An update has gone out to change the experience gains from the Lab of Legends mode which were maybe just a little bit too high - or low depending on when you played. No one reached their vault cap, nope, didn't happen...
Riot's Exis, who is the Gameplay Engineering Lead on the team, and has a hand in Labs, wrote a bit about the changes on Twitter.
- The previous changes which completely nerfed the XP gain have been partially undone.
- Your first 18 wins in single-player each day give you 200 XP, plus bonuses.
- Additional wins give you 50 XP.
These changes make it a bit more fun to participate in the event - see below for the full context. If you're looking for more information on the new lab, you'll want to head on over to our Lab of Legends Guide.
Quote From @RiotExis 1/ We’re updating the XP rewards for Lab of Legends (I know, again!). Your first 18 wins in single player each day will give you 200 XP, plus your daily win bonuses! Additional wins will give you 50 XP each. More words about why:
2/ On release, Lab of Legends was awarding more XP than intended. We made a necessary adjustment yesterday to bring it in line with other Vs AI modes, but heard from lots of players who felt forced to play PvP to get XP, when all they wanted was to crush Viktor one more time!
3/ We’d like you to feel properly rewarded for playing LoR the way you want, whenever possible. We hope this is a good middle ground vs. being the OPTIMAL way to grind… but still gives you plenty of sweet XP for stacking 4 items on your Lucian and kicking AI butt.
Comments
So THAT's what happened. I thought I had just played too much, and so they reduced my exp to 100, and then to 50.
I can't say it's not fair, since it is a fairly easy grind, and it's more fun than just fighting the A.I. That being said, it's comparable to the "Journey to the Peak" lab, which awarded 200 exp every time the way it did on release.
They actually made another mistake - the bonuses from Labs is separate from the bonuses for actual PvP. So you can get the extra 400, 200, 100 in labs AND also get the extra 400, 200, 100 in PvP as well.
It’s amazing how much this game gives you. They went from being WAY TOO GENEROUS to merely VERY GENEROUS, and it caused an outcry on Reddit.
Even at the low point of the rewards, the single-player content was still an ok, low-stress source of XP and a good way to speed through quests that you might otherwise have trouble with. (I used them on Wednesday to quickly grind through my big Card Styles quest as well as one other quest I wasn’t ready for in my constructed decks. I’m looking forward to doing that again next Wednesday, and I’d be happy with any little XP bonus that comes with it.