great build

The reason you have farming issues is because you avoid taking Starcall. I grab Starcall first then Infuse. I don't get Astral Blessing 'till level three unless I absolutely need it at level two (which is almost never). Starcall only uses 42 mana/casting at first rank. It only eats through mana if you're trying to DPS the minions as opposed to last hitting them with it (this takes practice). After I take the one point in each I max Infuse, then Starcall, and then Astral Blessing. Her heal gets 90% of her AP, so if you have a decent amount of AP you won't need to max it right away and spam it constantly.

Perhaps your underestimating starcall? it's not for the damage, it, along with your heal and infuse keeps you in a lane. I get one point in it at lvl 5. sometimes I really wish I can get it ealier like at 3. but w/e The point is, say your laning. Honesty early game is really annoying. from 1-6 your CD on heal feels like enterity despite the fact that healing 120 is pretty decent and your constantly out of mana. You cant' do any damage, and are relying your lane partner to save your *** if something goes wrong. And what happens when your partner needs to go back for items? I use to not get any points in starall so when I'm alone by a turret, other people can still attack the turret, like who cares soraka does like 50 damage. Their health regen is better than your damage output -.-' If you had starcall, you can wipe out the waves of minions and save your precious turret.

Personally I find getting starcall too early in the game to be too much of a mana eater, and to get it mid game isnt that great either as my team usualy tends to start team fights by then, and while starcall is rather useful for team fights too, its not as importaint to a support as her other spells, this is just my personal opinion though, and anyone who has practice playing as Soraka can use their own judgement to choose what skill order they perfer

Wow pretty nice, but as the guy above me said, I would rec. getting 1 or 2 levels of starcall before 11 :P

As someone who has mained Soraka since lvl 6 and at least 2/3s of my 700 total games, I'm afraid I cannot give this build a thumbs up. It isn't the Item Build, that is fine. It isn't really the Runes either, since I like Gold Quints, although the dodge runes could possibly be put to better use with Armor or extra MR to make you nigh invulnerable to casters early game. It's your skill order. Starcall should never, and I mean NEVER be leveled last. You should ALWAYS have at least 1-2 points in Starcall by lvl 10. One must remember that it's damage isn't low, it's spammable, it's AoE AND it lowers MR. I could give numbers and **** but I don't feel I should in this venue. I'm not saying that Starcall should be maxed first or even second, but to not get it AT ALL until level 12, is a waste of one of the best farming skills in the game. It's very rare in a game that lasts over 30 minutes that I don't have the most minion kills in the game and as such, I get the AP items I need to heal my team quicker which in turn saves lives.