Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-1990160-20140521040036/@comment-4022742-20140522134713

@Willbachbakal "..accurately reflects the fact that items become more gold efficient the more expensive they become."

That's just a point of view, since you could change that perspective around to "Cheaper items are less gold efficient as the more expensive ones. So you are getting less stats for the amount of gold spent for the cheaper items."

Both ways of doing it have their advantages, not the point to this discussion though.