Remove Ruby sightstone or add upgrade / enchantment paths
It appears I'm not the only one who hates buying the sight stone as support. Don't get me wrong I main support, and will buy it. However I always seem to regret doing so. That being said in the games that I don't buy and if our team happens to lose it's always "support didn't buy sight that's why we lost". With the advent of yellow trinkets, their reduced cost to upgrade (250). The fact of the matter is vision shouldn't be saddled on one person anymore. Think about it. If as support I net the ADC a kill. They can afford to spend 250 on an upgraded trinket which is cheaper than a boot upgrade, and I can spend my portion on the same. Now I've got an open item space and we both have wards. Nuf Said. Problem is this won't ever happen or rarely does in most games. Therefore I propose a solution. There are two possible choices to make at this point:
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Remove Sight stone. While this is drastic it would force teams to cooperate to get vision if they wanted it. If this option was chosen I think it should be a temporary option say for about 6 months to a year. Eventually people would get the idea that wards are usefully for everyone.
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Alternatively we could buff Ruby Sightstone so it no longer wastes a space. What I'm proposing isn't an actual buff per say of the item, more like additional upgrade paths. In today's games of LOL almost anyone can head bot as support. I've seen duel adc, mages, tanks, assassins, and of course your typical supports. Of those most of them don't actually want to build Health. Health is a good thing for a support, but sometimes it just doesn't fit in your ideal build correctly. Therefore Ruby Sightstone should be upgrade-able / enchant-able similar to the newer jungle items or boot enchantments. It would look something like this: sightstone » Ruby Sightstone » Upgrade options Now I'm not talking major stat gain here, Just enough that your item slot doesn't feel so depressing
As it stands a Ruby Sightsone costs 1600 gives 5 wards and 400 hp, I'm proposing the end item be worth about 2400
Some options I think we should have are: A) Even more health for champions such as Taric and Naut (+300 more HP / 1000 in total 800 value) B) Ability power for the mages (+35 AP / 800 value) C) Armor (+40 Armor / 750 value) D) MR (+40 MR / apx 800 value) E) Minor Global Regen Aura (HP Regen / Mana Regen in X range) [Ageis's Aura is worth about 300, but doesn't do mana] D) AD (+20 AD / apx 800 value)
I feel like there is one too many options presented here for upgrade paths, and the weakest link would probably be AD, Most supports don't need the extra damage and tank as well. Or at least not the ones I normally play.
Let me know your thoughts, PS: If you find this interesting at least bump this thread, because something needs to be done with this item.
Flight173