Talk:Brand/@comment-8468980-20160122154653/@comment-8468980-20160123200931

"Riot should lower his burst but increase his sustained DPS through the use of burn damage."

He'd be the only other non-tanky mage besides Cass who fulfills that role, and they even gave her free situational spell vamp and crap tons of stats to allow for lots build options and open up her itemization. I'm not saying it worked out perfect for her, just that Riot has a roadmap for how their champs deal damage, teasing out their damage from high burst to extended dps typically involves granting them things like shields or self heals. And remember that this mage update is meant to flesh out identity. I tend to doubt Riot is going to use this as an opportunity to just make Brand into another Rumble or Ryze when people have wanted greater stability for mid lane hard AP carries for a long time.

Also, it makes more sense to change his passive to fit with the rest of his kit, rather than change everything else.

That said, the ADC update had some zany off the wall changes, I mean, what the hell even is Graves now?