Mekansm Mana Cost

I feel like Mekansm is much less viable on a lot of heroes now, as the mana cost is about the cost of an ultimate for some heroes, which many just cannot afford. We don't get to see any Meks on many cores now because of it. Thoughts?

It makes it less viable on heros like viper and razor so yes pls lower dat mana coat

well, something needs to be done.

Thank you for your very insightful insight oh wise wiseman. :D just kidding man

Too, too high.

When a babysitter support like Lion can't afford a Mek because of the mana cost, you've got big, big problems. It's just ridiculous. In my opinion, it almost isn't even worth building on any heroes, except heroes who can't do nearly as well without one (meepo) and have the mana for it.

Mekansm] is trash item right now, and even manacost won't change it that much. When would that 250 HP heal and 4 HP/sec regen aura be useful? Right, only when you fight a lot before 20 minutes. When did you do this. Back in 6.82.

The meta is gone but the nerf is still here. But even if you lower the manacost and make rushing it on mids viable again, you will get very limited use of it unless you are running a deathball strat. For others this item is just not worth it's money.

It can be fixed though with making Mek scale. Some time ago Sando complained about Soul Booster's limited use in DOta, aut if you combine Mekansm+ Soul Booster(5600), you can get something like that:


Sample text
5600 g
stats, stats, stats
Active: restroes 600 HP to allies in 750 AOE, gives 5 armor and makes them regenerate 3% of their HP for 5 seconds.

Cd:100;

Costly and completely OP. I liek it. With this item you can finally stop these 5-minute rax fights when all 10 heores sit there and just farm enemy creepwaves waiting until someone makes a mistake. Or tun a fight around, collect $treak$ and live happily ever after(if you will manage to get it of course).

well i dont really know why people consider him so much of a babysitter. and he didnt even have mana for mek before the change to its cost. :P
plz just build a blink on him instead....

What about Mekansm level 2 (3200), level 3 (4100) and level 4 (5000)?

+5/7/9/12 stat
+5/6/7/8 armor

Passive : Mekansm Aura - Grants +4/+6/+8/+10 HP/sec Regeneration to nearby allied units within a 750 AoE.

Active: Restore - Heals 250/350/450/550 HP, regenerates 0%/0%/0.5%/1% per seconds and gives a +2/+3/+4/+5 Armor bonus to all allies in a 750 AoE for 25 seconds. Does not affect any units that have been healed by Restore in the last 25 seconds.

Why do you want to make Mek scale? I mean really, you want to play all your teamfights with each team having a 600 HP AOE heal? How boring is that gonna be?

I still think Mek is a really good item, and the fact that the meta has shifted towards farming and ganking doesn't mean that there are no teamfights in the early game, on the contrary! It just means that won fights won't translate into a game winning push.

I tried to play Necrophos without Mek at some point because I thought the same, and I tried going blink/Aghs instead, but the hero felt a lot weaker actually. And then I want bask to playing mek Necro and it won me a lot of deciding teamfights.

So Mek is still a great item, it's just no longer OP. The mana cost change was because being able to make Mek on Axe, Bristleback or something as a cheap tank item was just stupid.


Also, how is Lion not a babysitter? The heroes who lane against him *have no mana*. And with his new base damage he can harass insanely well with right clicks too. Nobody can do anything to your carry without mana.
And with Mana Drain he has pretty much infinite mana regen, so why no mek? I mean sure he needs blink at some point, but why not go mek into blink?