Without alacrity, boots of mobility are pretty useless now
With alacrity, taking damage put you down to the same speed as all the other tier 2 boots in a fight. Now they put you down to tier 1 speed and it just feels awful.
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Buy five of these with 
and you should be good to go.
http://rainbowdash.net/file/rarity-20130411T034123-4j7pzkx.png
Thats kind of the point of Mobis.... they're meant for moving very fast when NOT in combat.
That's the point. They are for getting from point a to point b, not running someone down in a fight. They are ment for champions who already have solid engage/mobility like Lee Sin, Blitzcrank, and various junglers.
Way back in Patch 4.3, support itemization was overhauled to make supports feel more impactful instead of just like ward slaves. Up until this point, mobi boots granted Tier 2 boots speed while in combat, but in order to make the boots a good support option, they were made 200g cheaper in exchange for Tier 1 boots speed while in combat. Since Season 4, gold has been significantly more available and mobi boots have been overshadowed by other support boot options like Lucidity boots. I propose that we revert the 4.3 changes, increasing mobi's cost by 200g and giving it Tier 2 boots speed while in combat, but +105 movespeed out of combat.
movement speed runes, mana regen runes, spellvamp runes compensate. and give you an advantage before the match begins, that your opponent can't buy during the match. Also those boots were meant for roamers. if you're constantly in combat, those other boots (swiftness? whatever the silver ones are been a long time since I played this much) are better for constantly maintaining a better speed than boots with other perks. unless you're a jungle, a shroommo or plan to be moving between lanes often for another reason you don't need those boots.