Upgrades to the supports ward items similar to jungle item upgrades.

Rightfully so the support items are designed to be udesirable to non supports. However it is saddening as a support player that this item takes up a slot giving little combat effectiveness so on top of not getting cs or kills where even at full build I am still effectively 3/4s of an item down from everyone else.

So my thinking is why not a late game uprade to make up the difference for those game winning team fights. To make sure not everyone is buying a warding item just make it so the upgrade is only available after making an X amount of gold with the item, where its pretty much impossible to get the upgrade until 25-30 minutes into the game so you absolutely must get it early and be prepaired to deal with the disadvantages of starting the support item most of the game if you are anything but a support.

The upgrades themselves could be things like some more heal/shield power, wave pushing capabilities, AP, resistances, HP, % additional base HP as supports do struggle to afford luxuries like a bunch of bonus HP and with all this true dmg right now... thanks riot, Stop watch item actives, move speed, and so on. It would still cost gold to get these stats and i dont mean for it to be an unfair advantage by any stretch, just a way for a support to upgrade beyond their full build to get some combat effective stats without giving up the wards stupidly.