Talk:Ruby Sightstone/@comment-93.128.129.49-20121206193128/@comment-87.58.125.16-20121223170939

They can not be directly compared. HoG would give you more gold, though take quite a while to pay for itself. So if you were after a banking mechanism HoG were your friend.

RSS provides you with free wards. If you are after a great deal on wards in a long lasting match, then RSS is a good item for you.

For a direct comparison ( I know), you can only see when the items will pay for themselves and be ready to be sold off again with a profit through their passive/active:

-HoG have paid for itself after 27 minutes and 30 seconds. If it was sold, it paid for itself after 13 minutes and 45 seconds.

-RSS requires you to put down 17 ghost wards before it has paid for itself. This can be done in with 6 plantings of 3 wards a time. In other words 18 minutes. You will have to be a lot more active to get this done, than when just camping a brush with passive GP/10.

-Sightstone have paid for itself once you have put down 10 ghost wards. It takes at least 5 rounds of putting down 2 wards at a time to do this. Or 15 minutes. As soon as you have the gold to upgarde SS into RSS you should do this.