User blog comment:Exiton/Item Valuation/@comment-134746-20110225014833/@comment-569195-20110225234329

Thanks, I have all the stats collected for all basic items and I have started working on advanced  and Legendary items. I'm trying to decide how to format it. Do i use a table or bulets? Do i show only the final values or how they are derived? For example AD is worth 39 gold per point. This is derived from the Lonsword (41.5g/point), Pick Axe (39g/point) and B.F.Sword (37g/point). Should i mention the value of the 3 items in the main article or leave that to a small section in the AD article?

For items like the kindle gem you have a problem of what i like to call bulk discount. As you can see from my example above, the more expensive/more powerful items are actually cheaper for what they give. This "bulk discout" gets large as you get into advanced and legendary items. For CDR from what i have read the value is all over the place, the latest patch just dropped several items by as much as 5% CDR without even changing the item cost. The kindlegem give +20health and 10% CDR for 375 gold. Compare that to the glacial shroud that gives an additional 225 mana and 15% CDR for only 425 gold. Assuming either one is usefull for you it's pretty clear which one is the better deal.