Riot Endstep (The person who blessed us with the 400 gold amplifying tome) uploaded a 3 and a half hours long dev review of 14.1

Originally posted by Beats29

As long the content is great I'm sure people will like it, I don't mind it if you can't do it often. At least I prefer quality over quantity. I recall you making a small twitch stream with another rioter (I'm sorry I can't recall atm) where you answered several questions. You even answered one I did about the "demonic embrace spiritual successor" for AP tanks due it's removal and it was very insightful (before we had any ideas about what items would gonna come). So yeah, I'm sure people will like it as long the content is engaging, I think the way you have in explaining decisions makes the viewer interested in the content.

Besides patches, at least for me I would like insights about the goals you had before the official patch. For example, the awareness I got is that the goal this preseason was to reduce ganking, are you afraid for example that ganking paths may be too hard or it's scaling needs something? Also 2nd question, in terms of mage itemization (although they may seem a bit strong), are you happy with the diversity goals, or do you think people may end buying the same items over and over as before?

Thanks for you answer and content, and sorry for the longer comment, you'll probably get other requests as well.

Originally posted by TropoMJ

First of all, thank you so much for making this video - I've not gone through Phreak's yet but I've just finished yours and it was really fascinating. This sort of communication is super niche (as you said in the video, you have to be super-invested to find yourself watching it), but it's really rewarding. I found myself reading the patch notes being a bit sad at how little context there was on why the item system was changed the way it was (even the dev blogs left a lot of detail that you covered out), so getting to see such expansive thoughts is great.

In general, if this is content you'd be able to make, it would be amazing to get discussion of I guess game design philosophy as it currently is at Riot. Stuff like current thoughts on how various classes are and should be interacting with various systems. One thing which came up a lot in the run down is the idea that mages should be less threatening against tanks than they were in 2023, and the item changes reflect that goal. But what I'd love to know is the why of that, and also what a world where mages are less threatening to tanks should look like. Are we hoping to get to a spot where mages and assassins are mostly tasked with being anti-carries, while the ADC is hopefully left alone to shred the tanks? Is the intention that a burst or control mage faced with tanks should just give up on the idea of touching them and build to target solely enemy squishies?

I would also be really curious to hear your thoughts on how the playerbase is expected to perceive certain major changes. So for example, mages gaining AP in exchange for losing utility stats is well-explained in your rundown, but it obviously leads to a world where a substantial amount of champions are doing and taking more damage. The community naturally notices that mages are bursting super hard, and don't register the slower rotations or the fact that a newly bursty mage is themselves much more fragile. How do you guys prepare for this kind of community reception when you make a change like this, and if the community ends up coming to the consensus that mage damage is unpleasantly high, what options do you have for addressing that, beyond just replacing damage with haste and defensive stats again?

This is probably even less up your street but I would also be curious to see more of a deep dive into the philosophy behind particular items and changes. Shared support system changes were particularly interesting to me - the starter item losing all of its offensive stats during the laning phase probably pushes the laning phase to be a bit more friendly to passive enchanters and tanks at the expense of mages, aggressive enchanters and AD supports, as well as making ADCs a bigger part of the lane's damage output. Was any of that a design goal of the change or just a side effect? I would be even more interested to hear about the Wardstone changes. Previously, the item's stat passive was clearly designed to be useful to every type of champion who could possibly find their way into the support role. It's now been reworked to give purely defensive stats (+ haste), meaning there's a significantly higher trade-off for non-tank supports to build it than previously, while tanks are as comfortable building it as ever. I know that Wardstone is a niche item because it comes so late in builds that supports often don't get to buy it, but is there a reason that we moved away from it feeling good on every class in the role to being specifically friendly to only one of its classes?

These are probably all terrible ideas for things to cover but they were just the things which came to mind after watching your rundown!

Originally posted by Wemnix

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Originally posted by endstep

Hey, that's me!

I'd be happy to make more videos if people are interested (probably shorter ones though), but I found myself in a weird spot on the Seasonal pod where we don't ship content very often so I don't have frequent content drops to talk to players about in the same way that the Live pod does (e.g. Phreak) or like I did when I was on Wild Rift, so I'm not sure what kind of topics/discussion/thoughts people would want to hear. Besides talking about new patches, are there topics people have in mind?