Thread:Emptylord/@comment-6124040-20140928224732/@comment-6124040-20141001065648

Emptylord wrote: . . . we say you pay 3500g for all the stats. This is exactly what I mean, you haven't paid for the 3 AP per level, you always had it and always will, free of charge. Efficiency is the measurement of a benefit in relation to a currency spent (ie. distance per fuel / distance per time / stats per gold), when nothing has been spent, there is no efficiency.

Counting AP you didn't/can't pay for as gold towards efficiency or gold towards your build leads to frankly insane mathematical situations one of which I shall now demonstrate--

Suppose there are 2 Viktors, ViktorA and ViktorB, both level 18.

ViktorA spends 1000g to upgrade to a Hex Core mk-1 (supposedly 220% gold efficient at level 18). In total ViktorA now has 150 mana and 92 AP.

ViktorB doesn't upgrade his Hex Core, instead he spends 1000g (at only 100% gold efficiency) to acquire similar stats through other means. He buys the 150 mana for 300g and the remaining 700g counts towards 32 AP. In total ViktorB now has 150 mana and 86 AP.

How is it that ViktorA, with a same-value build supposedly with more than double the efficiency of ViktorB's..... has only acquired 7% more AP?