Thread:Emptylord/@comment-6124040-20140928224732

You reverted my improvements to the Hex Core item pages on the grounds that the basic Hex Core has a gold efficiency. This is erroneous. The pre-remake-Viktor Hex Core gold efficiency calculations also excluded the AP per level of the basic Hex Core for the very same reason I revised the current Hex Core pages to exclude it.

Gold efficiency is a measure of how much stats you're getting, measured by how much gold you spend to aquire them. With an item such as the Prototype Hex Core, which you cannot spend any gold to acquire, nor exchange it for gold in any way... it doesn't have a gold efficiency, similar to how other champion passives and abilities don't have gold efficiencies because they're not purchased and are unrelated to gold, despite often giving stats that are comparable to stats given by items.

In short, gold efficiency is a measure of how much you have gained from the gold you've spent.  If you've spent no gold and haven't gained anything there is no gold efficiency. When you've spent 1000 gold to upgrade to the Hex Core mk-1, what you have gained is +1 AP per level, 20 AP, and 150 mana.... you have not gained 4 AP per level for that 1000 gold you spent, because you had 3 AP per level for completely free to begin with.

-Rented 