@Riot: Ruby Sightstone. What's being done with it? Will it simply be left as a lackluster item?

darkdill··2 votes·291 views

With Greater Stealth Totem being so much more cost-efficient than upgrading to Ruby Sightstone, it's clear that the only reason one would upgrade to RSS is if they are dealing with a 100-0 assassin like Talon and need 250 extra health to survive. Otherwise it's simply better to get GST, which is MUCH cheaper and pays for itself after 3 wards, whereas RSS takes much more.

I would certainly love to see RSS get more on it than just 250 extra health compared to regular Sightstone. IMO, what could really help for supports and support tanks would be giving Ruby Sightstone some mana regeneration. +50% base mana regen would be a fairly decent amount.

Why mana regeneration? Because adding more health onto RSS would be abused by Lee Sin and Elise, who are typical jungle users of Sightstone. Elise would not benefit largely from mana regeneration because of her massive costs, while Lee Sin is an Energy user and thus would get no benefit at all from such a change.

What are your thoughts on this? Is there a reason Ruby Sightstone hasn't been looked at lately?

3 Comments

Sailor Mint1 votes

You need an Oracle's Lens. You can't afford to recall for wards every 4-5 minutes. You want to always have 2-3 wards out and enough charges left to be able to reposition them when needed.

balbraaksel1 votes

Health means nothing against a team with a lot of % health damage. 1000 health as maximum or 10000 health as maximum, it's all 100%. For that I hate the current Sightstone + Ruby Sightstone, + Soraka for reasons probably well known by now. (that it's HORRIBLE on her.)

Devack The Holy1 votes

Personally, I'd like to see Riot pull a Machete with sightstone. Upgrade it with different effects on Exhaust (or other SS, such as a green one that increases the amount of healing from Heal) and have it able to be enchanted (such as one that gives the ability to extend the duration of Oracle Lens's oracle buff.)

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