Haha Alahric, mine isn't even DPS! It's a super hyrbid that makes use of everything. If you notice, the only AD item is Manamune and most of the time I skip that. AS is also built but is also skipped somewhat frequently due to high harass.

My build, I would say, is Tanking Support; provides Radiance as long as possible while quickly reducing the cooldown on Imbue (by auto-attacking) in order to heal allies more. Durable enough to stay in the middle of things, take punishments, and heal them off with ease. The "DPS" part is really only there for the increased time for Radiance and allow for more heals to go off. :)

Again this would be kewl if, which is invalid now, Radiance had it's 80% increase AD on Taric. But none the less, you do heal like a Sona and you're easier to kill than a Shaco without decieve or clones. If you want "DPS" Taric, which is highly unnecessary, then take SixSonatas's build.

I'll just have to rework mine a bit, I had serious mana issues with the patches..

What's the goal? You -could- mass AD on Soraka if you wanted to, I don't see what this accomplishes, other than replenishing all of your mana on hit.

I have to disagree with you Alahric, I don't know what your games are like, but when I last hit 95%+ of the creeps (99%+ late game), pick up some jungle farm, and get some ganks, I usually total 10-12k gold by the end of a match; this is assuming a ~40 minute game (which teams of equal skill usually take at least to).

I usually have around 4k at around 20 minutes and that's when farm becomes extremely easy as lanes become less occupied and you can pick up mass farm due to team fights. I, however, agree that three Bloodthirsters is too much to afford before people are too high leveled and this Taric would have nearly no survivability and be destroyed in a quick second (assuming teams of equal skill [high ELO], again).

the budget does not reach.. btw: Taric's Radiance doesn't scale with % of his damage anymore, otherwise it would be awesome -> still, you barely get 5k in a match.

Haha, it's definitely unexpected. And be warned, you will probably get flamed hard for it!

Yeah i will thisbuild seems fun because the enemies dont expect this :P definitly +1 ima try it out either when i buy him or when he turns up on free champion pick.