I've been thinking about Linken's Sphere. I feel like the item is slowly becoming more and more irrelevant as each patch comes out: it was given the ability to be used on other people, its cost has shrunk significantly over the past few patches (the recipe getting reduced to 1K gold flat in 6.87!) and it's cooldown is 13! Down from 20 back in the day. And yet...

Who... buys this item? Does anyone?

The natural heroes that come to wind are Medusa, Morphling, and Weaver, yet it's becoming far more common to skip this item in favor of other things: Medusa and Morphling get much more out of an Eye of Skadi, and Weaver... well, I'm a Phase/Deso guy on Weaver, but that's another thread entirely.

It straddles this odd line of not knowing what type of item it wants to be. The fact that you can transfer the spellblock makes it seem like a support item, but at almost 5K gold and having two 1K+ costing components, it's difficult for a four or five position to get this item unless y…
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