Manaflow band needs a cooldown timer!!

NazguI·Nov 20, 2017·85 votes·1,600 views

I love the manaflow band, it helps with sustain so much lane with mana heavy champs, but I never know when it's coming up.

It's all guesswork, because when I'm trying to hit a skillshot I'm not really paying attention to the timestamp of when I used it and waiting 60 secs.

It would just seem way more useful to have a little cooldown icon like your keystone does about your abitilies or something, or maybe in the rune panel, so players can keep track of when it's coming up and plan abilities around that.

That's all I gotta say on it, anyone else agree with me?

9 Comments

Friendly RamNov 20, 20176 votes

a rioter has already announced plans for it, just not this patch unfortunately.

AlexJFrost666Nov 20, 20174 votes

I*[sg-jinx]* 100% absolutely agree with you!

Z3SleeperNov 21, 20172 votes

They said it's a WIP right now. They're gonna do a pass for all lesser runes with cooldowns or durations.

This includes Taste of Blood, Manaflow Band, Presence of Mind, Scorch, etc.

Built to TyltNov 20, 20171 votes

I dunno. I feel it isn't that hard to notice when you used it. it's 60 seconds.

OwntrolfNov 21, 20171 votes

I think you mean all the "Free skills"

need a lot of WIP

for example, even if you have Mana Band or Presence of Mind You are at 40 mana but skill costs 80 mana to use. You still cant cast it

RavenMagusNov 21, 20172 votes

Well, the skills do say "mana is refunded" not "skill is free". So that's working as intended; whether it should be that way or not is another question.

flibitydooNov 22, 20171 votes

it's also better if the mana is refunded rather than the mana is free for the purposes of enabling item 3010 which will give you health based on mana consumed. if it was free, you consume 0 mana and gain 0 health, whereas the refund would give you back the mana and restore some health on cast.

ahferroin7Nov 21, 20171 votes

Manaflow band doesn't eliminate the cost, it refunds it. That's why it interacts the way it does with Lissandra's passive (your free spell only restores the 8% missing mana, since her passive removes the cost of the spell, which arguably makes it kind of broken on her since she can proc manaflow with no mana and restore 8% of her max), and with Tear of the Goddess (you get a 115% refund when you proc manaflow while you have Tear).

It's no different from trying to buy something that has a refund, you can't buy it unless you have the money in the first place, regardless of if the refund would cover it or not.