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What do you think is the ideal Keystone for "Artillery mages"?

Blitzidious·4/25/2016, 11:36:03 PM·4 votes·849 views

EDIT: Why is this being downvoted? I have two genuine questions, which I asked in hopes of getting some thought provoking conversation going. Why?

Artillery Mages are the masters of range, and they leverage that advantage to whittle down their opponents over time from great distances. In turn, Artillery Mages are severely punished when enemies finally succeed in closing in on them, due to their extreme fragility and limited mobility.

Taken from the Dev Blog: Classes & Subclasses.

There are three Keystones that seem to fit well with their description, Deathfire touch, to add some burn late-game to your poke, Thunderlords, for more burst when you get your spells off in succession, or Stormraider's Surge, to somewhat negate your weakness, as long as you're doing your job.

Also, who do you think Qualifies as an Artillery mage? The three obvious ones are: Lux Xerath Ziggs But who else?

5 Comments

Quepha4/25/2016, 11:56:02 PM3 votes

It depends on the champ, and sometimes on the matchup. Lux can really easily proc thunderlord's if she can auto a target, and some artillery mages have ways to hit champions 3 times in quick succession with their spell combo and want the burst from Thunderlord's so you have more kill potential. However, some games it may look like you're going to spend a lot of time in a standoff where you are just firing off your single poke spell for cheap harass, in that case where proc'ing thunderlord's is hard and/or you would just be getting lots of short-cooldown harass off on the enemy you would get more output from DFT. The break-even point between thunderlord's and dft is usually something like 12 seconds of dft uptime vs. 1 proc of thunderlord's.

Angry Monster4/26/2016, 12:49:20 AM1 votes

Its either Death fire or thunder lords. Its more of a play style question than which is right.

Are you a poker that conserves mana and plays ultra safe -death fire

Are you a person that successfully combos you spells for harass - thunderlords