Talk:Essence Reaver/@comment-13372515-20140606134823/@comment-10428734-20140606163714

This item seems absolutely terrible on ADC (mana is not needed, CDR is not needed, weak and cost-inefficient stats otherwise, while being the less slot-efficient completed AD item), junglers already have Spirits-of-something, supports are AP and AD mid laners have blue buff. Therefore, I will assume it is top-lane-only.

Which AD top laners have enough mana problems to justify this kind of purchase? Jayce and Urgot, but they already have Manamune as a core item, which is still way better (which is cheaper and is still worth a slot when the laning phase is over). Panth, but he is OK with just a few mana potions (1 potion = more than 2 Q). AD Sion or Poppy, but it would just delay their core damage items even more and they really need Hydra as their lifesteal item not to get consistently out-pushed. And then?

AT LEAST, this item needs to have 1 or 2 Charms in its recipe. Heavy mana consumers (like Urgot) cannot wait 2650g for their mana regen, they need to buy an early Tear over this. Mana+CDR is already solved by Glacial Shroud too. If you can do without this passive for that long, then you most likely don't even need it in the first place. That combine cost is obnoxious too (950g for 15 AD + 10% CDR + passive = too much imo).

On the other hand, I hope this item will be as underwhelming as possible. The last top lane metas (I-don't-care-about-your-team-I-am-full-tank and I-don't-care-about-my-team-I-can-stay-in-my-lane-and-splitpush-for-50-minutes) are already non-interactive enough not to receive even more non-interactive sustain.