| Essence Reaver | |
|---|---|
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| Passive | |
| UNIQUE - Essence Drain: Basic attacks on-hit restore 15 (+10% bonus AD) mana. | |
| Statistics | |
AD | 60 |
CS | 25% |
AH | 15 |
| Additional Information | |
| Limitations | Limited to 1 Essence Reaver. |
| Map Availability | ALL |
| Tier | Legendary |
| Item Code | 3508 |
| Recipe | |
 +  +  + 375  | |
| Total Cost: 2900 | |
| Sold For: 2030 | |
| ExternalLinks | |
| Game Info Wiki | wiki.leagueoflegends.com |
Notes[]
- The mana restore is an on-hit effect and interacts with multi-on-hit (e.g.
Guinsoo's Rageblade), while the cooldown reduction from Essence Flare doesn't. - The mana restore triggers against turrets.
Ornn can upgrade this Item to a Mastwerwok Item:
- Item icon is modified with
AD: 60 (+14.29) with a total of 74.29
AH: 15 (+16) with a total of 31
- Item icon is modified with
Trivia[]
- During testing on the PBE, the item's icon was an inverted and blue recolor of
The Bloodthirster.
Gallery[]
Similar Items[]
Patch History[]
- Item Recipe: B.F. Sword + Caulfield’s Warhammer + Cloak of Agility ⇒ Pickaxe + Caulfield’s Warhammer + Cloak of Agility
- Price: 3150 ⇒ 2900 gold
- Attack Damage: 65 ⇒ 60
- Ability Haste: 20 ⇒ 15
- Attack Damage: 70 ⇒ 65
- Haste: 25 ⇒ 20
- Total Cost: 3100 ⇒ 3150
Essence Reaver is still a little bit weak on its intended users, so we're delivering it a small gold efficiency buff
In the micropatch we increased the AD on Essence Reaver from 65 to 70. This is already live.
- Total Gold Cost: 3200 ⇒ 3100
Patch 14.10 - 5/16/2024
- AD: 65 ⇒ 70
This one in particular is a pretty big change but we're taking away the Spellblade passive from Essence Reaver. It's instead becoming a stat stick with a very clear purpose, spell casting. It should still provide a near-unlimited supply of mana for those spells to be cast, as well as having a competitive stat line.
- Build Path: Sheen + Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 300 Gold ⇒ BF Sword + Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 200 Gold
- Total Gold Cost: 2900 Gold ⇒ 3200 Gold
- No longer a Spellblade item
- new Basic attacks refund 15 (+10% Bonus AD) mana on-hit
- Critical Strike Chance: 20% ⇒ 25%
- Ability Haste: 20 ⇒ 25
- Attack Damage: 60 ⇒ 65
With the new item system, Lethality became a much better stat for bot laners in particular. Combined with the overall game pacing differences compared to season 13, on-hit and crit marksmen have been left a bit weaker than they were before. These changes aim to bring up the power level of crit and on-hit users systemically so that they no longer feel as though Lethality is their only viable itemization option
- Attack Damage: 55 ⇒ 60
Patch 14.1 - January 12, 2024 Mid-Patch Update
- Essence Reaver has had a slow start finding users, so we’re giving it a little buff to help make this item more appealing to anyone browsing the shopkeeper’s wares.
- Total Cost: 3000 ⇒ 2900
- Passive - Spellblade Damage: 130% base AD (+20% bonus AD) bonus physical damage ⇒ 140% base AD (+20% bonus AD) bonus physical damage
- Total Cost: 2900 ⇒ 3000 gold
- Item Recipe: Sheen + Caulfield’s Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 300 gold
- Attack Damage: 55 (unchanged)
- Ability Haste: 20 (unchanged)
- Critical Strike Chance: 20% (unchanged)
- Passive - Spellblade: Unchanged
Champion power comes from both their inherent kit and the systems (runes, items, Summoner Spells, etc.) that players choose to opt into for that game. Ideally, the ratio of power that comes from those sources remains relatively consistent throughout the game. Early on, champions have a keystone and only low-level skills. As time goes on, items get completed, ultimates come online, and abilities get ranked up. But while attack damage and ability power ratios rarely change much with rank, items may each have ratios of their own. If these item ratios are too high, some champions start to become button-pressers for their item (looking at you Ezreal and Rengar) instead of standing out as their own champions.
With that in mind, the goal of the changes to Essence Reaver and Stormrazor this patch are to limit the new attack damage ratios that champions gain over time while making sure they're a powerful source of damage early in the game. This change should make Essence Reaver stronger for most users across the majority of playtime but will be slightly weaker later.
- Spellblade Damage: 100% Base AD (+40% Bonus AD) ⇒ 130% Base AD (+20% Bonus AD)
Essence Reaver is currently letting down the champions that want to build it most, so we’re upping its power a bit to be more in line with other itemization options.
- Attack Damage: 45 ⇒ 55
- Total Gold Cost: 2800 ⇒ 2900
Essence Reaver is overperforming amongst peers in its class, and then some. Essence should still feel like an appropriate buy, but rushing it shouldn't be as efficient as it currently is.
Essence Reaver has been a little weak, so we’re giving it a bump up for mana-hungry champions.
Patch 10.23
Now builds out of Sheen and has a Spellblade passive.
The ability-weaving pattern of Sheen has always been fun and popular on some marksman champions, but Trinity Force frequently fell below the viability bar for those champions since it was balanced for fighters. Enter Essence Reaver, which has been revamped to double-down on the fantasy of a spell-slinging basic attacker.
Base Stats
Effects
Patch 9.13
Upgrade cost decreased; total cost increased. Build path adjusted.
We made it stronger and think it merits B.F. Sword's inclusion in its recipe again. However, now that it is stronger, it shouldn't be easier to build than Infinity Edge, which it is similar to in strength and tier.
| BUILD PATH : | Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + | [Pickaxe + 425 gold] | |
| ⇒ | B.F. Sword + 100 gold |
Patch 9.10
Attack damage increased.
We're giving Essence Reaver's core users more motivation to consider it as their attack damage option.
Patch 9.4
Attack damage increased. Cooldown reduction is now unique.
Essence Reaver was a little weak after the marksman item changes from the last patch. We're buffing it.
v8.21
Now grants critical strike chance. No longer grants mana or Essence Flare.
While the Essence Flare version of Essence Reaver unlocked a few new marksman playstyles (mainly looking at you Lucian), it disenfranchised a bunch of others like Ashe and Xayah and ultimately ended up being a better fit for fighters like Renekton and Riven. Essence Reaver is going back to being a crit+CDR item.
| BUILD PATH : | [B.F. Sword + Caulfield's Warhammer + Sapphire Crystal + 250 gold] | |
| ⇒ | Pickaxe + Caulfield's Warhammer + Cloak of Agility + 425 gold |
v8.21
Costs less.
A lower price point won't massively widen the number of champs who want to pick up an Essence Reaver, but it'll help ER builds compete with other options.
v8.15
Attack damage increased.
In 8.12, we made some changes to Essence Reaver that were intended to make the item more accessible, but it looks like those changes also slightly weakened the item overall. As a result, we're adding some power back.
We'll be looking to make individual marksman changes in the coming patches, but we don't want to risk overbuffing them alongside item changes. To start, we're adding power to some core crit items before looking at individual champions too heavily.
Essence Reaver
Essence Reaver is performing pretty well on users who have some way to "cheat" extra basic attacks (Lucian's passive or Renekton's W, or attack resets), and thus get far more ability refreshes. We want to open Essence Reaver up to a few more champions without buffing it on the core champions, and that means giving more attack speed so that champions without bonus attacks in their kit can get more bang for their buck.
v8.11
The ultimate power spike.
Essence Reaver was intended to be the alternative late-game scaling item for marksmen who care more about spell casts. However, it turned out that once you had Essence Reaver, you also wanted Infinity Edge, and at that point, you also want a Zeal item, and at that point you might as well build up to 100% crit. The overall effect was a core build of 4 items that didn't allow spellslinger marksmen much choice at all. We're reshaping Essence Reaver around a new power spike, allowing spellcasting marksmen to double down on their spell-slinging fantasy and unleash their spells in a rapid barrage.
| BUILD PATH : | B.F. Sword + Caulfield's Warhammer + | [Cloak of Agility + 200 gold] | |
| ⇒ | Sapphire Crystal + 450 gold |
v6.14
Now on Twisted Treeline.
Prior to last November’s preseason update, B. F. Sword was too expensive to have a home on Twisted Treeline. The burden of saving for one would have been madness in an environment where marksmen naturally struggled to scale into relevance, so we gave the Treeline its own cheaper, Pickaxe-based alternatives to B. F.’s upgrades. As discussed above, however, things have changed, so we’re now comfortable introducing this suite of items to the Treeline.
B. F. Sword
Infinity Edge
Essence Reaver
The Bloodthirster
Duskblade of Draktharr
v6.12
+5 AD
Essentially the same context as Infinity Edge above. Go read that.
v5.24
Changed the critical strike to cooldown reduction conversation rate.
Essence Reaver’s providing a path for spell-casters as intended, but currently turning your next Zeal or Cloak of Agility into a cheap 20% cooldown reduction is a rate other items simply can’t compete with. The math below is a little wonky, but here’s the gist of it - at 20% crit (from say, Zeal), you’ll get 10% cooldown reduction. At 30% crit (from Zeal’s upgrades), you’ll get the same 20% cooldown reduction you’re used to. We’re digging the item’s path and what it does for carries mid-game, but we’re pushing back the ‘1.5 item power-spike’ to keep certain spell-slinging marksman in check.
v5.22
Updated. Now gives cooldown reduction based on critical strike chance.
In days past, Infinity Edge stood alone as the top dog for enabling the marksman class's damage output, with its ruthless efficiency and multiplicative spike potential. IE still remains a powerhouse, but the long-forgotten Essence Reaver's now risen to do battle with the heavyweights.
No longer a niche lifesteal item, Essence Reaver grants near-cap cooldown reduction to marksmen that rely on abilities for their primary damage output - the same way an Infinity Edge + Phantom Dancer 'spike' turns a Jinx or Caitlyn into a mid-game monster. Fun fact: Essence Reaver and Infinity Edge actually play well together (especially in a 6-item build), but where you start and which style you embrace makes all the difference.
- "Cheaper Essence Reaver. Bam. Summary and context in one."
- COMBINE COST
1050 gold⇒ 850 gold - TOTAL COST
3400 gold⇒ 3200 gold - BUGFIX Fixed a bug where Essence Reaver was restoring more mana than it should at higher mana levels
v4.12
Now builds out of B.F. Sword and gives 80 attack damage. We just re-stated the changes in a sentence.
"We were a little safe with Essence Reaver because there are a few champions who can get crazy strong with a mana-focused item. After seeing it in the wild, however, Essence Reaver just wasn't giving enough of a power spike for anyone building it, so we're rectifying that to make it more attractive as a pickup."
- RECIPE:
Pickaxe + Vampiric Scepter + 975 gold⇒ B.F. Sword + Vampiric Scepter + 1050 gold - TOTAL COST:
2650 gold⇒ 3400 gold - ATTACK DAMAGE:
60⇒ 80
v4.11
"While we realize that Essence Reaver probably needs more tweaks before it'll be in an optimal state, we want to keep it in the spotlight to show that we're committed to supporting this build path for marksman (ie: Ezreal, Corki and Sivir) that should like it."
- ATTACK DAMAGE:
50⇒ 60
v4.10
NEW Essence Reaver added
- UNIQUE PASSIVE: You gain 2-8% of the damage dealt by basic attacks as mana. This effect increases based on how much mana you are missing.
- ATTACK DAMAGE: +50
- LIFESTEAL: +10%
- COOLDOWN REDUCTION: +10%
- RECIPE: Vampiric Scepter + Pickaxe + 975 gold
- TOTAL COST: 2650 gold
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