Talk:Cassiopeia/@comment-26128186-20160421120526/@comment-24055932-20160430101655

I totally agree with you, Agitas. This whole new set looks like crap. Why would I ever play with her? The only thing this champion now can reliably be used for is DoT-ing, not DPS-ing. Why are they even reworking her if they got no clue at all what they want to achieve. I'm so tired of seeing her reworked and reworked and reworked, pushed from one state they don't want to another they don't want.

She is just forced back to being a poke & burst mage, because she's a sitting duck with W being fixed range. They are going against the concept of kiting with this, simply by removing boots (which means you'll have a disadvantage against people rushing +45 or even +60 boots, and even fall short of the +20 enchantment... --> impossible kiting with level 1~2 Q). You also miss CDR and mana in the early, which you can't rush both without neglecting damage. (Mana, not manaregen)

So as poke & burst mage who targets squishy champions, the next logical approach would be to stack flat Mpen - BUT WAIT, we can't buy Sorcerers. Ooops.

You'll still need tear or RoA, though propably rather tear to get the highest versatility in laning. Taking both is kinda pointless unless you get the poisoning from an ally. And even then, to be a threat to tanks you'd still need CDR and % magic pen ... so about 11~12 k gold to be a threat to tanks. AWESOME! (Generally, she needs way too many items for her DPS)

So next approach, bruiser Cassio. Tear, Luden's and after that all tanky with 40% CDR. I got no clue how she's supposed to handle tanks, but it certainly sounds promising. You can peel for the adc, poke on the high priority targets and propably also easily all in them as well.

They should generally have E refund mana if it hits a poison target and balance around this.