User blog comment:Lukeatlook/Pyro's Item Overhaul 11 - The Mage Project/@comment-24852115-20150110054329

My main concern with these changes are how hard they hit manaless mages like Rumble and Vladimir. Mana scatter is definitely a good idea on paper, as it allows mages to keep up in farm a bit better, but when you're suddenly blowing some of your gold on stats, passives, or actives that you can't use, it puts them at a disadvantage. One of the main balancing factors for manaless mages is that they tend to need to get up close to deal a lot of their damage, so they build tanky stats to compensate. Spreading the mana around this many tanky AP items leaves them with few truly gold-efficient items. There's a reason Will of the Ancients doesn't give mana regen anymore.