Talk:Nocturne/@comment-4696002-20120403204651/@comment-1153817-20120404142328

The problem with this plan is that laning generally ends between levels 9 and 13, and it would be pretty rare for you to get a gunblade before that point unless you get fed, in which case you don't need any help with ganking. Even if you get the gunblade before laning ends and it helps you get a kill or two, as soon as teamfighting starts you're gonna be useless as a melee ad with no tankiness. Plus gunblades not worth the stats any more since the nerf.

Although the bilgewater cutlass is half the price, doesn't include the near useless ap and spell vamp, and contains the exact same active. I could see going boots to bilgewater leading to some amazing early game ganks, letting you pick up some tankiness with your kill money and being useful in team fights