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Ah, . The one item that I have found very useful yet no one ever consider it once. It is a great way to increase your health and mana pool. It increases the health and mana by over 400 points, not to mention the regeneration effects. It made no sense to me as to how this simple item never picked up. I could see it be used on many heroes.

- needs raw health, and mana problems solved.
- he builds tank items and needs mana..
- needs mana and takiness, and builds later into a

So, why dont people ever thought of getting a simple ? Was it.. price, perhaps?

This is, for me, a greedy and selfish support pickup. However, if only the price... of, the price. 3300 gold is hell of a lot to supports.

So, how to solve this problem? It may seem that this item is not the best pickup for non-cores. Changing the price, too, doesnt seem realistic.

So I thought of adding an item other than to the upgrade.
Ahh... . I am not a fan of this item. Sure, it completely removes all your mana problems, but... it is a very selfish pickup since it provides no utility. It could be said that I despise this item.

So, what about making it a utility?

With a 3k gold on the first component, it sure needs to scale into the late game. You could make it a utility item. But what would it be? I was thinking an aura, but since stacking aura is a no-no then the mass is useless. What about an increase in health and mana? Like an active of some sort...?

Life Orb (we ran out of icons...)

Increases the targeted unit's current health and mana by 30% of it's total. Effects does not stack, and a target cannot be affected twice in the last 50 seconds.

Recipe: + 1000 recipe (4300)

Mana cost: 185
Cast range: 950

Duration: 16
Cooldown: 65[/nextcol]

Stats

Health: 500
Mana: 450

Health regen: 12/sec
Mana regen: 150%/sec

So the point here is to make a utility item that benefits not only the bearer who benefits the stats, but also it's teammates. I have seen supports getting , which costs 600 gold more. This could also be used to self, mind you. So a carry picking this up will still benefit greatly.

The long range is also meant to be a life saver. It can save lives from a distance, at where spells cant usually reach.

So the purpose here is to bring life into , and making it a good pickup since it can be upgraded to none other than .

But then, I saw ...

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When the bearer dies, Bloodpact restores 500 HP + 30 HP per charge to allied units in 1675 range

WHAAAT!!! This is an outrage! How come-

Lets stop the rage, now. It needs the bearer to die. Now utility relying on death is odd, isnt it? So let's stop here, as the per charge too is barely useful for non-snowball heroes.

So post your feedbacks and what's in your mind. I would like to see how people react to this pathetic attempt at favoring an item.

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I *really* like this item, it's cheap, great value and relatively easy to build up. It's one of those rare items that gives you additional benefits on top of the item costs without needing a recipe investment. E.g. or . The regen is essentially "free".

You're right that in some ways it's "selfish" as you don't get the shared utility of say Sheepstick or . BUT, a does offer:

1) Heal on death for allies, XP/vision for you.
2) Ability to suicide to avoid giving away a kill
3) Faster respawns (potentially INSTANT)

These are not necessarily selfish things to have!

Probably the bigger issue is that it provides great health/mana pool, but no stats increases. Hence it's usually avoided by carries as they need the damage/as/etc more than the pool. Therefore there is a limited range of heroes who truly get the most from it - i.e. ones who have heavy mana requirements/low cooldowns and also need some additional health, but don't need right click so much.

Basically, the ones you've already mentioned, plus the likes of , etc. It can even work on , although she'll need to cover that damage sometime.

E.g. It's not a perfect example, but if you compare and + :

Linkens: 285 HP, 195man, 2 armour, 15 damage, 15as, 6.45hp/s regen, 0.6 + 150% mana regen.

Costs: 5175, blocks 1 spell per 17 seconds.

Armlet/SB: 450/925 HP, 400man, 5 armour, 9/40 damage, 15/25as, +11/-29hp regen, 100% mana regen.

Costs: 2600 + 3300 = 5900, armlet toggling.

You can see how the fits into this cost effective build, with the Armlet providing the damage/AS required. If you need to come online earlier, it can be a good option.

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Indeed, Mr. Unscathed, the is a lonely item. But if we start looking around there are other lonely items too; making you stay stationary for invisibility and only upgradeable to ,

may be a good early game item, but upgrading it takes insane amounts of money, which most normal buyers most likely won't afford.

What I like about the is the buildup from , which comes from , that you can use through the process before buying bloodstone, providing both mana refill and support for the team.

Before 6.82, whenever I was going to get a , I typically would start with -> and then finish it. The raw mana, hp and regen were better than early .

However, new brought a new use for a forgiven item too: . This improved it's use and Arcanes + Ring make your early mana endless, and boosting it further.

is indeed a selfish item, but it ensures games too. It has great users; mainly heroes who are casting spells endlessly through the fight and typically are involved in many kills, you already mentioned a few, but other great heroes for it:

, the master itself.
, shouting and yelling with no limits.
: Their Suicide doesn't remove charges from your bloodstone, possibly stacking a ton of them without technically "dying".
, if he already got this early on, the game is pretty much over.
the everhealing tank now heals faster.
pros often get it if they're very ahead.
If you somehow get this on , your teammates will love you.

These are just some examples, but everyone with good spells is a good candidate for , given the situation.

If you are looking for other realiable mana sources with far more team contribution, there's , , and .

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