Revelation VR: 2/28 PBE Update: More Tentative Balance Changes

[Recent News: Quick Gameplay Thoughts: February 28 / /Dev: Matchmaking Real Talk]
[WIP!] [STATUS: PBE is currently offline.]

The PBE has been updated! As we continue the 8.5 PBE cycle, today's patch includes more tentative balance changes for Rengar, Skarner, and more!

Continue reading for more information!

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and subject to change - what you see below may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers at the end of the cycle! Manage your expectations accordingly.)

Miscellaneous

The "Bye Bye" emote was renamed to "Goodbye, Friend!"

Balance Changes

* NOTE*: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, & experimental changes. Be aware that what you see below may be relative to other changes earlier this cycle! These are not official notes.

Champions

Rengar
[Context]

Savagery (Q) empowered AD ratio reverted from 1.4 to 1.3
Thrill of the Hunt (R) "Vision linger:: .5 seconds >>> Until end of leap (Live removes vision on leap begin)"
Bug Fix
- "We can no longer repro the bug where Rengar loses aggros and stands still after casting his spells. This means it is likely fixed D:"

Skarner

Fracture (E) stun duration lowered from 1.5 seconds to 1.25 seconds

Volibear

Majestic Roar (E) ! [something small here, will need to check in game!]

Items

Cinderhulk

Bonus health lowered from 20% to 15%

Hextech GLP-800

AP reverted from 35% to 20%

Locket of the Iron Solari

[Reverted to live functionality]

Warmog's Armor

Warmog's Heart health threshold lowered from 3250 max health to 3000 max health
- Vs Live: from 2750 to 3000

Ancient Coin line

Effect changed from "Killing multiple minions or monsters temporarily disables Favor and gold generation. Disable time increases based on recent minion kills and resets at the shop." to "Before quest completion, killing multiple minions or monsters temporarily disables Favor and gold generation. Disable time increases based on recent minion kills and resets at the shop."

Relic Shield line

[Removed Effect] No longer mentions "Killing multiple minions or monsters without charge consumption temporarily disables Spoils of War etc." effect.

Spellthief's Edge line

Effect changed from "Killing multiple minions or monsters temporarily disables Tribute and gold generation. Disable time increases based on recent minion kills and resets at the shop." to "Before quest completion, killing multiple minions or monsters temporarily disables Tribute charge and gold generation. Disable time increases based on recent minion kills and resets at the shop."

Runes

Aftershock (R1)

Cooldown increased from 20s to 35s

Context & Notes

WIP

1) Here's Riot August with a new changelist for Rengar coming in today's PBE:

"Small update for tomorrow (2/28).

In light of the significant feel and flow improvements (Buff-Fixes) that we're shipping for Rengar this patch we're going to go light on the straight numbers buffs. Should he remain weak after 8.5 we'll focus on numbers in 8.6

Q
Base Q remains buffed
Empowered AD Ratio:: 1.4 >>> 1.3 (back to live values)

R
Vision linger:: .5 seconds >>> Until end of leap (Live removes vision on leap begin)

Bug Fix
We can no longer repro the bug where Rengar loses aggros and stands still after casting his spells. This means it is likely fixed D:"

Check out [THIS PAGE] for a comprehensive list of the new content & changes currently on the PBE as a part of this cycle or catch up with the individual update links below !