League Of Legends Catch All

Mr Crinkle wrote:

So how are folks liking Vi? Only got to play a custom with her, but her kit seems fun. I do wish she wouldn't forget her current move order when you start charging your Q, and I'd greatly prefer an expanding circle (like Varus' Q) over the existing dash line. One of her videos showed that she used to have the vastly superior expanding circle, so hopefully they will realize that a growing dash line is dumb and revert it.

She seems pretty fun, quite similar to an Olaf or a Xin Zhao, just missing the poke or guaranteed gap closer. Only problem I'm finding is that she can get kited very easily. Her Q dash is on a long cooldown and slows you too much before getting decent range, and if you miss it or they have an escape skill then you are pretty much done. Her ult is great though, exactly what I always wanted Nautilus ult to actually do when I used it.

I'm liking her burst damage with just a phage, and then building a sheen. Sometimes turn those into Tri-Force, but might be good to split them into Frozen Mallet and Icy Gauntlets. I'm still finding it tough on when to build real tanky or more damage, probably depends on opposing team makeup.

Man, having Steam's gifting options side by side with the new ones in League is an embarrassment. I can't add skins to a wishlist that friends can use to inform their gifting, and I can't even see which skins or champions a friend already owns when I'm selecting a gift for them. The one thing they have over Steam is the ability to gift RP, as I was just lamenting my inability to deposit funds directly into the steam wallet of someone else.

(Rusty Blitz is my entire wishlist for now.)

Rusty Blitz doesn't even appear on the Blitz page...

They retired that skin long before I started playing blitz. I only want it because I can't have it.

Pretty much everything outside of the actual game of League of Legends is an embarrassment compared to Valve and DOTA 2.

Man, the Vi login screen music is pretty awesome. Up there with Diana for my favorite so far.

I really like the fact that Riot puts effort and resources into presentation elements that so many other companies would not even consider.

Koz wrote:

Pretty much everything outside of the actual game of League of Legends is an embarrassment compared to Valve and DOTA 2.

This is truth. With all the money they've got, you'd think they'd make a decent client.

I would be shocked if they haven't had a full replacement for the current Adobe Air client in the works for several years now. Unfortunately, it's such a low priority that they probably only have a couple of people on it as a skunkworks style project. All their biggest and brightest stars are working on the actual game doing important things like a fully featured replays system, setting up a groundbreaking competitive format for season 3 with big production values, and doing preliminary investigation into leveraging mobile platforms. (iPad spectate-only client, anyone?)

If you compare the current situation of the greater LoL platform with to where Steam was 3 years after launching, they're doing alright. Just as Valve was at the time, the majority of the team is focused on good games first, and the client only needs to reliably launch that game. The biggest problem they face is that Steam launched nearly a decade ago and now stands as a shining example of how poorly others approximate its features.

Dyni wrote:

Man, the Vi login screen music is pretty awesome. Up there with Diana for my favorite so far.

I really like the fact that Riot puts effort and resources into presentation elements that so many other companies would not even consider.

I thought you uninstalled.

Koz wrote:
Dyni wrote:

Man, the Vi login screen music is pretty awesome. Up there with Diana for my favorite so far.

I really like the fact that Riot puts effort and resources into presentation elements that so many other companies would not even consider.

I thought you uninstalled.

I did Someone linked it to me on youtube!

Dude, you uninstalled?

Jow wrote:

Dude, you uninstalled?

Just temporarily. Test coming up. I'll be back in a week.

Dyni wrote:
Jow wrote:

Dude, you uninstalled?

Just temporarily. Test coming up. I'll be back in a week.

he is leveling his smurf account

gotcha. bravo. i uninstalled and unsubscribed from WoW multiple times when i was starting a new semester. good luck on the test.

Mundo has decided to start replying to all dialogue in character and in the third person. Mundo exhaustively discusses things with trolls. Mundo describes his feelings and personal opinions. Mundo thinks you trolls all better recognize. Mundo recognizes. Mundo can recognize trees from a very long distance away. Mundo thinks that is a larch. Will Mundo throw cleavers at the larch? Mundo will.

Hey guys, long time no gank... So, I'm trying to reinstall LoL to get back into it and noticed two things. First, I can't reinstall due to an error with the Pando Media Blaster. Just gives me a generic error message to contact their support. No reply back after a day and the Pando website is useless. I can't even download their version of Pando Media Blaster without it halting due to Network Error.

The other issue... it looks like my account might have been hacked. I was playing as RiverRatMatt and it looks like someone got into it, changed my real name to gibberish and possibly got me banned. I can't access the LoL forum at all with my account so I'm really in a bind trying to get ahold of their support.

So... yeah, any ideas? And did anyone happen to notice my account crash and burn since May-ish? Hoping I can recover it. I <3 my Leona.

you're still on my friends list under that name, with last game played April 25. All your runes look intact and everything else looks like an unhacked account. RiverRatMatt.

Any more detail on the Pando Media error? I don't know of any common problems with steps that early in the installation process. What led you to believe your account name had been changed to gibberish? Can you use the forgotten password form to get a password reset link sent to your email?

I'll have a League installer minus the Pando for you in about an hour.

Jow wrote:

you're still on my friends list under that name, with last game played April 25. All your runes look intact and everything else looks like an unhacked account. RiverRatMatt.

Thank you!

psoplayer wrote:

Any more detail on the Pando Media error? I don't know of any common problems with steps that early in the installation process. What led you to believe your account name had been changed to gibberish? Can you use the forgotten password form to get a password reset link sent to your email?

I'll have a League installer minus the Pando for you in about an hour.

I don't have anything else on the error. It's super generic. Tried to follow everything their website said to do (wiped the folders, cleared out a registry entry, verified I could access their proxies, ran as admin, ran LoL installer with "--safe") and nothing worked. There's supposed to be a Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M keystroke to generate a verbose log during install but I'm not seeing it created anywhere

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While we're waiting, go ahead and uninstall PMB from the windows control panel if you haven't already. You don't want that crap hanging around.

psoplayer wrote:

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While we're waiting, go ahead and uninstall PMB from the windows control panel if you haven't already. You don't want that crap hanging around.

Ok, done. But don't I need PMB for updates? What happens when they roll out a new champion?

PMB is only used as a downloader tool in order to get the main League installer downloaded. From that point patches are delivered by their patcher thingy that runs every time you launch the game (a la every MMO ever). What they don't tell you is that even after downloading the installer PMB keeps running in the background and seeds the installer files to other people, bittorrent style. Do not want. (Also, once you get to the patcher, click the gear in the top right and disable the peer-to-peer option there as well.)

Download and unzip this: https://s3.amazonaws.com/noahm/lolse...

That's what Pando was trying to download for you.

psoplayer wrote:

Download and unzip this: https://s3.amazonaws.com/noahm/lolse...

That's what Pando was trying to download for you.

You ROCK!!! Thank you!

Hi everyone,

Just joined the forum. Heard about this place from a co-worker/friend, and we play LoL together. Just wanted to make an introduction.

Been getting dominated in a lot of games lately, don't know what the best way to get better at this thing... always seem to get out-laned somehow.

Anyhow, hi.

FONE wrote:

Hi everyone,

Just joined the forum. Heard about this place from a co-worker/friend, and we play LoL together. Just wanted to make an introduction.

Been getting dominated in a lot of games lately, don't know what the best way to get better at this thing... always seem to get out-laned somehow.

Anyhow, hi.

Welcome! We have a "GWJ" in-game chat room that many of us join but don't ever look at. It's mostly just there for you to know who to send friend invites to. Most coordination is done by just sending invites and hopping on Vent or Skype. As long as you have those, we'll be able to easily include you.

Ways to get better:

  1. Play lots of games
  2. Preferably with more experienced players (us)
  3. Learn to take advice to heart without taking it personally (we'll have plenty of it for you)
  4. Have patience. You won't get much better in the course of 1 game, or 10 games, but probably a lot over 100 games.

See you out there.

I am baby free for a few hours early afternoon today.

I plan in being online around 10 or 11 and in vent if anyone else is around.

oilypenguin wrote:

I am baby free for a few hours early afternoon today.

I plan in being online around 10 or 11 and in vent if anyone else is around.

bah! Why not be baby free later in the afternoon and hang out with me!

Merry Christmas Eve Folks!

Lets play all night until Christmas morning and give the gift of a Blitz Ban!

Thanks again psoplayer!!!

Got it reinstalled last night. Fired it up this morning at 7 AM and rock music starts BLASTING from my speakers. My fault for forgetting to plug in my headphones but that is kind of AWESOME! Very effective at firing me up.

I'm going through Youtube now and getting caught up on eight months of champions, login music and patch notes. Also need to relearn my build order. Kind of excited, though I bet I'll be the bane of pubbies everywhere for a while.

Did someone send me a $25 riot point gift card? If it was you, thank you!