Is this really a bad thing? For me, she would be a direct upgrade from Shayd who I currently use as a tank. I have her placed so that she stuns priority targets on turn one (Adam for the most part), giving my Blood and Adam a turn to slay the enemy Adam before he gets a skill off.
Mages have less attack runes to worry about (Hit and Magic Attack), so they naturally fall into a heavy defence spot (as I see it) with all of their tank runes. On top of that, mages seem to get HP saints more than any other saints (I have 5 HP saints out of 6 on my Shayd, 6/10 on Mehvidan who I don't use anymore, and 2/2 on Mulan).
I'd rather have 20% reduced damage received on my mage than dealing less damage and with a less reliable stun (Bryn, from what I see, stuns 1-2 targets average per spell, which means she has less chance at stunning the target I WANT to be stunned than Shayd/Aphrodite would given proper positioning).
Having said that, I would prefer them to trade the two simply so I could have Aphrodite earlier -- although I think it is fine the way it is now, with Aphrodite being far off into the distance.



