Talk:Crystalline Flask/@comment-5045559-20121118011405/@comment-1665540-20121118165701

That's the thing about this item, really useful early game and the longer you have it, the more gold efficient it becomes. The trade off is that after you get a few levels, this item become less and less useful, just like health and mana pots. So the amount of gold you spend for the health and mana you get decreases with time, but that heath becomes and mana becomes less and less helpful over time as well. It's all about knowing when to get it and when to sell it.