Hexdrinker is too efficient
Hexdrinker is a cheap, efficient item that pretty much shuts down any early magic damage.
- Current:
Recipe:
+
+20 Attack Damage
+35 Magic Resist
UNIQUE Passive: Lifeline
Value of Raw Stats: 1330g
Cost: 1300g (102.31% gold efficient excluding Lifeline passive)
In comparison, a mage pays 1100g for 18 magic pen
, the cheapest/fastest source of magic pen besides Sudden Impact, which is only usable on mobile mages/assassins. For just 200g more, their AD lane opponent not only gets enough MR to counteract your mPen purchase, but also get a decent amount of offensive power to boot (pun intended). Every point of MR costs 18g, whereas every point of flat mPen costs ~31.1g. For obvious reasons, there are few items that grant flat mPen or else mages would constantly be dealing true damage. The MR grants far more magic DR than the sorc shoes allows you to penetrate. I propose increasing the cost and lowering the amount of MR and even lowering the duration of the magic shield from 5s to 3s. So far this hasn't even taken the Magic Shield passive into consideration which grants a minimum of 110eHP vs magic dmg which is worth 293.33g. So in total the bare minimum efficiency is ~125% vs magic. Increasing MR indirectly increases the amount the shield absorbs, because of less magic dmg taken and therefore the shield value is effectively higher. So imagine you buy a
in addition to Hexdrinker, and you're set!
http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Hexdrinker
- Proposed change
Recipe:
+
+20--> +25 Attack Damage+35--> +25 Magic Resist UNIQUE Passive: Lifeline shield duration from5sto 3s Value of Raw Stats: 1325g Cost:1300g--> 1350g or higher (up to 1500g) (between 98.15% - 88.33% gold efficient excluding Lifeline passive)
This change isn't even a big nerf all things considered, it's to make it more fair & balanced.
Keep in mind that upgrading into Maw LOWERS efficiency and are paying a lot more for the passive!
= ~86.97% efficient. You are literally better off sitting on Hexdrinker until you can make good use of the Lifegrip passive, which bumps the efficiency of Maw to 120.05%.
instead of
? Something else?