Originally Posted by SoBeNirvana

There was a period in the game where Ranged carries were nerfed into the ground. It did not bring melee carries into viability. It made the game all tanky dps all the time in all the lanes.

Originally Posted by axesandspears

It is hard to call CDR, Mana, and Armor an overpowered combination.

The only thing about Frozen Heart that has stood out as a problem was the cdr back when it was 25%, and Frozen Heart + Randuin's Omen pushed any bruiser or tank the cdr cap. That issue was fixed.

Frozen Heart reduces an already very powerful source of damage. By my calculations, a Malphite using Ground Slam, Randuin's Omen, and Frozen Heart brings a fully-built carry's dps down to roughly 200 from 800 damage per second. Most mages and bruisers can be assumed to have between 200-300 dps unhindered. These numbers are pre-mitigation, armor will of course reduce those numbers further.

Originally Posted by Xypherous

Quite honestly, I have no idea. There's a lot of moving parts here on changes.

2. Regeneration/Siege

This we liked, but the fact that it was tied to a movement speed item and a magic resist item was a little weird. It didn't quite seem to click, so tanks that had to itemize regeneration kind of picked up a bunch of stats randomly.

Also, the tri-fecta of Warmogs / Spirit Visage / FoN was actually incredibly hard to get a good sense of balance. Mostly because it turns "on" super-late but mostly because they build on each other a little too much. While we like the build of 'I am unstoppable brick wall of regeneration' - we think that right now it's both really hard to get *and* overpowered when finished and we'd really like to see it be a more viable build that's more in line when it does happen so people feel like they aren't taking long-gambits but more of a choice on how to itemize.

3. Movement Speed

The whole paradigm of X class gets a MS item Y is actually starting to show where the faults are. In order to specialize for movement speed, you have to build into a very specific item - which naturally creates this weird power gap where a class that is perfectly catered by item Y gets MS while every other class pays a gold tax of unwanted stats to get the same mobility. This naturally leads to people wanting more MS/X items for a specific class - which seems to suggest that maybe what people actually want is more ubiquitous movement options that don't consume slots rather than a continuous stream of one-off items with MS% randomly on it.

For example, Lich Bane is the AP item with movement speed on it. That kind of screws every AP caster who doesn't want Lich Bane or can't use it well. This leads to this weird case where randomly, some class of characters get faster just because they can use Lich Bane well. While it's nice to have a few items like this - it's probably a sign as a whole that people want to be able to somehow spend more gold to get mobility rather than they want catered items that have MS on the item.

Originally Posted by SoBeNirvana

There was a period in the game where Ranged carries were nerfed into the ground. It did not bring melee carries into viability. It made the game all tanky dps all the time in all the lanes.

Originally Posted by NotBuzzJack

If Frozen Heart is so OP why did you guys never nerf it?

Originally Posted by FlutterShen

Well wait a second. Let's think this through. What would be the benefit of Life on Hit if it's just a worse lifesteal? ....

Originally Posted by Xypherous

Hm. This probably isn't a good time to mention that I removed FoN and scattered its various passives and pieces to the wind onto other items.

On the plus side though, Tanks now get to build Warmog's and not feel silly.

Although you'll still be able to build every piece of FoN used to offer. It just won't be rolled up into the particular stat combination. This counts against my spoiler count for the day. :P

Originally Posted by SoBeNirvana

There was a period in the game where Ranged carries were nerfed into the ground. It did not bring melee carries into viability. It made the game all tanky dps all the time in all the lanes.