User blog comment:Jens Ingels/The support item rework (suggestion)/@comment-973379-20150504002943/@comment-3271569-20150504163142

This counts for most of the 3 income items. In competive play you still see less and less tier 2 income items. For a good reason, combat stats & real support items are just more effeciënt. This is one of the reason why I think it would be better to transform it to tier 2 rather than upgrading it. It's not that it gives impressive or broken combat stats in the first place & it will pay out from investing into 800 gold of vision without any combat stats.