Release Notes v. 1.0.0.129

[quote=Beeswarm17]Maybe. You can get at least 1 point back if you go 21/0/9. You can start with lifesteal, though, so that may help balance it out. It might even be worth 16/0/14. Masteries too new for me to say what's better now, though.[/quote]

[quote=Aether Skies][quote=Beeswarm17] [quote=Bryun] Yep [[Akali]]'s nerfs are noticeable she can't keep up with the other solo tops any more, because it's just not enough spell vamp early game... =/ [/quote] They had to drop it, because spell vamp is a mastery now. >_> Almost all of her nerfs can be returned through mastery choices. The only exception is her Q. [/quote] To justify: You can easily return the nerfs through mastery choices, AT THE SACRIFICE OF PREDESTINED MASTERY POINTS. By specing into spellvamp it does not "unnerf" her. She will still lose stats via mastery points that you would have otherwise spent. Your view on this is immature.[/quote]

[quote=Queso]http://imgur.com/a/jfujE here are this patch's skins. Possible legendary Vladimir skin incoming. (has new voice files)[/quote]

[quote=Beeswarm17][quote=Aether Skies] [quote=Beeswarm17] [quote=Bryun] Yep [[Akali]]'s nerfs are noticeable she can't keep up with the other solo tops any more, because it's just not enough spell vamp early game... =/ [/quote] They had to drop it, because spell vamp is a mastery now. >_> Almost all of her nerfs can be returned through mastery choices. The only exception is her Q. [/quote] To justify: You can easily return the nerfs through mastery choices, AT THE SACRIFICE OF PREDESTINED MASTERY POINTS. By specing into spellvamp it does not "unnerf" her. She will still lose stats via mastery points that you would have otherwise spent. Your view on this is immature. [/quote] Thank you for your ill-conceived comment. My return statement is that if they had not reduced the numbers, do you really think starting off with 13% spell vamp would not be worth the mastery points? Do you know how many people went 21/0/9 on her before? So she goes from 10% to 9%, with potential for more. She got nerfed. Yes. But if she hadn't, it would have been ridiculous. Call me immature if you want. I don't really care. But Akali starting off with potentially 13% spell vamp and 3% lifesteal, with up to 10% armor and magic pen. That doesn't sound insane to you? I play Akali, and I love Akali. I don't think she needed the nerfs that she took. They were mostly towards her late-game, which no one had a problem with anyway. I'm saying that her starting damage needed to be changed to accommodate the new masteries. Expecting potential Irelia nerfs when paired up with defense mastery tree.[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=Beeswarm17] They had to drop it, because spell vamp is a mastery now. >_> Almost all of her nerfs can be returned through mastery choices. The only exception is her Q.[/quote] No, that's irrelevant. She was nerfed because she was too strong. Besides, she should run 21 offense anyways.[/quote]

[quote=Beeswarm17]I still think that if they hadn't nerfed her, she'd be OP as shit with the new masteries. She had so many people complaining about her for MONTHS only to receive such a ridiculously hard nerf right now, when they had also said that they weren't going to change much since it was moving into tournament season? There's absolutely no way that the new masteries don't factor into this. Riot themselves had said that she didn't need to be changed, since she needed to do that much damage. Unless they have all of the solo top champs on a "nerf rotation" (which is possible, I guess), I just don't see it.[/quote]

[quote=Searz]She WAS OP. So they nerfed her. Not because of new masteries, because she WAS OP.[/quote]

[quote=Beeswarm17]We'll go with that, then.[/quote]

[quote=cagewarrior]GUYS!!! How long will this maintenance take?![/quote]

[quote=Lugignaf]This patch already happened.... The maintenance they were just doing is over... 19 minutes before you made your post. We are not the official forums, please redirect all whining to there. :D[/quote]