I believe it was implied in the book that the cause of the ruination was not the inability of the blade to take viego's soul but the fact that while the sword was claiming his soul he was getting healed and resurrected by the healing water infused with a world-rune(?) and the whole process caused a short circuit that destroyed everything.
That's correct. But it was also stated in the book that the world-rune was damaged even before that. (As implied by Ryze seeing Ghosts when he .... 'book spoiler'). So it already corrupted stuff beforehand.
@@KirblOwO I tought that the wraiths in the hall before the ruination were not caused by corruption or breaking of the world rune but its normal effect on trying to heal the dead people, but yeah it wasnt really explained and i honestly liked it that way.
Only one thing I want from this MMO.. to continue using the same art style they used so far on LoR, League, Wildrift and project F and L. It looks so damn cool, everything is so lively, beautifully colored. Nothing less, nothing more.
@@Truvidien I think it's actually going with UE5, since it's the most recent engine and it's not actually heavy for low spec devices. And also there's ways to port anything done in UE4 to UE5, so there's no real reason to pick UE4 over UE5
Necrit is honestly advertising the Riot MMO so well, when we've all had so little to know about it. I really hope they show some appreciation for him in his early-days of the MMO-support in some way!
Riot loves Necrit, to the point of naming a semi-important character that appeared in both the Ruined King game and the Ruination novel after him. Even if he's not acknowledged in the MMO, Riot really values Necrit for all he's done for the community
not really, he is advertising something that wont show up till like 2026. by that time, all the hype he is milking his content from would have been gone
@@nasrclips2757 from those videos sure but u dont think he will make more videos about the game as new confirmed info get released. Ppl were hyped for No Man Sky from the day they said they were making it and that was years away from there planned release
Kindred's masks would be such an incredible cosmetic item that could work by itself but also couples would love to wear together, I don't see how Riot couldn't let us get it (even is its just a wooden replica).
I find it interesting that the most iconic item in the entirety of League of Legends, The Blade of The Ruined King, is probably not gonna be loot. I would love it tho
i think part of what makes the botrk iconic and interesting is that it is unique. If everyone was able to obtain it, it would most likely loose a lot of its charm. I think the same thing could be said for WoWs Frostmourne wielded by Arthas, aka, the lich king. it wouldn't be the same if you saw it everywhere.
Imagine an absokute massive event with hundreds of thousands players and being the one to last hit Morde to get the one in existence loot Nightfall only to being consumed by the weapon and loose all your account progress bc you couldn't handle the weapon and died lol
26:43 While I ultimately agree that getting Orlon's hammer would be too much, Riot could justify letting us wield the hammer for a couple of missions. Poppy has passed on the hammer to those she deems worth to see if they are The Hero. So a questline could have us meet Poppy, she could judge our character as very heroic, lend us the hammer and go on a few missions with us, before ultimately telling us she doesn't believe we are who the hammer was meant for and then we would give it back. That would also help the game have an overall theme that every character isn't actually "the chosen one" or something along those lines so there isn't a million plus "chosen ones" running around.
I think an awesome idea about Poppy could be when you get to a certain level or perhaps do some heroic feats like multiple dungeons or even raids you would get a quest. A quest from Poppy to test you if you are worthy of wielding the hammer. Ofcourse people who play league know the outcome but newcomers could learn about Poppy without reading her lore but rather experience it in the game. By the way you need to work at Riot with these concepts!
Such a great idea ^_^ When the game is truly up and runing I would love a 'non-canon' battle arena where you could fight Champions that dont fit as Raid and Dungeon Bosses. Like Poppy, Veigar, Heimerdinger, Any of the Leader Champions and good champions
It would be funny if the quest becomes gradually more impossible to do, and poppy just completes it for you, that would suck for people that don't know what her character is >:)
Great video as usual. Video idea: Introduction to all champions in league. Like for me Ryze is just blue guy with runes, but i bet he is someone important for some reason, so quick summary of a champion into a sentence or two would be really interesting for me.
@@thatchedrooves1204 I think the story still works. Especially in light of the ruination novel. Also, I think his relationship with Brand is really interesting
One thing to think about, we could get Poppy's hammer as an arc, being not amazing in the player's hands and Poppy getting to understand the she is indeed the hero
A “Prove your worth" quest where you'd fight Ornn in order for him to craft you a weapon, fitting for you, using the materials you've gathered would be awesome.
Mordekaiser's mace Nightfall drops even in his LoL death animation. It would be cool if the MMO reveals that there were multiple Nighfalls in the past, and the only thing that makes those special is the power of Mordekaiser himself flowing on the maces. Mordekaiser dying only making him throw the blame on the mace and leaving it behind to forge another one in the afterlife, hoping it to be better than the last one
In Guild Wars 2, one of the classes u can play is Revenant. Revenant basically borrow the power of 4 spirits, one of them being a demon. When idle, the spirit u have currently active talks to u and u talk back, the demon obviously not being very fund of us. They could do something like that for the Darkin weapons
You've only shown Trifarian for Noxian warriors but in theory Noxus should have all sorts of cultures and kind of warfare in their army as they are a massive expansionist empire and incredibly egalitarian. So among all the many many MANY batallions, warbands, raiding parties, clans and who knows what else comprises the Noxian military we *could* see just about anything. Though that isn't really helpful for the idea what aesthetics to expect in the game I just love the idea so much. Would be cool for a book or something. Anyway great series! If you find anything more you could cover I'll gladly watch it
What would be cool is although there is only one legendary boss weapon per server, once someone gets it, they get to keep the weapon, and nobody can loot it until they die. And you can tell when someone has the true weapon because they'd have a special effect on them on certain hubs or during raids or pvp sections of the map. A good balance for it is that when somebody is inactive for a while and doesn't participate in raids or pvp for a certain amount, they lost it automatically.
Amazing video, I loved the series! Just wanted to complement that the dagger below the Duskblade is the Serrated Dirk and I would expect it to be in the MMO (thou not as an endgame weapon)
i think the one in the middle of the right column is the obsidian knife jg item from ultimate spellbook and the first two on the left column are emberknife and frostknife respectively
I can see a quest where Poppy lends us the hammer to fight in a boss-rush sort of event. When we die she just takes the hammer and says "Guess they weren't the hero after all"
I would love a cool PVP mode in the Riot MMO. Maybe something like a 5v5 arena with 3 lanes? (On a serious note it could be cool if they made something like a non-canon 'Boss Arena' where groups could go to fight the different champions of LoL that doesnt fit a normal raid or dungeon)
26:45 Correction! We will totally be getting the hammer! But...we just won't be keeping it. We'll likely find Poppy mid/late game, in her possible quest she'll think we're the rightful owner of the hammer (even if we are a mage/rogue, yeah sneaky hammer time!). Then we'll nearly die, actually die because it's an MMO, or we'll be forced to narratively fail an incompletable sub-quest because we can't use the hammer. Finally we'll either be saved by Poppy, or just later give it back/have it taken from us.
OMG, cant really believe, that so much awesome stuff can exist. 4 Videos and all 4 are amazing, so many arts, so much lore. I don`t wait for anything for many years... but I wait for this game to exist! Thank you for your videos, for great job done, please, keep going)
At this point i wont be shocked if u came up and said u made MMO for riot cuz its insane like the things u have done for this hats of to you necrit hats off
29:45 feels like this series of weapons will be like weapons in diablo, the unique poem enchant in the blades will be the buffs based on the player's luck, and there's also going to be a poem under each wuju weapons and showing it by using quotation marks.
there is actually a very good way to make us get Poppy's hammer : it would be a mission where she would lose her hammer and we would need to retrieve it and bring it back to her, so in the mean time we could use it temporarily to defeat waves of enemies
... Or struggling to kill some wolf or something, so Poppy has to come and save us taking the hammer and oneshoting the wolf (with dumb numbers like 999999) , or sending it flying Team Rocket style
Great final video! Loved it. Now, I need to hop over and catch the lore videos. Would love more shared background on all of the characters with your knowledge.
Looking at the LoR artworks and other concept arts and seeing them through MMO lenses, they do look like they'd make nice loading screen art or for slideshow cutscenes (idk what the proper term is). Hopefully the MMO comes soon enough that the game actually feels done and gives justice to the beautiful lore they've cooked up for the past years.
I can imagine the desert Shuriman armors having a similar aesthetic to Morrowind's Ashlanders. Lots of leather, chitin, and thick cloth with things like goggles and masks to keep out the sand.
I really hope Riot takes all the time in the world to making the MMO, this could infact be the second coming of WoW in he 2000s if not even far better. A true masterpiece that could all previous MMOs to date.
I have another idea for Darkin weapons-they c ould be cursed items, like they give you immense stat boosts and/or amazing effects, but they also come with a terrible debuff, and perhaps you can't unequip them unless you visit a healer/priest-type NPC. Edit: Also, I keep forgetting to mention: Sanctity/The Blade of the King really reminds me of The Ring of the Lucii in FFXV. Has the souls of the past kings, and chooses if you are worthy to weild it.
Pauldrons are key for Frontline infantry to protect the heart of the wearer. It adds a 2nd layer to protect from vertical cleaves and piercing attacks that can be 1 hit lethal. That's the reason fantasy tropes emphasis them so much
I know it would be a lot of work but I really like the idea of finding darkin weapons and if we equip it, it corrupts abilities visually and maybe changes animations. One thing I've wanted in WoW for a long time is optional spell recolours and seeing it implemented in Riot's MMO with a restriction that ties into it lore wise would be so cool. Hell make those sort of items legendary and you can only equip one but they change the look and feel of your class to suit the theme of the weapon
I really hope the MMO is gonna have a similar cosmetic system as wildstar. (All previous models you have ever worn can be showed instead of your actual gear, but you can also recolor them with paints you collect/buy)
I'm Surprised Necrit didn't talk about the items from League that much there's plenty of interesting Named examples like mythic and legendary items such as Infinity Edge or Immortal Shieldbow
And maybe add a “corruption” resource, where if it reaches a certain point, your character gets disabled for a while (Darkin taking over) and you just become a field boss or something for a while
You know, watching all the shadow isle sets got me thinking. They could totally make the shadow isles into like a content event, "the harrowing" (although perhaps not easily manageable lore wise, with that name, its kind of a no brainer last resort), where around maybe each october (y'know, halloween and everything), they would allow players to venture into the shadow isles, perhaps a new part of the isles each year, to fight off horde type events and gain new armour sets. It would make both a great event, and a great chance to get yearly "limited time" armours and cosmetics without having to resort to premium currency shops...much.
Thinking back on the darkin, you could have a darkin host class like kayn, balancing both the darkin and hosts powers like a stance user but with self damage
In relation to weapons and Ornn. It would be cool to have an endgame questline that will lead to the player receiving their class weapon crafted by Ornn.
I was thinking they could have two separate drops for item stats and transmog. You would automatically have basic armor visuals which you can turn on and off and just have stats in the background. Armor like a armor icon that gives you stats. And you can just choose the one you want in stat tab. And a transmog item that gives you apearance which you can adjust in your visual tab.
One thing Riot could do with the Darkin weapons, is that they would give you buff in X stats or an X passive/ability. BUT they would also give you a noticable debuff, like constant dot, reduced resistances or something like that.
I wonder how cool it would be for the augments to be a permanent decision. Once you choose to get a bit of you augmented, you can only change augments and not wear another kind of armour.
Piltover seems like the place you'd go to customize your armor with various skins. What if the Ruined King is a world boss that reappears one week after he's defeated. He will drop the bork (which will be a unique weapon, with only one in existence) but as soon as Viago reappears he summons the sword back to himself and the player who has it loses it. Players could also build a replica out of drops from the raid. Obviously Players have to be able to craft items like the infinity edge or phantom dancer. And of course thorn mails and sunfire capes as well.
8:10 Demacian Swords are so cool. I mean, they would be a pain to use, most of them are way fucking uncomfortable, and if I would go fighting with a sword I would prefer to have a crossguard to protect my hands a little bit. But they are so cool.
All earnt Visuals have to be better than bought visuals. E.g. If a Halloween event comes up, a few spooky skins that can be bought instantly, like a spider costume for your pet wolf, would be cool. However, the awesome glow in the dark skeleton outfit would be earnt through completing the grave digger questline etc.
Would be nice to see a raid mechanic that if you defeat one of raid bosses with those soul bound weapons, you get controlled by them and be the raid boss him self for the next moment until you get defeated again and you get some realy nice rewards the longer you stand your ground as the raidboss with your army (maybe your guild members controlling your raid army then) or extra rewards (maybe a rare weapon chard that let you infuse your weapon with the raid boss weapon power) for defeating a raid party completely untill your body and soul gets eaten up entirel and your time as the raidboss ends after x amount of time. That would be such a awesome game mechanic, melting raid mechanic with pvp.
I was just on my way to leave a "make another video about the riot mmo" on your latest video. I'm 11 days late for this one, but still, i'm glad people still give in to the pressure.
Well i guess unlike irl gold it works differently like it's not just very hard but it also very tough.. or magic being in it solve the non-tough very easily bend problem.
Thanks for making these videos. I can tell you put a lot of work into them. I've enjoyed a lot of Riot's content and lore so much that any co-operative game that they make will be an instant purchase for me. So your videos have given me a lot of hope for Riot to make this game. I'm getting older, so hopefully sooner than later.
lore wise I would like our character to early on find a weapon created by doran and being able to have it forged into different skins / upgrades. then you could go back to your home town to a blacksmith to upgrade your gear, or go to a different blacksmith in a different place for different looking gear.
They should still have a side quest or multiple side quests if you can get ally’s, where poppy has you or your ally’s try using the hammer and failing and if you have everyone try you could get her to believe in herself
IMO, fighting over loot with others I feel is an outdated concept. Allowing people to get their own loot I feel doesn't hurt a game. But also I mainly play Guild Wars 2 and Destiny 2, both MMOs that give people their own Loot. I honestly hope the Riot MMO does not have people fighting over loot, but it isn't a deal breaker for me if it is, just would make things more annoying, obviously.
unfortunately it feels like a strategy to get people to play for longer, sometimes forcing them to sub for longer than one month to do the new content before they drop until next major update
30:40 Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't his jaw the crown of Jarvan the first? All sources I could find pointed to it being the crown of Jarvan the first.
I would love a raid like encounter of ornns vault where were quested by say Noxious to get a new weapon for Darius, and we have to try and make are way further in to the vault to steal better and better weapons. Almost floor base and jts a challenge mode type, where the entire point is simply seeing how far you can get, and the final reward is something like URF's Spatula as a cosmetic weapon.
Agreed !! I like League being competitive. But even as a competitive player, there aren't big updates/ change. I want to see summoners rift change, have new objectives, new runes, new mechanics, new visuals, new strats keeping their formula. For example when they brought the alcoves it was something, it was small but at least it brought new interactions in the game.
it would be so cool to see ornn be used like a normal blacksmith but for something like ancient or legendary weapons to grade em up like the system in dark souls where u could give every weapon the +5 stats
When it comes to darkin weapons I think a possible way a player could wield a darkin weapon would be if a player could choose to go through some process of mental and physical strenghthening that would make him able to wield the weapon without letting the darkin take control. Maybe have it be something like a constant replenishing of items or skills to prevent a darkin from taking control, and if the player fails to replenish all of it the darkin takes control and the player fails the game. Now, I think the weapon would have to be made worth all the hassle around it. Making it really strong and OP while in the same time being really hard and skill-demanding to prevent the darkin from taking over.
Another way we can go about the darkin weapons is that once you complete the quest for them you can unlock a darkin class that uses blood magic (sacrificing hp to do damage)
not sure if they should, but I think it would be neat if they made certain items one copy only... There can only be one guy with trundle's ice club or something, and it returns to the loot table if that player has been inactive for too long... although this is probably already a thing somewhere
in lineage 2 there was a thing called the demonic sword zariche, which dropped randomly in the world and when taken turned the player into a demon with pretty strong stats and something like pk penalty immunity for a while with the downside of being called out via announcement and the posibility of being huntes down by other players looking for the sword and the town's guards... it could be a way to get your hands on a darkin, like some kind of random world event where you just get a darkin weapon and it takes control over your body for a while until you get released by dying or being hunted down/cleansed by other players or idk 🤔
I'm surprised Necrit didn't mention Urf's Spatula....there's no way we wouldnt get that weapon in some way shape or form
Pvp weapon skin
Urf raid , like pink bean from maplestory
that and alistar cowbell, that would be great
April fools item prob
It was from Demacia....... surprisingly but hey thats not canon as LoR is one big what if
I believe it was implied in the book that the cause of the ruination was not the inability of the blade to take viego's soul but the fact that while the sword was claiming his soul he was getting healed and resurrected by the healing water infused with a world-rune(?) and the whole process caused a short circuit that destroyed everything.
Theres a world rune in the blessed isles?
@@FlutterSwag no one knows. But it has to be some very strong magic if it can heal almost everything.
That's correct. But it was also stated in the book that the world-rune was damaged even before that. (As implied by Ryze seeing Ghosts when he .... 'book spoiler'). So it already corrupted stuff beforehand.
@@KirblOwO I tought that the wraiths in the hall before the ruination were not caused by corruption or breaking of the world rune but its normal effect on trying to heal the dead people, but yeah it wasnt really explained and i honestly liked it that way.
lmfao magical integer overflow
Only one thing I want from this MMO.. to continue using the same art style they used so far on LoR, League, Wildrift and project F and L. It looks so damn cool, everything is so lively, beautifully colored. Nothing less, nothing more.
HEAVY Agree. Not only would it look amazing on release this way, but I believe it would help for the MMO to stand the test of time like WoW.
@@Noxus909 it also makes it accessible for people with lower spec devices since is not photorealistic and keeps visual clarity.
I think it's going with Unreal Engine 4 so I hope it ages well.
@@Truvidien I think it's actually going with UE5, since it's the most recent engine and it's not actually heavy for low spec devices. And also there's ways to port anything done in UE4 to UE5, so there's no real reason to pick UE4 over UE5
@@Arkovic It depends on if you go by job postings. Unreal Engine 4 was mentioned quite a bit in most of the job requirements.
Necrit is honestly advertising the Riot MMO so well, when we've all had so little to know about it.
I really hope they show some appreciation for him in his early-days of the MMO-support in some way!
Riot loves Necrit, to the point of naming a semi-important character that appeared in both the Ruined King game and the Ruination novel after him. Even if he's not acknowledged in the MMO, Riot really values Necrit for all he's done for the community
Yea. Like they made him the main Lore NPC in one of their games... oh wait!
They already did
Riot loves Necrit no doubt about that. 1 of the devs have confirmed that hes lore videos are being passed around among the mmo devs.
not really, he is advertising something that wont show up till like 2026. by that time, all the hype he is milking his content from would have been gone
@@nasrclips2757 from those videos sure but u dont think he will make more videos about the game as new confirmed info get released. Ppl were hyped for No Man Sky from the day they said they were making it and that was years away from there planned release
Kindred's masks would be such an incredible cosmetic item that could work by itself but also couples would love to wear together, I don't see how Riot couldn't let us get it (even is its just a wooden replica).
the mask from wolf and lamb as wedding item, (together until death)
You'd probably get it on Ionia, as a cosmetic item
@@littlecat1727 Piltover does have mask of them, if we remember Arcane.
@@mikhaelgribkov4117 true. But each culture sees them differently. So we could have a unique version of the masks from each continent/nation
@@natanoj16 steampunk Kindred mask sounds fun.
I find it interesting that the most iconic item in the entirety of League of Legends, The Blade of The Ruined King, is probably not gonna be loot. I would love it tho
i think part of what makes the botrk iconic and interesting is that it is unique. If everyone was able to obtain it, it would most likely loose a lot of its charm. I think the same thing could be said for WoWs Frostmourne wielded by Arthas, aka, the lich king. it wouldn't be the same if you saw it everywhere.
I think of it like Ashbringer from World of Warcraft. Once it was available to the player, it lost all of its notoriety.
@@tylert7902 Definitly. Which is why it was good to not let the DK players get Frostmourne. Lich King would have become a meme.
@@dyingstar3899 technically as of legion they do get frostMourne. Kind of
Lore wise it can't be unfortunately.
it'd be so cool to beat Morde and see someone get Nightfall
I wonder if anyone could even wield it 😂
@@SilvaRings imagine an attunement quest
Imagine an absokute massive event with hundreds of thousands players and being the one to last hit Morde to get the one in existence loot Nightfall only to being consumed by the weapon and loose all your account progress bc you couldn't handle the weapon and died lol
@@Kidwaizer okay...
@@Kidwaizer morde cant ever really die so maybe you can keep nightfall for 1 month before it respawns with morde for another raid
26:43 While I ultimately agree that getting Orlon's hammer would be too much, Riot could justify letting us wield the hammer for a couple of missions. Poppy has passed on the hammer to those she deems worth to see if they are The Hero. So a questline could have us meet Poppy, she could judge our character as very heroic, lend us the hammer and go on a few missions with us, before ultimately telling us she doesn't believe we are who the hammer was meant for and then we would give it back. That would also help the game have an overall theme that every character isn't actually "the chosen one" or something along those lines so there isn't a million plus "chosen ones" running around.
I think an awesome idea about Poppy could be when you get to a certain level or perhaps do some heroic feats like multiple dungeons or even raids you would get a quest. A quest from Poppy to test you if you are worthy of wielding the hammer. Ofcourse people who play league know the outcome but newcomers could learn about Poppy without reading her lore but rather experience it in the game. By the way you need to work at Riot with these concepts!
Besides, Poppy needs stuff to do, because somehow whole "mage revolution" didn't touch her at all.
Such a great idea ^_^
When the game is truly up and runing I would love a 'non-canon' battle arena where you could fight Champions that dont fit as Raid and Dungeon Bosses.
Like Poppy, Veigar, Heimerdinger, Any of the Leader Champions and good champions
It would be funny if the quest becomes gradually more impossible to do, and poppy just completes it for you, that would suck for people that don't know what her character is >:)
@@mikhaelgribkov4117 and when they abandoned her during the ruination event...
we NEED more mmo videos whenever possible. I love this hype
yea....what is sanity anyways right...?
Ya dude I love getting hyped up!
I refuse to be Hyped! *He lied*
Great video as usual. Video idea: Introduction to all champions in league. Like for me Ryze is just blue guy with runes, but i bet he is someone important for some reason, so quick summary of a champion into a sentence or two would be really interesting for me.
Tbh if there's a protagonist of the world of Runeterra, it's probably Ryze. Dude is super important.
There's already one.
It's like 4 hears old tho
ryze is looking for leagues infinity stones and making sure no one gets there hands on them, but its kind of an outdated story
@@thatchedrooves1204 I think the story still works. Especially in light of the ruination novel.
Also, I think his relationship with Brand is really interesting
YES PLEASE
One thing to think about, we could get Poppy's hammer as an arc, being not amazing in the player's hands and Poppy getting to understand the she is indeed the hero
I’d love for replicas of Poppy’s hammer to be obtainable, she’s bound to have a few copycats after being a hero in Demacia for so long.
Hmm maybe something like flashback questlines where you get to play the story of some of the Champions but AS THE CHAMPION?!
@@natanoj16 yoooo, I want that!
A “Prove your worth" quest where you'd fight Ornn in order for him to craft you a weapon, fitting for you, using the materials you've gathered would be awesome.
even without directly fight him, rather endure the heat
ok i know you said this is the last one but i really love when you loredump about possible mmo theories... it's really fun to watch!
I think having a darkin weapon that grows with you and slowly transforms you into a full darkin would be really cool
Drain tank class just dropped
Would be a great idea for an Expansion. Maybe even something like a prestige Class ^_^
He has said this multiple Times. You cannot be a darkin. You would be too overpowered.
If that happened, you would either be:
Overpowered
Or die and get possessed as soon as you wielded the weapon
So no, its not a good idea.
I think, they can became the cultist like buhru cultist got waepon from varus
You forgot Serrated Dirk as a named item. Pyke had that in the Ruination game and in your picture it's right under Duskblade.
You should give Riot more credit.
I’m sure they’ll make the Noxian suicide bomber a great class to main
Imagine full durability tank that runs at you with bombs that he takes no damage from😲
Mordekaiser's mace Nightfall drops even in his LoL death animation. It would be cool if the MMO reveals that there were multiple Nighfalls in the past, and the only thing that makes those special is the power of Mordekaiser himself flowing on the maces. Mordekaiser dying only making him throw the blame on the mace and leaving it behind to forge another one in the afterlife, hoping it to be better than the last one
In Guild Wars 2, one of the classes u can play is Revenant. Revenant basically borrow the power of 4 spirits, one of them being a demon. When idle, the spirit u have currently active talks to u and u talk back, the demon obviously not being very fund of us. They could do something like that for the Darkin weapons
I'd love to see a quest where poppy tests you to see if you're worthy of the hammer and you get to use it but it goes horribly wrong.
You've only shown Trifarian for Noxian warriors but in theory Noxus should have all sorts of cultures and kind of warfare in their army as they are a massive expansionist empire and incredibly egalitarian.
So among all the many many MANY batallions, warbands, raiding parties, clans and who knows what else comprises the Noxian military we *could* see just about anything. Though that isn't really helpful for the idea what aesthetics to expect in the game I just love the idea so much. Would be cool for a book or something.
Anyway great series! If you find anything more you could cover I'll gladly watch it
What would be cool is although there is only one legendary boss weapon per server, once someone gets it, they get to keep the weapon, and nobody can loot it until they die. And you can tell when someone has the true weapon because they'd have a special effect on them on certain hubs or during raids or pvp sections of the map.
A good balance for it is that when somebody is inactive for a while and doesn't participate in raids or pvp for a certain amount, they lost it automatically.
one thing id LOVE to see is what kind of armor Riven used to wear, now she only has one of the shoulder pads but what did the full set look like??
Amazing video, I loved the series! Just wanted to complement that the dagger below the Duskblade is the Serrated Dirk and I would expect it to be in the MMO (thou not as an endgame weapon)
i think the one in the middle of the right column is the obsidian knife jg item from ultimate spellbook and the first two on the left column are emberknife and frostknife respectively
33:51 the dagger immediately below the Duskblade makes me think of the serrated dirks that build into the lethality items in league
It actually is called serated dirk in game but its hard to find so im not suprised necrit didn't know
@@2gud4u2 I never found it either so I didn't know if it actually was, Thank you for confirming!
I can see a quest where Poppy lends us the hammer to fight in a boss-rush sort of event. When we die she just takes the hammer and says "Guess they weren't the hero after all"
I would love a cool PVP mode in the Riot MMO.
Maybe something like a 5v5 arena with 3 lanes?
(On a serious note it could be cool if they made something like a non-canon 'Boss Arena' where groups could go to fight the different champions of LoL that doesnt fit a normal raid or dungeon)
26:45 Correction! We will totally be getting the hammer!
But...we just won't be keeping it.
We'll likely find Poppy mid/late game, in her possible quest she'll think we're the rightful owner of the hammer (even if we are a mage/rogue, yeah sneaky hammer time!). Then we'll nearly die, actually die because it's an MMO, or we'll be forced to narratively fail an incompletable sub-quest because we can't use the hammer. Finally we'll either be saved by Poppy, or just later give it back/have it taken from us.
I cant wait for a couple years from now when the MMO comes out and everything Necrit has said comes true
I believe that, even if its not permanent, Poppy will give us her hammer at some point.
I can totally see the hammer of Orlon being a temporary quest item. after all, Poppy is pretty eager to put the weapon in other people's hands
OMG, cant really believe, that so much awesome stuff can exist. 4 Videos and all 4 are amazing, so many arts, so much lore. I don`t wait for anything for many years... but I wait for this game to exist! Thank you for your videos, for great job done, please, keep going)
At this point i wont be shocked if u came up and said u made MMO for riot cuz its insane like the things u have done for this hats of to you necrit hats off
29:45 feels like this series of weapons will be like weapons in diablo, the unique poem enchant in the blades will be the buffs based on the player's luck, and there's also going to be a poem under each wuju weapons and showing it by using quotation marks.
there is actually a very good way to make us get Poppy's hammer : it would be a mission where she would lose her hammer and we would need to retrieve it and bring it back to her, so in the mean time we could use it temporarily to defeat waves of enemies
... Or struggling to kill some wolf or something, so Poppy has to come and save us taking the hammer and oneshoting the wolf (with dumb numbers like 999999) , or sending it flying Team Rocket style
Great final video! Loved it. Now, I need to hop over and catch the lore videos. Would love more shared background on all of the characters with your knowledge.
Looking at the LoR artworks and other concept arts and seeing them through MMO lenses, they do look like they'd make nice loading screen art or for slideshow cutscenes (idk what the proper term is). Hopefully the MMO comes soon enough that the game actually feels done and gives justice to the beautiful lore they've cooked up for the past years.
28:25 Did you just mention [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?
I can imagine the desert Shuriman armors having a similar aesthetic to Morrowind's Ashlanders. Lots of leather, chitin, and thick cloth with things like goggles and masks to keep out the sand.
One of my favorite games back then
The best thing is that the darlin that necrit was so excited about ended up being named baalkux
I really hope Riot takes all the time in the world to making the MMO, this could infact be the second coming of WoW in he 2000s if not even far better. A true masterpiece that could all previous MMOs to date.
I have another idea for Darkin weapons-they c ould be cursed items, like they give you immense stat boosts and/or amazing effects, but they also come with a terrible debuff, and perhaps you can't unequip them unless you visit a healer/priest-type NPC.
Edit: Also, I keep forgetting to mention: Sanctity/The Blade of the King really reminds me of The Ring of the Lucii in FFXV. Has the souls of the past kings, and chooses if you are worthy to weild it.
Did you not mention the incredibly likely legendary sword we're almost certainly going to get called Infinity Edge?
Pauldrons are key for Frontline infantry to protect the heart of the wearer. It adds a 2nd layer to protect from vertical cleaves and piercing attacks that can be 1 hit lethal. That's the reason fantasy tropes emphasis them so much
I really hope the armor is heavily designed for both class fantasy and race fantasy in terms of design themes.
I know it would be a lot of work but I really like the idea of finding darkin weapons and if we equip it, it corrupts abilities visually and maybe changes animations. One thing I've wanted in WoW for a long time is optional spell recolours and seeing it implemented in Riot's MMO with a restriction that ties into it lore wise would be so cool. Hell make those sort of items legendary and you can only equip one but they change the look and feel of your class to suit the theme of the weapon
I really hope the MMO is gonna have a similar cosmetic system as wildstar. (All previous models you have ever worn can be showed instead of your actual gear, but you can also recolor them with paints you collect/buy)
I'm Surprised Necrit didn't talk about the items from League that much there's plenty of interesting Named examples like mythic and legendary items such as Infinity Edge or Immortal Shieldbow
The Darkin weapons should have an ability where you build up a bar and transform into the Darkin it's self but takes your HP over time. Fun gameplay
And maybe add a “corruption” resource, where if it reaches a certain point, your character gets disabled for a while (Darkin taking over) and you just become a field boss or something for a while
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Looking forward to your Riot MMO Questlines, Mounts, Cosmetics, Crafting Materials, Ammonition and Fishing Baits videos in the future.
I see the Necrit arc where he's battling his evil side, "The MMO Guy", has started
This video series is a lot of fun to watch actually I hope Riot give you some sneak peek for upcoming content
If Riot doesnt give Zaun and Piltover item progression choice to enhance yourself with cybernetics instead of normal equipment iam going on a riot
Going on a riot about Riot, seems right
You know, watching all the shadow isle sets got me thinking. They could totally make the shadow isles into like a content event, "the harrowing" (although perhaps not easily manageable lore wise, with that name, its kind of a no brainer last resort), where around maybe each october (y'know, halloween and everything), they would allow players to venture into the shadow isles, perhaps a new part of the isles each year, to fight off horde type events and gain new armour sets. It would make both a great event, and a great chance to get yearly "limited time" armours and cosmetics without having to resort to premium currency shops...much.
"Jarvan the fourth is not a bad guy"
Mages: Are we a joke to you?
J3 watching him burn his letter to free mages :
33:55 - you said there was only one named dagger on that list (duskblade) but I believe that is prowler's in the bottom middle.
Thinking back on the darkin, you could have a darkin host class like kayn, balancing both the darkin and hosts powers like a stance user but with self damage
Eh that would kinda devalue the Darkin.
In relation to weapons and Ornn. It would be cool to have an endgame questline that will lead to the player receiving their class weapon crafted by Ornn.
I was thinking they could have two separate drops for item stats and transmog. You would automatically have basic armor visuals which you can turn on and off and just have stats in the background.
Armor like a armor icon that gives you stats. And you can just choose the one you want in stat tab.
And a transmog item that gives you apearance which you can adjust in your visual tab.
the main reason why there is not much of metal in freljold is because steel become brittle when goes super cold
Amazing job on this video, your research is super extensive as usual and always appreciated.
One thing Riot could do with the Darkin weapons, is that they would give you buff in X stats or an X passive/ability. BUT they would also give you a noticable debuff, like constant dot, reduced resistances or something like that.
I wonder how cool it would be for the augments to be a permanent decision. Once you choose to get a bit of you augmented, you can only change augments and not wear another kind of armour.
That is a great idea, but waaaaay too many casuals would balk at them actually having to 'suffer' for the choices they make in a game haha.
Let them.
In cyberpunk what makes someone a criminal? Getting augmented.
Piltover seems like the place you'd go to customize your armor with various skins.
What if the Ruined King is a world boss that reappears one week after he's defeated. He will drop the bork (which will be a unique weapon, with only one in existence) but as soon as Viago reappears he summons the sword back to himself and the player who has it loses it. Players could also build a replica out of drops from the raid.
Obviously Players have to be able to craft items like the infinity edge or phantom dancer. And of course thorn mails and sunfire capes as well.
He could easily do a list or video on mounts
There are so many monsters and creatures in runeterra
That is a great idea by the way, Bro. 👍
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8:10 Demacian Swords are so cool. I mean, they would be a pain to use, most of them are way fucking uncomfortable, and if I would go fighting with a sword I would prefer to have a crossguard to protect my hands a little bit. But they are so cool.
riot be like: we have to hire this guy he knows way too well our world !!
14:50 the blademsters of ionia are known for their very high death numbers
Have a big like XD
All earnt Visuals have to be better than bought visuals. E.g. If a Halloween event comes up, a few spooky skins that can be bought instantly, like a spider costume for your pet wolf, would be cool. However, the awesome glow in the dark skeleton outfit would be earnt through completing the grave digger questline etc.
Would be nice to see a raid mechanic that if you defeat one of raid bosses with those soul bound weapons, you get controlled by them and be the raid boss him self for the next moment until you get defeated again and you get some realy nice rewards the longer you stand your ground as the raidboss with your army (maybe your guild members controlling your raid army then) or extra rewards (maybe a rare weapon chard that let you infuse your weapon with the raid boss weapon power) for defeating a raid party completely untill your body and soul gets eaten up entirel and your time as the raidboss ends after x amount of time. That would be such a awesome game mechanic, melting raid mechanic with pvp.
"Jarvan isn't an evil man." The greatest joke I could have heard.
He isn't evil, it's all Le Blanc doings. ;)
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I was just on my way to leave a "make another video about the riot mmo" on your latest video. I'm 11 days late for this one, but still, i'm glad people still give in to the pressure.
I'm the biggest fan of the League universe and i love your videos
At 33:55 where he's showing off daggers, he only mentioned Dusblade of Draktharr. Isn't the bottom middle dagger Prawler's Claw?
Okay, noted: Runeterra loves their golden armor GODDAMN
Well i guess unlike irl gold it works differently like it's not just very hard but it also very tough.. or magic being in it solve the non-tough very easily bend problem.
Thanks for making these videos. I can tell you put a lot of work into them. I've enjoyed a lot of Riot's content and lore so much that any co-operative game that they make will be an instant purchase for me. So your videos have given me a lot of hope for Riot to make this game. I'm getting older, so hopefully sooner than later.
lore wise I would like our character to early on find a weapon created by doran and being able to have it forged into different skins / upgrades.
then you could go back to your home town to a blacksmith to upgrade your gear, or go to a different blacksmith in a different place for different looking gear.
Me too 🤣
They should still have a side quest or multiple side quests if you can get ally’s, where poppy has you or your ally’s try using the hammer and failing and if you have everyone try you could get her to believe in herself
IMO, fighting over loot with others I feel is an outdated concept. Allowing people to get their own loot I feel doesn't hurt a game. But also I mainly play Guild Wars 2 and Destiny 2, both MMOs that give people their own Loot. I honestly hope the Riot MMO does not have people fighting over loot, but it isn't a deal breaker for me if it is, just would make things more annoying, obviously.
Ive always thouhht it was a dumb concept, but i get the exclusivity aspect
Theres a compromise in the middle somewhere but im not a dev. Lol
unfortunately it feels like a strategy to get people to play for longer, sometimes forcing them to sub for longer than one month to do the new content before they drop until next major update
relate to the intro so much, this has been living in my head rent free since they announced it
Another weapon that could be a legendary would be the axe that Kindred used to split themselves.
7:41 So close Necrit…
It’s a Custodes
33:50 The middle right dagger looks like a mini version of Maliketh's Black Blade (Elden Ring)
30:40 Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't his jaw the crown of Jarvan the first? All sources I could find pointed to it being the crown of Jarvan the first.
I would love a raid like encounter of ornns vault where were quested by say Noxious to get a new weapon for Darius, and we have to try and make are way further in to the vault to steal better and better weapons. Almost floor base and jts a challenge mode type, where the entire point is simply seeing how far you can get, and the final reward is something like URF's Spatula as a cosmetic weapon.
Agreed !!
I like League being competitive.
But even as a competitive player, there aren't big updates/ change.
I want to see summoners rift change, have new objectives, new runes, new mechanics, new visuals, new strats keeping their formula.
For example when they brought the alcoves it was something, it was small but at least it brought new interactions in the game.
it would be so cool to see ornn be used like a normal blacksmith but for something like ancient or legendary weapons to grade em up like the system in dark souls where u could give every weapon the +5 stats
When it comes to darkin weapons I think a possible way a player could wield a darkin weapon would be if a player could choose to go through some process of mental and physical strenghthening that would make him able to wield the weapon without letting the darkin take control.
Maybe have it be something like a constant replenishing of items or skills to prevent a darkin from taking control, and if the player fails to replenish all of it the darkin takes control and the player fails the game. Now, I think the weapon would have to be made worth all the hassle around it. Making it really strong and OP while in the same time being really hard and skill-demanding to prevent the darkin from taking over.
Riot is feverously taking notes rn, you're giving so much to work with!
33:57 you mentioned duskblade, but forgot serrated dirk right underneath it
I hope riot is paying you well for the huge amount of information you provide. Each video of yours is getting me hyped more and more for the MMO
Another way we can go about the darkin weapons is that once you complete the quest for them you can unlock a darkin class that uses blood magic (sacrificing hp to do damage)
7:18 "Jarvan is not an evil man" Well... that's debatable, but I agree, it would be weird to just loot his armor.
33:53 2 row 2 column. This dager look almost like Kai from kung-fu panda 3. Cool
You already know everyones gonna be rocking noxian and shadow isles armor
33:47 Pyke also has the Serrated Dirk (just below Draktar)
When he said thats it with mmo videos for a while brought a tear
not sure if they should, but I think it would be neat if they made certain items one copy only... There can only be one guy with trundle's ice club or something, and it returns to the loot table if that player has been inactive for too long... although this is probably already a thing somewhere
in lineage 2 there was a thing called the demonic sword zariche, which dropped randomly in the world and when taken turned the player into a demon with pretty strong stats and something like pk penalty immunity for a while with the downside of being called out via announcement and the posibility of being huntes down by other players looking for the sword and the town's guards... it could be a way to get your hands on a darkin, like some kind of random world event where you just get a darkin weapon and it takes control over your body for a while until you get released by dying or being hunted down/cleansed by other players or idk 🤔
At 33:51 you forgot about the serated dirk right below the dusk blade of drakthar