Idea on how to make the support Gold Income items give more gold without abuse

Toastersaot·Nov 25, 2016·1 votes·222 views

Think .

Or Draven's passive.

Some ideas:

Line: Hitting enemies generates gold as well as a stack of tribute. We double the cooldown on the minion kills disabling it, so it goes from 12 seconds to 24 seconds, but if the support player gets a kill or assist, they will get all of the stacks of tribute that they generated as bonus gold.

Line: Last hitting enemy minions with the execute passive generates a similar stack to tribute called Spoils of War. If you get a kill or assist, you get the gold equivalent to the stacks. However, last hitting outside of the execute does not give the stacks. Also, in order to limit abuse, last hitting outside of the execute will reset the cooldown of the stacks by half.

Same idea, but last hitting gives a cooldown on the Favor cooldown.

3 Comments

RivuoNov 25, 20162 votes

Supports get enough gold...

ChaddyFantomeNov 25, 20161 votes

That would actually be kinda busted and snowbally.

ErockandrollNov 25, 20161 votes

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That would actually be kinda busted and snowbally.

Yeah, I wouldn't count on snowballing as a support main myself.

Personally, I suspect that their might be problems in sunk cost for investing in gp10 itemization. (And I suspect the pros are on to it at well.)

item 3303 2 GP10, tribute passive gives 8 gold for every proc, and recharges a stack every 10 seconds. item 3098 15 gold per proc,

so the GP10 difference assuming you can proc your stacks all the time is 7 GP10. which is about 42 gold per minute. and about 420 gold in 10 minutes. Yet the cost difference between those two is over 500. So the gold itemization only pays for itself after more than 10 minutes. That can be difficult if your not upgrading to second tier early on. And possibly hard to justify unless a) you want the utility that comes with the tier 3 item, or b) you want the slot efficiency that comes with the eye itemization.

On the other hand, it's not like tier two itemization has bad stats either, you do get decent value from building those items, but your not just buying it just for the gold gen.