Legends of Runeterra Dev Tracker

Nope, that's accurate! Anyone who played during the preview patches or pre-registers by midnight PT on the 19th will get access at or shortly after 11 am PT on the 23rd. The gates then go completely open at 11 am PT on the 24th.

Big sorry, please forgive.

Hi! I'm Dovagedys, the Product Lead for "Sets" on Legends of Runeterra.

I think this is an awesome question and want to share some of our thinking regarding future champions.

Over time we hope to eventually include every champion in Legends of Runeterra. There are many factors that determine when we include a champion. The most important factors are gameplay and thematic cohesion. We want the champions to feel like they belong together, play well together, and are fun together. As we begin releasing expansions and add more champions, we want to ensure they’re exciting and fun for players, thematically fit with their expansion as a whole, represent new mechanics, and work well in an ecosystem with all the previously released champions.

As you mentioned, champions are often related to specific regions and we take that into account when considering which champions to include in future expansions. However, I believe there are creative ways to include champions t...

Of course! We're just happy to be out in the wild with you all :D Will be back with 2020 info as soon as we can.

We're on the same page!

Right now they're desynced because we're tweaking things to optimize around the 5-day previews. Once we're in closed beta they should all line up.

Matchmaking is based on number of Champions in your deck, and then sudden death. Losses/trade picks etc are not considered.

The trade picks at 6 wins are getting you caught up to the max number of trade picks you could have had in the run before that, so everyone is the same for that final battle.

Separate.

We had MMR based matchmaking in the last preview, but it was tuned VERY loosely, because we wanted to make sure players got into game.

For this preview, we tightened up the MMR matchmaking, especially early on in queue, and added some criteria that prevent players with very few games played from being matched into more experienced players. This latter effect falls off pretty fast after a player's first 5-10 games.

Glad to hear it feels like a more fair experience!

Yeah, we are investigating ways of making it more obvious that you are going to get a big burst of XP!

Rematches are blocked for a short period of time, currently 10sec in Normal PvP and 50sec in Expeditions.

Depending on when you're playing, your MMR and how many games you've played in that queue, it's possible that no better matches are being found before these expire. FWIW, we should probably increase the time in Normal PvP...I've noted it.

Thanks :)

Shard value for duplicates is one way to look at rewards, but it implies that a player only values Shards and not cards. That is a good model for the Limited-only player, but the numbers change quite a bit if you are a hybrid player and place value on at least some cards themselves.

It is always great to see players figuring out all the math so quickly! From my spot checks, what I see looks right to me regarding your math (though I could have missed something!).

The tricky thing to account for in rewards is the upgrades, though since we have published the upgrade chances then it should be possible to build the table.

Another thing you might want to consider for your analysis is accounting for agency: if you add in a multiplier to random rewards, but not to wildcard rewards, then you can see how the tables change for players that value random content at different levels compared to an equivalent wildcard.

Great stuff!

It is all based on the win record of the Trial itself, so yup you get it separately for each Trial in an Expedition

Hey there! We wanted to make completing a Trial be a milestone, so what we did is decrease the end of game XP on wins and losses for Expeditions while adding on a big burst of XP at the end of a Trial depending on how many wins you got. This will happen both in Expeditions as well as Open Play, so get those wins!

I don't believe so. I looked at the loot tables and unless it's hooked up in a way I don't understand (which is possible), there's no upgrades on shards.

The region reward order is not exactly the same for all regions, because some rewards are swapped around by a position or two. It's never a huge difference and the total content lines up every 4 levels.

Fair enough :).

We debated a bunch whether we should just include the upgrade rates in that article, but we were hesitant to. The upgrade chances are among the least confident tuning values we have, and, to be honest, is probably one of the most likely places we'd take value out of the system if we need to buff something elsewhere (or if, hopefully not, we've just overtuned things). While we can, and will, communicate that kind of change, it usually causes a bunch of confusion despite our intent to be clear. We wanted to see how much interest there was in the upgrade chances before signing us and players up for that.

Clearly there is an interest to see them, so I'll share them here. That said, THESE COULD DECREASE IN THE FUTURE! These may be overtuned or it may be that the reward value will better serve players elsewhere in the system.

Each of our quests has prerequisite criteria that check against your collection before you can be granted that quest.

For examples liked the one you've pointed out, if you get that quest and don't own one or both of the cards it's a bug and we'll fix them as we find them. For more nuanced cases like a quest to do Overwhelm damage, it may just be a tuning problem since it's debatable where the bar should be there.

You have no idea how much this bugs me...but in terms of actual value break down this is the better way. Sigh.

Fair question...I could have been clearer.

Hitting a Level 13 Vault gets you the increased rewards you're pointing out, but it's also a useful benchmark for how much XP got poured into region rewards each week. A lot of the delta is coming from so much more progress on region rewards each week, rather than the Vault directly.