Brand Support and the EQW problem +ideas

Combo Too Consistent I like the slightly experimental changes you made to brand on PBE to tweak his power a bit, but as someone who plays brand a lot (support) this won't take him out of the bot lane. Quite simply the reason why brand is picked (at least my reason) is that the EQW combo is super consistent. With the ability to E Q and get a guaranteed stun (almost/90% of the time) and then get a guaranteed W for massive damage gives him too much consistency in my opinion.

Passive is consistent in the wrong ways The passive is very consistent with the EQW combo and his ult, but lacks a bit of control in my opinion as you don't even unlock it until level 3. His ult is great for proccing his passive in that you just E then the ulted target in a large group and create 2 to 3 massive explosions (occasionally living the dream of just auto wiping the team), but what did you even do? You click E after clikcking R and just leaves a bit to be imagined.

Not Fun That current combo leaves brand play style a little bit stale as it gets very boring being his most consistent ability you're almost forced to use it. The Ult E combo leaves much to be imagined and doesn't really feel like you actually did anything to deserve your double kill in the bot lane.

Ideas Small Change: This is just to fix his problems with being able to proc his passive in a somewhat healthy way that doesn't force you to EQW a champion. "Brand can now auto attack to keep his passive up" (similar to vel'koz)

Shifting his kit: Swap his passive and the spreading effect of his E. Passive: "Blaze" "Brands abilities set enemies on fire. If they are on fire this effect spreads to another champion. Does 2% of an enemies max health over 4 seconds stacking up to 3 times." E: "Conflagration" "Brand explodes all nearby enemy champions that have blaze on them dealing 50(10% AP) plus 2% of their max health plus an additional 20(10% AP)/2% per stack of blaze " Context: explosive radius is now 1/3 it's old radius as to balance out the ability to instantly cast it and minions take 33% more damage from this ability. You may be able to even throw that mana return on kill buff onto this ability

Since the passive can explode all enemies and does more to minions it reinforces you to farm with it and removes the consistency of EQW. If you play Brand support that's fine just know that you may accidentally take some farm from your carry, they probably won't mind :P