Thread:Willbachbakal/@comment-1920550-20160422050145/@comment-1330314-20160422222928

I think the AP problem mostly boils down to balance rather than design, and I think mage items will receive more AP if they really need it. I didn't really feel like I had any problems getting AP in-game, particularly since I could easily explode most other squishies, and even if most items now only give upwards of 100 AP, there's better access to mage stats in general, especially cooldown reduction. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of, since it doesn't really answer an interesting gameplay question ("Do I want more AP?", which is a "yes" for practically any AP champion), and without it I think mages could afford to have higher scalings, more AP on other items, or both.