Why is it that Essence Reaver needs to crit in order to restore mana? I understand the need for crit as a gate for CDR but why the gate on mana restoration as well? Another question I have is why is the amount mana restored based on your mana pool and not calculated on damage dealt? It just seems really odd snce critical-based marksmen don't typically buy mana items. Wouldn't the mana restoration be so much clearer if it worked in the same manner as lifesteal?
Hard2findAName1 votesit would be too OP if u don't have to crit to gain mana, and if u restore mana based on the dmg u deal, its broke cuz adcs will have an INFINITE MANA POOL THAT LASTS FOREVER
thats my opinion as a bronze player...
Bonipherus1 votesThey can adjust the % manasteal and to tune how much is actually restored you know
Hard2findAName1 votesthere's a reason why u have to gain 3% of your missing MP only. Imagine a fed Lucian spamming skills and AAing while never having to base bcs his mana pool is ridiculous
k idk what im talking abt now
Kiharon1 votes
When in doubt, assume Ezreal is the reason for restrictions on items. Memes aside, if the mana restore was just on-hit, Ezreal probably would have single handedly kept the mana restore so undertuned as to be worthless. (Effectively lowering the costs on his already cheap Q would make his poke even stronger.)
In fact, the item did restore mana based on damage at one point. Before the pre-season marksman update in 5.22, the item didn't have any crit at all (it had lifesteal instead). The mana gain was an on-hit effect that, if I recall correctly, was 2-8% (based on missing mana) of damage dealt. During the marksman update, this was shifted to have crit (as it is one of the "stat-bindings" for marksmen). The crit requirement is probably both to require attacking and further crit item building to be effective.
The %max mana vs flat mana lets it be better if you do build mana without making it too strong if you don't. The %max mana vs % damage dealt makes it more consistent instead of swinging up and down depending on how many items you have and what targets you are hitting. Ironically, the need to crit does make the mana restore somewhat less consistent, but given that you will end up with 50% crit to makes the CDR, it shouldn't be too swingy because of need to crit.
Bonipherus1 votesBack in the day Essence Reaver still was never core on Ezreal but let's not go down that rabbit hole. The item could be tuned in a way that could effectively incorporate restrictions of mana restoration on non-critically striking attacks such as restoring only 2% of damage dealt on auto attacks but 4% on critical strikes (just off the top of my head).