Talk:VPBE/@comment-24090792-20140304023914

i just hope that riot dont overdo it when nerfing the early damage of mages who are being played as supports right now because they rely on that early damage to be of any use early game since everything outscales them later on and they end up being ueless aside from bringing a little extra mediocre CC to the fight, so by nerfing their early damage hard riot will not only prevent people from playing them as supports but will also prevent them from playing mages at all.

thats being said, the nerf to annies W and the ap required to neutralize it is way too high consedering that she have only 2 normal damaging skills, balancing mages so they are not being played as supports can be tricky but its NOT done by reducing their early damage and if mages are used as supports in order to get objectives faster, your team will be lacking on CC and utility later on AND damage because the mage will not be able to build normally as if he were in midlane.

it will also force some picks to be made by your top laner and/or jungler to compensate for that lack later on and thus reducing/removing your counterpick slots, making your team comp less flexible and very vulnerable to counterpicks yoursleves

finally, if annie is ruined now others of similar caliber will be played as supports such as malzahar, ziggs, swain, viktor, fiddle and other mages so i am expecting nerfs to all of them if riot continuous that way ultimately leading to mages being wiped out from the board.