Why don't we just remove ruby sightstone?

Tentakill Myself·Sep 10, 2015·2 votes·508 views

It's not a valuable pickup on any support at any stage in the game unless your build is complete, and it's clear riot has no plans to buff it. It has no purpose other than being a massive noob trap.

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PartholonianSep 11, 20152 votes

Its purpose is to give you something to do with gold at the very late game if you already have sightstone and your build is otherwise complete (or your inventory is full and there's nothing else you can afford this back). It serves this purpose about as well as it can without becoming rushworthy (which would damage early - mid game for people who currently sit on regular sightstone for 30+ min).

Possibly it could be replaced by a tear style mechanic so that regular sightstone actually turns into a ruby over time, if there was a good way to keep people from spamming wards in the fountain to insta-stack (maybe just counting wards placed outside your base would be sufficient). Then you literally couldn't waste gold buying it early (or at all) and people who buy a sightstone early and use it regularly would be rewarded by a free upgrade to their most likely gold starved roles.

E.g.: 150 HP (the current amount), +10 for each sightstone ward you have placed outside your own base. At 400 total HP (same as current ruby; requires 25 stacks) it transforms into ruby and gains the fifth charge (and maybe even the much asked for one charge per X minutes in the field).

Any step away from "if you want your team to have vision, YOU have to not have gold" is a good step. This isn't the most ambitious way to improve vision but I think it would be better than the status quo (albeit very slightly, because most games nobody builds a ruby anyway, but even partial stacks would help offset supports' exp and gold starvation at least a little bit, and it's power nobody else can access without ACTUALLY PLACING WARDS ON THE MAP, which would be awesome).