Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-4881935-20121212043456/@comment-5.83.71.124-20121212072216

My personal problem with this item is that I'm not actually building a Brutalizer on carries or bruisers, just on AD casters, and for most of the latter, getting crit is just a major waste, and AS a lesser one, but still a waste. Plus most carries will use the Avarice Blade for getting a Stattik Shiv, and most bruisers will upgrade it into an Atma's Impaller, so your suggestion about a gold earning passive needs to switch the Avarice Blade (And therefore, the crit chance) for some other gp/10 item that could be more useful. Sadly, with the removal of the Heart of Gold, and given that most AD casters don't use AP or they have really poor AP ratios, the only choice here is the Philosopher's Stone, which still will be half a gold waste for Riven, Renekton, Lee Sin, and Zed.

Outside AD casters, I just simply feel that if I want armor pen, I'll just get a Last Whisper, and if I want AS, I'll stick to anyother thing, because even if the AS increase was substantial (Which it isn't, less than 45% AS on a legendary tier item is a shame, unless we're talking about Trinity which gives far more stats, or Statikk Shiv, which is far more reliable than this), it's just not permanent. Plus, as you stated, the AD is rather low, that's a problem when considering either building this, Last Whisper, or The Black Cleaver, and since it's in the same tier as TBC, boosting it's AD up to 50 should be optimal, although maybe a bit too high.

Last, but not least, my own suggestions for this item are: Either remove it from Summoner's Rift in favor of Lord Van Damm's Pillager (I guess that it can be useful in the Crystal Scar, it's just a mode I'm not so used to as the forementioned), or switch the AS into an unique passive where the AS comes from anyother source, like lower health like Maw of Malmortius' AD, stacking effects like Guinsoo's Rageblade, or some sort of system based on your character's level, I don't know. The MS buff could stay as an active, tho. It still won't be an AD caster item, but at least it will be useful for all those characters that people seems to build it in. Other than that, some other suggestions come to my mind, but they feel just too random or OP.