User blog comment:Care Level/Fucking Sightstone, Man./@comment-24857138-20140424013827/@comment-1330314-20140424144821

I know that, and I think Avarice Blade desperately needs to be updated so that it can fit into the new gold income system. Gold generation is a real stat now, and losing it when building from a mid-tier item to a top-tier upgrade isn't good. At best, it's a trap that makes people think they're going to make a lot more money (usually not the case, since AB's gold generation is quite slow and the item itself is inefficient), and at worst it presents conflicting incentives to the buyer that can hinder their choosing a proper build path. An idea I had was to make the item a real gold income item and have it permanently grant the unique gold generation passives to the wielder either if they just upgraded or collected a certain amount of gold from the passives alone (something around 300g, which is harder to get with only the passives than you think). That way, you don't have to make or the like a gold income item, but you can still keep the gold generation.