Talk:Summoner Mastery/@comment-3529242-20121116113845/@comment-5490997-20121117154855

I don't agree the offensive tree is as strong as ever. The upper half is just plain weak, especially compared to last season. The middle isn't much better and only the bottom rows seems to be worth anything. All in all I think the offense tree has become a lot more "if you don't go deep it's not worth it" for many champs.

Defense tree has improved on defense and CC mitigation, sadly it lost CDR and MS. Compared to the offense tree I think the upper half of the defense tree is mediocre, the middle pretty good and the bottom again a bit mediocre (but mostly because there are a few that are good and few that are just plain bad). So all in all I think it's pretty much equal to the offense tree, or at least more than it used to be, though it does focus on different things than before.

Utility I think is OP now, or at least not bad. Why? Because it can erase the flash nerf + a bit more with only 8 points (15 seconds flat + 10%, add in the new boots upgrade and you've got a Flash CD of <190 seconds, or roughly every 3 minutes instead of every 5 minutes). If anything it has never been more attractive to spend those 9 (or 8) points in the utility tree if you ask me. So all in all I think utility has become a lot more viable to spend only 9 points. Other than that it's mostly a support tree though and I doubt any other role would want to spec into it beyond those first 9 points.