User blog comment:Zilla4444/Upgrade for Stinger and Brutalizer/@comment-50.113.116.180-20120903060141

bad item imo, it still has an obnoxious/bad combination of stats and is now stupidly expensive. No one liked the stats on Stinger in the first place, and combining it with a vastly different item didn't help.

Ghostblade is the more logical upgrade to brutalizer IMHO, and Stinger is just a silly item.