Statcast relics Rework

New Statcast relics feel like a huge miss. We’re supposed to get excited and spend units on relics that add 1% armor or block penetration? If all they do is stat boosts the boost % has be be better. Current relics are hit or miss but the good ones are really useful for some champs and have fun interactions like bleed vulnerability or decreased energy resistance. Give us something we can actually notice in gameplay please.

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TheUglyone123

While I understand the bonus isn’t gigantic, or even big, if the bonuses were much bigger, the complaint would be that Kabam is currently having these relics locked behind a paywall, giving the spenders an even bigger advantage.

These new relics are not meant to be as complex and fine tuned for a specific champ like the venom or Juggs relic. They’re meant to just boost overall stats, which allows Kabam to get more relics out faster. And I have noticed a decent increase in my damage output with the prowler relic and the cap IW relics on my starky and red guardian to name a few.

Ercarret

Two things to keep in mind that maybe isn't immediately obvious right from the get-go:

The stats will increase as we start to level up the relics. You can't start with, say, +5% critical rating because you need somewhere to go as you rank up. I felt similarly towards the OG relics when they were first introduced, but as I ranked them up/got higher rarities (and ranked those up), I really started to see a difference.
The signature ability boosts all stats as well, but since most of us don't have any duped relics or at least not any high-sig relics, the effectiveness of the signature ability's boost is hard to gauge at the moment.

I ultimately see potential in them. It basically seems to be a way to give everyone a bit of extra stat focus, which seems neat.

Chobbly

I think from a starting power level the new Statcast relics are fine. Probably look again in a few months when most have us have got some ranked up (maybe not the 7*, lol).

altavista

Battlecasts were interesting because they granted abilities and interactions (new debuff, new buff, etc). Statcast on the otherhand is totally a nothingburger for me since its just a "number goes up" type change (I don't focus at all on the "big red numbers", crit rate, block profiency, etc).

Statcast is essentially just a Striker + instead of needing to use a 1 hour boost to get increased attack/health, now you instead have the privilege of grinding relic rank up materials and RNG to actually get a Statcast relic.

It feels like things that should inherently be included with a champion (isn't that why "Stat Focus" exists for 7-stars. They could have just updated the Stat Focus categories) and just monetizing it so now it costs extra. Yay for rust-proof undercoating!

I understand why Battlecasts were hard to make, and why Statcasts are an easy solution. But it just seems like the most uninteresting solution to me.

GroundedWisdom

This has been explained. They're designed the way they are so that they can release more, faster. I would also argue they make a large difference in some cases. Always room for improvement, but they're just released. I don't think it's time to look at reworking them.

TotemCorruption

Nah, simpler is better.

And we still get to keep our old relics, which is cool.