bard's poor utility does not justify him having such a high damage output

press Q and autoattack become useless for 10 sec

press R and W and your entire team is dead

damn, so much damage indeed

His levels 1-3 burst are actually ridiculous, but his damage falls off pretty hard after that if he doesn't cheese out some kills.

Wait, so Bard or Brand? The OP and the comments are confusing me.

Dark Harvest Bard is my favorite. So far I have done more damage with Dark Harvest with him than with any other champ.

main here and I'd be highly supportive of pulling his damage back a bit and making him more of a utility offtank. Nerf his damage, but let him more feasibly wade into fights for flanking with journey, lining up more Q stuns, etc. Not as tanky as an Alistar or Braum obviously, but a good bit stouter than Enchanters/Mages.

Shhhhhhhhhhh....most low elo people don't realize can hard carry, and I really like it that way.

tbh they can just make his passive enhanced autos count as 1 spell all together and it would fix the problem quite well