20% CDR on Spellthief Edge Line??? Why?
20% CDR isn't entirely necessary. The only supports I see it benefiting are as follows: Zyra, Brand, Vel'Koz, Malzahar, Lux (non-Forbidden Idol build paths), etc., as they lack CDR in their build path.
Shielding/healing supports (aka, all meta supports) already max out CDR with current build paths. This would be entirely unnecessary.
The reason why Coin is so much better than Spellthief is because of the gold income. The obvious solution is to up the gold tribute.
My personal suggestions on possible Spellthief buffs:
- Up the gold income to, say, at least 15 gold per tribute proc — maybe more (I need to look at the numbers and compare when I get home; at work on break atm). When the item is upgraded to Frostfang, upgrade it to maybe 30 or so.
- Decrease the cooldowns on tribute procs, and have it possibly decrease even more with each upgrade of Spellthief item.
- Up the damage on the tribute procs.
- Up the mana regen.
- This isn't the best option, but you could always give Spellthief 5% CDR as well. Give Frostfang 10% CDR, perhaps keeping the Eye of the Watchers and Frost Queen's Claim at 20% CDR.
- Maybe reward those that use tribute procs by giving them some mana in return?
- Maybe once every 3 procs, we could get rewarded with a larger sum of gold or mana return.
Just thought I'd note that although Coin is better than Spellthief's because of the extra gold, it's also better because of being able to spam spells without running OOM.
I miss taking Spellthief, Riot. I really do. I love having the AP on supports like Nami, Sona, Morgana, or even Soraka, but Coin is still too good to not take on just about every single support (even tanks).
PLEASE NOTE: I am NOT saying to add every single one of my suggestions to the item. These are just different possibilities.
