Talk:VPBE/@comment-31222231-20180518054434/@comment-25075290-20180523041437

Agreed. This is a problem that the whole item reworks have at the moment, with Essence Reaver granting 3,403 gold worth of stats while costing 3,200 and Stormrazor meeting exactly its cost in terms of raw stats alone.

Then again, a lot of items are already cost efficient by themselves without actives and weird or conditional passives:, , , (with its CDR from Haste), , , , ... Even  is cost efficient by itself with its passive. Live Infinity Edge (counting its passive just with its 20% crit chance) and live Essence Reaver are cost efficient from stats alone as well.

Thinking about it, the only classes that have close to none cost-efficient items are Supports (except for Remnants of the Watchers and of the Aspect) and, guess what, Assassins (more particularly, no Lethality items reach 100% efficiency by themselves).