Is it too late to cancel the mage update?

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People are missing the best part of this Update. It makes champs and items WAY easier to balance. Mana costs will gate this power huge.

so i guess that means it is okay that Mages will be crap even longer because it somehow makes balancing more easy by flooding new passives? Your statement makes no sense at all....

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Yes. Any more questions?

was afraid of that.

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It is too late. The champion changes seem interesting though, but the item changes are just disgustingly bad.

Some champs got some good changes i admit, some got nerfed for no reason like syndra. However the core of how well mages will do still rely on itemization. Very sad to see a Dev Team that has done so well with ADC itemization fumble so miserably with mages.

Assassin player most likely. The MYMU looks great.

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How so?

Ill give items as an example,

Archangel's Staff, only refunds mana costs now so if you are low on mana you are SOL.

Athene's Unholy Grail, Nerfed AP + nerfed Mana regen + stupid health passive that only works if less health then mana(spoiler alert, you will almost always have more Health then mana and if you somehow have less Mana then Health you are going back).

Catalyst of Aeons, 15% mana refund for taking a hit to the face is nothing espeically considering you are already squishy as a mage with no real ability to regain health reliably, gives you 15 health for spending mana (that's nothing when you consider how many casts will oom you, may be too strong on annie if it heals her for csing with Q).

Fiendish Codex - 100 gold price increase for 5 ap...

Morellonomicon - price increase, Grievous wounds proc percentage nerfed(hard enough to even get them that low as a mage as it is especially with mage burst being nerfed), 20 AP increase and Mana recovery on kill/assist is not gonna make up for those losses. To expensive to build for what it is worth now.

Rod of Ages- AP nerf, mana nerf,

Seraph's Embrace - Probably what every mage is going to have to build now just to scale.

Zhonya's Hourglass - AP gutted, Stasis cooldown increased(literally the only reason mages build it), Will be more beneficial to go tanky AP then build this item(liadry, roa, rylai).

Is MR getting nerfed to compensate for less AP accross the board? Nope. In fact, some champions are actually taking damage nerfs (poor ). Wanna beat a mage as AD, build a Maw and done.

Hextech items are nice but you are giving up way too much just so they can exist. Its not worth it.

If you need me to go into more detail i can go over the champs being change but admittingly there are a few who may be too strong and that creates other problems.