Bring back the aura passive on Locket only
Being that Locket of the Iron Solari is a defensive only item, unlike how Banner of Command is more of a offensive lane pushing item (while neither offer offensive stats, Locket is only used for defensive reasons), it would make sense to have the old mr aura passive. And with the support lane being more and more of an AP mage based role, when it is not used for tanky engage champs, having that 15 extra mr is really important. It was one of those items where you could just add a little bit of defense to your ADC without having to have them sacrifice a build item (or get a later item sooner than desired) to get the MR just to survive laning phase.
Champions like
and
are becoming (or have been) quite common as "mage supports", meant to be almost another carry role similar to an AP mid laner in damage and threat level. Having to sometimes get
before I can even finish my second item (if it is not Maw, which it almost never is) is really hard to work with. Your support use to be able to grab
and then you would have a small MR boost to help you both not get chunked before you even get out from under your tower. But no more.
So, add back that passive to
, or make a new build path for
and add the MR aura back onto
so the bot lane has some more defensive options. Also, if this item was only nerfed because of
being the first go to item for many AP mages, I think its new passive is more than enough to compensate it. 10% more magic damage is a great scaling buff. Which stops it from having its early game power spike and trades it for good late game damage. 100 AP mans a 10 more magic damage, not a whole lot. But if you have 400 or so AP, that is 40 additional magic damage. 25 more than the defense given by the old aura passive of
.
and this item was giving me a ton of extra magic damage close to the end of the game because of his scaling lol.