Am I the only one noticing this? When I started playing lol, it was about 800 -900 ap at full build, now its 700ap. Why is riot slowly taking way ap from items. Mages do not have sustain damage, they have burst. How doe you expect a mage to function when you are slowly lowering the overall AP in the game.
Gone are the days of glass canons.
nm10103 votesThunderlords or dft gave everyone an extra ap ratio so the total ap available had to go down.
WoonStruck3 votesTry grabbing blue buff. That's another 135 AP. Multiplies with deathcap for a total of 55.25% bonus AP.
still gives you 935 AP. At a minimum. Many champions have higher than 1000 base mana at 18.
Be like NB3 and replace your boots for 1k AP easy. You can probably get away with it with Lichbane+Luden's.
Also, mages have too much burst+utility atm. Stop complaining. They deserve additional nerfs if anything.
AirKingNeo1 votesNo one builds that though. Everyone is going 
or sometimes get Abyssal and no deathcap.
WoonStruck1 votesWell now Rylai's will be replaced with Abyssal.
Erockandroll2 votesTry grabbing blue buff. That's another 135 AP. Multiplies with deathcap for a total of 55.25% bonus AP.
Be like NB3 and replace your boots for 1k AP easy. You can probably get away with it with Lichbane+Luden's.
Also, mages have too much burst+utility atm. Stop complaining. They deserve additional nerfs if anything.
I mean in theory, AP shouldn't be the end all goal of mages, Generally, your damage is. So if a mage has too much Damage + utility, Substitute some of the available AP with Mpen. And as a result, you can still get the same level of damage at the cost of your utility.
And it's that mentality that makes me feel that everybody is going to dump Crystal Scepter after the changes, simply because it isn't high AP.
Though it isn't always accurate to say that all AP champs are Burst. Ryze and Cass are both DPS champs. And for AP/AS attackers like Kayle or Teemo, you might trade AP for AS.
hehe u lose2 votesNightblue3 :) He gets like 1000+ AP a lot in his videos
Miror B2 votesTo be fair, they're also lowering the amount of total AD available (or at least trying to). While I'd really like to see a few changes to certain items (namely having ones that just offer raw stats but no passives and ones with weaker stats but better passives), the lack of available AP in the game is to me a better thing as it prevents things like anivia/viktor/ryze from being able to entirely 1-shot tanks even if they stack full MR.
Brighton1 votesJust rito things.
Borkahn1 votesI think it might also be the taking away of the mastery that provided 5% extra ability power. Instead now it only boost abilities by 2%. Abilities not ability power. So some of your ap was probably lost in that one.
Jbels1 votesI don't think we're remembering the same game. 2 seasons ago 700 AP was pretty much the hard cap on how high your AP could be. The only champion that could ever really reach 800-900 was Veigar
bad arcade kitty1 votesthere incomes another nerf to mage items, they nerf ap on rylai soon
EtyrnaI1 votesI find it difficult to break 600 AP between a lot of the utility items I need to build.
Keyword : 'Need' utility just to be a factor.
Leo10241 votesi play mostly mages and i'm fine with their damage atm, they're honestly the most balanced of the champions imo
