Low tier masteries for Lux.

[quote=Lugignaf][quote=PsiGuard] Never liked [[Demolitionist]]. Pretty sure the extra damage is just physical, so the tower's armor mitigates most of it anyway. Besides, a tiny bit of extra damage on a tower doesn't seem too gamebreaking to me. I'd rather have a few extra points of damage on a fleeing champion. [/quote] Bonus damage is true damage. It's still packaged into the "Physical" number pop-up though. Same with [[Butcher]].[/quote]

[quote=PsiGuard]Still not a fan. All Lux needs to push towers quickly is [[sheen]]->[[lich bane]] anyway. For such a small bonus, I'd get something that helps a bit early game. Even if it's only one point. [[Siege Commander]] at least makes your entire team plus any nearby minions able to push towers more quickly. 10 bonus damage to towers on a caster doesn't seem all that useful to me.[/quote]

[quote=Lugignaf]5 damage on a 1K damage nuke doesn't sound much better, does it?[/quote]

[quote=PsiGuard]Lux's combo with two illumination procs at level 18 deals about 1600 damage without accounting for AP and MR (going to keep this simple). 1.5% of that (3 points of [[Havoc]]) will add 26 damage to that combo. With some AP, let's say she hits two champions with 2000 damage each. Havoc adds 60 damage to that exchange, split between the two champions. With [[Lux]]'s scaling from [[Light Binding]], [[Lucent Singularity]] and [[Finales Funkeln]], the 3 AP from [[Mental Force]] should give her an additional 5 damage across all three spells, not taking into account the increase from [[Archmage]] and [[Rabadon's Deathcap]] (which isn't much). As a sidenote, she'll also get one more point of damage protection on [[Prismatic Barrier]]. 26 damage, or 5 damage? It seems like Havoc is better for a mage with Lux's scalings, especially considering she uses autoattacks in her combo and [[Illumination]] doesn't scale with AP. I haven't accounted for [[Lich Bane]] procs either, which would also seem to favor [[Havoc]]. My math could be totally wrong, I don't usually theorycraft. As far as I know, [[Brute Force]] + [[Havoc]] is still the best combo on mages.[/quote]

[quote=IceCreamy]^ Thanks for the math, I think I will put those 2 points from [[Mental Force]] into [[Havoc]] again xD[/quote]

[quote=albableat][quote=Jpikachu1999] You have 6 points? Might as well pick up 2 in [[Butcher]], 3 in [[Brute Force]], and 1 in [[Demolitionist]] for better last hitting, and a filler (extra damage on towers is nice I guess). [/quote] This is the best setup possible, unless you're playing a champion with 1:1 ap ratios.[/quote]

[quote=PsiGuard][[Butcher]] increases your AA damage against minions and monsters. [[Demolitionist]] increases your AA damage against towers [[Havoc]] increases all your damage to any target, including champions. An extra bit of damage can be enough to net a kill or two you may have missed otherwise. That's pretty much why I prefer havoc. Butcher may get you a few more CS and Demolitionist may let you kill a tower a hit or two earlier, but the difference between a kill and no kill (especially late game) has a far greater impact on the game.[/quote]