Support Item Changes - One Fix

The support item changes went through today, and I'm still extremely dismayed by how it was handled. Instead of delaying the changes for a patch to make sure they could at least bring back the actives those of us who built them (who are now 100% forced into a worse version of Eye items) they said "well, supports will deal with it" and kept going. Old quests, gone. Fully completed items (actives and Ruby item cooldown) also gone. There's an entire board post full of supports begging for at least some adjustments. The quest line that used to be so satisfying to fulfill is now "congrats, here's your Sightstone guys!" The difference between starting items is how you get gold... and that's it. There is no reason to change your option depending on your team. Why even consider getting Spell Thief's when you can get gold easier with Coin?

Essentially what it boils down to is the new support items are Sightstone and if you want that old active you'll have to spend even more for a full item when it comes back. Not to mention it will still be inferior without the quest passive. The changes that were made in the name of "build diversity" just made it so you have to have Eye items, and with a fair amount of games, you will never actually get to build the last full item.

A recent gameplay thoughts was talking about top lane, and it had a chart of role popularity. You know why support is the lowest on every chart? Partially due to the nature of not being the one getting the glory of a pentakill, but a decent chunk of that is the fact anytime supports get something nice, other roles abuse it and then it gets nerfed to the ground never to be spoken of again.

So please, if nothing else, give us our old quests back on gold gen items. Put it at a full thousand gold earned, because of any support main I have ever talked to said they liked the quests as one of the highlights. I love the vision game, I have a screen shot of the first time I got 200 ward score. Part of what contributed to that was having the actives from the tier 3 support items so that I could safely ward.

For now I think I'll tuck my support champions away, and hope that somehow there is something given back to supports soon. I cannot imagine the hell that would rain down on the boards if all junglers had to use only Tracker's Knife while the jungle items got revamped suddenly.