Talk:Bard/@comment-8506165-20150325045212/@comment-4091261-20150328001645

Reason I perfer the is because I do notice the slow--regardless of the poor scaling--simply due to the fact that he needs even the smallest bit of extra cc to help him set up his short range stun. The slow only looses its shine after 45 chimes. While it is not incredibly difficult to get 45 chimes, the extra slowing power is still quite useful for the early-mid game. In all honesty, the price isn't that bad either; it only costs 2,900g. That is 100 gold more than a but with a slow. You can say it is "less useful," but considering how the stun has a weird setup, it is by no means pointless.

I agree that there are other ability power items that give better stats. The problem is that the ones that do are too expensive and aren't quite useful building into. I'll give some examples. : I want ap, but just ap? Yeah, we all should know enough to say that isn't a glass cannon. very rarely will a support have 1600 gold in hand to just get a straight off the back and  requires farming to be useful: supports don't farm early game--if at all. same reason as but would be a little more reasonable if it wasn't even more expensive than that.

So there aren't any other items that gives that level of ap with this level of reliability. I will say that the other items that are below that threshold that is maginificent. Like and. I get both later on though; so I add in because it's the next best thing for me.