Riot, please don't nerf Taric! (rito pls)

Passive - Gemcraft Gives Taric a buff that deals 40% of his armor as bonus magic damage on the next auto attack after casting a spell Passive empowered auto attacks reduce the cooldown of all abilities by 2s

Q - Imbue

Cooldown reduction on auto attacks removed (moved to passive) Base cooldown lowered to 18/17/16/15/14 from 20/19/18/17/16 AP ratio lowered to 0.3 from 0.6 Added scaling from 5% of bonus health W - Shatter

Base damages lowered to 40/80/120/160/200 from 50/90/130/170/210 Armor Ratio increased to 50% from 20% AP ratio lowered to 0 from 0.6 E - Dazzle

Cooldown increased to 18/17/16/15/14 from 14/13/12/11/10 AP Ratio lowered to 0.2/0.4 from 0.4/0.8 R - Radiance

AP Ratio lowered from 0.7 to 0.5 Cooldown increased from 60 to 75 seconds

This seems terrible. Taric has always had a varied build path. You always want to be tanky, but you can go AP to maximize your spell damage, or stack mana and cooldowns to be a peeler or initiator. You want to wreck his AP ratios with no benefit? And trash his cooldowns while you're at it? And remove the recently-reworked passive that gives him a bunch of cool item synergies? This is a champ that has been in a bad place for some time now, and this doesn't seem to make him into anything more than an aurabot for the ratio on his Shatter.

How powerful can you make his new ArmorSheen passive? Because you're already losing 12 level 1 damage from his current, always-on passive. Even if you stack armor, you're not going to have more than 150 or so when midgame teamfights roll around, and god help you if you're facing heavy AP. Most games I'll max out around 200 by endgame, because most teams usually have enough AP that you can't just ignore MR.

I'll admit I could be completely off base, especially since I haven't seen him ingame, but Taric has always been one of my favorite heroes and I was hoping for improved AP ratios and like, nothing else at all. He's a beautiful gem-studded god. Great base stats and damages, especially with the current passive, and if you make a few good plays bot lane you can become functionally invincible for the rest of the game and make picks all day. I don't see how this will improve his laning at all, which he needs, and let's face it, if bot lane isn't doing well he isn't gonna be getting much gold from assist sprees to Triforce out that new passive. Basing him so heavily around armor ratios also seems to make him a lot squishier (or less effective) against balanced enemy teams.

Please be careful, that's all. :)