I used to pick it up as a situational item vs champs with strong roam potential, but it just costs WAYYY TOOO MUCH (in terms of power and resources) to set up vision now.
Is there any other solution to getting REAL wards out without sacrificing so much now?
EDIT: No. Jungle is sacrifice. Will miss asserting that kind of control but eh... times change.
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The clear answer here is to run Kleptomancy on all of your junglers for free wards. Obviously.
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I was waiting on that comment xD.
Okay this is the sacrafice in power that I was talking about.
I know what you're thinking: "This kid is stupid, if you want wards, all you have to do is buy a different smite item"
But hold on a sec, that gives up tremendous power. The ability to smite a foe for the kill is a boon to snowballing or helping to secure a kill on a highly mobile champion with great escape capability.
Replacing that with the gives up that power for only 2 stocks of wards. You lose the ability to apply smite effects to anyone with this and is not really recommended for the majority of Jungle champs out there, only a select few.
Now I HAVE USED THIS ITEM, as well as the new Remnant items, which feel like a money sink and not intended to be something that just anyone can buy. I understand that is the goal.
But we have been losing more and more ways to provide vision outside of the Support role more and more, and it now feels like Warding is a Support-only job.
Plus, Sightstone had alternate build paths that allowed Active Item builds to sort of benefit from its own active (Which is definitely not a "Support" Focused mechanism). It was great to use in several different roles and situations, and only further aided in contesting vision as well.
Bring something like that to the table for all us out there who want to aid the team better vision power without having to just start spamming Tracker's knife.
I mean... what am i supposed to do as top lane now if I want to spread out my vision and keep track of enemy units leaving and entering my lane?, maybe even try to coordinate something against the enemy jungler with my jungler?
The cost of getting to be able to hold 3 wards now just feels like a huge waste of time for anyone other than support role (and that doesn't garuntee that our support will actually upgrade to be able to drop 3 wards. In my elo, I am usually the one who has to get the sightstone.)
