User blog comment:RoznosicielCiast/Idea for balanced Darius' nerf instead of reworking him/@comment-76.93.209.95-20130212055708

Darius isn't that bad as is, except for chain ultimate. I agree on the changes to his refresh, but everything else doesn't need to change. This is coming from someone who doesn't play Darius that much. I find myself winning against Darius 80-90% of the time playing champs like Irelia, Rumble, and Jarvan. The only thing that would have to change aside from the ultimate is his passive, which currently deals magic damage due to new Black Cleaver. If riot could somehow disable the bleed from giving Cleaver stacks and change it back to physical damage, Darius is a perfectly fine and even easy lane opponent. His bleed just does too much right now. They may as well revert it to true damage.

This is all just my opinion. As a non Darius player, I've laned against and played with many, and as far as I can tell, with the changes I have stated, Darius is balanced.