Proposed Taric Changes

Taric is obviously very strong at the moment and Riot has already stated they plan to nerf him in patch 6.9 though they haven't decided how yet. I love Taric's current kit, it is incredibly fun and rewarding to play compared to his previous one. His abilities are relatively well balanced and the idea of dual casting with Bastion is both unique and fun.

I feel Taric's strength comes from his ability to dual cast and cover a large area of affect with his spells. Once he establishes Bastion however he is then able to freely dual cast as many spells as he wishes as long as the Bastion link remains and both champions are close enough to each other. Bastion when cast also provides a shield to the person who receives it, I feel like there is more opportunity to make Taric's kit balanced and interesting in this spell.

I would like to see Bastion's passive put into the active. Make the dual cast work even if the shield breaks due to damage and increase the duration of the active by a second or two and maybe even lower the cooldown of the spell. This would also make using Taric's passive more important as you would be able to dual cast more often by reducing the cooldown with auto attacks making him more interactive and making his passive more important. Taric would still have the huge upfront impact in team fights he currently does however follow up spells may lack the dual cast without proper use of auto attacks to work his passive. While Bastion is on cooldown Taric is less useful but still able to contribute.

This change would also allow the enemy team more counterplay opportunity. While Bastion is on cooldown the enemy team can use this time to make a pick or start a team fight or push an objective. Even just denying Taric the opportunity to land auto attacks gives your team a couple more seconds before Taric can dual cast a second time in a team fight. This is done without rendering Taric useless as he is still able to cast his spells normally.

Would love to hear your thoughts!