With the AP item changes building RoA will now feel worse than ever

waiting for WoW·2/7/2018, 2:41:23 PM·3 votes·506 views

The other new starting items all have 20% CDR, more mana, and great passives(and an active). They all have smooth and linear build paths that make them easy to build while laning and gathering component items.

Rod of Ages on the other hand is sub-par and it's going to feel more aged now. Having to delay finishing one of the new starting items to build RoA is frankly going to feel terrible, and I'm not sure that the rewards for a fully stacked RoA are even worth it anymore considering how many other viable HP/AP items there are going to be now.

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Taliyah Rocks2/7/2018, 2:47:20 PM1 votes

Yeah the mana will probably be overkill since the first item already provides mana and CDR. I hope they will change it into an item for better sustain. The mana to hp and damage to mana conversion was supposed to help, but it's so negligible.

But those changes are still preliminary and there will be further changes and possibly new items along the way.

At the very least i enjoy that there will be alternative to rushing a Morello every game.

wildfox992/7/2018, 3:01:27 PM1 votes

it'd be nice giving it 10% CDR + 1% CDR per stack (20% a stacked ROA,can't be stacked with item 3802 items),one of its biggest problems it that it gives no CDR

or/and changing the way how it stacks

ChaosThief2/8/2018, 1:26:58 AM1 votes

I mean... it costs 2,700 gold, one of the lowest of the AP items, gives 100 AP (which is actually really high for an AP item to have as a base), health is decent and mana... well I think the reason it's going to be outclassed on mana is because every mana item now goes up to around 650.

It also still gives the eternity passive if you don't want to take abyssal mask... for whatever reason.

It's basically one of the cheapest AP items that replaces a bit of gold for time. It's more like all of the newer AP items are overloaded rather than this being underloaded.