I want 18 in Ferocity but none of the Keystone masteries are really good on him. You don't build crit so Warloard's Bloodlust is useless. You don't auto attack enough in how a lot of people play him to make Fervor in Battle useful. Which leaves Deathfire Touch which isn't that good on him care you don't build a lot of bonus AD on him so the bleed with be minor at best. A lot of these masteries aren't good on bruisers and fighters.
This post was submitted awhile ago, so I don't know if you figured out your idea on his masteries yet, but I think you are greatly under estimating the value of Fervor of Battle. At lvl 1, I think it's like 1.3 bonus damage per stack, and increasing as you level. Now, you don't have to actually CONSTANTLY auto attack to keep these stacks, it has easily a 5+ second timer on it before it goes away, if not closer to 10 ( can't remember exact time ). Now, if you play Renekton a lot, you will notice that his W applies on hit affects for each strike; 2 normally, 3 when empowered, and Fervor of battle is an on hit effect.
Not only is Fervor of Battle great for extended fights; e.g. bruisers, but it combos amazing with Renektons W. Let's say you are level 3 and ready to do some damage trades, at level 3 Fervor adds 2.16 damage per stack, or 21.6 damage at max 10. So the damage bonus alone on Renektons W is 42 or 63 damage depending on if empowered, not to mention any other additional auto attacks that you do, which is a substantial amount of damage at that level.
I personally would use this mastery on Renekton; even though he is a physical caster, he still uses auto attacks, especially in prolonged fights ( where Fervor excels the most ). At lvl 18 Fervor adds 84.6 damage per auto attack when max 10 stacks, ( spells and auto attacks give a stack, even on minions/monsters ), so you are doing an additional 85 damage per auto attack level 18, and if you went bruiser, that's roughly a 30% damage increase on your auto attacks, and an additional 240 damage on empowered W.
I'm assuming you pit your remaining 12 points in resolve? What do you think is better on renekton, runic blessing (increased heals and shields) or veteran scars (% increased health)
@ EndlessSorcerer; Fervor may only apply it's damage to champions, but it stacks with every spell and auto attack you use on ANY enemy, including minions and jungle monsters. For example, I have been playing Irelia with Fervor, and it's amazing. You get the stacks from minions and with your true damage from W, you can MELT people fast at level 2-3, almost always a kill, the damage potential is unexpected from your opponent. I was versing a Fiora with Irelia, at level 2, the Fiora q's in and I cast my E ( stunned ), auto attack twice with 10 stacks of Fervor and W active, and it took more than half Fiora's life and she flashed away in panic; if only it was level 3 and I had a point in Q =/
@ Veraska; I havn't played Renekton yet on the new patch, was actually just about to try him out, been loving Irelia atm. But even on Irelia I run 18/12/0. I don't know if this meta atm will continue, but currently it's about snowballing. I don't even run TP as top atm, I went back to ignite. With 18/12/0 Irelia ( mainly for Merciless damage increase, and Dangerous game ) and ignite, I have snowballed top. Even if I can't make plays bot, I almost always win top with 18/12/0 + ignite at level 3. With Irelia this means zoning from CS already, pulling jungler top away from bot ( use your jungler bot instead of TP this way ), and you can continue to snowball kills and snowball harder since you have Herald control.
To continue my suggest Fervor of Battle mastery on Renekton, just played a game with it, the damage potential on Renekton is far more than what was before patch. I love this mastery on him. I was versing Yasuo, which should be a win for the Renekton any ways, but at level 3 I had 10 stacks from hitting minions, and took 3/4's of Yasuo's life with the normal E/W/AA/Q combo with his shield active. If I was expecting that much damage I would of ignited and chased with second E, but the damage I did to him because of Fervor caught me off guard so much.
Here is the match details, I ran 18/12/0 masteries.
http://matchhistory.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/#match-details/NA1/2008356424/50343495
Edit: Mostly Diamond and Plats in game.
The damage from Fervor of Battle really surprised me. I had to face a renekton as Vlad. Typically his level 3 combo does about half my health if he catches me. This Renekton flat out killed me - no ignite, just the one combo... dead. Was like :o.
So ya I will have to show Renektons a little more respect in the new season hehe.
