Talk:Avarice Blade/@comment-5913568-20121227083111

The problem is that it is an item for critical chance. They simply should have changed it for 10 attack damage (and say the critical chance for the finished items come from the combine cost). It would even correspond to the stats what is offered by its upgrades. My resoning is: this is a farm item - you need to get it early to see any use of it, but 10% critical chance is an instable boost. If you are not filthy lucky with crits it won't help you much in the laning phase and your opponent can outscale you by buying 2 dorans and... here you go. However if it had 10 attack damage you could buy it after a succesful early skirmish without sacrificing much laning power - and that way you could use its farming component. The way it is now - it is probably the last item you buy for its upgrades (as in: if you want a shiv you will probably get an early zeal not this) - probably in one go for the finished item making it is actually just 800 more comine cost and no help before that.