Because the only champ who uses this items is 
. The item has become outdated as a lot of the users have been reworked or have found better itemization.
Hence the buffs on the PBE are a step in the wrong direction as it only benefits 1 champ.
The item needs to appeal to more champs, mages included.
RiotNot Surrendering31 votesI actually think that Muramana is a pretty interesting item as is (sac your early game for a strong mid game spike), though external factors mean that its set of users is quite limited as you've noted. (Mana regen is high across the board, since AD items are so hard bound makes the opportunity cost very high, etc.).
Also there's questions as to whether Jayce is a good muramana user from a game health perspective, because it reduces his reliance to get in melee range to solve his mana issues, but as we saw in the C9, SKT game, it also gives Jayce a bit of a better decision tree against tanky opponents where he'd otherwise run out of mana.
Having said that, we don't have the scope to rework Muramana right now and buffing it up to retain its relative value to Crit items seemed like a better decision.
Kaìju7 votesYou think you can buff it to be as good as crit? Who would buy that? Melee champions can't get it because it takes forever and gives no tank stats, and ADCs don't get it because they can just get ER. And other random ones don't get it because there are better items. So who is it intended for? Even if you buff it by a lot, who would buy it you think? Because I wanna like it, I enjoy the late game spike for worse early but there isn't a single Hyper Carry that can get it that I can think of.
Skins Project2 votes
i think could abuse it ._.
Salson52 votesHaving said that, we don't have the scope to rework Muramana right now and buffing it up to retain its relative value to Crit items seemed like a better decision.
Don't Crit items need nerfs?
They're too cost efficient, either nerf them or give them higher costs, as the current state is ridiculous.
THE RlVER KlNG27 voteshow about you fucking nerf crit items as well
AirKingNeo11 votesDoing job = hard
Sqkerg4 votesIt’s not that simple and you know it. I wish people would stop pretending like it just takes a couple of seconds to solve all the world’s problems.
AirKingNeo7 votes"Ardent censer is warping the game, what do we do?"
"Uhhhhhhh"
2 months later
"Ardent censer is still breaking the game! Please fix it!"
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
compensation buffs it
a patch passes
"Ardent censer is literally all worlds is about. Can you please do your fucking job?!"
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Another week passes
more intense ardent chatter
"Ok, fine. We're making it only broken in the late game!"
I don't know about you, but I think it's wrong for the balance team to live more than 5 and a half patches behind everyone else. Then again, you failed to remember one fatal thing: Riot literally doesn't care about balance and is 100% absolutely, perfectly fine with this meta and wanted this. They've even admitted to such.
So yes, I do think it is VERY FUCKING EASY to fix the game. "Oh but perfect balance is impossible and you don't know what you're talking about!!! Rioters know their job better!!!!!" Does that mean Locket having a health ratio and being abused by tanks for the past 5 months is acceptable? Ardent being beyond broken for 3 is acceptable? Should Rioters really have their job when they make changes, such as giving Locket a health ratio, that VERY OBVIOUSLY create MORE PROBLEMS? Should Rioters really have their job if they can't even take the first step of solving the problem? This level of incompetence, ignorance, pure bias, and childishness is unacceptable in a professional job for balancing the world's most popular competitive game. I know more than 10 people who I'd rather be the balance team; hire them instead.
SnakDatSmilesBak2 votesThink about it this kind of protect the adc comp could possibly be one of the best types of metas. Every role could be represented; you could have a utility support with a tank, assassin, adc, and a mage. This is because team fighting would be the focus of this meta. It'd be front to back with some spice and pretty good for competitive. Thing is an item like ardent cencer, or however you spell it, isn't a good way to do that. By making it an item riot made the most effective strategy in bot lane rushing this item. From there snowballing was much more likely since it amplified every adc spike afterwards, and the adc became the center of the meta because of how well adcs deal with certain strong tanks. Ofc this is hindsight bias of mine, if I was making the decision I probably wouldn't have done better.
If I was to change ardent cencer in a way to promote that meta I described I'd make it heal your ally after you heal or shield them for 5-50 on hit for some seconds and have some ap and move speed on it and cost some gold. Then make other items that give your ad some other bonuses. The idea is to make a set of items for enchanters to be able to choose from but really there was only one super powerful one.
Edit idk if that's a good idea the post just seemed incomplete without it.
Sp33d Zer06 votes"Let's nerf an entire class of items because one item is doing badly"
Awoof3 votesOr because he thinks that said class of items is overpowered anyways.
mike in the box25 votesKeep it civil man. Its comments like this that make the devs avoid the boards.
Trading Stance - I think I agree with the OP on this one. The manna Regen is cool but the adding damage to auto attacks is awkward and makes the item too narrow. In its current from the item is only appealing to a champion who
That is a very narrow set of conditions, which is kind of a problem for the item and its viability.
THE RlVER KlNG13 votesI don't have anything against any dev personally, not even people who get a lot of hate like Ghostcrawler and CertainlyT, I think they're all generally cool people who enjoy the game as much as we do
but the game has reached a point where the balance team has utterly failed on multiple fronts
Meddler is really the only red who bothers to respond to criticism at this point I'll commend him for that
Rioters 99% of the time only respond to praise and its a little disheartening someties. I get that the boards can be nasty and childish, any internet forum is like that, but sometimes Riot has to admit theyre wrong! and respond to valid criticisms when they do show up. if they want to stay clear of B5 yasuo ragers im all for that. but they also need to open themselves up more to criticism when its well-worded and argued
KoKoboto3 votesThing is that it's not even that good when it turns into Manamune
Rockem Sockm22 votesThe item no longer fits into league.
Mid game starts at 15 now. You sacrifice lane phase for an even worse powerspike than standard builds.
It needs to become a starting item and/or scale harder.
The changes really accomplish nothing.
Tails90164 votesMid game starts at 15 now
I thought that was when games are supposed to end
/s
Warlord Rhinark13 votes
This guy used to build it too but then Riot gutted him.
Entheos Geon45 votesYou mean successfully made him into a champion that's more fun and less binary?
Warlord Rhinark45 votesPerhaps gutted wasn't the right term and I apologize if it wasn't. I just really miss the old Urgot.
[sg-soraka]
statelesskiller20 votesits okay. i miss old vlad
crippler3819 votesI miss old Shaco.
Thresh Outta Fux21 votesI miss old Malz.
SuperLuigiLXIV11 votesI miss old Zac.
Malicious Metal12 votesI don't miss old Morde.
Sexy Braixen8 votesI miss old Galio.
Dragonborn73940 votesI miss my dad.
Sancre8 votesI miss Dragonborn739's dad, and also old Ryze
Fairyfleur6 votesI miss old Zyra Q's shape
Miror B6 votesI miss the days when people could say what was on their mind without having to worry about "political correctness" or "offending someone". Those were the days...
MtFerventCatgirl4 votesi miss obama
Morgan le Fey2 votesI miss old Valor.
Big Black Croc6 votesI miss old league
NvestmentPlanker2 votesI miss when Graves still had a cigar
Mhihnj7 voteshe got it back tho
Lit Corn1 votesi do not agree , i miss the old urgot in jgl : 
with R , red smite and auto , you get 100% dmge reduction on a single target , would be op in the current meta since its all about tanks and shield sup with adc , so u deny adc dmges and the rest cant do shit either ...
Xilixer3 voteswell old urgot certainly had more range than the new one. the lock on q was glorious. but with q's new delay and w's short range makes him harder to use in a way.
LostFr0st5 votesThe changes don't do anything for Ez... They changed it from 2 per 8 to 4 per 16 and then now 3 per 12.
That shift only affects champs who have long cds which stop them from charging tear as fast. Mostly mages tbh.
10Tickler2 votesThe only 'Mages' who actually build tear are Rapid-casters anyways. Ryze, Karthus, [The occasional AP heavy Singed] all do so well with it. Anivia gets/needs tear for mana sustain in early game, because her base pool's really small, and
This is Opinion only:
I like building it as an early game item on Karma (Pre-league of Censors meta), as She's pretty Spammy too, and the increased mana gen is super helpful, while making sure she doesn't fall off so hard (in support role) come lategame.
Mcsquzzy5 votesthe main problem is that games have been tweaked to be shorter, so building up the mana to use this is not feasible for most champs
OyddAWqJ5r4 votesUh... Why mages? They have 
, which could probably use some love of it's own.
Catastrop3 votesI think he means ad mages, which is really what ad casters are.
Erockandroll3 votesI think he means ad mages, which is really what ad casters are.
Honestly, the range between an AD scaler who relies on Abilities, could be anywhere from an Assassin to a Juggernaut. But when people refer to an AD mage, it's usually a siege style mage with a lot of poke. (Since most AD burst fall into the category of Assassin)
And it's interesting, cause whether an AP mage is classified as "Burst, Artillery, or Battle" doesn't change the fact that a major mana item is a core part of their build. But for AD counterparts, only the siege builds really need a significant source of mana in their itemization.
So we are talking a very narrow band of champions who A) Scale of of AD, and B) want to poke. And some champs like Jayce who use to build Tear, look to different styles with different builds. (Namely, that Lethality builds will kill before mana's a problem) Likewise, the more AA centric champions turned to ER.
It's difficult to really analyses this because Poke so far out of meta at the moment. Glass cannons are sustaining thanks to the enchanter meta, and Tanks have Knight's vow and Wormargs to shrug off damage. Meaning that nothing sticks. Personally though, I would actually look at the effect of the fully stacked Muranamana, since it basically functions on auto attacks. (For a siege style effect, shouldn't it's active/passive/whatever, be ability based?)
Thilmer3 votesMost AD champions doesn't really need mana rigth now, since AD casters are out of meta.
GrReaper964 votesNot only that, champions that used to rely on it 
(these were waaaayyy back) have long been changed to no longer need it.
General Esdeath 3 votesI remember when 
used to all build tear.
Kaìju2 votesCould they rework Tear to be a starting item, and it actually builds into a bunch of different items? Like you could lower it's starting cost, and when it finishes you can get one of a few items. One for AP, AD, HP, or say resistances. Each one is based on your mana. For example the AD one could be something like, the less mana you have the more AD you get with a theme about desperation in battle and fighting on empty. The HP one could be something like if you run out of mana you can instead use HP to cast spells, based on a %cost or something. The AP could give CDR per say 500 mana so you just stack pure AP and Mana with nothing else. Would that be viable?
kile1477 votes
+ 
=
60 AP 30 Armor 250 -1000 Mana Based on tear stacks
Unique Passive: Awe - Grants armor equal to 2% of maximum mana. Refunds 15% of mana spent.
Unique Passive: Mana Charge - Grants +4 maximum mana on spell cast, mana expenditure, or auto attack. (Max 2 times per 8 seconds)
10Tickler5 votes + 
250-1000 Mana, based on Stacks 350 HP
Unique Passive: Mana Charge - Grants +4 maximum mana on spell cast, mana expenditure, or auto attack. (Max 2 times per 8 seconds) Unique Passive: Mana Burn - does 5 (+.095/20 stacks) Magic damage to nearby enemy Monsters, Minions or Champions.
Final Item transformed
1000 Mana 550 HP
Unique Passive: Mana Burn - Does 11 (+.25/200 Maximum mana) AOE Burn damage to nearby Monsters, enemy Minions and Enemy Champions. Mana is restored at a .1 per tick per target ratio.
