Using mana starts to feel like a punishement

With the increased champion rooster mana is no core feature anymore. Champions like are all among top picks, be it in LCS or soloQ.

The old rules

• Manaless champions have higher cooldown and less damage abilities (Still counts for )
• OR deal less damage
• Can use their abilities less frequent
• Have (significantly!) less rotations (still counts for though)

DO NOT APPLY ANYMORE!

More than ever mana starts to feel like a burden. Especially on mages who can't simply build Life Steal for sustain. They have 2 factors which constantly force them back to base.

With the new Summoner's Rift the situation has worsened:

• The blue buff was significantly nerfed
• was nerfed into a state near unviability (As if it wasn't punishement enough that it also had to be bougth against AD casters on certain mana hungry champions)

Spending money on MAGE mana items (I'm excluding blue build here) these days often means you're scarificing ressources without gaining anything for it which others get for free.

Please, I'm not even asking you to nerf your #LCS champions, but please improve mana regeneration or give Athene's / blue back some of it power. Nerfing instead of improving other items (like you've done it one PBE) is the COMPLETELY WRONG way to go.