Talk:Guinsoo's Rageblade/@comment-4636093-20130617095220/@comment-1973463-20130621231842

because the cost efficiency is all very situational

like let's say I'm considering buying this item on Akali

First, Akali can probably keep the stacks up all the time by using E every 7 seconds, so that's 72 AP, 32 AS, and 30 AD. AD isn't worth as much on Akali as AP, so I'd lower the value by some amount that feels right. like let's say AD is worth 65% on Akali. Next, AS is worth even less. 40%. Then we get a total value of 1566 for the AP, 780 for the AD, and 427 for the AS. totals to 2773.

Then we've got the passive from falling under half health. doing half spell damage and half autoattack damage (not that Akali does) and then having 10% spell vamp and 10% life steal is the same as doing all of your damage from spells and having 10% spell vamp. so I won't be counting both stats to the cost. And Akali doesn't get much out of life steal anyway, so I'm only looking at spell vamp. 275 gold. And then, again, she doesn't scale as well with AS as autoattack champs, so I reduce that value. 267 gold. Total of 542 when under half health.

So the actual benefit I'm getting out of this item is worth something closer to 2773-3315. for 2600. Another thing to consider is that while Akali can indefinitely maintain stacks it means she won't always be at full energy.

Meanwhile another champion, like say Varus as suggested above, gets a lot more out of the AD and AS, but less out of the AP, so results are similar. And Varus is even less able to keep up stacks most of the time.

Anyway, 3k for 2600 gold is not bad, but! we have to compare this to other options (how much do I get out of a rylai's? an abyssal scepter? a hextech sweeper? etc), as well as consider that buying a simple needlessly large rod costs 1600 and gives 80 AP, which is worth 1760 gold by this scale. I would actually scale the value by this factor because I find that comparing to a large rod is more useful than comparing to an amp tome: 2521-3014

Additionally, you also need to consider what you need. Like this item might give Jax a lot of stats he scales well with, but it also doesn't give him any ability to stick to his target, like he would get from the slow on a gunblade or the slow and move speed bonus on a trinity force, so you might opt to buy one of those other items instead.

So with all things considered, this item starts looking a lot less awesome. It may still be worth trying out, but it's not nearly as amazing as those gold efficiency numbers at the top of the page could have you believe.