Talk:Sword of the Divine/@comment-217.92.235.191-20130204093651

You are paying 850g for 3% attack speed and the active. It's a mid game item and damage-wise it is outclassed by a second PD later on. You still lose 660g if you sell it, so you have to get at least 2 kills to make this item worth it. And all that time you spend ganking, you are not farming, which makes it even more iffy.

Next question is: When do you get it?

As a first item, it seems pretty weak even if you have ad steroids. Once you activate it, you absolutely have to kill someone or you are useless for the next minute. That means, that if your enemy survives your burst and stays in lane, he wins any trade afterwards, because you are naked while it's on cooldown. Without enough ad its damage is not enough to guarantee a kill, so I would never get it first.

Blood Thirster will still be the best first item on any ad carry with ad scalings (Vayne, Twitch, Draven, Graves, Sivir) and pure auto attackers (Ashe, Tristana, Kog'Maw, Caitlyn) want their Infinity Edge after a Vampiric Scepter to not be useless mid game.

If you go for it as a second item, you won't have any crit or attack speed outside of the active and you also won't have the 5% movement speed of Zeal.

If you go for it after Zeal, you will delay your Last Whisper too much. Also if you are going for 4 straight damage items, you are asking to die mid game where bruisers, assassins and ap carries shine.

So, the only way to fit it in a build somewhere is to replace Phantom Dancer with it. Sword of the Divine is 600g cheaper, so you can get Avarice Blade.

TL;DR: ad carry build: The Bloodthirster, Sword of the Divine, Avarice Blade, Last Whisper, defensive item, Statikk Shiv, sell Sword of the Divine, Infinity Edge