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Rod of Ages

JackAqua·11/27/2013, 9:04:24 PM·7 votes·1,213 views

Rod of Ages

What is this item ?
Most people think it's just a tank item for AP Tanks, such as ...
... and so on :D
Or as a clutch save in sticky situations for this guy :
But it's also something else : A massive sustain item.
It helps most of these Mana hungry short ranged pokees to survive in lane
and it also offers a very good late game scaling.
But there is one tiny problem with this item : It pressures the player into buying it early on and one of its passives gets useless at level 18.
So how can it be changed ?
Here's a rework suggestion :

Rod of Ages - 2900 Gold.
+ + 840 Gold
-450 Health
-450 Mana
-60 Ability Power
-Passive : Grants 20 Health and Mana, and 2 Ability Power per minute. Reaches the maximum amount at 10 minutes.
-Unique Passive - Valor's Reward : Killing a unit restores 0,5% of your maximum Health and Mana over 12 seconds, this effect stacks up to three times. Kills and assists restore 3% of your maximum Health and Mana instantly.

What do you think ?
Personally I think my concept is flawed, somehow, but nevertheless the original Rod of Ages concept is flawed as well and should be seeing some attention ;)
Please post your feedback, which will be constrictive and logical or have the word Teemo in it, in the comments :)

Edit : The Stacking simply means that they'll run simultaneously and that a maximum of 3 Stacks can run at one time, only when the first has ended you can add another stack.

Riot please test this or a concept similar on your fancy server and tune the numbers accordingly ! Please ! :D

11 Comments

SonsofaBastages11/27/2013, 9:31:31 PM1 votes

Would make the item more valuable on more champs - and would be fun to stack with the dangerous game mastery.

I'd be ok if this item was updated to resemble this

MEgoesBOOM11/28/2013, 12:48:49 AM1 votes

i think that this would be good rework for that item, this should be seen by riot and have some serious thoughts bout it.

Morbiusman11/28/2013, 1:18:25 AM1 votes

Quite the idea, as someone who plays such champs. It might make Veigar viable anywhere other than mid lane.

DopeyTaterChip11/28/2013, 2:49:27 AM1 votes

I feel the urge to ditch this item at level 18 every game. I think this is a great idea :)

Nocturnal Biolog11/28/2013, 2:32:33 PM1 votes

In the right direction：）

Go to Heck11/28/2013, 8:21:09 PM1 votes

I definitely agree to this idea, good luck! :D

einnA hcetxeH11/28/2013, 8:57:56 PM1 votes

I think the killing a unit restoring .5% of your max hp and mana over 12 seconds is EXTREMELY overpowered, but I agree it has to change as it is way less worth it later game.

Lvl100 Zigzagoon11/28/2013, 10:33:04 PM1 votes

Level-based healing can definitely feel arbitrary and difficult to utilize in-combat, but I don't think that making the healing quite so constant is the best idea. Perhaps "Every X minutes" you get a heal or "Every X Minions," because the more you spread out the healing the more you have to reduce it. A burst here and there can add up to more healing over all because it's easier to counter-play - opponents against a Rod of Ages user can notice, "oh hey Singed just leveled, he won't be getting more sustain for a while." Or, opponents with access to Grievous Wounds can apply it as soon as Singed levels up. There's an interaction there.

By contrast, the closer the effect comes to Health Regen, the less interaction it breeds. I think there's a medium between "seemingly arbitrary burst of sustain" and "constant sustain," but I don't think on-minion-kill is it. A good idea (notice that they're putting it onto the jungler items! :P ) but I don't think so for Rod of Ages.

EDIT: The jungler item reworks don't have the reward on-kill, it's on-damage. My bad. This is more Cho'Gath's passive, buffed. :P