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1 Gauntlet
2 Pridwin
3 and 4 can go either way depending on who you fight Mystical Mail/Bulwork
5 Chrono's Pendant
6 Book Of The Dead
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So it took me saying why not I'm gonna screw around to my friend and turned Hera who I never ever played with till I turned her into a support.
She works very well as a support with her stuns/argus is a 2nd tank/tower diver and her 3 shields once full build are basically her full health again to survive a team fight.
Be careful with her early then you can work on her well for late game, her late game is amazing with full build but her early game you need to be wary.
I use her shield/argus as survival/tower dive kits early along with med cloak.
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Also, the build is pretty expensive with no team auras outside of Thebes and very little defense. You can't tank very much without your 3 or the shields you get from being very low, you also don't do any damage to tanks because you have no % pen and do insignificant damage to squishies because you have no flat pen; you have a good amount of power but nothing to go with it. This is ignoring the fact that you should not be building so many power items as a support... if you're gonna build power items, at least get some flat pen so that you can do something with that power
You're also getting Mystical late, which is REALLY late for a support especially in this meta where supports are still level 17 30 minutes in, and it's essentially useless at that point + not really built on supports regardless.
I get the whole thought process behind the build - you want constant shields so you can't really die. The problem is it's a very selfish, expensive, and stack-dependent build with no real utility/auras for your team - if I ran this build anywhere it would be in solo and even then I would change a lot.
Also you said something about the starter item, but I'm not sure - do you just build Sentinel's Gift for the early gold/xp and then sell it late? Because you have 6 full items late game and no Sentinel's Embrace
ANYWAYS My suggestion for a shield-based build that actually supports the team is the following!:
Sentinel's Embrace > Gauntlet of Thebes > Sovereignty > Bulwark of Hope > Pridwen > Mantle of Discord
for a build with more damage I would just swap Sovereignty for Spear of Desolation or Divine Ruin
Yeah, BotD + BoT are NOT suggested items for Hera, esp in a tank build.