User blog comment:JojobaExtract/Supporting in the current meta/@comment-5077844-20130923185747/@comment-15244341-20130923223123

I really think people have to stop comparing Dota 2 and LoL. Mages in Dota do not need to buy damage, they get it from levels on their skills. They are actually much more than CC bots. Lich's ultimate is the same as Brand's (or the other way around, most likely) and if it conects well enough it will absolutely cripple the enemy team. And that is done with literally no items. No LoL mage does that, not to speak of an actual support.

Dota 2 has farm priorities. They range from 1 to 5, 1 being the hard carry, 4 and 5 supports. Position number 5 has literally no gold for items. At all. The little gold he gets will be spent in wards (both for countering the much more common invisibility and normal wards for vision since they are not interchangable) and super basic items (boots, normally arcane for the AoE mana restoration). And no GP5 items, also. The gold they get is the passive, from towers/assists, or maybe from creep pulling.

Please, don't compare LoL and Dota. There are too many differences, not only in supporting but in pretty much anything.