User blog comment:Telaruhn/Aldric, The Elder Guardian/@comment-1330314-20140407004137/@comment-4773210-20140407042721

Thanks again for the great feedback! I'll go through your points one by one: Once again, your feedback means a lot. Aldric's come a long way in the past few days, and I feel like he's almost perfect. I've gone ahead and made some changes again, so please, let me know what you think! :)
 * Considering he is mostly going to build tank stats, adding a health ratio to his passive just makes sense. Though I'm adding it alongside the AP ratio simply because Aldric may build AP if he gets certain items, like Abyssal Scepter, etc.
 * Again, makes sense. I think I was too hung up on damage reduction and didn't factor in the shield. With the change to Guardian's Shield, Protect should still provide a great shield. I've also agreed with your choice to add a cleanse, but I felt that it wasn't enough... So I added another feature to encourage aggressiveness. Overall, I like the idea of a leash because it also enourages sticking together and teamwork.
 * Great idea making it available for every activated ability! Aldric automatically applies the shield to himself when he casts Sacred Hammer, Rally, or Holy Crusade, but not Protect (since he can no longer target himself) so I'm not sure that allowing him to gain a shield after a successful autoattack would be balanced, and would essentially give him a perma-shield. It's definitely something I can consider, though.
 * Thanks so much! I thought that making him CC-immune would make it very strong and influential, as other initiates are. I've heeded your gripes about the AoE cleanse, specifically because he sacrifices it in order to initiate first, resulting in no clear success case.