Basically title, the passive of these 2 items is pretty much the same thing, just different values (percentage value for Steel caps, flat but scaling value for Warden's Mail)
So why does Warden's Mail tell you how much damage was mitigated yet Steel caps do not?
External link →Remember when sterak tracked how damage it blocked? Then its removed LOL meanwhile maw still kept it.
I'm probably gonna try to add this back whenever I get some extra time. It bugs me too, our use of trackers if fairly inconsistent atm.
You remember when bounties were added and there were outcries about 1k gold being ridiculous and too unfair? Then Riot changed the display message to occlude the kill gold and show only the bounty, and suddenly all the crying stopped.
Boots have a similar issue in that showing steelcap value would make it seem far and above the other boots and people would cry for nerfs, but the boots are fine otherwise.
To show the numbers, Riot would have to show numbers for other boots as well in order to drive home that all boots are equally strong in their own strength, but it's harder to quantify how much attack speed or ability haste contributed to your DPS and display that in a number. It's also hard to make people look at a small number for "reduced cc" and realize that sometimes reducing 1s of stun can be more powerful than preventing 1k damage.
Tl,Dr: it's hard for our brains to contextualize the numbers and this change could lead to the boots having to be nerfed to a point where it'd be trolling to buy them.
This is basically the reason I haven't added it. Steelcaps are not actually OP, but the number that displays on the tracker will be so out-of-context that you can't make an informed decision on whether it was a better/worse purchase than the other options that can't have their outputs tracked.
My personal philosophy is that trackers should be there to help inform you whether your purchase was correct after the fact, and in situations where you're against largely physical auto attacking teams, it's going to be clearly correct regardless of the tracker's print-out in most cases.
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