SightStone should augment your Gold Income (GI) Item

There's been a lot of griping over support mages that are more like APCs. And while I can see both sides of the argument, I'd like to point out that they build that way only because of the revenue derived from getting kills. Anytime I ask something like "Why doesn't Support Maokai build RoA?" someone will usually reply with "that's not easy to buy on a support budget."

Since this role is obviously being rejected given the number of auto-fills into it, I think we should really find some way to augment their income as a means to increase it's popularity. Not to the point that supports over making more than everyone else, but it should be brought up to the point that RoA isn't taken by choice, not poverty.

I'm a "don't complain without a solution" kind of guy, so why not make sightstone augment your GI items gold generation by +1. E.g. if my item gives me +2gp10, then Sightstone should make that item give me +3gp10. If the champion has no GI item, then SS operates as normal. This isn't a cure all, but it would reward support champs that are building along a specific path to help their team, without negatively affecting supports that choose another path. Here's some back of the napkin math for you to chew on.

Assuming you build SS 10 minutes into the match, and say the average match is 33 minutes, that's 23 minutes of an additional +1gp10.

That's +3gp10 for 23 minutes. Since you generate (based on those numbers) 18g per minute. Over 23 minutes, you would generate 414 gold instead of 276 gold. In other words a 138 gold increase.

Not an alarming amount of an increase, but I think the best way to implement change would be to pilot things. Put this in, see if it's game breaking. If it is, remove it. If it's not, continue to increase it. Assuming that it works, you could stat applying an additional +1gp10 - through the sightstone - to you GI item. Since that's a step removed, I'm not going to suggest items to put this on, but I'm sure you can imagine Support-items that it might function well on. Or the converse - give it to items rarely taken in an attempt to gin up their usage.

**tl;dr **- Make SS give your GI item an additional +1gp10. Sightstone itself generates nothing. This amounts to an additional 138g per game based on some averages.