I know nothing will ever bring the old Cassiopeia back, but I just figured I'd share with my other Cassiopeia fans how much I miss her... :(
I miss maxing out Noxious Blast first, for the wave pushing and harass. Petrifying Gaze doing massive damage late game, and Twin Fang doing great damage but not in an overloaded sense like it does now. Riot took away the uniqueness of her identity, and made her into a dull one-trick-pony champion... :(
A Miss Fortune8 votesI really want her to be a Poison Mage and not a machine gun.
SwapShadows5 votesI can relate, I used to love playing veigar but now he's farm champion #242342 which utterly annoys me.
He got back to back hits with DFG removal and "compensation" buffs.
Oerba No Naja4 votesriot doesnt care about our feedback anyway :D
Tendrian3 votesWe all do mate. We all do.
Fluppets2 votesThe new AP changes have actually made that playstyle more viable again with:
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I prefer other builds, but if the enemy team has alot of tanks with gapclosers, this build works wonders.
Her best and intended playstyle has always been maxing E first, the bugs/clunkiness of her Twin Fangs is what kept her down and in return she got higher ratio's on her Noxious Blast.
That said I understand the fantasy and I see it as Cassiopeia having two identities, unfortunately from a game design POV it's very hard if not impossible to have these two particular identities in one champion.
There's the poison mage fantasy: slowly killing an enemy from afar with patience and cunning, and there's the relentless pursuer fantasy: biding your time, waiting for a single mistake and then BAM relentlessly chasing the prey.
Orbv1 votesI agree that it's not really possible to be able to create a poison mage AND a pursuer champion. But the AP changes don't make the poke playstyle more viable. She lost 70% of her Miasma damage in both scaling and base damage. They buffed her Q, to almost where it was. But no items help that playstyle come back. She still needs to proc her Twin Fang twice to get any kind of poison amp, and the difference in the amount of dmg between landing Q's and Landing 6 E's in 3 seconds is so vast, you are actually hindering your team now.
Like you said, the bugginess beforehand allowed it to be possible to do both, now...not so much.
Fluppets2 votesThe AP item changes definitely made it more viable than before, there's no arguing with that, however it didnt make it more viable than Twin fang-centric playstyle.
It actually is very strong against a tanky enemy team and truly delivers on the poison fantasy. You just slowly kill their frontline while kiting (but still killing them faster than if you had gone full ap read: you would die). They build MR? np you got magic pen, they build hp? np you got % hp dmg. While if you go full AP and you're not superfed you wont be able to kill their tanks without going OOM or getting killed bc you're squish.
So, yeah, it doesnt entirely bring the poison style back, but when you see their team being tanky and all, think about going this route.
I would go:
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You will basically be doing 18% current HP true damage by landing one Noxious Blast. (35% Mpen + 50 flat Mpen + 5 total procs of which 4 are while slowed so are doubled). You could opt out of Tear and go with 
since you will max Q and W first and you want to spam those more often + lower mana cost on E.
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jDVL20eCYs1 votespetrifying gaze dose still do massive damage late game when you have 1200 ap. Even more the before
Leu071 votesShe really just needed some bug fixes, the E new poison check mechanic and perhaps a little buff to her old passive.
Fluppets1 votesShe really just needed some bug fixes, the E new poison check mechanic and perhaps a little buff to her old passive.
QFT
but then she would've been extremely OP though :D
Kedren Aderac1 votes[{quoted}](name=Krys Star,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=0K77laE0,comment-id=,timestamp=2015-07-26T05:57:30.008+0000)
Riot took away the uniqueness of her identity, and made her into a dull one-trick-pony champion... :(
Meh... they only changed her playstyle and if you maxed Q majority of the time (like I did), she was pretty much a "one-trick-pony" back then also. Not much has changed however, besides the obvious; new passive and the power-shift from Q to E.
Nagma1 votesher w is very useless and her r deals 0 dmg
The Queen Viper1 votesActually her R deals more dmg now as the game goes on.
Nagma1 votesher twin fangs deals more lol
The Queen Viper1 votesWell obviously ... I was talking about the new R, compared to the old R.
