Spear of Shojin components change
Riot, I do appreciate your effort to rebalance crit item choices. These adjustments seem to demonstrate your interest in more balanced items so as to encourage a wider array of champions being used.
With item itemizations in mind, I would like to request consideration of a new build path for Spear of Shojin.
The item seems tailored for brawlers ideally, with some assassin/ADC consideration implemented with the high AD and health. In its current iteration, I do not see the need for the BF sword in the build path. I feel that a more appropriate substitute would be Caufield's Warhammer.
As it stands, the build path does not seem fitted for the champions that would build it, nor does the cost (3400g?) seem reasonable. My thought, and I could be off-base, would be to make these changes:
[Warhammer+kindlegem+pickaxe] with whatever gold combine cost deemed appropriate. As it stands, these items included in the item formula equate to 2775g. This, plus some gold for that passive effect (I'd recommend keeping it in place as is currently, and then make adjustments as needed), seems like a good starting point. With these changes, I would think the item's base stats be changed to: +50 ad, +20% cdr, +250 health. Perhaps purchase cost be brought down to 3k-3.1k gold.
With those stats in place, all that would be required is to determine what an extra 50 hp and passive effect are worth. The item is differentiated from Black Cleaver by having more offensive stats, while trading in health and armor shred. In terms of maintenance for balancing, just tweak the passive effect %'s so it does not get out of hand.
Through these changes, I feel that the primary users of the item would not be forced into poor item purchases, and more likely to pick an affordable, yet ideally itemized, piece of their core.
TLDR;: Please don't make me buy BF sword to complete the Spear of Shojin. Wasting 1300g for an item-component that doesn't further my bruiser-champion plan is a setback, and potentially a punishment for doing well in game with my champion.