nope supports suck, and by that i mean the ward bitches ones with only gold gain items. when i go support i mostly buy ap items and taking it more aggressive, like sona/nunu/lux. I dont take the farm of the ad , but i will grab kills ofc, warding not as much as full ward bitch, but i think it should be more the job of the whole team to ward. Because if I have zero items and only max spells which help my carry, then carry gets caught out of position or insta gibbed in team fights and the support cant do anything useful and look what the nice farmed carry brought to the table for your sacrifice, nothing duhhh. Really think assists should be given a huge gold buff in the support tree maybe as ult, to let the supporters get some items too and not just, ward ward, destroy ward, silence, run... and like said before its such an unrewarding job, carrys is doing shit well gratz your going down with him because you are useless, and guess whos fault it is, of course yours, if he does good he will just go into super douche mode thinking he is the king of the universe.
I for myself would favor longer games because they are so intense, longer games would be achieved by duo lanes where farm and exp are shared, but most of the hight elo game and tournaments merly last 30 minutes. but in the current meta which i dont like this will never happen.
---------- Post added 2012-08-17 at 10:29 PM ----------
IoI who to keep alive first, you picture it like supporters are wow healers, with heals who actually do something or multi heals or shields plz, in most cases i find myself withethe following situation: duh i put xyz on that low ally but he died anyways, i am so useful!!!! cant count the times ad got killed under the tower with me throwing everything on him but the enemy wasnt impressed at all