User blog comment:Emptylord/Class Reworks - Itemization Follow-up/@comment-5035765-20160512211319/@comment-3974211-20160512224803

The first objective of this follow up was to remove hybrid items - Guinsoo's Rageblade and Gunblade. Riot has literally just given Nocturne an AP ratio so that he doesn't "feel bad" for buying Guinsoo's AP, as well as buffing Shyvana and Master Yi's ratios. But it's such bad design. When a new player looks at Sejuani and Shyvana - how are you going to tell them that Shyvana is suppose to build AD? Especially since Riot has just reworked Sheen, Blue Buff and Dragon Buff to either not give AP or to give an AP multipler - so there's no "wasted stats" any more except the AP that they are forcing people to buy.

So I didn't really turn Gunblade into Will of the Ancients - I removed the AD and added cooldown reduction. This is in part because Riot didn't actually add any offensive CDR items with their mage item rework, meaning that glass-cannons still have no access to the stat. I hoped this would make Gunblade's niche among mage items more interesting. The change to the spellvamp passive was to make it more accessible to mages since the current Omnivore passive is just as "some champions like this, some don't" as the old spell vamp, which was removed for a reason.

I fail to see how my Ardent Censer idea would alienate existing users... it's literally Sona's Aria of Perseverence that triggers once every 100 charges. She doesn't struggle. I honestly thought people would like the idea of giving champions like Janna, Lulu, Karma, etc, access to an item that grants them increases healing/shielding. Sure, "mages" can abuse it - my bad, but I fail to see how the niche gets smaller by including more people.

And I was planning to do something about support items. Don't worry. ^_^