Skills are too important.  A real mana drain would be OP.

If you're not also suggesting that mana potions be removed from the game then you tacitly acknowledge that players do run out of mana. The punisher makes them run out faster and may deprive a player of mana at a critical point if you surprise them.

It's also modified by cooldown flags, Inspiring Presence, and the Staff of Renewal (and Stormbringer if you ever get that far), and it does a reasonable burst of AoE damage and gives +30 weapon damage. It's not a bad item, but there is an issue with health stacking in general trumping other item combinations and the underusage of niche items like this is kind of collateral damage.

Mards hammer is junk!

Best favor

All assassins

All general

Blood of the fallen

Swift Anklet

Amulet of teleportation

Cape of plentiful mana

Wings of the seraphim

Worthless favor

Bejeweled googles: add something else then just radius. Maybe HPS/MPS.

Charm of life: Maybe death penalty reduced by 15% instead of 10%. We can get death penalty lvl1 at citadel for 600 gold.

Brillant  bauble: we can get xp at citadel for 120 gold. Add something with this 10% exp.

Magical coin pounch: reduced cost item by 10%. LOL....on 8k u save 800 gold. So....on 400 gold...40 gold. pretty useless. Increase %

Symbol of purity: I dont know if its a good or bad favor. never use it.

Staff of the warmage: +15 weapon is not a lot. Blade of the serpent is better, less expensive and it got an ability.

Dark crimson vial: 33% health back...5k hp = 1650 hp back. low ho pot five 750 in 0.5sec. Maybe reduced the cast

Diamond pendant: increase to 15% cooldown.

Saam-el's cloak: 5% movement speed and cant reduced move speed for 25%. Peaple counter this with wand of speed. Maybe give me move speed.

Armor

Best are: Scaled, branded, Nimoth, haubert, Groffing, Godplate

Useless are: Dueslist (too expensive), Vengeance ( need health too ), plate is kind of bugged to me. ppl said it give 100 armor.....i saw 1000. But 1% is too low for the price we spend.

Helmet

Best are: Scaled, Plenor, Vlemish, Hungarling

Useless are: Plate visor (35% MPS..900 more and u got plenor), Theurgist ( i think i saw only AI used it), Winling (3% is too low)

Boots

Best are: Boot of speed, unbreakable, journeyman

Useless are: Footman (need more health/mana for 600 gold), assassin (need something else then dodge), ironwalkers (useless ability), desperate (too expensive)

Gloves

Best are: gauntlet of brutality, wyrmskin, slayer's wrap, gauntlet of despair

Useless are: gladiator (5% atk speed = 0.3. like 1.35 to 1.32 WOW ),  doomspite (cleavage attack useless. Almost all demi got something for that. Maybe add something else or lower the price)

Trinkets

Best are: Sludge, wand of speed, nature's reckoning, warlord's punisher, magnus rod, ring of the ancient, orb of defiance, narmoth's ring,

Useless are: forest band (other item do this), bloodstone (3% is nothing. 3% of 250 damage = ??? ), twig of life (too expensive), parasite egg (slayer's wrap do the same without the ability and less expensive), warpstone (lol at price, yard. Teleport is better )

(Quote):  "Magical coin pounch: reduced cost item by 10%. LOL....on 8k u save 800 gold. So....on 400 gold...4 gold. pretty useless. Increase %"

(i guess you just made mistake with that 4 gold, its 40 of course)

anyway, the biggest problem with Pouch is this (imho):

(I'll better explain it with an example), so imagine you're buying a godplate normally (without pouch); you'll spend 10000 gold, and if you are (just suppose this) selling it back, you'll get 8000 back.  Now, with pouch you will buy it for 9000 (and therefore save 1000 g), but when you sell it you wont get 8000 gold back(!), but just 7200 (which is, of course, 80% of buying cost); and that is stupid and major problem for 'magic' pouch. If that pouch was REALLY MAGIC you would resell it(godplate) for its usual 8000 gold, if not even for THE SAME COST you bought it!

I think that would be nice buff for that favor item.

What do you all think?

(i guess you just made mistake with that 4 gold, its 40 of course)

yeah i just edit my post hehe. Thx

Yeah... I hope they go with the Making All Favor Items Good option instead of Making All Favor Items Suck Equally option.

The problem with favor items in general is that they are scaled in power based on cost.  Thus, it makes sense for a Charm of Life to be weaker than Blood of the Fallen since it is cheaper.  However, once you can afford BotF, it makes no sense ever using the Charm again, and it thus becomes obsolete.  As someone suggested before, all favor items should be the same cost in favor points and all improved to reflect the equal costs. 

Alternatively, there could be two tiers of favor items (maybe half for 1000 favor and the other half for 2000 favor points) and the usefulness of the items based on this two-tier cost system.  A third option would be to have basic favor items all cost the same thing, while specialized items for generals or assassins could cost more.  If this kind of tiered system is adopted, I think that favor points should be reset to zero, but each player given just enough favor (say, 2000) to buy one item.  This would make it so that new players are not initially disadvantaged because they can't afford a 1000 or 2000 favor item.

If im going pure DPS Regulus I always take Wards Hammer over Blade of the Serpent - as mana is never an issue. +15 more weapon damage and 5% attack speed isnt bad at all

I like Zechnopes idea

However his ideas need tweaking but they are pretty