Champions

[Waffuru]

Anyone play Taric often? Been using my standard caster runes and my mana tank masteries, and my build order->Morello's (Not in suggested, but he needs CDR so bad, and the mana is nice, + a healthy AP boost) then Chalice, then boots and then spirit...shroud? the 10% cdr and mana regen aura. Never made it beyond that, but anything crazy wrong there?

I usually start Mana Manipulator (unless my lane doesn't have another mana user or we have just tons of non-manas) then go boots, Tear of the Goddess, Tear into Archangel's, Merc Treads and Aegis. You have to also remember that autoattacking with Taric is OP. He gets mana back from his passive and lowers the cooldown on his heal. After those items I adjust for what we're against and how we're doing. More AP or armor or MR usually.

For runes I usually go:
Greater Quint of Fortitude x3 (78 health)
Greater Mark of Insight x9 (8.55 magic pen)
Greater Glyph of Shielding x9 (24.3 MR at 18)
Greater Seal of Resilience x9 (12.69 Armor)

The other thing to note is that minions get 10AD from max Radiance so it's most effective to use when you have a big minion wave pushing on towers.