[MakeshiftWalrus]

as Walrus brought up, reducing the scaling for keeping the strength buff would be my preferred option, losing a bunch of strength is pretty harsh on any build, its not like scaling changes, it actively harms the rest of your build with it.

(Oh and the other aforementioned changes, MAINLY removing the oppressive asf knockdown on crit)

I'd argue that if your whole build's center point is the bonus stats given by HotG, that speaks wonders of why it needs to be less of a crutch than it currently is.