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DPS has healthsleal items. Why can't casters?

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SonicTheHedgedawg ?? Senior Member
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12-11-2009

I think adding an item with a passive that would give abilities vampiric qualities could prove to be quite useful. Casters have low health normally anyway. Why not help them out a little bit.

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Goldenpineapple ?? Senior Member
12-11-2009

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Why not help them out a little bit.
Because that's the point. The vast majority of spells already have special effects, not just pure damage. I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been a pure nuke life drain, a la Bane elemental's brain sap, but it just seems like a mechanic Riot wants to avoid.

Play Fiddle.

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SonicTheHedgedawg ?? Senior Member
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it just seems like a mechanic Riot wants to avoid.
I can see that. I just wondered why.

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Goldenpineapple ?? Senior Member
12-11-2009

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I can see that. I just wondered why.
Because casters are not on the same playing field as dps? The mechanics are supposed to be varied, not similar.

It wouldn't balance well. Physical DPS has to attack minions separately, but a good number of casters can drop a bomb and wipe a massive minion wave. If every dps spell in the game was single-target on autocast, exactly like an autoattack, then maybe.

Casters don't need any 'help.' They're to be played differently.

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SonicTheHedgedawg ?? Senior Member
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Because casters are not on the same playing field as dps? The mechanics are supposed to be varied, not similar.

It wouldn't balance well. Physical DPS has to attack minions separately, but a good number of casters can drop a bomb and wipe a massive minion wave. If every dps spell in the game was single-target on autocast, exactly like an autoattack, then maybe.

Casters don't need any 'help.' They're to be played differently.
well look at how they desalt with that for Rylai's compaired to mallet: decreased effectiveness on AoEs

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jerzy ?? Senior Member
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12-11-2009

Wait wut? I could drain a guy while I'm draining a guy. I think I'd play Fiddlesticks twice as often.

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mermin ?? Senior Member
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12-12-2009

imagine veigar dropping his WMD on you while he has 100hp and heals to full while busting 70% of ur HP. Or amumu healing up from despair

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SonicTheHedgedawg ?? Senior Member
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12-12-2009

despair is an AoE spell so it'd have diminished effectiveness. And veigar is still squishy as hell.

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DerpDerp ?? Junior Member
12-12-2009

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despair is an AoE spell so it'd have diminished effectiveness. And veigar is still squishy as hell.
still, casters are meant to be squishy...vieger can kill champs end game pretty **** fast... which makes up pretty quick. I dont see any problem with caster mechanics at the moment. they in general have more disables and higher AOE and burst damage.

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renticletape ?? Senior Member
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12-12-2009

Doesn't the intervening locket item regen health upon spell cast? That is pretty much like life steal but scales with cool down reduction instead of damage.

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