Well I for myself think about taking offline all my guides (with the option, but not sure about that) to re-up them worked over as my philosophy of teaching has changed:
There is about no learning effect in terms of building a char, if you just follow a guide. It's fine to have a setup to work with, and to learn the handling of the char.

How to build it, how to maximize it's effectiveness, or for rising awareness of benefits and detriments it has no use at all.
Therefore I think about bringing out a new concept (I guess it will be posted as guides as well, as more ppl watch this site than the forums), discussing only the effects of game mechanics, items, synergies, etc.
Is there any chance, that you'd find time to chip in ;)?

Lol Well Lvx Im glad we got that cleared up lol. Im working on revamping all my builds and yeah. I just dont have the time to work on all of them

Hmm... you never thought you'd see me here? Now I am a little bit startled: Where do we know each others from, and why am I not supposed to post here ;)?

But most important things first: Being a crafter isnt a bad thing, holy ghost its the best thing that could happen to you. I rather meant to say "Sorry dude, I hate to tell you, as I know you're a crafter as well".
I'm pretty sure this build will work (espc. against DPS chars), I'm just not getting tired of telling people that they mostly shouldnt get a void staff ;).
(Yepp, I actually have to work over my Karthus Guide for that reason...)

I never thought Id see you here Lvx. I ty for the numbers, and I admit, this build was before I know what I know now. I know that you only wanted to inform me of my mis calculations. There it might not seem like this has potential, but it works. I know the numbers say fail, but with new knowledge comes great things.

And tell me, why is being a crafter a bad thing?

Sorry to tell you, Chaotic (sorry for you are a theory crafter actually), but taking a void staff before you got ANY MR-reduce or MagPen(flat) is a horrifying idea.

a) 55% MagPen of 30 base MR is only 16,5 reduction to chars without any MR.
Taking an abyssal scepter, i.e., would already grant you 20 reduction.

b) It grants you no advantage besides the 70 AP - as you are calling your build a tank build, you might want to take items like rylais (for the HP) or abyssal scepter (for the 57 MR) into consideration. Especially abyssals 57 MR will synergize with your randuins as well.

c) The breaking point for void staff is, where 45% of enemies MR is a value lower to 70,45% of his MR-20. Taking the following values (quints and marks are MagPen in this calculation, for it increases your dmg output WAY more than armor runes);
30 = ~7 with abyssal / 13,5 with void staff
50 = 21,14 / 22,5
75 = 38,75 / 33,75
100 = 56,36 / 45
150 = 91,59 / 67,5

As you can see, a mentionable difference is given at 150 MR upwards (where the difference is 47% reduction (abyssal) to 40% reduction (void staff).
And even for that 7% you shouldnt let your own MR go.

Even worse: With your build, your SS will deal (270 + .6 * 70) = 320 dmg. Even IF your enemy HAD (not likely for most chars) 150 MR, it would mean a difference in total numbers of 22,4dmg per SS.

Sorry, but that is way behind this chars potential.

But if you have read the guide, you would notice that I have made a list of things that could swapped out.

The major problem here is it's not as much of a tank because of the lack of MR. More of just a Stack-armor-like-a-boss malphite build :S

As I stated on your build, I like to have the bonus armor. Also, I have a lil more Mpen than you do, so that small amount of bonus armor will go a long way. This buils isnt just focused on armor my friend. If you read, this build is meant to help get the most out of his passive. The stronger his passive the longer he can take a hit.

One thing that I do that most dont, is I build many things at once... Ill have plenty of small armor items at one time. That gives me plenty of armor, just not the bigger items.

I do get what you are saying though.

Hey. One thing I disagree with is that you lvl seismic shard so late. It is awesome for killing early game. I will rather pick that and ground slam quick, as I don't need that much armor when laning against 2. I pick BS when teamfights start, because I have more armor at that point. BS is percentage so it isn't that effective before you have some items.

Its a beast lol Im saving to get the champs I dont have so I cant play this with the runes here, but I play it by stacking armor and I have Mpen makrs, glyphs,a dn quints and this is just nasty. This build is more of how I want it lol

Decided to look through all your builds Chaotic and I must say this one looks pretty damn cool