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This isn't a bad idea - but there are a lot of other considerations that come up frequently when making build paths stronger. The main problem of 'having you wait for 820/1000 gold is pretty painful' accomplishes several things:

1) It allows us to make the final item stronger because the build up was painful or there was a power drop.
2) It makes direct competition harder between similar items when build paths are fragmented and dissimilar.
3) It allows us to force players into a less flexible build path in exchange for more directed power (see also: Raptor Cloak).

By making the build path for Aegis of the Legion smooth, you'd be adding power to Aegis of the Legion. (The change makes it more powerful as you've removed a build-up 'weakness' of the item which needs to be factored into the total power of the item.)

Having a smooth build path that builds into two primary fighter/tank items would likely result in the following pattern: Legion becomes a powerful option on fighters and tanks. If this proves problematic, we then cost it appropriately to the power level on fighters and tanks end-game. Supports no longer have Legion as an option as the total price of the item would increase by 300 or 400 gold.

What's worse, is that if Crystalline Bracer now becomes inherently flexible rather than building into two front-line items - every item that builds out of it loses the gold premium from forcing you into opting into HP/HP/5.

That's a heady concept to wrap your head around - but think about Righteous Glory for a second. Righteous Glory is insanely powerful - but a large part of that power comes from the fact that Catalyst is incredibly limiting. Thus, Righteous Glory can be powerful because its build path forces you to commit or have appreciation for a lower power build line.

However, let's add an incredibly flexible secondary item into the recipe - like a Kindlegem or something. Suddenly, you now can 'skip' the Catalyst low point - which would mean Righteous Glory's power needs to drop accordingly.

By making Crystalline Bracer build into both MR, team support as well as front-line or initiate item - you make Crystalline a very powerful buy. Thus the end power level of all the items it builds from needs either lower power in the item or a more expensive final cost.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea to do this - I just want to give some context into this as the relationships between items, build paths and components are a pretty fascinating tangled web.

Likely, I think the end result of is: Top / High Income Fighters / Tanks get to add Legion into their build as a flex pick - and it becomes even more expensive for support due to the gold cost increase to account for their innately higher incomes - which could be good if we wanted to push these guys to become more team centric and we wanted Aegis Aura to be less of a support item."

"It depends on what your goals are. 

To me, it sounds like the original poster would like to make it feel better on supports - and I'm fairly certain that the long term effects of the change would make it a tank or fighter item and secondary on supports."

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Have you guys considered creating a third big MR item lately? I know the tanks are really strong right now, but sometimes SV+Banshee's don't feel like enough MR to hold the teamfights, something a little better than MR items options other than that I mentioned?

It's hard making MR options due to the fact that our basic stat affinities are kind of off.
Case in point: Take Shen. He needs MR. He has no base resistances. So in order for Shen to satisfy his MR needs, you need to make some pretty high powered MR stuff to make Shen feel good about MR. 

However, on the flip-side - you get a character like (Riven/Wukong/Choose your favorite example of ebil fighters here) - who has great synergy with MR and base MR per level. They're weakness should be concentrated magic fire to some extent as they can easily outduel mages 1:1. 

You make a heavy MR item that can satisfy Shen's need and these other characters who have innately higher incomes will absolutely destroy mages with the item intended to satisfy Shen's MR needs. 

It's definitely possible - and I think we've been playing around a bit with the current items that already favor tanks (like Abyssal) and tuning them to be better for tanks - it's just tricky due to the inherent base stat misalignment. In an ideal world, Tanks would actually have the highest base resistances and fighters would have the lowest. Fighters would then become defined by the fact that they can greatly improve their effectiveness by opting into one kind of item type (defense) or another (offense) - and Tanks are more reliable and steadfast. (Or something like that, I would need to figure out what the theory / iteration is like. Just throwing out random statements there.) 

Are changes to Zeke's Herald possible? 

I can poke around. I'm sure I can find someone who'd been keen to work on Zeke's. It's certainly one of those 'This is kind of awkward' items that didn't work out during the S3 item redos."

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