User blog comment:Zilverdael/Seperate itemsets and why they are good/@comment-1330314-20140617111554/@comment-6281696-20140618133251

To put into perspective what I mean when I say the support items are bad.

Take locket of the iron solary. Even without the aura & shield just it's personal stats are decent enough to be worthwhile as a slot. The aura is the added bonus that as a support makes it more usefull than say Banshee's veil.

Now take Zeke's herald, virtually every item that gives health and has the same cost gives more & CDR I can get in a thousand other places, seriously, as a support more CDR is really not a reason to prefer a certain item anymore it's on virtually every single support item to begin with. The only good part about it is it's aura. And that aura alone isn't good enough to singlehandedly carry the item.

Same with Mikaels, the active is brilliant & the MR is even usefull. But unless I'm a mage support the mana regen is a massive waste, and most mage support items allready give manaregen which pushes your mana to absolutly pointless levels.

Is it too much to ask for versions of those items that don't have a good chunk of stats wasted because they go way beyond what you need (e.g. above the CDR cap, or infinite mana) or give so little in another stat that it barely helps (e.g. the health on zeke's)