New Taric solo lane?

Taric is my second main and I have been playing him both support, solo lane (and jungle) for more than 2 years. I've found him especially effective in this new season where the AD meta is so accentuated. Every glass cannon I find in solo lane dies over and over under my triangle feet. Every game I pick him top lane against a Jax, or Fiora or Riven I get laughs and jokes at first... and tears and curses later in the game from the enemy team.

I am wondering though if the rework will be as effective, since it has been mostly forced to the support role. Well, not COMPLETELY forced, but the double cast on ally makes him waste half of his potential in almost every other role at least during early game until he can start working with a jungler or the rest of the team. Also he doesn't have as many damaging abilities as before. And the loss of W area damage, that was his best farming tool, is gone. So when dueling an enemy you can only rely on the damage of your passive and E. While before you could rely on the damage of your passive, W (with armor reduction for the enemy), E that always landed and R that also increased AD and AP. However, the rework increases the damage on E with that bonus armor scaling and the double hit with the passive deals more damage overall than the old passive (but less CDR except for Q). It will be very interesting and I will definitely try him, but I wonder if he will still work as good in solo top as he did before. What do you think?