Talk:Heart of Gold/@comment-3166200-20121118185303

To the people who are saying that Riot is balancing the removal of HoG by making the Jungle have increased gold and XP. I implore you to download the PBE and test this for yourself because of how it stands now the XP increase is super minimal, lvl 4 full clear for season 2 AND season 3. The 'gold increase' does not come into effect until lvl 11, a point where the jungle isn't really the junglers exclusively anymore as you should be giving blue to your AP mid and red to your ADC.

I see the changes to most jungler's 'go-to' gp10 item and the stronger jungle being Riot's way of saying that junglers are doing their jobs too well, and that most players don't know how to defend against. Seriously, 1 ward is usually all it takes to get away from the jungler. If players were just smarter and placed wards early and be reponsible for them doing a good job and not blame the jungler for doing 'too good a job,' this is coupled with the hand holding mechanic of the Sight Stone.

Essteinally, Riot seems to want to remove the prsence of early ganking junglers such as Skarner, Lee Sin, and Alistar. Which is sort of a slap to the face.