? If so, then that would explain it. Otherwise, none of that happens to me. Maybe try reinstalling or just restarting the client first?

[KJ]

Tragedy, on 19 September 2010 - 10:08 PM, said:

Were you doing the tutorial? If so, then that would explain it. Otherwise, none of that happens to me. Maybe try reinstalling or just restarting the client first?

No, I was in an actual game. Turns out the chat servers are just kinda bad (perhaps in my area anyway) and go out every now and then. I'm thinking it was my client or something, I may reinstall the game.

[KennEH!]

Wait for a weekly patch first. They usually fix those kinda bugs. I had one werre I couldn't select any free champions, so it randomly choose out of what I had bought, it was fixed by the next patch.

[KennEH!]

I am the necromancer.

Soooooooooo, I'm trying to find a team because solo queue is starting to really irritate me. If any of you guys still play I'd love to start a team up.

[Tragedy]

KennEH!, on 05 June 2011 - 05:00 PM, said:

I am the necromancer.

Soooooooooo, I'm trying to find a team because solo queue is starting to really irritate me. If any of you guys still play I'd love to start a team up.

Do you play ranked yet? I don't. I still don't think I'm ready. I honestly don't mind playing games with you, but I do gotta ask who your mains are and who you can play.

[Gold_TSG]

I'll be playing once I get a friggin computer.

[KennEH!]

Tragedy, on 05 June 2011 - 08:45 PM, said:

Do you play ranked yet? I don't. I still don't think I'm ready. I honestly don't mind playing games with you, but I do gotta ask who your mains are and who you can play.

I wanna get my wins and losses to a sizable difference before I start playing ranked. My mains are tank/offtank Garen, Ryze, Offtank Renkton. I've been playing tons of Blitzcrank (both AD and AP offtank) and have seen great success, so I might get him as well.

["Robert"]

I play quite a bit, my name on it is DERUDERUDERUDERU. My "mains" would prolly be Leona, LeBlanc, Sion (AP Sion too good), Lee Sin, Amumu (Jungling yeaaaaa), Graves, Fizz and Rammus.

Anyone else excited for Volibear, btw? A bear... in armor that just runs in and rapes people. My kinda champ!

[KennEH!]

I dunno, his skill set seems pretty lame. Though I have yet to see him in action, so I will be happy to be proved wrong.

I am really curious as to what will happen with Jax and Udyr.

Can't wait for new Gangplank animations.

["Robert"]

His Kit has a good amount of CC (A slow and a knockup is nothing to sneeze at, yeah he's no Cho or Leona but), and something that gives him more attack speed seems nice, too.

As far as Jax/Udyr (and dodge in general) I'm really looking forward to it. I've always loved playing Jax but hated the fact it was basically a crap shoot (even with my dodge runes) to get the stuns/anything. Losing the Jax vs Jax mirror is the worst thing ever, since it's literally who's luckier.

With this "Harassing is King" that's about to come up in the next update, it's going to be alot harder for Nasus/Riven/Any other passive solo top for comp play. I expect to see alot of Fizz among other champs, since he's literally going to take nothing from minions, ever.

[KennEH!]

I always thought his passive to be a little too much. Ignoring unit collision id one thing, but less damage form auto-attacks is just down right nasty. I figured with this new patch they would up the damage he takes a tad.

[Red]

RESURRECTION! I've been playing this nonstop since September. Anyone else still into it? Right now I'm maining Lee Sin, despite the nerf(although, it wasn't really a big deal. His q still rapes and the attack speed debuff was negligible).

[Kvitne]

I haven't ever touched this genre of games, mostly because my real-life interactions with the people who play them has scared the shit out of me. I could probably be convinced to check it out though...

[KennEH!]

I don't know about you but I say it's comparable to the fighting game community's elitism but in a more whiney fashion.

That being said, holy hell I (still) love this game.

[Green]

Yeah I played this awhile but kinda went out. Things always seemed just unbalanced enough to be annoying, not to mention that there's always one champ during any given version who will just roflstomp everyone. However, I thought they did a good job with dominion, and for the record, I main Corki.