cuz armor and attack speed which a lot of str heroes want instead of str and hp regen.
Bracers are bad, Null Talis are only good on invoker, thats it lol
edit: actually bracers could be good only on sven after he pops his ult
Its pretty simple, you get them on people that have shitty attack speed like Sven. Cleave faster, farm faster, hit with your ult faster.
its like a casual gloves of haste for farming but gives stats at the cost of less attack speed, but it has nice buildup for laning.
2 wraith bands is like old buckler and glove of haste in terms of stats, that you used to see on wraith king.
armor and attack speed are valuable, on low armor right clicking int heroes and strength cores.
Don't like it. I barely see an effect worthy of the cost on agi heroes, it's even worse for others.
Im of the opinion that it isnt particually cost effective this patch when Soul Ring is 740 gold, gives 2 armour, 6 attack damage, 120hp and a ton of mana which is mega important on many strength heros which have high mana costs for the early game but low int and no obligation to build casting items. Think Sven, Chaos Knight, Magnus.etc. I dont see why anyone would build a band when Soul Ring gives you far more bang for buck and most strength cores build into Midas anyway (at least in my bracket) so you would be better off just skipping bands and getting gloves of haste if you really need attack speed. Naked gloves are pretty decent anyway and I will sometimes just have them on my hero, but it isnt unreasonable to straight up buy 2 gloves right at the start and then just build them in treads and midas or whatever else you fancy, that way you have attack speed out the gate.
if ur playing turbo sure 2 gloves is fine for greed, because the enemy probably can't punish you before the greed pays off.
if you're laning and the lane match up is fairly even, the stats are way better than 10 attack speed. going gloves first before any stat items would only be beneficial if rushing treads was more optimal but if it was, then you'd see carries skipping these early stat items most of the time. which they don't, because stats are important for laning.
if the matchup is one sided, e.g. you have an empty lane, or so difficult that you have to jungle from level 2, then yeah gloves would be better purely for farming efficiency.
> Think Sven, Chaos Knight, Magnus.etc
none of those heroes are going to be spamming soul ring off cd to farm. magnus' dont max shockwave anymore. as soon as sven's got max cleave he can jungle and soul ring does next to nothing. ck has no aoe. early game attack speed does more for dps than just buying damage, e.g. gloves of haste vs blades of attack, or a +6 stat item.
few pos 1s go soul ring because you can buy clarities/mangos and they also don't take up slots. even carries that depend on spells to farm like gyro dont go soul ring. if you don't have ways to offset the health loss then you're paying 740g for what clarities do, on top of probably buying more salves, when you could instead get a stat item that helps you farm, and still have mana regen.
also none of these heroes can sustain soul ring, i dont go soul ring on mars anymore because i cant sustain it and then im jungling on half hp and it makes joining fights harder and it becomes easier to gank me in the jungle. soul ring is also p expensive, all things considered i dont think soul ring is that good unless ur hero has innate sustain like dk or timber.
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ive met lots of wraith band users lately they use it on str / int heroes. why? just because of armor?