My thoughts on the mage changes

I feel the (already weak) class as a whole was nerfed. Malz stands out as exceptionally strong, but not nearly as fun. Too binary now. Annie lost her identity, cass is awful. Veigar remains too easy to dodge. Brand seems ok. Vel is more boring than ever. You don't get enough AP to be relevant until after 30 minutes, at which point, the enemy team probably has three entirely too strong Dragon buffs, and a rift Herald. The only AP a team should have now is a maokai top, and possibly a support. Just play early game bullies against mages and control dragon. I don't know why the class's already weak damage got further nerfed. The class will remain irrelevant until they gain access to more meaningful AP, regain their base damage, which was nerfed across the board, or until tanks are balanced (which, knowing riot, they won't be.) Just play zed, yasuo, or talon, rush a hexdrinker, snowball lane, and roam. I've tried not to flame this season too hard, because this game has been my passion for five years, but this entire season has sucked all the fun out of the game. If history repeats itself, Ghostcrawler will have successfully destroyed the two most played games of all time.