Talk:VPBE/@comment-1920550-20160410020819/@comment-1330314-20160411152949

Xypherous did mention that mages lost about 100 AP on a full build, and is thus looking to add that back, but an important point here is that mages are getting additional ways to scale with the new items, whether it's turning their mana into a useful late-game resource, getting many more utility options that would be OP on any other role, or just more AP ratios via the Hextech line. It's ridiculous to look at all of these early itemization changes, sail past the oodles of new design these represent, and make crude assumptions regarding their balance. Numbers at this point are really not that relevant, because Riot has all the time they need to balance them (plus the entire League community, including us here, is notoriously terrible at assessing the balance of pre-Live content).