Thread:Willbachbakal/@comment-1920550-20160422050145/@comment-1330314-20160503153445

I'm a year away from completing college, after which I plan to (hopefully) follow up immediately with a job.

Re: your suggestions, I like the idea of making BT the dedicated anti-burst life steal item, though I feel itself has a strong enough anti-spell/CC niche that it still deserves to exist on its own. In one of my blog posts I proposed to make QSS an active spell shield item, rather than a cleanse item, and Mercurial would follow up on that by making its anti-debuffing power less passive.

I had also done a blog post for life steal, but your rework got me thinking: if Bloodthirster is going to be the anti-burst life steal item, perhaps its current pseudo-health shield might not be the best implementation, and instead its overheal could build some kind of reservoir that the wielder could activate for a quick heal or shield when bursted down. Perhaps BT could even have its own Lifeline effect (e.g. "when taking damage that would reduce you, shield yourself for damage and gain +10% life steal until you leave combat", which could probably use more differentiation from ), which would also reduce the incentive for marksmen to build.