[Poll] Tear or ROA, which do you prefer?

Both mana items have their uses and niches, here are some pros and cons with them, feel free to add your two cents here if I missed anything or if you think otherwise: Edit: I forgot to add both as an option, try to pick your favorite anyways

Tear/Arch Angels' Staff/Seraphic Embrace: Pros:

• Your early game mana problems are easily taken care of
• 750 Gold is a lot a cheaper of a mana burn fix than ROA
• Gives 1,000 mana when fully stacked and has a shield
• Ryze married it

Cons:

• Building a tear in the lanning phase does hardly anything for keeping up the tempo and sets you back 750 gold initially, it helps with farming but not so much with trading
• A barrier can be nice, but it doesn't help for the rest of the time when it is on CD, you will be a lot more squishier
• It takes a significant amount of time to stack a tear/arch angel, but it is a bit faster when you complete the arch angel staff
• The item build/path is clunky and horrible, yes the 750 gold isn't too much of a big jump, but you have to then build a needlessly large rod and then another 1,100 gold to boot to combine the items, those are big jumps when keeping up with the enemy
• Ryze married it

Rod of Ages Pros and Cons:

Pros:

• Item build/path is very fluid and easy to keep up with the enemy, you can build a blasting rod first and still have some ap to fight back or bits and pieces based on your needs
• Catalyst helps you stay in lane longer
• It is gold efficient, you take care of your mana issues when fully stacked (+800 mana), you get a chunk of HP (+500 HP), and you have one of the biggest base AP items in the game (+120 AP)
• You don't need to do anything to stack it other than wait, it will stack by itself in a set amount of time of 10 minutes

Cons:

• You can't start stacking ROA until you complete it, which is a lot longer down the road than tear
• While it is gold efficient, it is not item slot efficient, an Seraphic Embrace + Rylais offers much better stats and passives on the table in the long run for two item slots, but ROA offers a bunch of stats that are nice but you can get from other sources that were mentioned but these just offer raw number stats while the other combination offers a lot more bang for your buck (such as grievous wounds, the many slows from Rylais, more AP with Seraphic Embrace with a shield, Liandry's Burns, Zhonyas, etc). The point is you burn a slot that you could have had a lot more nifty gadgets in it for gold efficiency
• It takes 10 minutes to stack, if you are an early game monster, you will be hindered for a while. It also acts like mejais when if you are really behind and complete it really late, it will be really hard to make any use of it for a long time
• Passive is useless after level 18

So that is my two cents on the two ways to solve your mana issues, what are you preferences?