Talk:Heart of Gold/@comment-41.47.148.196-20121114041748/@comment-108.82.126.23-20121122112712

I'm gonna have to agree with OP assuming he's talking about building it on non-supports.

If you build it top lane, you lose the lane unless you're against a baddie. You're in the negative for ~10 minutes. You also can't help your team that much because you're taking a loss in stats for hopes of an advantage later. But that advantage won't be there if you die and/or miss out on kills.

Same thing with junglers. If you build real items, you'll be able to gank stronger, control dragon better, counter jungler better because you're not taking a loss in stats early game.