About the CDR changes alongside the upcoming Mage Rework

ValyrianBlade··1 votes·343 views

I don't want to get in to anything too severe about a first draft rework of AP items. One thing I've noticed is that we're bringing a lot more CDR options to the table in order to (and I paraphrase Riot here) prevent limiting mages rune options due to needing CDR.

That's great. It's awesome that Mages / APCs will get more CDR options. On that note though, can we please go a bit further?

Can we get one of the new items at 15% CDR, so mages can continue to make use of running 9 scaling CDR glyphs? That set-up has been useless since preseason 6 mastery changes and the change of CDR on lucidity.

Can we get enough strong AP items WITHOUT CDR, to give meaningful tradeoffs to champions who opt to not build CDR in their items?

I like that we're getting CDR options, I really do. I just don't want it to go so far that we have the opposite problem - instead of CDR runes being a necessity they become useless because you'll reach the 40/45% CDR by default even without them. There need to be enough options to let mages consistently get the CDR cap without runes, but simultaneously enough options to let them continue to use these runes and benefit from powerful non-CDR items.

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AsphodelNext1 votes

You can use a rune page that has some CDR runes and some AP runes. It's not like you're not allowed to run any CDR just cause you can't run all CDR.

Like, 6 scaling CDR glyphs is 10%, and 9 scaling CDR glyphs + 1 scaling CDR quint is 20%. So you can hit your CDR cap without wasting anything.

ValyrianBlade1 votes

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You can use a rune page that has some CDR runes and some AP runes. It's not like you're not allowed to run any CDR just cause you can't run all CDR.

Like, 6 scaling CDR glyphs is 10%, and 9 scaling CDR glyphs + 1 scaling CDR quint is 20%. So you can hit your CDR cap without wasting anything.

Yes, I know that. I'm simply saying that running 9 Glyphs and 0 Quints is no longer a good option. I run 6 scaling CDR glyphs on most pages now. It feels pretty bad to have wasted the 3 extra glyphs though.

The problem isn't only needing CDR glyphs, it's not being able to use all of them. Since they're reworking anyways, they may as well fix both problems at once!

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