u/AltruisticPea6925

I was originally further specifying "still-alive champion" given canonically dead champs like Ambessa, but someone being dead has shown to not be a reliable metric in Runeterra when it comes to how likely it is that nothing's happening to a person after their death. *vagely gestures at the Shadow Isles*

Reading through everything we know of Bard, I feel like there isn't much else for writers to add without fundamentally retconing who/what Bard is. I also struggle to imagine any major new event that would pique Bard's interest more than it would, say, Ryze's, while also being impactful enough that Bard doesn't already work on it anyway, Sisyphus-style. Bard's also not a "potentially, involutary political figure" like Zilean who could suddenly get threatened or otherwise be sucked into a new conflict.

As such, I feel like Bard is the champion most closest to being 'finished' lore-wise.

*Except for Gragas and Shaco, lol.*

My path started a few months ago with those "lore to fall asleep to" videos, which slowly caught my actual attention, so I've started reading the champion lore stories (the Ryze story of him meeting the Freljord troll village is 10/10) and finding old(-ish) reddit discussions. In just these few months, I've read time and time again, that lore YouTubers seem to be considered controversial within this fandom, and I feel like I'm missing nuances to understand why.

Can someone please attempt to explain the controversy as objective and yet as detailed as possible?

I'm chronically depressed from being friendless for basically all my life now. I do social hobbies, I do meet new people. I can have great conversations, enjoy shared activities, have deeper talks and vulnerable moments.

But I just don't connect (and stay connected) on a deeper level with anyone due to my autism. There's no "wavelength" overlapping, so to speak.

The typical causes don't apply to me, however. I'm not afraid to be open minded or vulnerable. I can be genuinely interested in other's hobbies. I'm a good listener and worked hard in recent years to actively fix my social skills.

And yet, I don't feel socially connected or fulfilled. Despite meeting new people somewhat regularly, I never meet anyone who's likeminded, someone who I could see as a friend. Doing activities together still more often than not makes me feel lonely, both during the activity and afterwards.

I gave SSRI a try for a few years, but those obviously didn't fix the underlying issue.

Therapy is something I'm torn on. On one hand, I actually believe is something that can help almost anyone, but I honestly don't know what it could possibly do for me.

I don't understand the 'slop' part. I thought it had to do with many Reno decks running similar legendaries, but after checking hsguru, that doesn't even seem to be the case anymore. And especially not when comparing different classes.

Stuff like Zephrys is rarely run, Loatheb and Theotar aren't auto-include anymore, many Reno's are deciding against the OG 2015 Reno nowadays. The only mandatory neutrals legendaries seem be Renethal, ETC, Reno Lone Ranger and Astalor.

A Reno Druid runs a lot of different neutral cards as, say, a Reno Hunter. Epsecially when it comes to neutral tech cards.

What exactly is the 'slop' here?

That's such a missed opportunity, imo. Card backs in Hearthstone look amazing, there are so many absolut banger visual artpieces.

And yet, your deck is a flat, animation less 2D representation ​that's blocking half the card back's visuals. And you never see your own card backs in-match either. Your opponent does, but not you yourself.

How about Discover-like mechanics that show you 3-4 random cards, but face down, where you pick 1 to turn around/to inspect?

Or whatever. I'm not a designer. ​Just someone who would like to see card backs getting more in-match love.

Everything about Bestiary feels archaic. I mean, *it is* archaic since it got released 8 years ago, but it also *feels* archaic.

Functionally speaking, the Menagerie acts as a clunky crafting bench a la PoE2 Abyss' Well of Souls. You have to move to the zone, run to the altar, ​click on the bench recipe, and then kill the rares (but this time without map modifiers, so they're easier/filler versions of the beasts you've already shown to be capable of killing anyway) to get that one craft.

Yellow beasts are pure bloat in a clunky UI (that you *still* can't mass delete). Red beasts and a handful of crafting recipes (that might as well be orbs) are the sole actual content of the entire league mechanic.

And while the net animation whenever you kill a beast in-map has nice flavour (+ voice lines!), it still somewhat often bugs out and/or adds a few unsatisfying seconds between the kill and you getting its loot. For every beast. A dozent times every map. Can loot please drop on kill (like any other rare does) while the net animation plays, not after it?

I genuinely like the league's theme. I love beast hunting (Witcher and Monster Hunter are some of my favorite games). I love Einhar.

But everything mechanically, the content itself, is just archaic, imo. And there is SO MUCH more that could be done with this theme: Hunting big beast bosses, fulfilling contracts, filling up a Pokédex, taming beasts (looking at you, PoE2), using beast parts as crafting materials, feeding beasts/lifeforce to bigger beasts to make them more powerful before we slay them, ...

With so many Ward skills being added this league, there surely has to be some Ward-based skills that are viable as main skills (i.e. not just in support of already existing main skills).

Chris recently talked about the difference between 'Intelligence' players and 'Dexterity' players in one of his interview videos.

• Intelligence players enjoy everything in preparation and inbetween the moment-to-moment gameplay, e.g. build theorycrafting, item crafting, trade utility.

• Dexterity players mostly enjoy the moment-to-moment gameplay, e.g. skillfully dodging enemy attacks, learning enemy attack patterns, utilizing (movement) skills optimally, speed running.

So what are 'Strength' players like?

Everyday, I see at least one vibe-coded tool being promoted here. Those are fine for personal use by the creator, but can become eye-raising when they're also asking for account authentication/linking to function. *vaguely gestures at the recent rise of PoE1 account security concerns*

So even if we ignore the additional 'low effort' discussion around these tools, I also don't think this sub should allow such risk factors to be promoted.

Before, you could share extra copies with zero downsides. And I really liked that. Helping others finishing their dex or getting them extra copies from their favorite Pokémon (e.g. some of my friends try to get all languages) just felt good without any downside.

Now, you are essentially working *against* your own best interest when you share copies you would have liked to "golden flair" someday in the future.

Of course, when it's just about helping friends finishing their dex, they can then share or trade the cards back to you right after, but that'd still cost you your "share slot" for that day, or a trade stamina both of you and your friend.

And I hate that. I don't like that an otherwise great feature (sharing) suddenly became a social struggle of "how altruistic/egoistic am I feeling today?"

And it's not just me. I've noticed that sharing / received shares in general seems to have taken a nosedive, and others have noticed the same.

I would like for the golden flair to only take "lifetime total copies" into consideration (how many copies your account has had in total), similar to how the dex only tracks your lifetime progress (whether or not you've ever had a copy of that card, *not* how many copies you *currently* have).