End-game Drunk Reader: Problems and potential fixes

[Iks]

So, I've been trying to give a fair shot to every unit I initially dismissed as useless or bad, and some have surprised me - like Bun Sister, while others have severely disappointed me, like Drunk Reader. His problems are numerous and he can't keep up with any of the good dps throughout any point of the game. He's outclassed as a support, as an offense, as a hybrid and as any other thing I can think of to bring him. His tactic is the only unique thing, but it offers to little.

Arcane is a very solid ability, especially early game. Its scaling makes it far better than it first seems. The problem is this ability has VERY limited number of stacks, at 3. This is a huge part of why he falls off. 15%, 75% or 315% crit damage per crit is outstanding. 5 stacks pales in comparison to his competition.

Drunkenness is an interesting ability, but can fairly safely be replaced by a ring. It's *really* hard to justify bringing a unit PURELY for a couple extra targets. As a support, this just doesn't bring enough.

His scroll is interesting but doesn't ultimately fix the drunk's weakness: Resilience. It doubles down on this issue. Also, his buff only stacks to 5, which doesn't allow him to bring out enough meaningful damage.

Suggestion: A way to pierce resilience, either through gem, scroll, or item would be nice - ESPECIALLY if it was a Drunk Reader Exclusive. This would carve a niche out for him. Uncapping stacks would also be outstanding. Maybe replacing the 'undead' effect to 'ignores 10% of resilience per stack' or ontop of the undead effect. This would allow Drunk Reader to compete with the likes of Cube, Fire Assassin and Street Boy end-game.

Giving Drunkenness a hit % on buff would do well to increase his effect as support. Introducing a second class-specific scroll that allows him to specialize in support would help, as well. Maybe "Changes Arcane to intoxicates the enemy , reducing their resilience by 5% + {output}"?

[metainteraction]

Noted:) And just want to confirm that we are working on buffing Drunk Reader in the next patch.

Thanks!