Cloth armor is 300 gold for 15 armor Bramble vest is 900 gold for 35 armor, so it's already at 78% efficiency Then you tack on 20 damage per auto, probably more than a bami's cinder would be dealing to them at that point, grievous wounds reducing their lifesteal and hp regen, and I think this is an item that should basically remove auto attackers from the top lane meta.
Escheton3 votesYup, finally an actually gold efficient tank item. Huzza! And a way to deal more efficiently with Ranged Toplaners.
Darkdemon6531 votesIt's a shame Thornmail is even worse now, though.
Spoofghoul1 votesNot necessarily worse
it's worse at dealing damage ill give you that much
But for general all round tank stats it's probably the best singular item you can get
Since it now gives grievous wounds and attack speed slow on top of hp in return you get a bit less armor and a bit less damage. The problem with this is that it makes the item very abuse-able by fighters/divers Because they never needed that return damage Gutting the adc's ability to lifesteal is where it's at and attack speed slows and grievous wounds will do that In addition it gives plenty armor still and the hp is a far better deal then 25 additional armor for them too Due to it's new nature it's synergy with other additional tank items is got a lot worse
For tanks it got worse in many ways, it would have been better to drop the attack speed slow and keep the armor scaling damage.
Quepha1 votesLolno, gw is 10x better than what it lost.
meowwow71 votesthey nerfed cloth armor by 5 armor now? grant with the reflect damage and gw passive it's still gold efficient but still
Verarticus1 votesIt's 1 second of GW. It won't have any relevance until the enemy has one or two AS items to even attack fast enough (with like one or two exceptions). If you upgrade to thornmail the enemy needs even more AS since the item now slows their AS...for some reason.
Like I've been wanting a tank item for anti healing, but this seems counter productive...
Quepha1 votesIs there a confirmation anywhere that the GW does not affect the auto that triggers it? I doubt it works the way you think it does.