Calling all other Brand mains. What nerfs would be acceptable?

We're losing our hipster status. Brand is becoming mainstream, and even though the nerfs might happen before he'd get his first historical pick in the LCS (never before!), he can still make an appearance at IEM San Jose.

Oldschool immobile mages oldschool like Malzahar and Vel'Koz have always had high win rates and low pick rater, but unile his brethren Brand has risen in popularity, mostly due to his expansion to the support role. He's probably on Riot's radar already. Does he deserve a nerf is one thing, but it's quite possible he will get hit by one.

#Arguments Against Brand Nerfs

• His kit leaves tons of rooms for counterplay
• Sear can be dodged and does not stun if you're not ablaze (EQ combo takes more time to cast that other line skillshot CCs like Dark Binding or Charm)
• Pillar of Flame can be simply walked away from with boots
• Conflagration has shorter range than other champions' spells
• Pyroclasm can be broken by Windwall, Unbreakable, Riposte, or spreading out
• He's easy to itemize against
• JUST BUY MR
• Seriously a single Aegis cuts his entire damage by a significant amount
• Banshee's Veil makes him cry
• Hexdrinker is perfect against him, as the shield will not count towards his passive damage
• Data proves Brand's winrate drops in the lategame
• He doesn't feel "broken" or "unfair"
• If you focus him before he casts his spells - and it takes him a significant time to do it - he's useless
• He gets stomped on by most "fun" champs like Fizz, Ahri, Yasuo, Zed
• He can't generally 1v1 people unless something went horribly wrong
• He's teamfight-oriented and vulnerable when alone

#Arguments For Brand Nerfs

• His winrate is sitting at 55% while pick rate is nearing 10%
• This means that he does not take that much skill to be successful
• His winrate in the support role is particularly troubling
• He's becoming a solid support blind pick despite his "obvious weaknesses"
• His synegy with Spellthief's Edge might be overbearing
• Brand mains will manage

#Suggested Brand Nerfs

1. Spellthief's Edge no longer procs on Blaze (might proc on Frostfang or FQC, though)
2. Lower base damage on Sear
3. Lower mana regen (to get him in line with other mages, right now he's in the weird spot between mages and enchanters)

Brand support should be a more situational pick IMO, not as failproof as it is right now.

#Why are we even discusing this?

To possibly reach a consensus on a nerf that we as Brand mains find acceptable, and suggest it to Riot to avoid the situation where the nerfs to Zyra killed her midlane performance and forced her to move completely to the bot lane, where she's currently a very niche pick.

Basically "our main got popular, let's take this under control before someone else does it for us".