7.4 PBE Cycle


This mega post was last Updated on 2/19 with end of cycle previews
( With the release of patch 7.3 to live on February 8th, we started the new 7.4 PBE cycle. )

Previous PBE Cycles in 2017
[7.1] [7.2] [7.3]

Below you will find a comprehensive list of new content, balance changes, and whatever else  is included in the current PBE cycle! Be aware that these changes are extremely tentative, there is a possibility that things you see below will be changed or even reverted prior to the live patch.

( Note: As the cycle continues, some images may be outdated! )

(Warning: PBE Content is tentative and iterative - what you see may not reflect what eventually gets pushed to live servers! Manage your expectations accordingly. )

Table of Contents


New Champion Skin

A new Carnival/Carnaval themed Festival Queen Anivia skin debuted during the 7.4 PBE cycle!

Festival Queen Anivia

975 RP
Here's KateyKhaos with a bugs & feedback thread for Festival Queen Anivia:

"Festival Queen Anivia is parading onto the Rift! Decorated in vibrant Carnaval colors, Anivia is ready to celebrate! 
Festival Queen Anivia will be 975 RP* and includes:
  • New model and texture for Anivia and Eggnivia (so festive)!
  • New particles for all skills (confetti everywhere)!
  • New SFX for her recall animation and passive (let's party~)!
  • New recall animation (check out her dance moves)!
Festival Queen Anivia is now available to play on the PBE! As players who experience a firsthand look at this content, we appreciate constructive feedback - feel free to leave it in the comments below! If you have any questions, you can also drop them below and I'll do my best to answer them! ^-^

GLHF!

* Prices subject to change."

New Summoner Icon

A new Festival Queen Anivia summoner icon has been added this cycle - no details on availability.


ARURF now available on PBE for testing

All Random Ultra Rapid Fire is returned to the PBE for RGMQ testing in the 7.4 PBE cycle!

Loading screen background:

LCU champion select music:

[Full PLANET URF track available here.]


Here's L4T3NCY with more info on the return of ARURF, what is new, and more:
"Yo ^o^/ 
ARURF will be enabled soon on PBE for testing.
What's changed? 
Since the last time we ran ARURF the following champs have undergone some sort of decent surgery or are new! 
  • Camille
  • Warwick
  • Assassins patch 
    • Talon
    • Katarina
    • LeBlanc
    • Rengar 
    Why did ARURF take so long to come back?  
    Getting ARURF working with the new League client was only one of a few reasons ARURF has taken a bit longer. If you remember, ARURF was originally a test for us trying to solve some of the problems of old URF, where it would stagnate in unique ways that other modes didn't (EG: Poro King). Old URF would get stale pretty quickly, meta would set in, and there was also some pretty unhealthy play patterns. We often talked about possible solutions to this including adding bans, daily rotation or restrictions on the champion pool or making the mode All Random (which we eventually went with). After the first run of ARURF, we've been checking to see if it was any better and are looking now to try it again.  
    Known issues:  
    • Reroll rates are still accelerated for both ARURF and ARAM while the mode is enabled. This unfortunately means you'll be generating wa~ay more rerolls in both ARAM and ARURF than you'd expect. How terrible.. :3 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 
    • We've switched off the ostentatious damage numbers from previous versions. Should be back to just normal damage display now. 
      Thanks as always for helping test stuff on PBE and find/report bugs. The mode won't be on today anytime, but we'll most likely switch it on soon to get testing started. How soon? Soon(tm). :P Also, even if we don't get to replying to every post, we do actually read ALL of what you guys comment. No joke. Our team combs these threads for bugs (and fresh memes). 
      Cheers everyone. :D 
      -- L4T3NCY"

      Urf Emote

      A very strong looking Urf in-game emote was added this cycle. No availability details yet!

      Yordle Splash & In-game Finger Change

      Many Yordle champion and skin have been modified to have four fingers instead of five, including CorkiKennen, and Lulu. Yordles have four fingers but several over older champions/skins unfortunately have the wrong inconsistent number of fingers across their older assets.

      Here's the updated splash arts from the 2/7 update, all of which have four fingers instead of five. For those interested, I've also put up a [old vs new gallery on IMGUR. ]
        
        
        
        
        
        
      [Added in 2/8 Update / Imgur Album]
         
      [Added in 2/10 Update]

      Many of the same champions & skins who received splash art tweaks have also received minor in-game model/texture changes to reduce their amount of fingers from five to four. While they can be hard to spot in game, here's a few examples of Dragon Wing CorkiKennen, and Lulu.

      Kill XP Changes on PBE

      "Howdy everybody, 
      Riot Colin here to give you guys some information/context about some exp changes that are currently live on PBE. We are seeing certain characters (usually supports or junglers) fall significantly behind their team in XP, even when they are playing well. They are still providing value to their team in team-fights and through utility, but these actions are frequently not rewarding enough to pull them back into the game. (Their kill XP is frequently divided across many people.) We want to increase the amount of XP they receive through rewards for kills they facilitate. We also are going to be keeping an eye on future changes for other sources of EXP that these players help earn, like Baron, Dragon and Turret kills. 
      The changes listed below address this problem by adding additional XP on champion takedowns specifically for players who significantly lag behind their team. We also are slightly tuning up the “underdog” bonus on kill XP - the bonus from scoring a takedown on champions who are higher level than you. Essentially, if you outplay someone who is more powerful than you are, you should receive some amount of increased reward for your action.  
      Changes  
      Teamwork Bonus: Bonus XP has been added on champion takedown (kill or assist) for players who are behind their team in level. The amount of bonus XP scales with how far behind your team you are
      • The bonus starts kicking in when you are just over one full level behind.
      • By two full levels’ difference, you get an additional ~25% of your share of the base kill experience. The bonus reaches its max value when you are 4 levels behind your team’s average, giving an additional 60% of your share of the base kill experience.
      • We put a limit of 60% on the maximum size of the bonus to prevent extreme slingshotting   
      Underdog Bonus: XP bonus for takedowns (kill or assist) on champions higher level than you has been increased. Expect around 10% extra XP if you are 4 levels behind your opponent."

      Miscellaneous 

      • Two LCL team summoner icons have been tweaked:
      [Comparison]      [Comparison]
      • Text Strings referencing a "Unanimous Surrender" vote were added in this cycle. A unanimous vote is one where everyone must agree to pass. Meddler noted in a recent /dev article  they plan on testing a 15-minute unanimous surrender option this year, starting on a single region initially. 
      game_announcement_OnUnanimousSurrenderFailedVotes_blue
       "Early surrender vote wasn't unanimous for Blue Team @ForVotes@ / @AgainstVotes@." 
      game_announcement_OnUnanimousSurrenderFailedVotes_red
       "Early surrender vote wasn't unanimous for Red Team @ForVotes@ / @AgainstVotes@." 
      game_announcement_OnUnanimousSurrenderFailedVotes_YourTeam
       "Early surrender vote wasn't unanimous for your team @ForVotes@ / @AgainstVotes@." 
      game_announcement_OnUnanimousSurrenderVoteStart
       "@srctr name@ has started an early surrender vote.  Early surrenders must be unanimous.  Type /surrender or /nosurrender."

      Balance Changes

      Remember *: The PBE is a testing grounds for new, tentative, and sometimes radical or experimental changes. Be aware that what you see below may be lacking context or other changes that didn't make it in or were implemented in an earlier patch this cycle! These are not official notes.


      General

      Kill XP

      • [see this post for context and changes from Riot Colin.]


      Turret First Blood
      • Gold reward lowered from 400g to 300g


      Masteries

      [Context from Riot Axes / Context from wav3break]

      Bounty Hunter (Ferocity Tier 4)
      • Increased damage for each unique enemy champion you've killed lowered from 1.5% to 1%

      Double Edge Sword  (Ferocity Tier 4)
      • Changed from [deal 5% and take 2.5% additional damage] to [deal 3% and take 1.5%]

      Battle Trance (Ferocity Tier 4)
      • Effect lowered from [5% over 5 seconds] to [3% over 3 seconds]

      Warlord's Bloodlust (Ferocity Tier 6)
      • Life steal against champions based on missing health lowered from 20% to 15%.


        Fervor of Battle (Ferocity Tier 6)
        • Stacks of Fervor duration increased from 6 seconds to 8 seconds.

        Merciless (Cunning Tier 3)
        • Effect lowered from 1/2/3/4/5% to 0.6/1.2/1.8//2.4/3%

        Meditation (Cunning Tier 3)
        • Effect lowered from 0.3/0.6/0.9/1.2/1.5% to 0.25/0.5/0.75/1/1.25%

        Precision (Cunning Tier 5)
        • Stats lowered:
          • LIVE:
            • Lethality: 1.7/3.4/5.1/6.8/8.5
            • Magic Pen:
              • Flat: 0.6/1.2/1.8/2.4/3
              • Per Level: 0.06/0.12/0.18/0.24/0.3
          • PBE:
            • Lethality: 1.2/2.4/3.6/4.8/6
            • Magic Pen:
              • Flat: 0.3/0.6/0.9/1.2/1.5
              • Per Level: 0.05/0.10/0.15/0.2/0.25

        Fearless (Resolve Tier 4)
        • Per level armor/mr bonus lowered from 2 per level to 1.5 per level. 

        Champions
        Bard
        [context]
        • Traveler's Call (Passive) movement speed when picking up chimes increased
          • Base: Increased from 6% to 10%
          • Per stack: Increased from 12% to 14%

        Cho'Gath
        • Vorpal Spikes (E) "E has a new max rank at 10 stacks (also new max size)" - src
        • Feast (R)  - many changes! Stacks no longer fall off, no cap, lots of number changes, & more:
        "Ravenously feed on an enemy, dealing 300 (+ 10% bonus health)(+50% AP) true damage to champions or 1000 (+12% bonus health) (+50% AP)  to minions and monsters. If the target is killed, Cho'Gath gains a stack of Feast, which causes him to grow in size and gain 80/110/140 maximum health.
        • Only 5 total stacks can be gained from minions and non-epic monsters. (Current: X/5).
          • Cho'Gath can now have more than 6 stacks
            • Only 5 total stacks can be gained from minions or non-epic monsters.
            • Size growth caps are 10 stacks.
          • Bonus Health per stack lowered from 100/140/180 to 80/110/140
          • Cho'Gath no longer loses half his stacks on death.
          • Cho'Gath no longer gets 2 stacks from a champion kill.
          • Kills on minions and monsters no longer refunds 50% cooldown and cost.
          • AP Ratio on damage lowered from 70% to 50%.
          • 10% bonus HP ratio on added for R damage.
          • The FEAST Buff Tooltip on Cho'Gath updated to list what he has eaten with R.

        Corki
        • Missile Barrage (R):
          • Base damage lowered from 100/130/160 to 75/100/125.
          • AP scaling on missiles lowered from 30% to 20%
          • Total AD scaling on missiles lowered from 20/60/100% to 15/45/75%.
          • Big One damage increased from 50% to 100% increased damage.
        • Corki now has a missile counter on his R - ammo displayed for current number of missiles and turns red when it is time for The Big One. 


        Fizz
        [NOTEChanges reverted in 2/14 update. Expect a similar set of changes to return in 7.5 pbe cycle.]

        Jhin
        [context]
        • [E Trap can be basic attacked from slightly longer range.]
        • Curtain Call (R) slow duration lowered from 0.75 to 0.5 seconds

        Kindred
        [Reverted near end of cycle. ricklessabandon noted changes wil return in 7.5 cycle]
        • Raptor camp has been removed as a wolf mark target in her 0-2 mark tier.*, leaving only scuttle crab as a mark target while they have less than 3 marks.*

        Maokai
        • Arcane Smash (Q) mana cost increased from 45 to 45/50/55/60/65.
        • Sapling Toss (E) - [removed] no longer deals 40/60/80/100/120 (+40% AP) damage on landing impact, 
          • [NOTE: Looks like it still pulls jungle camps on landing]

        Katarina
        • Base MR lowered from 34.1 to 32.1 

        Nidalee
        • [W Trap can be basic attacked from slightly longer range.]

        Ryze
        • Spell Flux (E)'s extra damage bonus effect for Overload (Q) lowered from 40/55/70/85/100% to 40/50/60/70/80%

        Shaco
        • [W/R trap can be basic attacked from slightly longer range - increased from 50 to 125]
        • Jack in the Box (W) trap now triggers when revealed by a ward or trinket.

        Teemo
        • [R Trap can be basic attacked from slightly longer range]
        • Noxious Trap (R) - a faint collision indicator has been added around Teemo's R mushroom. Enemies can see this if the mushroom is revealed.

        Items

        Control Ward, Oracles Alteration, Sweeping Lens
        • No longer disable traps such as JhinNidaleeShaco, and Teemo. These items still reveal traps.

        Ardent Censer
        • Tooltip Change - In inventory hover tooltip updated and now lists total amount of health drained over duration of passive effect.

        Black Cleaver
        [context]
        • Health increased from 300 to 400
        • Attack damage lowered from 50 to 40
        • Build Path Changed from [Phage + Caulfields] to [Phage + Kindlegem]
        • Total cost lowered from 3100 to 3000

        Blade of the Ruined King 
        [All changes REVERTED ricklessabandon tweeted BotRK changes will return in 7.5 cycle.]
        • AD increased from 25 to 45
        • Attack speed lowered from 40% to 25%
        • Lifesteal increased from 10% to 15%
        • Minimum damage on  on hit increased from 10 to 15.
        • Unique Active changed -
          • [removed] "Steals 10% of target champion's maximum Health (min. 100) as physical damage, heals for the same amount,"
          • Base duration of movement speed steal down from 3 to 2 seconds.
          • [added] "Basic attacks extend the duration of the theft by 1 second, up to a maximum duration of 6 seconds"


        Duskblade of Draktharr 
        • Unique Passive - Blackout changed from "disabling all nearby enemy wards and traps" to "revealing invisible traps and revealing / disabling wards"
          • [NOTE: other vision items and champion trap abilities were also changed in cycle.]

        Giant Slayer
        • Unique Passive - Giant Slayer effect changed
          • LIVE: [1% damage per 50 health difference, maxing at 500 health difference]
          • PBE: [1% damage per 100 health difference, maxing at 1000 health difference)

        Knight's Vow
        • Build Path changed but total cost remains the same:
          • LIVE: [C. Bracer + C. Bracer + Cloth Armor + 700g] 
          • PBE: [C. Bracer + Chain Vest + 850g]
        • Armor increased from 20 to 40
        • Unique Passive - additional armor lowered from 40 to 20

        Last Whisper
        • AD lowered from 25 to 10.
        • Bonus Armor Pen increased from 30% to 45%
        • Build path changed from [Pickaxe + 425 gold] to [Long Sword + 950 gold.]

        Lord Dominik's Regards
        • Unique Passive - Giant Slayer effect changed:
          • LIVE: [1.5% damage per 50 health difference, maxing at 500 health difference]
          • PBE: [1.5% damage per 100 health difference, maxing at 1000 health difference)

        Youmuu's Ghostblade
        • Lethality lowered from 20 to 15

        Patch History for this cycle:

        2/7 PBE Update
        • New Champion Skin
        • ARURF enabled soon on PBE for testing
        • Yordle Splash & In-game Finger Change

        2/8 PBE Update
        • New Summoner Icon
        • [Continued] Yordle Finger Changes

        • Balance Changes

        • ARURF now up for testing
        • Urf Emote
        • [Continued] Yordle Finger Changes

        • Balance Changes

        • Kill XP Changes on PBE

        • ARURF Loading Screen Background

        • Balance Changes

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