Dear Riot: Please add an Experience per second passive to the Sightstone Support Items (Eye Items)

Quick thought from a Support Main. There is no major advantage to buying the Eye items. The stat balls are almost always inferior to the Actives of all three of the Gold Income items, which provide major useful effects on relative cooldowns.

But a Support who buys a Vision3 Item is clearly doubling down on stability. They are buying lots of wards and denying themselves their strongest Gold Income item's active. What's more, they are going to actively lose EXP while warding, since you almost always want to ward in safety - away from fights and EXP sources.

The better a job the support does of keeping up Vision Control on a map, the more likely they slip behind the other players, and if a fight breaks out while warding and they miss Assist Bonuses, or worse - get caught and killed warding - there can be no practical way to catch back up.

Adding an EXP Passive to the Eye items pretty much ensures only Supports get the bonus, or players willing to invest a large chunk of their gold in Wards/Warding. A player who feels secure and wants to ride the wave of power, can get the Tier 3 item with active. Someone slipping behind, and needs a leg up, can focus on the utility aspect of being a support, and get a boost back into the game, in the process.

Lastly, it frees up the all-important item slot, so as the game carries on, the player can keep up better than those who doubled down on the Active-effect Supp items!

You can of course make these Eye items a bit more expensive, to reflect the new EXP Boost effect. =)