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wards or potions, your choice
If losing lane I recommend getting boots first
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Beads / Aegis (situationally shell) allow you to survive and escape, bracer is useless if you're already dead before you can pop it off.
Aegis will save you from a late game mage like Scylla 1 shotting you, if you have Bracer you won't get a chance to use it before you're dead.
As for your comment about being unable to help your team whilst in aegis - it's better to be inactive for a second or two and alive, instead of being dead.