Talk:Mercenary (Season 2012 Mastery)/@comment-80.162.80.230-20120510225654/@comment-24.160.66.34-20120606044006

Actually, The Greed mastery grants 2 extra gold/10.

Mercenary grants 24 gold every kill or assist.

24/2=12

That means that every 12 10-second-periods(120 seconds or 2 minutes) the Greed Mastery will grant as much gold as this mastery does per 1 kill/assist.

Because gold generation begins at 1 minute 30 seconds, we can rather easily figure out how many kills/assists must be gained for the Mercenary mastery to be even with the Greed Mastery.

A 20 minute game would have 18.5 minutes of gold generation time. Divide this by a further 2(remember that the gold/10 mastery only generates an equal amount every 2 minutes) and we see that...

> a player running the Mercenary Mastery would need 10 kills/assists(9.25 rounded up) during a 20 minute game to be on equal footing with someone running the Greed Mastery

Let's say there's an especially long game of 50 minutes going on and you want to know how many kills/assists you'll need to be even with the Greed Mastery. You can take (50-1.5)/2=x so that would be a whopping 25 kills or assists needed to break even.