User blog comment:ShininGeek/CCC5 Maria: Queen of the Arctic Storm/@comment-7709681-20140911020136/@comment-24244491-20140911023440

Compared to other items, the Stormcaller is less cost efficient. the stat gains cost a total of 3000 gold. 3000 gold for 100 ap, 500 mana, and 10 mana regen is pretty far above cost efficient, ill be honest. AP is valued at 21.75g per ap, resulting in 2175g of ap. mana is valued at 2g per point of mana, resulting in 1000 g of mana. mana regen is valued at 60g per 1 mana regen, resulting in 600g worth of mana regen. the total comes to 3775 g worth of stats. However, look at Archangels. Archangels costs 2700 g for 2568g worth of stats, which increases to a staggering 4557g worth of stats when the item is fully stacked. the Stormcaller is 125% gold efficient. Archangels is 168.8% gold efficient withouttaking into account a champion's base mana pool.

I probably should take off Maria's range increase. I wanted her to have to get into the middle of teamfights to be effective with her ult/ passive, but i guess 600 range would keep her too safe.

the bonuses from the Stormcaller are quite hard to get, i might add. the storm is designed to be reatively weak until she gets 1-2 upgrades. it only does 15 damage/sec at level 1, and its only damage increase from the is 10 + 10% AP.

She needs to be able to get aheadof her lane opponent early, which is a bit difficult with her 500 range at level 1-6. the costs on e and w are also particularly high (one of the reasons her Stormcaller was given mana regen), which hurts her trading potential against sustain enemies. her passive was designed to give her a small amount of sustained damage through her ling cooldowns and high mana costs. I will tone down the passive damage and remove the range increase, but the continual damage will still be there.