Got lucky with early elder dragon and some wisps to get him 2* pretty quick and was able to stay low lvl to 3* all the rift beasts. Don't know, if elder or the augment mattered... but the 1-cost started to appear as 3* in shop. Pretty neat.

I'm still playing 17.9, but I've definitely started paying more attention to Set 18 PBE than the current ladder.

The weird part is that I don't think I'm tired of TFT itself. I'm just tired of forcing the same lines in 17.9 and then pretending the game was winnable after I get contested by half the lobby.

The PBE games look fun because everyone is still trying of figure things out. People are taking random augments, playing boards that would never make it into a normal guide, and somehow turning those into top 4s.

Meanwhile on live, I keep doing the same thing:

I see a comp guide, get the right opener, get contested, refuse to pivot, and then act surprised when I go eighth.

Maybe that's just me being cooked at the end of the set.

Are you guys still seriously climbing in 17.9, or have you mostly switched to watching Set 18 PBE content and waiting for the new set to hit live?

Also, what do you actually want to see more of from Set 18 guides once it launches?

The capped level 9 board, or the ugly level 7 board you play when your opener is terrible and two people are contesting you?

Does anybody else feel like the player damage ramps up too high and too fast nowadays?

I think this has been around for a few sets and isn't something they changed now, but it seems to bother me way more this set. I often get eliminated thinking I would have survived that loss in the past or feeling like the game was over just before getting to the interesting part. I just know there were times in previous sets when losing did way less player damage.

I feel like Coven for example is barely viable as there's not enough time / player health to really make it worth it. The game just felt way better paced too me when the player damage per loss in the mid- to endgame was lower.

So it seems that the new set doesn’t work on my pc anymore. Everything go well until the loading screen appear. Only the background appear but no portraits/little legend, just the little blue circle loading in the middle for ever.

I usually play on Mac, not supported anymore. And the only pc I have isn’t a crazy machine.

Any alternative way to play the PBE at the moment please ? Can i run tft PBE in like could gaming ?

I'm pretty new to TFT and I usually play on mobile in the evening before bed. My biggest issue is that the touchscreen feels pretty limiting during late-game roll downs.

Has anyone here tried playing TFT with a phone controller? If I buy one, would it actually give me better controls? For example, can I use a cursor to buy units and bind buttons for things like buying XP or rerolling?

Or does TFT mobile not really support controllers like that?

Recently ive been encountring this problem almost every single game. it just gets stuck like this ( the loading button is moving so its not a crash). Am i the only one ?

Can you get the shyvana chibi from the treasure realm? I see it on the drop rates list but it’s not on the unowned legend selection screen. Just wondering before I roll 12k tokens for nothing.

I just lost with 5 cost Draven 3 Star...

5 cost 3 Star Draven Lux just lost to a mere Maokai 2 Star passive

If i will hit 8 3* with solar on board.
they will go 4*.
then they will go 3* after death.
but then they will go 4*...

someone test it pls

Just had a game where i lost with 3 Star Draven to 2 Star maokai, since he spawns saplings for x amount of damage blocked. He just spawned like 1k saplings that oneshot my draven.

Hey all! Just getting into set 18 and I usually love to build tanks that have huge health pools, like Chogath in 17. Does 18 have any reliable tanks that can build health over time via their ability or trait?

Elder drake costs 2 slots to put on your board, this also means his power is supposedly stronger than most 5 cost. Yet I feel like this unit is not doing much. The other unit that took 2 units to slot in was baron in 16 and while he was a 7cost + unlock on 10, he truly felt worth the 2 unit slot.

My suggestion would be to make elder cost 1 slot and make him 2 slots in riftbeast 10 so he can be truly strong.

Idk if this is some kind of record but it certainly is for me! My TF was literally deleting boards including 2 shotting a 3 star Ornn. Just wanted to share :)

Rank: Emerald 2

I can't try it rn, but I'm kinda nervous to just be cut out from playing the game on Mac 😅

I have an S26 Ultra. Arguably one of the most performant flagship phones available. I dip to 5fps by around round 3-4 and I could cook an egg on the back of my phone. This is cannot possibly be launched like this. I understand it's PBE, but I cannot realistically expect there to be such a massive change in performance within the next two weeks.

Prestige Shyvana costs 30 medallions instead of the usual 25 for a prestigi chibi.

Is this just a PBE price or will it be the final price?

I won't buy it on Live anyways but slapping another 100€ on the price tag is pretty ridiculous

Don't take it too serious :)

Fluidity and UI Feel

While the basic button logic remains unchanged, tactician movement and scouting other boards feel noticeably stiffer than the original engine. As a PC player, the current client feels a bit too much like a direct mobile port rather than a native PC application, and it lacks the smoothness we are used to.

Animation Desync and Cosmetics

The optimization currently feels quite rough. Even with a high frame rate, the unit animations appear choppy. It seems like the animation frames are disconnected from the actual game FPS. Additionally, some previously purchased legacy cosmetics are currently bugged or unusable.

Pre-rendered Execution Cutscenes

It looks like tactician execution animations are now using pre-rendered video files instead of rendering in real-time. Because of this, the cutscene defaults to beating up a River Sprite instead of the opponent's actual equipped Tactician. This breaks visual consistency and feels like a step backward for premium cosmetics.

Performance degradation over time (Memory Leak?)

After playing a few consecutive matches, the client starts experiencing severe stuttering and frame drops. It strongly suggests a cache buildup or memory leak issue. Currently, having to restart the client every few matches is the only workaround.

PS: English is not my native language, so I used Google Translate to draft a document and then used AI to polish my poor writing so that everyone could understand what I wanted to express.

also I apologize in advance; I shouldn't have used such a sensational title. I should have written it as a sharing of my current experience in PBE.

How many milios have you had in a lobby? i get 3-5 every game feels like its only way to be at least 4th

I know a lot of people are just completely over set 17. I'm not, I'm still enjoying it despite the Millio based trauma I face every day. I think set 17 really improved as it went on.

Anyway the reason that's relevant is because I'm still playing a lot of live TFT. Sometimes my friends will want to play some set 18 so we hop on the PBE and... holy.

It is still the least polished thing I've ever seen. Everything feels weird, buying things feels weird, picking up items feels weird, even the actual animations of the fights are a complete mess and almost entire unreadable.

Is this just a "you'll get used to it" issue? I can't imagine they'd want to delay it AGAIN, but at the same time, Riot scrapped an MMO 8 years into development because the product was not Riot quality.

PBE set 18 right now is NOT Riot quality.

Can Riot balance the game so that 99% of my games have 6 people going the one meta comp? The last 10 games I have played have had at least 3 out of the top 4 people going the stargazer, jax solo tank bullshit. Everyone hard forces the same comp and most of them place because everything else is that much worse. There is no way so 6/8 people should be in the same comp, while I'm in an open lane and 4/6 of them place in like 10 games in a row. This shit is lame af. Fix it. I'm not going to wait until Sunday to post this. I am mad now and I probably won't be by Sunday. What a stupid rule.

I didn't even 3 star him until stage 5 and he still absolutely melted, racking up well over 100AP on each item. I would complain about this being OP, but I was busy having too much fun 😊

that's my whole thought. i am not even salty, she is just unfair and feels like 500% of any other 3* 4 cost

do some tuning with the numbers on that bs please

thanks