it was about time they released a keystone so you get to actually be able to win duels vs these abominations of so called full tanks like maokai, sion, malphite as a bruiser like you should be able to instead of getting your guts spilled all over the lane by their retardedly short basic abilities's cds. ALL HAIL CONQUEROR!
Btw, about your buff "suggestion", if it's serious you should have a specialist check your brain. If it's for the laughs, sorry i didn't find it funny at all. It actually made me want to vomit. Seriously? 2% of max mana per minion? like a theoretical 12% mana refund assuming a perfect Q on a wave. Let's see, 375 mana (rounded) at level 1, a 12% refund equals to 45 mana restored. YEAAAH. Plus you are suggesting they decrease the already relatively lowish mana cost of his Q down to 30 mana.
I have a suggestion too. How about they make him manaless, give him a secondary ferocity bar, at 5 ferocity his Q becomes global, refreshes on kill and heals him for 75% of his max health while also tripling his passive heal and granting him his old aoe ult damage reduction for 15 seconds while he becomes immune to crowd control for the same duration.Meanwhile his W becomes a blink, rooting his target for 5s and dealing an additional 20% of the enemy's max health in true damage every sec. Upon getting a kill with his W, up to 5 saplings sprout from the slain enemy that automatically rush towards the nearest tower dealing 25% of the tower's health per sapling (100% if allied minions are nearby). If an enemy tower is destroyed, maokai can toss with his E up to 5 saplings that automatically rush towards the remaining enemy champions marking them with saplings of the grave dealing a 100% max health in true damage. Enemy champions slain while marked by the saplings of the grave are turned into ghost saplings which rush towards the nearest inhibitor dealing 100% of inhibitor's current health. If an inhibitor is destroyed by ghost saplings, maokai gets to use his empowered ultimate greatly enhancing the wall width, speed and travel distance of his brambles while also enabling them to os any towers/inhibitors/nexus they pass through.
I'm sure my suggestion is better if we are to help maokai get rid of his current troll pick status...