Lack of high AP + CDR items

Votable Jester·9/28/2017, 11:10:27 PM·1 votes·860 views

So I tested out the new runes on the PBE (primarily on my Xerath), and the maximum of 10% CDR (that works towards your cap) is really frustrating. Currently on live, I typically build item 3165 item 3285 item 3020 item 3151 item 3089 item 3135 and have 20% scaling CDR in my runes. This allows me to be the glass cannon I want to be.

On the pbe however, I can only get up to 10% CDR in my runes, leaving me short 10% CDR. Now I'll have to sacrifice one of my heavy damage AP items for item 3157 and/or item 3102 or my item 3020 for item 3158. My issue with this is it basically removes the option to play as a full-on glass cannon, a playstyle I greatly enjoy.

Building defensive should be a choice. Even if it was always optimal to build some defense, I should be allowed to choose not to. To solve this, could you please add a heavy AP item with some CDR on it when you update mage items?

Edit: As I've said several times already, I'm not asking for everything. I'm already giving up defense here. Why should I have to give up CDR too? If you want to balance it out, I'd happily throw out the HP on Liandry's and tack on the CDR there. That would be a cost for the CDR.

I mean why should a champion like Xerath who gains next to nothing from defensive items be forced to buy defense to have an optimal offense? That makes absolutely no sense.

13 Comments

Eedat9/28/2017, 11:20:05 PM1 votes

item 3100 I guess if you're going out of the way to avoid any defensive stats

AmetDeCrypt9/28/2017, 11:54:06 PM1 votes

answer me this.

do you NEED 40% cdr if you're pure glass canon? shouldn't 1 rotation and out to wait for them to come back be enough? you can't have everything you want just like tanks can't have damage if they want to be able to take a lot (I'll ignore bruisers they're just cancer)

DeathBurst9/29/2017, 12:03:21 AM1 votes

Then, choose Gathering Storm over Scorch or Ultimate Hat over the hexdrinker effect in Nullifying Orb. I mean, if you want to forego defensive options for offensive choices, you can do that in the Rune System just as well as in the Item System. In the old system, the CDR you were taking in Runes could've been more AP Runes. In the new system, you can't get CDR from Runes, so get it from Items and get more damage than before from Runes.

Nut on my Butt9/29/2017, 12:24:05 AM1 votes

Blue buff.

It was nice when the elixir gave cdr.