Talk:Essence Reaver/@comment-25066097-20140616010825

Looks interesting. Obviously could be very strong on Muramana champs (either in conjunction with or instead of) such as Jayce, Blue Ez etc.

Presumably 3% of Mana will be returned on a basic attack when you have 75% of your max mana. So this item in conjunction with Muramana would consistently deal 4.5% of your maximum mana on each basic attack and single target spells. If IBG and Muramana were the only mana items built this equates to roughly 110 dmg. Mid game this is great because it is very cost efficient:

IBG + Muramana + Essence Reaver = 7650 Gold

Total Gold Value = 10246g, the base stats this build is 133.9% Gold efficient (Assuming approx 1000 base mana pool) before the passives of these items are even taken into account.

Incidentally the Total Gold Value of Essence Reaver is 2557, so the base stats are 96.5% Gold efficient.

However this could be fantastic on a number of other champs. Poppy? Urgot? Gangplank? The infinite sustain on Urgot and GP could completely change the nature of Top lane. The fact you can rush a dmg/life steal item without building mana first will result in some people needing serious nerfs.