Talk:Archangel's Staff/@comment-4636093-20120604083546/@comment-70.171.210.88-20120606013135

Its ap is almost instantly cost effective, basically get a tear early, forget about it (this will also solve any if not all mana issues) and work on the rest of your build until you finish your core(rabadon and in my cases- ages(this ALSO increases its ap more)) archangels will give you massive power, especially late game, but be careful, it has no utility and often you cant fit in special items like rylais, hourglass, spellvamp, etc because for sure you would have: rabadons, archangels, sorcerors, abyssal or voidstaff(you have to have one or else high ap is useless) and often an hp staff. this leaves you with high power, but minimal secondary utility. That isn't where the real problem lies however, getting archangels weakens your early game, and people will almost always rage at you for doing it because it isn't the meta. Basically the real concern is whether or not you are okay with people raging at you and whether or not you need/want utility. I used to get it all the time, and I still get it occasionally, it gives you tons of ap and you can solo tanks as a mage assassin if you do it right with it, but you will be harassed by teammates when you do, it is a tradoff though, in exchange for epic power endgame, you miss out on an early game, as it takes a very long time to charge.