User blog comment:Usiar/Jayce -- Too much free damage?/@comment-5266525-20120718141929

If by 'free' damage (and I have no idea how you coined such a term) you just mean the base damage on his abilities, I don't know how you can ever stand some early-game monster like Darius or Renekton. Their base damages are insane, and their ratios aren't even that bad either.

For your suggestions, I feel like it's a change for the sake of change. Riot has clearly intended him to be a bruiser, judging by all the free stats he is granted and his recommended items. Bruiser Jayce is also probably the best option he has, not because of his base stats but because of the fact that his abilities scale off AD (falls off lategame) and he has a short AA range. Tank Jayce is more or less ignorable as he only has one good CC.