Barand could get a bit more stats...

[Dragonstrike]

They at least made Stick work for Barand!

Shame Stick is a rather mediocre item when your offensive potential is stymied by both a need to setup in order to sweep and a very, very low amount of bulk which makes it very hard to do that in the first place.

It's not that Stick is a bad item, it's just that its wielders are far too gimmicky to make it work :/