Talk:Essence Reaver/@comment-4068613-20140722100750

The problem with this item is that it can *only* ever be a luxury item, because for the champions that need the mana restore, this item is too big to rush, and by the time they're at a phase in the game to assemble it, they've almost certainly remedied their mana problems some other way (manamune comes to mind).

The champions who don't need a bunch of mana obviously don't have a huge interest in building this item, but ones with spammable spells might take it just for the infinite sustain and nice AD stat.

Basically, it's too big to solve the mana problem for champions who need it, and not great enough to be worth building around mid-late game.