Talk:Swain/@comment-95.69.116.164-20120602131931/@comment-2.122.237.101-20120604155156

I partially agree.

I follow a similar build order; I go catalyst -> T1 boots -> Chalice -> Sorc Shoes -> RoA.

However, I don't upgrade my chalice. Once you've got a RoA and a chalice, you should have no mana issues anymore; what you need is defensive stats. Grail, for all its good qualities, is a 2000g upgrade which doesn't add to your survivability much.

Instead, I build an abyssal and a frozen heart after RoA, then a Deathcap. If the game lasts long enough I'll upgrade to grail as my last item, but games are very rarely that long.