Talk:Cassiopeia/@comment-28606070-20160531105239/@comment-24496127-20160531212147

My biggest reason for preferring Deathfire Touch is that it lacks any cooldown, unlike thunderlords, so if I'm consistently hitting my poisons I'm never losing out on the damage, and if I'm poking at tanks or assassins with it later games, it adds up quickly. In the scenario where a fight just outright starts and ends, thunderlords would be better, but any pre-fighting or if a fight lasts long enough and DFT is always better. I also just like DFT in lane because it's just more damage on poisons. If my math isn't wrong they do an extra 25% of your ap with the Q, which is just nice.

Never knew windspeaker increased self healing, not really my fault since the tooltip was wrong, but still good to know. If you really wanted to push her self healing because you're against a bunch of tanks/bruisers, I could see that being a viable option, but I only really build for that in the specific scenario of being against tanks that want to try and burst me with base damages.

A bit off topic, but I have to say, Spirit Visage is a really good third item against stuff like Skarner, Maokai, and Malphite. I underestimated it, but still don't believe it's better than more damage if you aren't against things that can tank you like those champions. If you stack it with Abyssal as well it's just comical how easy it is to beat anything Ap,  since you survive and outheal any burst, but it leaves you with a pretty heavy weakness to AD. Definitely a sometimes item.