Thread:ClariS/@comment-98.201.177.181-20130104231418/@comment-4881935-20130109071312

If you wish to protect players who do not understand the basic of the game, it would be better to teach them the actual game because anyone who has any foundation of this game will quickly know that gold=/=effectiveness. If they did believe in that, then all AD carries will be grabbing critical chance because that stat is worth the most.

No where and by no means is the 'cost efficiency' telling people that a certain item is more effective then another item. If people want to compare upper tier items with other upper tier items, then they may, and they will get useful and fairly accurate information. But as I will state, that section does not state that nor does it endorse such comparison. There is useful information that is straight forward that many people obtain, that doesn't include comparison.

Here's another real example. The value of armor and magic resist increased by 10% throughout while the value of health stayed the same. By your worried, this would mean 'those people' will start thinking armor/magic resist is a lot worse, but that is not the case. Only the early game was effected where gold really matters. Outside of that, people still value the effectiveness of armor/magic resist roughly the same (kind of skewed because of too much armor reduction/pen but that's a different story).

But I want to point something out. You brought you the example of 'health gold value dropping but Warmog's price stayed the same", and continued on with, "People will falsely believe that Ohmwrecker is now a better defensive items", but even you made an assumption already with a statement like this. You assumed that Warmog is the better defensive item, and my question is, how do you know that as a 'fact'?

What if, the reason why health items went down was because all champion now grab an item that deal 8% of target's max health in physical damage. Would you still claim that Warmog is the better defensive items at this point? Would you not consider "Ohmwrecker" is the more idea and 'better' defensive item to face something like this. The point is, claiming something is better than another item is subjective. It all depends on the situation that someone is facing. And if you think my situation is too far off, slashing the cost of all tier 1 items without even touching any of the above items is also far off as well. --- Are there flaws with comparing gold value with other gold value, yes, but are there any large flaws that will completely mislead people, no. Not in this state. The only flaws you can find are those when you dramatic change the foundation of the his game. If gold values are close, people assume these two items are fairly equal, if gold values are dramatically different, then one is superior than the other. Most of the holes you poke requires you to make dramatic changes to give a 'subjective' false answer.

I am not removing the section because it provides useful information and it serves a purpose outside of comparing upper tiers item with other upper tier items. And as it stands right now, it doesn't provide wrong information when comparing to other items. But, if you can provide this wiki a better method to compare upper tier items with other upper tier items, please, go right away and show it. This wiki could use that.