Warlord's Bloodlust Change Discussion
Hey summoners and hopefully Rioters, just wanted to start a discussion about this change and start it off with my views of the change and possible fixes.
First off, Riot outright stated that it wants the Keystone masteries to be game impacting, and they are from what I've gotten to test of them. As we've seen, Warlord's Bloodlust has already come into light as probably a little too powerful in some situations. Cough Tryndamere and Yasuo cough.
Your critical strikes on enemy units champions heal you for 15% of the damage dealt and grant you 20% attack speed for 4 seconds (2 second cooldown)
I think this change is too drastic, while it does balance the 3 Ferocity Keystones by all requiring Champion targets, I think it "balances" trynd and yasuo and "nerfs" ADCs.
I say this because a very popular and powerful build for the auto attack heavy marksmen was set back by this. The build's core is getting 2 T3 Zeal items + IE. At that point you have 80% crit + IE passive, and your build is essentially Crit + AS + Pseudo Lifesteal from Warlord's Bloodlust. With the changes to this mastery, this build will be significantly weaker until you can finish your 4th item BT/DD. Then you realize, shit, I have 3 items and only 65 bonus attack damage without my old lifesteal... Time to trash this build, right? Pretty much. This was a replacement for Bork rushers, who ironically, got borked by the item's nerf. Now I have no fucking clue what to get as my first 2-3 items on Vayne.
Anyways, ADC main rant aside, I think that both Tryndamere and Yasuo (melee ADCs) are forcing the Marksmen to lose power and build options through their abuse of this mastery currently. In this situation I think that Riot should consider making Warlord's Bloodlust Ranged Only. This leaves AA Crit ADCs to play with a strong mastery and forces Tryndamere and Yasuo to Fervor of Battle, which is still very powerful on these two champions.
tl;dr: Instead of making Warlord's Bloodlust on champion hit only, it should be ranged only. This takes care of Trynd and Yasuo's abuse and keeps marksmen powerful.