Support items lack focus

Support itemization is a mess at this time. Almost every item has a spread of stats that have no focus on one particular aspect. This spread of stats with a mix of tanky/utility/offense makes it hard to have optimal itemization on a support champion. This leads to some items being better then others and having the player base grossly favor a select few items. Some items have good focus and are therefore desired by support players. This is all about their stat allocation because as it stands most support items are a mess. Many items can be used on multiple supports but they will often have wasted stats. There should be a better focus of support items so that they are better fits for enchanters, vanguards, support mages, and other types of supports.

The biggest culprit of this lack of focus is the tacking on of tank stats. In fact the items not intended for tank supports all have a single type of tank stat tacked onto them. I understand that supports are squishy but lets face it, 30 MR isn't going to make a huge difference on a support versus the 2 completed items of the mid laner. Take for example. Mana, AP, CDR, a utility ability and oh look armor. How about ? Lets have a CDR, regen, movement item and then "blam!" add some armor. 20% shield/heal, regen, powerful utility ability and lets tack on some MR. why does it have 30 MR? You see where I am going with this.

Those are all items that AP supports would like but power is lost when some of their stats is put into defense. If they were more focused as support items for a specific type of support instead of shotgunning stats on them they would start being very desirable for supports. Imagine without the armor but Conduit passive granted bonus AP = to a % of the binded targets AD? What if gave up on that 30 MR and gained the ability to generate charges when nearby allies dealt damage? How about loses that armor but raises the cap CDR by 10% to 50%/55% with 20% CDR on it instead of 10%?

I'm not saying these are the solutions. Perhaps some of these items would be better as a more focused tank item, gods knows that tank supports are having just as much trouble as AP supports (although they have it a bit easier with Redemption and Locket being so strong). I also think this lack of support item focus is why all supports are building and . Let's face it those items have amazing focus. is a focused tanky item and has most of its power focused onto its ability and both make pretty good tank items due to their focus on tanky stats with tanky/sustaining abilities. Perhaps we could do without the %bonus heal/shield buffing them but before we go nerfing them I want to see more focus from other support items.