User blog comment:Care Level/Once again, on Attacks v. Spells./@comment-1330314-20150808203947/@comment-1330314-20150808211533

I may have misread this, but I was mainly basing myself on your proposal to a) give mages base AP and AP per level (which effectively gives it the same progression as AD on most champions) and b) gut their AD and instead give them AP-based on-hit effects. Your proposal to make basic attacks deal AP-scaling magic damage is effectively one to make AP work on him like AD would on most other champions. What you're proposing makes the stats very similar in functionality, if not identical.