Talk:Infinity Edge/@comment-91.181.134.16-20120701224759/@comment-4834593-20120831152645

^You should always get them easy, because your main job as AD carry early is farming.

The reason you take IE first is because it just straight out deals more damage. If you calculate in the crit chance and damage, it gives an average of 110 more damage per attack, when I don't count base attack damage and attack damage from runes and masteries. Crits are OP, never forget that.

And if you need more sustain, just buy a Vampiric Scepter. Cost is 450, and if you spend that 2550 to make it a Bloodthirster, you only get 2% life steal more, increasing to 10% more if you can keep the stacks. While another Vampiric Scepter, 2100 gold cheaper, would give as much more life steal. The only reason to take Bloodthirster is the huge amount of AD that will really increase the damage from your crits (a fully stacked Bloodthirster gives 250 damage more on an IE crit), and you will be able to sustain yourself on neutral camps, creeps when farming, or just enemies champions in a team fight. So no need to recall anymore because you don't have health.