Talk:Health/@comment-155.56.68.217-20110915122620/@comment-3486816-20110926180938

the only "diminishing returns" from an EHP standpoint are analogous to "diminishing returns" from AD. If you stack nothing but AD (assuming on an autoattacker here), there are no literal diminishing returns (every point of AD leads to the same amount of damage dealt, you don't suddenly start getting .5 AD per AD you buy), but it's still stupid to do so. This is not because you're getting less dps per point of AD, but because you're getting less dps per point of gold than you WOULD be by balancing your offensive stats with armorpen, crit, and attack speed as well. There really aren't any freaking diminishing returns on armor, stop phrasing it like that. Still, if there were no attack speed cap, it still wouldn't be viable to stack nothing but attack speed. You need to balance stats that benefit each other according to what you already have, and that's where the so-called "diminishing returns" come in.