I would understand this insanity if ap items were nerfed across the board so we never had to play mages ever again.
However Riot seem to be shoehorning players into picking kassadin/ryze since they were the only mages who didn't have their itemization nerfed.
They didnt NERF them. They increased overall gold gain: More gold from turrets/ bounty system for champs so more gold/ more gold over time/ more gold from minions/ more gold from jungle. So they increased prices to balance accordingly.
Read the patch notes properly before posting please.
Nobody remember they basically buffed every single AP item last season :P.
Roa was kinda nerfed, they did increase the cost.
I've turned to running a rune page that gives me 10/5 mana regen and that eats my entire rune page
I've had to use this for Janna support and if I go mid with anivia, Morgan's, Shri, iris a, exc. I'm pritty sure that will be the tune page I run for that as well
What does this do?
It forces us to lose early game power as a Mage to to have mana
I used to be able to spend 150g on mana pots per back and then I would be able to match a resource less champion like zed or yas, now I can't
Why?
I run out of mana then I can't do anything vs them
The potion removal heavily needed mages early game and forced them to rush mana items, needing our mid game power as well
But late game didn't improve at all... So why was early and mid nerfed if we don't get any real late game buffs?
It's not like mages were overbearing before these changes
All they did was make mages worse by being unable to supliment mana issues with the mana potions
As anivia if I was vs a yas or zed and losing I would back and get 5 mana potions and focus on wave clear because I knew I couldn't fight then, now I don't have that option so I have to back much more often so they can push much harder, resulting in me falling farther behind and opening the map up for the enemy team due to dead towers giving them safer access to our side of the map and their team getting gold for it
