Talk:Taric/@comment-6281696-20140814144044/@comment-6281696-20140815092822

The issue I have with the two passives is that both seem to fill the same niche, namely provide some form of consistent damage. Yet Taric's is really only up half the time at best (assuming you can weave the thing near perfectly) and has a lower ratio. Which I just find odd. And as said, 20% I find to be extremely low regardless.

And no, I go heavy into the defensive tree, though with the mana regen mastery. Same with runes, prefer to get as much defenses as possible as without them I usually don't even get to go OOM. Usually I try some combination of iceborn gauntlet/frozen heart and some mana regen item. But I rarely have the money to actually make it. Though late game it usually becomes better, assuming I haven't lost yet. And judging by the build you gave you get a hell of a lot more money than I do. Though I do suppose it might just be bad luck on my side, S4 has been weird as hell for me and I've had some teams where I genuinly questioned their sanity given how retarded some of them played. And I mean genuinly idiotic, carries tower diving on their own at level 2 while already at half health, that sort of thing.

As for the meta, I seem to be stuck in a retardedly agressive meta which completly ruins him. Either I'm getting poked to dead, to which he has no response, or they have such a powerfull engage they just sort of instantly kill my carry and what I do doesn't really matter. So I never get a farm lane because my opponents just don't let me, ever. To which he doesn't have much of a response, at least early on.