To me, the mana regen from impure rage is useless. Heroes with low mana cost skills dont need it, and heroes who needs lots of mana also dont need it... cuz they really need LOTS of mana, not only 2% regen. I have more than 2k matches with alice and i see a lot of players using impure rage, this is supposed to be her "main emblem" (cecilion, esme too...). I never calculated how much mana exactly this emblem would give to her during the game, but when im playing with it i dont see/feel ANY difference. At the moment, the only hero who i think that really fits with this emblem is novaria, not because the emblem is good, but because the other emblems dont match her sniper playstyle
Yep, agreed with the "main emblem" thing. Alice, Cecilion, and Esmeralda use the enchanted talisman, which regenerates 1.5% of your max mana per second. Also, their skills are spammable. And since you spam skills that cost mana, you need to mitigate the risk of being quickly out of mana in the middle of the clash. Take note as well that Cecilion's S1 consumes more mana each time it is cast. So spamming S1 poses mana problems. The assassin emblem is supposed to be his "main emblem" (NOT the mage emblem), but the emblem does not solve his mana problem early on, especially that I am tempted to spam his S1. I opted for the common emblem instead, due to its 12 hybrid regen, and I bought an elegant gem without upgrading it to COD. In fact, I upgraded it to durance. I don't opt for COD + LT anymore on both Alice and Cecilion because of the LT scaling with total magic power rather than max mana. I bought a talisman for both of them. I also went tanky with Alice by buying dominance ice instead of LT, with COD and talisman as my only mage items for her. But the risk of losing the elegant gem's passive in place of COD will demand that I buy a talisman before COD. For Alice and Esme, I use the support emblem. (Again, NOT the mage emblem. Not even the common emblem but if you wish to use it, that's fine by me.) Unlike Alice, who badly needs COD along with a talisman, Esme is fine with just a talisman + equipping impure rage. Though I still use dominance ice on both of them, what makes Alice more of having a mana problem than Esme is her ult constantly draining mana every 0.5 seconds, along with casting her other non-ult skills. Esme only has her mana problems due to the constant S1 + S2 combo. I believe the impure rage is NOT useless. You just know how to mitigate mana problems and/or manage mana better than I do. But the impure rage is still my go-to talent if I pick any mana-hungry mage. The rest of the mages, I stick with lethal ignition.
