User blog comment:Lykrast/Aur, gold's master/@comment-3974211-20121201123650/@comment-5686533-20121201162934

"it would be considerably easier if the cooldown reduction affected the active cooldown, rather than the next cooldown" where did you see that it reduce the next cooldown in "The cooldown is reduced by 1 second for every 16 gold spent or gained during the cooldown." ? It's the actual cooldown ! But yes, it might be better as an active...

And I found it is already hard to play a champ who can just effectively make more gold without DotA's items (Dagon, BoT, Refresher or even DR).