Talk:Mordekaiser/@comment-4696002-20121205191935/@comment-4929329-20121206062245

Wait... you're saying that FoN being removed in favor of Spirit Visage is a bad thing? It's CDR and resists that Morde really likes, as well as making any spell vamp he has more potent. Also, if you don't mind the small amount of money wasted on mana regen, Spirit of the Spectral Wraith opens up a way for you to basically instagib wraiths and push the lane faster than you can say "Gank Morde, he's pushed to our turret". With this new Spirit of the Spectral Wraith, WotA, and Spirit Visage, you can have (20 + 20) * 1.2 = 48% Spell Vamp on all of your spells, or in the case of your ult, 168%. By the time late game comes, you can sell your spirit for another item, as it becomes trash when you don't want to kill creeps, which is why you may not want it in the first place.

Mercurial Scimitar takes a lot of money to build into (More than IE, and it doesn't help as much), and it won't stop the enemy AD Carry from losing 25 - 30% of their HP every time you press E, so I'm not sure why you are worried about this.

If you stare at the lane creep changes long enough, you'll realize that it promotes zoning by making the cannon minion worth a whole lot more gold while lowering the gold of all other minions. So if you are worth much as Morde, you should still beat your enemy pretty badly with your CS specialization.