Feedback: Changes to Support Items - Tribute

This seems a bit harsh. Changes are to keep solo laner's from benefiting from the gold it gives(gangplank). Understandable, but it also has the potential to create a huge meta shift in the bot lane. example: Zyra(as well as other APC's) will not be an optimal support anymore and be forced back to mid or down to the ranks of underplayed champions if the meta shifts fail to allow her(them) a spot mid. And potentially closing the door on future possible meta shifts for supports in the bot lane.

It's totally possible that Riot wants APC supports out of the support role. These changes seem to effect more than just the obvious aim of forcing solo laner's to quit taking the item. 12 seconds per minion slain. "don't take cs then" - well that's well and all but APC supports have that ability to help shove lanes. and not to mention what if your team wipes and you have massive minion waves bearing down on inhibitor towers? Do you clear it and take the penalty or is it not worth? Saving a tower is always worth but you get a penalty for it that may or may not be and with sight stones gone you no longer have the option to opt to farming lanes and selling your support item while maintaining warding abilities.

But what if support items got a different change? One that allowed for meta shifts and for more open allowances on champions for support? Yea we all think brand support is harsh but its always nice to have one on your team as well if they are playing well. So what if the support items looked a little like this?

Spellthiefs Edge +10 Ability Power +2 Gold per 10 seconds +25% Base Mana Regen Active: Link to an Ally for the remainder of the game. Being [insert range here] near your ally activates unique passives Unique Passive - Tribute: Damaging spells or attacks against champions or buildings deal 13 additional magic damage and grants 10 gold per unique spellcast. This can occur up to 3 times per 30 seconds. Killing minions and non-epic monsters slows Tribute generation [insert other stats related to quests here]

Something like this would make force this item out of the inventory of solo laners(top, mid, jungle) and still allow bot lane to benefit. This will require support to stay near their ADC for most of the game. To allow support roaming at later stages of the game perhaps a stat stating a time that tribute flows freely no matter where you are could be put in [example: At 20 Minutes tribute passive generates globaly]. I am aware this will effect bard greatly as Bard roams for chimes. It would force bards to optimize their roaming for chimes.

This isn't perfect but an idea that seems to be quite a bit better than the current option. "CS is not the supports" but as an APC or even a non APC supp you have the option to greed a bit of CS to help gain your items. As support I most definitely push out a wave when no one is taking it and its free gold. Just some feedback on my opinion and thoughts related to the support item changes.