Blue Essence and Account XP Update
TL;DR: We meaningfully screwed up on this one. The numbers we shipped were pretty far off from what they should be for many of you. We’ll be putting out fixes for that during Patches 25.S1.2 and 25.S1.3.
When we shifted into the new Seasonal model our intent was for Blue Essence earn rates to be the same, or slightly better, for all players, with new and casual players in particular seeing a more meaningful increase. We intended for BE income to move over to the new Pass as part of simplifying League’s rewards systems, but BE from the Pass was intended to, at minimum, offset any losses elsewhere.
When it comes to account level, we didn’t intend to change the number of games it takes to get access to Ranked, or for those players who value account level/the associated icons, change the speed of leveling.
There are a few problems we’re seeing. For a lot of you, BE rates are significantly lower right now. It also is meaningfully slower (up to 30%) to go from level 1 to 30 and to access Ranked. And, finally, we failed to communicate that the champion capsules from account level rewards after level 30 were being moved to the Pass when we talked about other changes in November.
