User blog comment:Emptylord/Future Content/@comment-5256197-20130604130600

Hey, thanks Emptylord for keeping these PBE and Future Content articles! I came here only to say thanks, but maybe I'll stay to comment some.

Xerath was the only champ who I bought at launch, and was extremely disappointed with. I was sold an AP sniper, but he really didn't feel like it. Nida, Lux and even Gragas among few others feel much more like sniper mages to me.

I'm having also real hard time to use him with smartcasts (only other being Veigar and his E), because he has so many different ranges in his spells, and can't compensate mispredictions by moving a pixel forward (only thing I'd need for him is that when in Locus, he's display range indicators for E and R).

I'm looking forward to his rework, if it'd make him more usable.