@Xypherous Regarding the upcoming changes to mana landscape on the PBE

I am an enthusiastic mage player and the changes on the PBE are quite interesting to me, but there is one major issue: The game will be made far snowballier with all the main AP items giving mana, not mana regen.

First of all, having a selfish jungler or being behind far enough to be denied blue buff means you are in severe trouble when it comes to clearing waves: especially in a siege, you'll run dry quickly.

Secondly, the waveclear duty shifts even further from mages to ADCs, who buy a mere Essence Reaver and suddenly get all the mana they need. Whereas mages tend to sacrifice certain things for their power (less DPS and objective taking in exchange for waveclear and higher burst), certain ADCs especially just get DPS, waveclear and high mana sustain off a single item.

I am worried that this will even further shift the gameplay landscape towards AD-based champions. I would like to hear your opinion on this.

Tl;dr:

• Far too high reliancy on blue buff.
• Waveclearing will force you to back constantly because of running dry.
• Even bigger advantages for ER-users.