More often than not, when playing earthshaker as a support I find myself not leveling fissure further than level 1 because the other skills just do more and the mana cost increase is just too big most of the time, but I find it hard to choose when to, and when not to max fissure.
Could someone please give me a greater insight in this?
Posted Sep 2, 2015, 10:51 AM UTC
2 iron branches at the start of the game give you enough mana as to where you can fissure twice
Yes, but not if you level it up.
You only level it by by levelling up yourself, which gives you a larger mana pool. 2 levels on earthshaker gives him 46.8 extra mana pool, whereas the extra level in fissure only costs 15 mana more.
As a support earthshaker you should always max fissure. If you go carry earthshaker (mid for example) you can leave it at level 1.
You are better off staying at the outside of fights using fissure than walking up to the enemy and hitting them in most cases. Specially when you are a support without items or levels.
I find myself with massive mana problems and minimal impact if I max it though, the mana cost goes up significantly, especially for a support that doesn't get many items. Since earthshaker is a support that can't really farm very well without totem, it usually takes a very long time to farm up either arcanes or a soul ring. Yes, not dieing is a thing but it's still difficult, and even moreso in an environment where your team picked a jungler. (Yes, I know that's a bad idea but that's not what I'm trying to argue.)
I usually go boots -> arcane/soul ring into blink. Try to utilize the pull camp as much as possible and get experience + gold that way. You can also ask your mid/safe lane if you can take over the lane and let them jungle/switch for a while.
edit: Get 2-3 clarities at the beginning of the game and don't be afraid of shipping out more. Remember that it usually only takes 1 fissure to get a kill. Try to gank mid as well!
Go tranqs + soulring or arcanes and you will be fine, start with two branches a couple clarities and whatever else. You arent going to be spamming it until you get a mana item so just throw that idea out. You have to use it sparingly, build wand too, the stats and burst help in fights
I've found that soulring and tranquil is superior compared to arcane and its not that hard to get them.
You are doing it all wrong if you are playing support.I have 80 es matches with %72 win rate.You won't do shit as support if you give your w and e all the time it is only useful if you want to steal your carries farm.You should go Q-E-Q-W-Q-R-Q etc etc Imo
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Always max fissure as support es