User blog comment:NicknameMy/My suggested changes to Essence Reaver/@comment-24057740-20141021123505/@comment-13660209-20141022051625

If I'm right about what you're saying, then I really like your idea and I think I came up with a new essence reaver with your idea as its base.

as a marksmen-caster item, the essence reaver needs to cater to marksmen-casters but not pure-casters.

I think maybe the essence reaver, which is intended to take the bloodthirster slot in the regular adc build, should emulate a different item.

Most marksmen-casters, as they deal damage with abilities, scale poorly with attack speed, while most pure-casters, as they rely even less on auto attacks, scale poorly with crit. Marksmen-casters also cannot buy phantom dancer, as it does not grant the right stats, but they need another source of crit.

So maybe the essence reaver should be retooled to replace statikk shiv?

Statikk shiv, as opposed to phantom dancer, because the statikk shiv is normally built early and saves some gold, which is exactly what the essence reaver would do: built early for sustain, saves some gold because the buyer would need less mana regen. It would essentially try to replace the youmuu's ghostblade current usage on marksmen-casters, while fulfilling their sustain needs.

Suggested build path:

Essence Thief, building out of a brawler's glove, granting crit and unique passive: mana drain (this is emulating the avarice blade, providing sustain instead of gold)

Wicked Hatchet, because both statikk shiv and youmuu's have that 1100-1400 gold item that they build out of. This version of the essence reaver also needs to provide enough crit to replace phantom dancer, but enough up front ad to be a rushable item (an item with crit and no ad is, i am assuming, unrushable)

It then builds into essence reaver, granting ad, high crit, and mana drain. I'm not sure what to do with the wicked hatchet's critical passive. maybe replace it with brutalizer?

TL:DR the essence reaver needs to replace phantom dancer instead of bloodthirster to provide marksman-casters with crit/sustain without attack speed, while retaining low pure-caster synergy.