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Essence Reaver suggestion: Make the item more fun / Unique.

Prismatic·10/14/2014, 2:50:44 PM·1 votes·942 views

item 3508 Essence reaver right now functions like a item 3004 for champions who don't cast spells often, autoattack very often, and need some extra mana regen in their kit. The Item itself is functional; It does the job just fine, but for being a legendary tier item, the unique passive just feels like glorified mana regeneration. If you pick item 3072 you get an awesome shield for lifestealing at full, and an awesome visual to go with it. If you go item 3004, you get item 3042 for having the item maxed out on stacks, giving an awesome new mechanic to your champion with cool visuals acompanying it.

My suggestion would be one of these:

#1: Reflecting off of the fact that this item shares a build path with item 3072, give it a "Mana Shield" function, where if you are at full mana and continue to autoattack, you build up a temporary mana reservoir, dampening the mana cost of spells cast at full mana with "mana shield"

#2: Weaken the existing passive by ~1/3 or ~1/2, and give it a new function entirely. New unique passive would reduce the cooldown of spells cast by a flat time per X Mana restored, but the passive would trigger automatically at full mana. This way, champions could make some really cool plays or functions with the potential to burst cast the same ability twice, but it would be very minimal effect on champions ultimates.

With one of these two potential changes, essence reaver would (IMHO) give it a more unique and FUN experience for using it, rather than a subpar item 3004 for autoattack oriented champions.

TLDR for those who want one: Essence reaver is currently boring in gameplay and asthetics, and a weaker version of manamune. add a new function to the passive that either reduces manacosts at full mana, or reduces cooldowns after a certain amount of mana regained.

Please, voice your opinion on this. What would you do with essence reaver to change it? Is it in need of any change at all? What would you feel fits the item to make it more unique?>

4 Comments

Dominick Destine10/14/2014, 3:16:59 PM1 votes

It never recovered from the last nerf it got.

They "buffed" it from 50 AD to 80 AD but drastically increased its cost, making the item useless.

DrCyanide10/14/2014, 3:41:49 PM1 votes

Honestly, I wonder if the Vamp Scepter part of the Essence Reaver should be swapped out for something building from a Mana Crystal. Should it have a Sheen in it's build path, gaining a Spellblade passive to make it an alternative choice to Trinity Force?

The Essense Reaver feels like the cheep man's Bloodthirster. I don't play ADC often, but when I do end up getting Essense Reaver I almost never notice the mana passive. I buy it for damage, lifesteal, and CDR.

Variks the Loyal10/14/2014, 5:25:09 PM1 votes

Ehh giving it a mana shield makes it too similar to Bloodthirster. Even then, adcs could build both and be unkillable with their shields.

Here's my idea:

UNIQUE Passive - Mana Reap. Drain X (A flat amount) of the targets mana, giving yourself half the amount, and slowing them for 1 seconds.

Making it a flat amount would make it so mana users wouldn't be totally useless towards ADCs. It should probably scale with champion level so it goes better into late, like Sunfire Cape but a bigger number.