Stoneplate should have been a sign..
"hey guys, damage is so high that tanks need an item to double their hp in order to survive"
2 years later.. "MAYBE we have damage creep"
really rito? you're NOT SURE?
"hey guys, damage is so high that tanks need an item to double their hp in order to survive"
2 years later.. "MAYBE we have damage creep"
really rito? you're NOT SURE?
That's not why it came out. Stoneplate came out at the same time tank items were being reworked so they could split the itemization that tanks and bruisers had -- pushing bruisers more into flat health and tanks into heavier resists. "Damage creep" had nothing to do with it.
Also, Stoneplate came out when they reworked Guardian Angel into an AD item. Basically, Stoneplate fuliflls the same role GA had on tanks - giving them a second health bar. Stoneplate just does it without 2.5 seconds of stasis on top while requiring active input.
In the past we had defensive items that allowed tanks to be passively tanky instead of lol im only tanky for 5 seconds.
