Anyone remember Sapping Barbs?

TehNACHO·Feb 26, 2015·20 votes·1,125 views

Spirit of the Ancient Golem

UNIQUE - SAPPING BARBS: You gain 60 HP/5 and 45 MP/5 for 5 seconds whenever you take damage from a monster. Additionally, monsters who attack you bleed for 5% of their maximum health over 3 seconds (maximum 150 damage). Sapping Barbs cannot deal lethal damage.

It was a way to help improve the clear times of the Tank Junglers that buy the Tank Jungler item (at the time Spirit of the Ancient Golem for all you new players out there), since the item had only defensive stats and none for offense.

I liked the ability to clear proficiently as a Tank while itemizing as a Tank, so I just think it would be nice if some version of this were to be implemented into our Juggernaut Enchant.

10 Comments

MrBuffingtonFeb 26, 20153 votes

I think they more or less transitioned these to the buffs you get from smiting camps (ie Gromp), which basically means it's not a tank jungler exclusive buff, which is probably a contributing factor to the declining diversity in jungle

Spacesuit SpiffFeb 26, 20152 votes

The new machete is much the same. Autos deal a flat DoT, and you get bonus regen while clearing.

SookoFeb 26, 20151 votes

I remember, and I remember when it gave Tenacity too item 3070

Bump this!

WaffletimewarpFeb 27, 20151 votes

EDIT: Well poo y'all beat me to it.

JedenVojakFeb 27, 20151 votes

Well, the regen from the Hunter's knife and it's upgrades will not match the regen of the stinging barbs, so it does exist but sustain is worse.

That said, barbs was really never that good in the first place imo. It was the %bonus health and armor that made it rawsome, since it synergized with the rest of what you were already doing in the first place.

KaipopFeb 27, 20151 votes

I liked spirit stone it made many junglers viable

B3ERFeb 27, 20151 votes

Tank jungle buffs? Noooooo, Riot will never do that.

revliledpembrokeFeb 28, 20151 votes

They kinda did though.

B3ERFeb 28, 20152 votes

Yeah, I'm quite baffled. But I've also played this game long enough to not get too optimistic too soon.

junglerboy16Feb 27, 20151 votes

they replaced that with the Gromp buff, the only issue is that EVERY jungle also has access to that same clear speed boost, so it actually doesn't help tanks in the least.