Chalice is nice... Usually I get meki pendant to start (have clarity and ghost for summoner spells) and that's enough to keep me in lane til 8 or so. I sometimes get chalice if necessary. Then I'm going for Rylai's as it's HOT on Heimer. boots and Mejai's. Maybe Rod of Ages if you're rich enough. So on.

If you are considering putting RoA on Heimer, you might as well build that first. By the time you build Rylai's, Chalice, Boots, and Mejai's, RoA is not gonna be a viable choice due to time.

Uh, RoA? The stats it gives when matured are nothing to shrug off. It also is the only real item besides Mejai's(and to a lesser extend Tear) that he should build very fast. There's no need to rush Archangels (rushing the tear is a good idea though), no need for Rylai's/Zhonyas/Void Staff/Deathfire Grasp/etc to be rushed either.

Archangels isn't gonna give you much of an AP boost until you get some mana behind it. If Mana regen isn't a problem, then no need to get that first either. If you want to rush it to proc sooner, you could just rush the tear alone and wait on upgrading it. You get 400 Mana from it, but you also already get 350 from the Tear. So no I don't see the need to rush that unless you really have a Mana problem, and that's with all other solutions like Golem or Chalice or Clarity being considered as well.

There's just nothing on Heimer besides RoA and Mejais that *has* to be built first or very quickly to be effective. You miss out a lot more on building RoA later than building Archangels or Zhonya's or Void staff a bit later. If you are looking for a item to rush, why not make it the item designed to be rushed?

I was referring to early game specifically. If the first item you get is Archangels, the AP it will give you THEN is not gonna be that much. Late game yes it gives you a lot of AP because you have more mana, hence I said "Until you get some mana behind it."

Basically I meant you don't need to build it first for it to climb to 202 AP.