Dear Rito, pls give us more mana (utility masteries discussion)

kcStranger··13 votes·862 views

I've already written about this in more detail elsewhere, but now that the changes to utility masteries have gone through I just wanted to take a moment to once again put out the request for Riot to go through and evaluate champions' mana cost and mana regen stats. Any mana-hungry champion who took 21/0/9 or similar masteries (including Meditation) is now under significantly more strain in early laning since 1.5% mana regeneration is significantly more useful than 75 extra mana. For instance, I personally feel that Syndra's W mana cost at least is too high (60/70/80/90/100); using it any significant amount very quickly puts her out of mana. I'm sure other examples can be given (Lux, Ziggs...).

I'm not calling for any change in particular, I just hope they re-evaluate mana costs and mana regen stats on a number of champions (mostly mid-lane mages) so that these champions aren't unfairly mana-starved in the early game.

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Chespin20134 votes

honestly its gonna be more of a pain in the ass to lane against resourceless mids like Katarina Zed

Lyrxen2 votes

Well, the thing is, is that ap abilities do so much damage, and because they are casters, they have to know when to use their abilities, and when to hold back, I understand what you are saying tho

kcStranger1 votes

Yeah...and to be clear, I don't want them to change things so much that mages can spam (or kinda sorta spam) without consequence. I just think that some mages were already being starved a little too much (specifically in the early game), and the utility mastery changes exacerbate that. Overall champion balance matters, too. Syndra for instance has always had high-ish mana costs, but her Q damage used to be higher at early levels, so those costs were necessary for balance. After the Q damage nerf, I think it's appropriate to ease the mana restriction a bit.

Lyrxen1 votes

Yeah, that's true

NuSix34 votes

The thing is some champs in this game have just as good damage and have an infinite resource or no resource at all.

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