Can I hear your thoughts on the state of jungle, since I'm seeing a lot of backlash after 8.10 came out

I won’t comment too much on 8.10 directly, as we’re very early and I’m not overly involved in monitoring those changes right now. I will say that it’s rather expected that junglers will not enjoy changes that did target reducing their early influence on lanes. We’re asking players to relearn timings and strategies that feed directly into their window of greatest power. Delaying that window, changing the power dynamics, and requiring players to experiment and learn new things are all painful for a lot of players.

I can say that we did anticipate this. No one working on these changes was new to changing the jungle, or did these changes without quite a bit of testing. Sometimes, we have to fix large enough problems that we have to be comfortable with these sorts of costs. I would ask,to anyone unhappy about these changes, be constructive. We want to understand the impacts more than anyone, and despite all our internal testing, we can never compete with the information we get in our first day of live, not to mention the actual patch week. We’re scrambling to take in as much as we can, to read player reactions wherever we can find them, because we want to make this game as good as we can make it. The personal attacks can be really draining, the circle jerking uninformative, and the down voting points of disagreement just means that we get even less value from some communities where we’d really like to engage.

I know this is mostly shouting into the void, but better than being quiet, I guess.

