too many people are buying support items in non support roles

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they're actually figuring out ways to try and fix the whole "people are taking support items into other lanes" thing. they're thinking of making it so that killing a minion temporarily disables the gold income from the items.

imo, that's still a terrible idea tbh :/ yeah that's a horrible idea, you want to know why their so strong?

lets see frost fang Cost 850: Gold Value

20 ability power = Gold 435
10% cooldown reduction = Gold 266.67
50% base mana regeneration = Gold 250
    Total Gold Value = Gold 951.67 

Gold Efficiency*

Frostfang is 111.96% gold efficient without its passive effects.

now if we add the sightstone passive at 400 gold (becuase we dont get the hp from slightstone)

we get

20 ability power = Gold 435
10% cooldown reduction = Gold 266.67
50% base mana regeneration = Gold 250
sightstone = 400
    Total Gold Value = Gold 1351.67 

Eye of Frost is 159.06% gold efficient WITHOUT the passive effect

so of course the other bloody lanes are going to buy, it its bloody fucking OP for the price.

yet at the same time what it upgrades into is TRASH in comparison to it

The raw stats gained from upgrading to are 90.48% gold efficient (15 ability power and 200 health for Gold 950). Note that, once you've completed the Quest, it will also grant you an additional ward in stock.

therefore any support in their right mind would just go on and build thier next core support item be it tanky, utility , + shielding or whatnot.

what riot had BEFORE was a sightstone that woudl cold buy, and even upgrade to give 20% item cdr

we had actives so we woudl want to rush things like for the active effect, and upgrading it removes restriction of killing minions

it was well thought out and well implemented.

these new things are NOT.

its a shitty idea, implemented without proper math, without thinking of the consequences. the T3 items will never be built until the last item because not only are they sub 100% stat efficiency, they give you no useful thing and delay your next core item.

riot completely fucked over the changes...

give us sight-stone and our active items back..

all you did was make it even MORE efficient for non supports to buy the damn item with these changes, and WORSE for the actual support who SHOULD be wanting to upgrade it into t3, but now don't because t3 is trash.