With Will of the Ancients being removed from the game and all items having spell vamp removed, is the intention to remove this stat entirely from the game? If so, does this mean the Spell Vamp runes and masteries will be removed and/or replaced? Thanks.
How about Akali?
I don't think they will take away the runes but the mast is the only real SV now. It's a good nurff to champs like alki who can sustain forever. But seems like it killed vlad. Woa was a core item to me with him and I like it on most my Ap champs to get some sustain and CDR. Now the Ap heal off mana expenditure seems odd and works but now with no mana regen that seems like it will be an issue too.
i have a serious gripe about this. i main malz. and after will of the ancients has been removed all that's left for spell vamp is
hextech gunblade. i feel that the removal of spell vamp is very unfair. the balance is now in favor of ad champs. ad champs do a lot of damage to mages. ** life steal can be bought in game very early and cheep. 900 for
vampiric septor at 10% life steal.** mages cannot get any spell vamp until the hextech gunblade is complete at a cost of 3400. and is the only item to provide any sustain for a mage. the removal of will of the ancients does not really make a lot of sense to me. while keeping life steal an easy sustain option for ad champs. so we took out will of the ancients to prevent 
from getting op? really? then lets take away life steal from 
too then right?... no i dont think that is the right move. there are no sustain items for ap now. untill 3400 later. and its only a mere 15% of damage. at least will of the ancients had the 
witch gave 12% spell vamp.
my main gripe is that life steal is very affordable for ad. and can stack. more than one life steal items. 
we mages who liked to use spell vamp only had a few options. even at full build with an 750+ ap build the spell vamp with malz was just enough to run away and go kill some minions or camps and come back in the fight 15 sec later. the life steal on ad champs is so great that they can heal back to full while in the fight. 
i dont think its fair to have so many options for ad and life steal to be so affordable while making mages who want sustain to have to pick between the only option of spell vamps at a low ap level of 80. or building ap. the hextech gunblade is of little use unless i have lots of ap to do damage. since it only heals for 15% of damge done. i have a hard time healing off of any thing. at the very least give the the 12% spell vamp back again at a cost of 1200 that was still a high cost just to get a 12%SV
bottom line. how is it fair that ad gets life steal from as cheep as:
$350 8% life steal with
$450 3% life steal with
im not going to list them all. but go to items, and check the life steal box and you will see 19 items.
even when spell vamp was an option i don't remember more than 3 items available for spell vamp
if any thing there should have been more spell vamp items put in. just because there are a few good players out there who have the ability to smash with spell vamp does not merit taking it out of the game. yea it's tough to play against a or an with so much life steal. but we don't take away life steal. its part of the game. gotta play smart to take down champ with lots of heal.
