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Loving the new Stoneborn Pact

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When I first looked at the new Stoneborn Pact I'll be honest I was underwelmed, the numbers don't appear to be anything amazing. At 3000Hp, a champion when procing SBP will heal around 80Hp over 2 seconds, half for ranged. Good but not spectacular. But I had not considered the lack of a cooldown on applying the mark, and right now has made this mastery one of my favourites for one reason. Beacuse it's given one of my favourite champions the push he needed to be truly outrageous again.

Taric Taric is a good champ. He can work at top (never tried it myself though), and support, but currently his support has been a bit meh. it has it's problems. His healing on a single target is garbage, and his W shield stacks off of the allies health, meaning it's better on a jungler / tank than the ADC, who you'd want to put it on. But in comes Stoneborn Pact. With Taric's silly cooldowns (or lack of) and using the item 3025 with a huge amount of armour, you're applying this mark to multiple champs every second It's really helped make up for Taric's rather pitiful healing and for that Riot I have to say a massive thankyou.

I can't wait to try it on Sion support as well. A good amount of CC and a silly high amount of health.

TLDR: Taric + SBP = Truly truly truly outrageous. Anyone else having good time with the new mastery and with which champions?

7 Comments

OurLestrade3 votes

I'm still not even noticing the heals from the mastery so far. It's like Knight's Vow: Sounds sexy, but in practice incredibly meh.

khorney1 votes

Umm you sir are playing taric inefficient. Taric is basically a melee version of janna and raka and with that I playing him as such. Wind speakers blessing and face of the mountain ruby ss redemption

Best of the 31 votes

I'd be interested knowing why you think I'm playing him inefficiently. I don't play Taric all that seriously, I prefer Karma or Sion if I want to win as a support, but I think I'm playing him ok as it stands.

Windspeakers is great for the extra stats it gives but I find I can only apply that to one person effectively, hence I take it with Karma. With the almost constant CC from Taric I have a feeling the new mastery might edge it out slightly.

khorney1 votes

any heals u do which is ur q which is aoe applies it....... taric has no engage.

Best of the 31 votes

Yes, your heal on your ally will apply Windspeakers. And if, and it's a big if, other allies are standing right next to them it'll apply to them too. I personally find it doesn't happen consistantly enough to make it worth while for me.

And sorry, I'm not sure I understand. What does Taric not having much engage have to do with this?

khorney1 votes

its not a big if because ur heal procs off ur ally who u have 2 on so with that your chnaces of healing are increased so its not hard to do

cinomenapplebae1 votes

I've been playing Taric jungle alot, Try it; it's really fun. Your spells will almost always be up with blue since you can spam everything with your passive and your e flash ganks are amazing.

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