Talk:Essence Reaver/@comment-1748472-20140706112237/@comment-1748472-20140721163419

The problem here is that it would lose a stat (the passive mana reg) when upgrading, which is never optimal. IMO just creating a small item for around 1000 gold that has the passive would help it greatly.

If it were to just offer AD, a little CDR, mana reg and the passive, it might directly compete with Muramana, which has AD, mana reg and the on-hit. At this point it might become simple number crunching, what item provides more and outperforms (i.e. always buy this item instead, because it is simply better) the other one.