Deathfire Grasp, Morellonomicon, and "Support" Mages

The Ecdysiast·Mar 24, 2017·1 votes·323 views

A looong time ago, they removed Deathfire Grasp, an item that granted 120 AP and 10% CDR, with an active that increased magic damage to the target by 20% for 4 seconds. Mages were forced to be balanced around the item.

Fast forward to the current version of Morellonomicon. It grants 400 mana, has double the cooldown reduction, restores 20% mana on kill, and still kept the grievous wounds passive. And costs 200g less.

Maybe they wouldn't have to nerf so many mages into the support role if the first item they buy at mid didn't give high amounts of everything a burst mage could ask for.

4 Comments

LyingOnLineMar 24, 20171 votes

Uh, no.

The reason they removed it was that it gave burst mages an extra spell and they were required to be balanced around it; without the active there was literally no reason to build the item at the time.

The EcdysiastMar 24, 20171 votes

Thank you for pointing that out. Fixed it.

And Morello is doing the same thing via a different route. Now that a huge amount of CDR and mana is available in a single item, every mage who can buy it has to be nerfed around the thought that they'll be able to sling their whole rotation around more often with less resource management.

LyingOnLineMar 24, 20171 votes

That's literally what Morello and Athene's always did, though. The only difference is that now there's only one infinite mana sustain item with CDR.

The EcdysiastMar 24, 20171 votes

Now that Athene's old passive is a mastery, you can have all the goodness of new Morello and old Athene's for half the price and an extra item slot.