Turret Items!

[Pharaoh_]

This has yet to become official, but a new rumor has been spread that regards the turrets. The potential patch will host items that are integrated in turrets' inventory.

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Penetrating Bullets +30% Armor Penetration UNIQUE Passive - Dodge Piercing: Tower attacks cannot be dodged. UNIQUE Passive - Warming Up: Towers gain 25% damage each time they strike a champion. (Max 75% bonus damage) UNIQUE Passive - Heated Up: After the tower is fully heated, consecutive attacks against the same champion deal 25% additional damage. (Max 50% bonus damage) Crystal Mark UNIQUE Passive - Crystal Residue:Tower blasts mark the target, causing the next champion spell or attack to deal magic damage equal to 5% of the target's missing health. Reinforced Armor +60 Armor +100 Magic Resist UNIQUE Passive - Backdoor Plating: Gains 150 Armor and 150 Magic Resist when no enemy minions are nearby. Warden's Eye +1000 Vision Radius UNIQUE Passive - Magical Sight: Can see invisible units. Transmutation Stone +100 Gold Capacity UNIQUE Passive - Transmutation: Tower blasts that. kill a minion charge the tower, upon reaching 100 gold. The next tower attack will create a sack of gold which can be picked up by any champion.

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What are your thoughts?

 

[Malhorne]

I think it can create a bit more fun and put the turrets in the higher considered place.

Anyway i'm glad there is such a section there since i'm playing for 2 years !

 

[Direfury]

These are simply changes that allow you to see what kind of abilities the tower already had.

Aside from that stack of gold thing, though. That might be new.

 

[matchet]

I think its better just using buff indicators instead of items. The idea of buildings having items which gives them additional abilities dont look good.
Also, there are buffs which are temporary (like early extra armor recently added against permapush strategies), and having a timer indicator like your own skills for their remaining time looks more realistic IMO

 

[Malhorne]

Anyway the crystal mark will slow a bit the poke compos that are a bit too stronk now.

 

[Deolrin]

A Riot poster already confirmed that these are merely for visual effects. The "Crystal Mark" and "Transmutation Stone" items are apparently "red herrings" for data-miners, in an attempt to tell the community that they should wait until things are properly implemented instead of making silly guesses.

Source: http://www.surrenderat20.net/2013/08/822-pbe-update.html

Also, old news.

 

[Doomguy80]

I checked this on my PBE account. it is confirmed unless they change their mind.

 

[Golden-Drake]

it would be better if they just added buffs like "matchet" said.
BUT i would strongly advice against this the way it is done at the mooment. if towers needs a boost in some sort at certain times why not make a way to give then a temporarely buff like red/blue/baron buffs.

Like if you have all high creeps (the strong Wolf/golem/wraith) down, towers would have a buff that would last for a certain ammount of time with a diffenrent power, based on what camp is down (like if the strong wraith were killed the killers teams, towers would have a stacking (if a team could kill bouth sides within the duration) 10% bonus damage, or if golems were taken they would have a 10 health regeneration over 5 seconds for some time, or wolfs could grand 15% armor prenetration.

This would make jungle invation more tempting and warding your own jungle way more important. also if you have the better game you would have an easier chance of keeping it or the lower game invading the enemy jungle could save your tower for a little while. also the jungler will have to keep his jungle down most of the time to also help his team if ganking is a problem for him.

this system i have pointed out here could make some interesting game changes but it all up to them, having towers with some sort of boost would be nice but items seems to be hard to balance enouth to be eather over powered or just another tool for when you have full build.

 

[Doomguy80]

You misunderstand. The items don't give the turrets abilities they just explain what the turrets have done since the start.

 

[Golden-Drake]

ohh my bad i guess xD
but even so i think i had a great idea xD

 

[Doomguy80]

That is exactly what I was thinking when I read your post. That would be very cool!