The Spellthief change was a solid start, but we need more

We need more viable ap options for the support role. Changing the spellthief line the way Riot did was a good start, though. By understanding the item, what mid laners want from it when they poach it, and by coming up with a way to keep mid laners from poaching it efficiently, Riot was able to give FQC 60 ap and EotW 35 ap without it magically going mid again (because it was the 150% mana regen on top of the insanely powerful ghosts people took it mid for for the thousandth time). I mean, it took like 1.5 years, but it's finally over with.

Riot needs to make more ap support items with this line of thinking. Decent ap stats with activation requirements on passives/actives that just aren't enticing to mid laners, if not just blatantly support-designated passives or actives. With some more of that and a bit of nerfing Redemption/Locket, we may see some actually decent item diversity in the support role.