I just want to get my opinion out on the new mage items
for anyone that missed the changes check here
First off bravo Riot. It is about time you fixed the rush morello into whatever X counter item is best. I love how it is an actual counter to healing now that all magic damage inflicts Grievous Wounds and not just when you hit them below X% health. But come on Morello's Cursed Tome? why not change it back to the original Morello's Evil Tome?
I feel alot of these items really open up the choices you make in the game. I love the Luden's change to make it feel like more of a poke mage item, before the movement speed just felt tacked on, and making the new Spellbound Orb pick up its old build path with better stats and that new active seems amazing for those mages that just want to run someone down and nuke them. The lost chapter items sharing the 10% CDR passive haste is a brilliant idea, raising all of their totals to 20% and making them not synergize well with each other makes them all feel distinct.
The only thing I wish was added is another 100 ap needlessly large item. Right now with its build path only going into Death Cap and the new Spellbound Orb makes it feel to confined. with the more AP focused D-Cap helping poke and burst mages and Spellbound helping agro mages it would be nice if it could build into an item that helped DPS mages more. Maybe something that could reuse the old pox active from black market brawlers. But all-around excellent job it looks really interesting.
Oh and I almost for got the most important part. They have returned.
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