User blog comment:Persephone04/Redefining The Utility Tree/@comment-1330314-20141109171829

These suggestions are all super-inventive, and some, like Arcana Mastery and Sadistic, I'd really like to see in-game. It would help to organize these suggestions, however, since the tier at which these masteries become available is critical in deciding who gets to spec into them. Anything on the first tier can be chosen by anyone, including when you divert a few points from your off-spec into Utility, anything fully obtainable within 9 points can still be available to anyone, but anything beyond that requires a far more serious investment that few would choose to commit to. Hybrid specs tend to go up to 16 points in the tree, and anything beyond that is only going to be picked on 21-point Utility builds.

On that note, while Riot said they weren't going to focus on runes or masteries this preseason, I feel the Utility tree needs to be reorganized. While it does a good job of providing interesting options for supports (and some junglers) who spec hard into it, while also giving good bonuses for 9- and 3-point off-specs, some of its masteries are poorly placed, while others are just not good enough:, for example, is placed way too high in the tree, despite only being good on damage-dealers, and so is practically never picked, whereas and  are never good enough to place points into, and would be better if they got replaced by other, more interesting masteries. and are extremely niche, and also would be better off being replaced by something else. is a great mastery, but doesn't entirely solve the problem of dangling 5% cooldown reduction for most champions (no damage-focused spellcaster would fully spec into utility just for that), so it would be better if the CDR got moved down the Utility tree within the 9-point range while its item CDR got meshed with the summoner spell on. It could even get its CDR meshed with and replaced somewhere so that you'd get 10% CDR from just one mastery, and not have to deal with dangling CDR anywhere.