Talk:Essence Reaver/@comment-1748472-20140706112237

What a total failure this item is.

Anyone that would need the passive can't wait for 2650 (and possibly 3400) gold to compensate for mana issues. They need to solve their mana problems NOW without sacrificing a ton of gold.

By the time you can go for this item you either gimped your early game extremely hard or don't really need it anymore as there are way better options.

What this item needs is a small tier predecessor that has the passive, like Maw has with Hexdrinker.