Talk:Soraka/@comment-1330314-20140830011901

Vesh just announced Soraka's imminent rework here:

Passive - Salvation:
 * Soraka gains 70% bonus movement speed when running towards allies who are below 40% health.
 * Soraka converts 20% of her bonus magic resistance and armor into ability power.

Q - Starcall:
 * Calls down a star at target location. Enemies standing in the explosion radius take  magic damage.
 * Enemies standing in the sweet spot in the center take 150% damage and are slowed by % for 2 seconds.
 * Costs 60 mana and has a 10 second cooldown at rank 1.
 * Long-ranged, but the star takes more time to fall the farther her target.

W - Astral Infusion:
 * Restores  health to target ally. Cannot be cast if Soraka is below 5% health.
 * Each enemy champion hit by Starcall heals Soraka for  health, based on percentage missing health.
 * Costs 30 mana at rank 1 and 10% of Soraka's maximum health.
 * second cooldown.
 * Short-ranged, and cannot be cast on Soraka herself.

E - Equinox:
 * Creates a zone at target location for 1.5 seconds. Enemies standing in the zone are silenced until they leave.
 * When the zone disappears, all enemies still standing on the zone are rooted for seconds.
 * Costs 60 mana and has a 24 second cooldown at rank 1.

R - Wish:
 * Calls upon divine powers to restore  health to all allied champions.
 * Wish's power is increased by 50% on each champion below 40% health.
 * 100 mana cost and cooldown, as on live.

I really like this. Soraka finally becomes a proper caster support, and has both the game's most powerful healing and the most meaningful, forcing her to choose between her teammates' safety and her own. I'm interested by how math-y Riot has been with recent passives: the AP scaling off of resists means she scales quadratically with resists on her self-healing (resists -> more effective health healed, AP -> more health healed as well), and gets to build interesting items like and  and still scale with her core utility. The only thing I'm worried about is that Soraka only has one damaging spell (perhaps Equinox should deal damage upon rooting?), but at least every single one of her abilities is not a lot more interactive.