Talk:Taric/@comment-205.219.133.1-20110519125209/@comment-3213322-20110523163328

Didn't mean to suggest AP Taric was really bad, I just personally tend to like heavy support. There are many better Taric players than me and a good number choose AP Taric with varying degrees of support-item supplements. The healing and damage scaling is very decent.

If you'd like to be more AP with some support utility, I guess I'd just advise you on the general items for that. Abyssal Scepter is always a nice choice. Tear of the Goddess can be a little hard to build up for Taric, but if makes a nice combination with Glacial Shroud or Banshee's if you want to cover your defenses with those. Lots of mana to help you keep Radiance up longer is always nice.

AP Taric is actually probably easier to win with in a bad team just because it's so hard to secure kills with a heavy support Taric, while still not being an entirely selfish build due to his Imbue scaling.

Oh, and Philosopher's Stone is just a really great laning item regardless of build. Taric can get kind of gold-starved (especially if you're desperately trying to keep an idiot carry partner from pushing the lane too much)