Manaflow Band, Presence of Mind, and other mana refunds

GlowingIcefire·1/22/2018, 6:21:41 PM·4 votes·657 views

Honestly, Rito, you have to make it so if you have manaflow band, you can cast abilities if your mana is lower than the mana needed. 'Cause really, it gets really annoying when you have to wait for 120 mana to cast an q, but the q doesn't even cost any mana anyway. Same thing with and PoM, what happens when you have 700 mana but PoM is active? Well, you can't cast your ult at all, even if it costs no mana.

I'm not sure if this happens with and passives too, since I never play either, but I assume that it's similar.

[sg-jinx]

Please fix this rito

2 Comments

Chermorg1/22/2018, 6:31:15 PM7 votes

This is intentional. There is a gameplay difference between having the cost refunded and having no cost. One is no absolute cost (i.e. the cast costs 0) and the other is no net cost (the cast costs x and you instantly get x refunded).

One requires much more counterplay because you have to monitor when the enemy may get a fully free cast with no cost. The other, the enemy cannot cast unless they have the mana for it already.

KoreanEzMode1/22/2018, 6:27:28 PM2 votes

I did find it weird that I have a mana-free cast ready, but I need mana to cast the mana-free cast...lol why not just let us cast the ability, then apply the refunded mana % to our mana pool? Then again I can see how this would get OP...ever whatever seconds the cooldown is you get a free ability, which could turn around some manaless chases. again, I find the whole concept odd