Dorans shield cost to 450 gold?

cool beans

Nah it's pretty fair. The item already gives a lot of lane sustain, so 2 pots was over kill.

Did you read the context?

"Doran's Shield should be your starting item when facing a bunch of harassment at early levels, but at its current tuning it’s the best items regardless of situations. We're pulling a potion off of it both to decrease its raw effectiveness and to make it have a harder time dealing with ganks and all-ins."

I mean up until recently it's pretty much always been that way

so nerfed as intended?