User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Item Concept) A New Kind of Crit/@comment-1920550-20150711052318/@comment-1920550-20150711072933

I agreed with the Brut removal, i even said that the current version of Ghostblade was held back by it's diluted nature and your rework fixed that due to the Brutalizer removal and crit rework...so i'm agreeing with that train of thought of yours. I think we're in different wave-lenghts xD

My problem is your rework of the active...the central power of Ghostblade should be on using its active steroids to empower yourself, chaining it with other steroids in your kit to gain this burst of power and assassinate your foe in that window. The movespeed while much more potent is too short duration and as it stands is simply a worse version of Talisman/Ghost/R.Glory/Sivir's ult, aside that it doesn't provide that critical steroid, and it's very reduced stats make the item a non-considerable alternative to Shiv/PD even for casters. Also to consider is the fact that Vayne, Twitch and Lucian don't scale in a linear way with attack speed due to the windows of power style of their kits and their lack of range outside of steroids.

Also Ghostblade works as a third alternative for Shiv/PD as a secondary attack speed/crit steroid item to back up the power of your IE or even your version of Pillager which i view as actually quite an interesting alternative in caster champions. Problem is that you need attack speed on the item, either on the base stats or the active, since it's a key stat on every marksmen sans Urgot.