I wish Sorcery had more than one "Resource Manipulation" option

stethescope·Mar 3, 2019·12 votes·6,295 views

Like for real why the fuck is Manaflow Band the ONLY resource Rune in the "Empowered Abilities and Resource Manipulation" Tree?

Why is Presence of Mind in the Precision Tree instead of the Sorcery Tree? Why are Phase Rush, Nullifying Orb, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking in the Sorcery Tree?

Put a fucking catalyst passive in there or some shit, covert 10% of damage taken into mana and 5% of Mana costs into HP
Put a mana return on unit kills, something like restore 1% of your missing Mana on unit kill.
Put Presence on Mind in the Sorcery Tree

Literally do anything to make Sorcery more than a glorified secondary for the rest of the trees, make it into what it fucking says it is instead of blatantly lying to everyone taking the tree.

8 Comments

EedatMar 3, 20193 votes

Probabaly because they don't want people starting games with practically infinite mana. If you're really having that much trouble then take Biscuits secondary. Also, movement speed is great on a lot of champs who use sorcery.

stethescopeMar 3, 20199 votes

It's not trouble, it's just annoying and nonsensical that the RESOURCE MANIPULATION TREE, has no options for resource manipulation, I'd be fine if Riot just called it the Secondary tree since that seems to be its only purpose if you're not an Aery Support.

EedatMar 3, 20194 votes

Lmao what? Lots of champs use Comet and Aery

stethescopeMar 3, 20191 votes

And look at that they're all supports, go figure.

EedatMar 3, 20193 votes

Except they're not lol

AckelopeMar 4, 20192 votes

mages in the midlane take comet or aery 90% of the time, phase rush is a good keystone on a surprisingly high number of combo mages or engage champions who want a quick way out. While I agree that the tagline for sorcery lies to us somewhat, it's not like the actual options being given are weak at all.

sit kidMar 4, 20191 votes

Looking at top 20 mid laners according to champion.gg

Zilean, malz, morde and kassadin use aery Velkoz, anivia, veigar and tf use comet sol, swain uses phase rush

So objectively... You're wrong

The problem isnt that all sorcery tree users are supports, but ALL supports are sorcery users because support as a role is divided in healers (aery), poke mages (aery, comet) and tanks (guardian, aftershock)

And looking at the meta we're in, tank supports don't seem to get that much attraction in solo queue

Venging AngelMar 3, 20193 votes

To be fair to the original poster, the placement of some of the runes does seem a bit arbitrary. For example, we still don't have a tree/path really for supports (and btw, Resolve - Guardian-Font-Revitalize barely counts - and is pretty "meh" for utility-based ward mules).