League of Legends: Wild Rift Dev Tracker

Elder is designed to make sure games end. The soonest you can see it is 20+ min, and like you said it can spawn much later than that if the other team gets a dragon. So a long close game still needs to come to an end, and forcing an Elder fight should be a good way to do that.

Thanks for the feedback! Are you saying that you think Dragon Soul and/or elder should happen every game? Because right now the scenario you proposed suggests that the game would end before either team gets either, or if the game is more one sided it can obviously happen at the 15+ mark. Do you think that is wrong for a game to end without either?

Can you elaborate on that thought a bit for me?

Correct, we will be iterating on Elemental Rift and it could change a lot, based on player feedback. It makes sense to solidify her changes as we get closer to the final version.

It isn't something we plan on over looking, but the options were to ship changes that would imbalance her for ranked, for a passive more geared towards a game mode that we expect to iterate on (and thus we would need to reshape for each version). So we decided to leave her passive alone until we got closer to a more final version.

The thought was that we would test without cloud drake and see how that feels first. It doesn't mean we couldn't bring it back in a future test (and/or final version) it really depends on the feedback.

It's worth keeping in mind that more isn't always better, by removing it we will see the other more appreciable drakes/map changes more frequently. Maybe that is a good thing, maybe it's a bad thing.

As for the dates, I don't know of any plans to change those, it is possible that they get extended (not something I would be a part of deciding), but we expect to be testing multiple iterations.

Unfortunately, I don't know the details of the matchmaking system, but I believe each mode uses its own matchmaking.

We are also not super concerned about the balance/tuning yet. We really want to make sure people are able to try the mode, and that we are hitting the below goals. Tuning is a part of that for sure but we expect to be making changes to the system then tuning within that system.

Elemental Rift Goals:

1) Increase individual agency and one's ability to impact the game.

2) Give players breathing room between fights.

3) Increase the power and impact of tactical gameplay + making strategic choices more visible.

4) Reduce the impact of the "weakest link" teammate on the outcome of the game.

We are testing it as a game mode first. We plan on using player feedback to drive iteration, that will make it into the final Elemental Rift, that will replace the standard map.

My guess without checking your data specifically is that it's early in the season still and there aren't a lot of high-ranked players around your rank to match with available yet. If that's the case, it'll go away as more players climb up closer to your rank.

You can still start with a Long Sword then build DS from there. You'll end up using the longsword in another item.