Talk:VPBE/@comment-29921907-20161028112619/@comment-3974211-20161028123157

How have they broken it? AD casters arguably have no offensive option for masteries at the moment and are forced to take Thunderlord's (and the occasional few try Stormraider's). Whereas autoattack carries currently have the option of life steal or 80 pseudo-AD.

If not Fervor, the other option would have been to leave Fervor as the autoattack mastery and instead turn Warlord's into Gunblade-style healing and thus an option for casters (it could even be made physical damage healing only, like Death's Dance, if Riot really doesn't want AP casters having access). However, I imagine that healing would be hard to balance for every champion (much the reason spell vamp was removed from items).