User blog comment:Ozuar/Gold Efficiency on ADC's/@comment-4118289-20130504143233

Your point of Dagger giving more DPS is largely situational at best. With no aditional AS from the runes, Dagger gives a bit less than 12% more damage overall (you get 4% atkspeed through masteries). A longsword and a Doran's Blade give at best 18% and at worst around 14% (assuming normal Ad quints and reds). Not to mention dagger becomes largely innefective with champions who have innate attack damage scalings and attack speed boosters (read: all of them), or those who use attack speed runes.

Second, boots are now probably taken only for the extra pot. They are only useful if you have a clear counterpick against the opponent, and in rare cases where junglers have to walk up to you.

Brawler's Gloves are a potential luck based 8.8% damage increase early game. The way crits work now you have to have good luck not to crit a creep you're about to cs, since you will reset the crit counter. Seriously sub-par damage output to any other forms, considering it doesn't work with any champion damaging active ability.

Doran's Blade is easily the best option if you are looking for gold effectiveness, since you get 611 gold worth in pure stats, and then have between 5 and 8% lifesteal. They also work best in pairs, and on champions who have a significant early game lead to acquire their items quicker.

Longsword has the benefit of building to an early vampiric scepter, while the added 2 pots make you have 300 hp when needed during laning. The pots however are worth about 360 gold over 10 seconds each, and have no effect after.

Elixir gives 15 attack damage and 120-235 hp, worth around 900-1000 gold(early levels), for 3 minutes, and has no effect after.

So to sum up: Boots, 350g, give no damage potential whatsoever, 1 extra pot is meh in lane; Dagger 400g, unreliable, not effective on ad scalings or self attack speed booster champions; Long sword 400g, reliable, effective for early game, gives scaling to ad based abilities; Doran's 611g + 5-8% lifesteal(200-320g), gives no pots, good early game; Elixir around 900g worth, gets a 3rd pot out, but if you miss the 3 minute timing you have no items at all.