Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-4881935-20121212043456/@comment-4881935-20121212080904

^I see, I see. First off, it is never meant to be an AD caster item. It's extremly clear with the critical chance and attack speed. So, I don't even know why you would consider it, especially now that Black Cleaver was reworked to be that AD caster item.

Second, brutalizer is not limited only to AD caster. A DPS melee champion can make the exact same good use out of that item like an AD caster. AD and armor pen is not exclusive AD caster stats, so if their was an viable melee DPS AD item, you would see those type of champions pick this up more.

Third, I do agree that no 'range' champion would grab this item as there are better options, but the idea here is that this item should be viable for 'melee' DPS champion, for example, Shyvanna, Nocture, or Xin Zhao. Hence making the passive longer so they can make the most out of it.

Fourth, Lord Van Damm's Pillager is a good item, but it doesn't attempt to fill the hole that Ghostblade fails to fill. You want another AD caster item, and that's perfectly fine, but that in of itself doesn't relate to anything about Ghostblade. Also, there is no need to remove ghostblade to add Lord Van Damm's Pillager. Black Clever would be the items that stops that item because of overlapping roles.

Fifth, something that scales with health tends to be for tanky bursier item. I can probably tell you right now, based on Ghostblade current stats, it will never promote that style due to it's three synergizing stats that requires more of the other stats to be useful. Unless you just want to make the item overpower in by itself.

And my final comment for the person who made the first post, you underestimate the usefulness of lower cooldown and longer duration. The ability to have it up for any battle should grant more usage overall, and the item idea that I would push for would be more for sticking to the target over anything else. But maybe the movement speed nerf is unjust, but this is all theory crafting so i really can't refute it or not.