I miss Arcane Blade 5% ap on hit....

Erm.

When Arcane Blade was a thing, mages had much better mana & mana regen options, a common complaint was that mana literally stopped being a thing after their first item was completed.

The point is that, with 100 AP, blade gave you 5 ad.

To get 100 AP, you generally needed to have one (actually one and a half usually) item completed, which is when mana would stop mattering; I.E. mages stopped being AA dependent to CS.

So, in a normal scenario, blade was only a factor in CSing during the early game.. Probably up until about level 6-8.

Where am I going with this? Well, most mages would show upto lane with 26-34 AP, MAYBE 40. This basically meant that blade was giving most mages anywhere from... 1-2 extra AA damage. This damage was mitigated by resistances.

Put bluntly, your early game CSing is not being held back by 1 or 2 extra damage on hit, and blade was a really terrible mastery aside from extreme niche cases, such as Kayle.

nashors tooth has it for its passive.

And atmas implaler and zephyr

I like how nobody in this thread is actually aware of the fact that with the new preseason, they literally gave everyone +5 dmg to auto attacks and single target spells against minions.

Like that used to be a mastery you would take, and give up some out of combat movespeed (5 points) for (and also dip into the cunning tree), but now everyone just has it. Passively. Permanently.

There's no bias between ad or ap here. There's no "last hitting is harder this season than last season". No. Right now, in league of legends, if you auto attack a minion it will deal 5 more points of damage than what your actual listed AD is. If you cast a spell it will hit it slightly harder making last hits easier than ever before even without investing some of your mastery points into it.

Oh and it's also easier, because minions have 0 armour and mag res (this has been a thing for a while), and they have zero resistances for the entirety of the game (unless they are buffed by super minion auras) meaning that at no point do you ever have to calculate or experiment with waveclear/last hitting power, it's literally "how much dmg you do is how much dmg you hit the minion for".

I don't miss this mastery at all. The current system is much better. That +5 bonus is much much larger than what the original spellblade did for you in lane by a longshot. If you find last hitting difficult right now, I'm sorry, but the game will always be hard (honestly your entire life in general might be hard if you find it that difficult with this level of last hitting assistance).

Yeah it helped last it. Especially as a midlaner with Doran's Ring not helping toward last hitting (unlike Doran's Blade and Shield)

i miss it as well...

riot pls remove waterwalking and replace it with arcane blade >.<

[slayer-jinx-wink]

It was a decent mastery when it existed, but it's not needed anymore. A long time ago they changed it so that towers will now take damage based on your AP (see how hard a Veigar can split push as an example) thus making it completely unnecessary.

they added ap damage to the towers, which tbh I dislike since everyone becomes and tower pushing machine with a wave of minions.

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I guess no one misses it after all?

I just want dorans ring to help you last hit just like dorans shield and blade do. Then again dorans ri g give plenty of stats already

I remember when Kayle used to get 60% AP on hit because her E was 40%, Nashors was 15%, and Arcane Blade was 5%. Now it only goes up to 45% AP on hit, but Rageblade helps make up for some of that.