User blog comment:Emptylord/2017 Patch Notes (Unofficial)/@comment-1920550-20170811222901/@comment-1920550-20170813072600

 "Tear of the Goddess was in Karthus' Death Note along with just about every other removed item - so it's possible that "balancing for Manamune" isn't necessary"  

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I have no idea what this means. Moving on

On one hand i can understand this, but at the same time, Ezreal's entire shtick ever since his release was his extreme relliance on skillshot spamming compared to other ADC's. Inspite of this (or perhaps because of this) he operates on a different wavelength compared to other hybrid caster ADC's like Lucian for instance (perhaps due to the build up on his passive.

If anything that only thing that has made him suffer over the years was his lack of a W skill. It led to Rito having to buff up his numbers to absurd levels and then nerf them we goes out of line. Same issue with Lucian honestly. I find this amusing given how their current design maximizes the use of every skill and tries to give each of them a sense of visceral satisfaction and clear cut impacts in detriment of invisible powers.

Also Ezreal is a relatively complex ADC to maximize DPS compared to others because of his lack of synergy with crit items and slow build up passive. And he does this with a kit whose individual pieces are quite simplistic. Hence why i came up with the Hou Yi style ricochet (arguably one of the most complex skillshot paradigns SMITE has and a major highlight reel when you get that 3-way bounce)...a very low damage projectile that heavily picks up in damage with each bounce; firing such a shot in a line would be a mana waste...line it up in the proper angle. It would also add another layer of skill-celling to his kit (a triple ricochet would be a rare thing, but if executed would skyrocket his passive and land a sizeable amounf of burst).

As for Cassio...her W is overall still the same...they just gave it a weird shape, awkward casting paradigm and a few bells and whistles. Hardly a upgrade. Hell the Varus rework in this page has gives him another skillshot on a kit that already has 2 of them.