League of Legends: Spectator mode; new masteries

As a lot of you will either know or not know LoL (league of legends) have gone through their "season start" update they do every year where they either revamp old features that are not working correctly and add new features last year they re-vamped summoner profiles and introduced Ranked play. This year they revamped summoner spells and masteries and added spectator mode by summoner revamp they edited duration and effects of lots of spells plus re-adding promote removing rally and replacing it with serge.

Summoner Spells all new pictures and two new spells currently selected Surge

Also if you do not want to hear my opinions about this LoL's website has these lovly post about basic mechanic's and changes:
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/how-spectate-custom-game
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/inside-design-summoner-spells-and-season-two
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/inside-design-masteries-season-two

I do not believe these give justice to the changes and are hard to stay interested in while reading as they are mostly a wall of text that would make next to no sense to people who have not been playing a long time.

New Masteries

The above picture shows the three reworked skill tree yes they look a lot like WoW skill trees go figure anyway basic knowledge red is offence blue is defence(used to be yellow) and green is utility(used to be blue). To put these into rpg terms red means dps unit either by spells or by basic damage, blue is tank or durability unit, green means Support or assistance traits like improved exp gain or gold gain. Major changes from previous besides new colours is that red now offers more support to spellcasters and blue allows tanks to gain increased gold as well as huge improvement to defensive stats, green has a lot more diversity which gives user more choices like weather to improve exp gain or get bonus gold. In all tree that have removed indvidual improvements to summoner spells that required you to build your masteries to allow you to improve them instead an each tree the summoner spells can be improve by the general skill that improve spells that fall into that category like red would be offensive summoner spells blue defensive etc.. With all skill trees the improved player choice so that your choices have more effect on the meta game (pre-game optimisation for best build for your character of choice) that then effect the in-game experience.

Spectator champion select

I do not know all the changes to Summoner spells but I do know they remove rally with Serge serge is a spell that is effective for both spell casters and basic damage users it helps both by improving attackspeed and ability power. Promote used to be in the game back in the beta days of LoL where you could promote any minion creep to help push a tower as a supercreep this got exploited and was removed from the game it was exploited by the entire team getting promote and 5 man pushing mid with a full creep wave of supercreeps that were almost unkillable at level 1 they then brought it back with the new game mode dominion. To stop this from happening they changed it so that the only siege units could be promoted and they only come in every third wave which stop the massing of super creeps at level one which effectively stops the exploit but will most probably be a rarely used skill.

Spectator lobby

The spectator mode in LoL has been long in the making like the clan system that has not been made yet we still wanted back from the beta days of LoL and now a beta version has come out 2 years later which lets face is ready for release but just needs a good opportunity to be released correctly most probably a tournament will be the best bet for release. I would most definitely love some extra customisation with this mode as not every game needs a three minuet delay before the spectators are allowed to join this should be left up to the host of the game's discretion as well as clearly stated in the lobby screen but that actual spectator mode is fantastic with lots of features. My favourite feature is when you double click on a hero it locks the camera on that target so that you can follow a player and look at various stats while doing so, next would be the amount to stats you can look at including in the champion selection screen you look at the player's summoner profiles while you wait for the timer to time down so you learn more about the people your about to watch. To give you a little hint of the amount of stuff that you can look up during the game you can check full current character stats items current gold and total collected gold as well as many more features that are based on the entire team not just one player. It would be nice if they had gold per minuet and experience per minuet but it is still beta they may have it in the works just not released yet.

Spectator reconnection screen

I hope you enjoyed my take on League of Legend's new spectator mode and revamped spells and masteries trees we do have a new tv so I will be reviewing Batman Arkham City challenge maps as well as Skyrim which I will be getting very soon until then peace.