Talk:Essence Reaver/@comment-25687473-20141115040950/@comment-25687473-20141115042725

Bruiser Nocturne builds, Olaf, Sion, Trundle, Xin Zhao, Wukong, etc. It would even make a solid offensive purchase on some champions like Hecarim. Basically, anyone who wants mana, does a lot of auto-attacking, but can't really afford to dedicate 3400 gold to what is mostly pure AD.

As it stands, ADCs don't build it because there's better damage buys, and bruisers/AD casters don't build it because it's not enough damage to murder and it does nothing to prevent you from being murdered. If it could solve mana problems, provide a heft chunk of AD (50 is nothing to sneeze at), and ALSO gave you a decent chunk of health (nevermind the CDR and whatnot), then it would be a viable first build item. Especially with the build path changes, which would let you grab the health/cdr or grab the damage/sustain depending on what you valued more early.