Talk:Nasus/@comment-4140664-20110804090703/@comment-69.12.207.59-20110804164842

While manamune is nice for your mana pool, with mana runes or a cheaper mana item (philosopher's stone, for example) Nasus's mana problems will be solved and you can focus on finishing a triforce earlier, which does tons more for your damage output and general utility. Nasus may have trouble when skipping mana regen altogether, of course (since he needs to be spamming his Q constantly to farm it), but with decent mana management (i.e, not spamming Spirit Fire or Wither) you'll be fine with runes or a really cheap item (my last Nasus game I had just a faerie charm for mana the whole game).

As far as build goes, I get philo, CDR boots, and triforce, then build tank (you won't be hurting for damage as you should have 200-300 bonus damage stacked up on siphoning strike by then). Upgrade philo to elesia's miracle when teamfights start happening and you can use the tenacity. Runes are armor pen, armor and MR.