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Community feedback highlights that the Mageslayer component of Bloodthorn has become overly dominant in late‑game scenarios, granting excessive magic resist to carries. This power spike penalizes heroes such as Sand King, Leshrac, and Death Prophet, while also providing an outsized early‑game advantage to heroes like Slark and Monkey King. The author argues the item’s scaling and static debuff are poorly designed and suggests converting the debuff into a cooldown‑based active. Existing defensive items like Pipe and BKB already address high‑commitment casters, reducing the need for such a potent item.