Taric's mana costs in late-game: Too high?

darkdill·May 15, 2014·9 votes·758 views

Whenever I play Taric, even if I get Frozen Heart AND Iceborn Gauntlet, I end up with mana burnouts when using Gemcraft to spam spells. Primarily, it is Imbue that eats up too much of Taric's mana, and it's not even for "making decisions in combat". That's just a tired Riot excuse for why healers have to be held back.

The other issue is that Taric cannot really use Chalice of Harmony or its upgrades due to item slots that have to be used for other items, and because getting a Grail will cause severe CDR overload (leading to wasted stats).

I think Gemcraft could be slightly altered to restore some mana when you hit enemy Champions with it. Rewards using your skills aggressively, but not for farming.

6 Comments

InciflahrdusMay 16, 20143 votes

Generally Taric needs kit rework.

But for now, slapping some manaheal on his passive would be nice. I opt for it to be % of Armor, like bonus dmg. Or other way around, % of MR. On Live building MR on Taric, when often needed, seems lackluster.

CaptainWednesdayMay 16, 20141 votes

YES. Since Gemcraft does a tickles worth of damage, maybe let it refund X mana on hit?

Penguin EclipseMay 16, 20141 votes

I tend to think he needs reduced mana costs at all points in the game.

darkdillMay 16, 20141 votes

Reducing the mana costs is something Riot won't do, I know that much. This change I've suggested (hitting Champions with Gemcraft restores mana) is more along their "encourage aggression" plans.

Penguin EclipseMay 16, 20141 votes

You never know. They have been cutting mana costs here and there on a variety of champions lately. Adding some sort of a mana restore would require more work on their part and since they have a VU/ partial rework planned for sometime in the future, I don't seem them doing that.

BearticMay 17, 20141 votes

I liked Taric before they nerfed him. I think they nerfed him to hard after they changed his scaling from mana to amour. Right after the change he was so good but when they nerfed him he became pretty useless. He is pretty good with Graves but that is it.