If these items don't make AP bruisers a thing, I'm not sure what will. That said, I'll have fun breaking the game with these...
We did a lot of work here trying to give Tanks and AP Bruisers options. Hopefully the problem now is more of "which of these many choices can I opt-into" rather than, "I guess I'll pick the 2 options that have any HP and kinda work on me"