So occasionally I get in a game of support, and I usually play either Alistar or Thresh, who have similar build paths, but I'm still left rather unsure on whether I should take Face of The Mountain or Eye of The Equinox, because form gives the active shield, but the eye of the equinox combines targon's with a sightstone. Someone give me a hand here.
If you need hella shields go Face. If you're ahead and can get an additional tanky item, go Eye and then build something else.
I'm bad but I play sion as main support and I'll normally get face of the mountain for the shield and ruby sightstone
Personally, I rarely bother upgrading my gold item; I prefer building directly into my Sightstone and utility items.
Redemption, Locket of the Iron Solari, Ardent Censor and Knight's Vow are all extremely influential and you want to get them as early as possible.
Get Ruby. It's too good to skip. 20% item cd reduction is huge.
