Bloodthirster

N/A Edit
"The souls of the damned never truly rest."
Recipe
Cost	3500g (1150g)
Sell	2450g
Code	3072

The Bloodthirster is a legendary item in League of Legends.

Background

Unearthed near the marshes of Kaladoun, the Bloodthirster is thought to have belonged to a powerful soulstealer named Frax Van Itt. The wielder of this dangerous weapon is forever bound to the blade and its thirst for the blood of others.

Recipe

The Bloodthirster 3500 ( 1150)
		B. F. Sword 1550
		Vampiric Scepter 800 ( 440) Long Sword 360

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 8x Long Sword = 2880g
• 2.5x Vampiric Scepter's Life Steal = 1100g
  • Total Gold Value = 3980g

Passive Gold Value

• 50 "health" = 133g
• 350 "health" = 933g
  • Total Gold Value = 133g to 933g

Total Gold Value (While Fully Stacked) = 4113g to 4913g

Gold efficiency

• The Bloodthirster base stats are 113.7% gold efficient.
• The item is 117.5 to 140.4% gold efficient while fully stacked.

Similar items

Sanguine Blade

Strategy

• The shield can be very easily stacked up prior to fights by farming minion waves, allowing the wielder to constantly overheal.
• As with all shields, the overheal shield benefits from the user's armor, magic resistance and other damage reduction effects.
• The Bloodthirster is a good defensive option when under lane pressure or poke damage, as it allows the wielder to shield from damage and heal back when hurt.

Trivia

• Sanguine Blade is The Bloodthirster's counterpart on the Crystal Scar, the Twisted Treeline, and the Howling Abyss.

Patch History

V4.12:

• Life steal increased to 20% from 15%.
• Life steal is now Unique.
• Shield strength reduced to 50-350 from 50-440.
• Decay time increased to 25 seconds from 15.

V4.10 Rework:

• Combine cost increased to 1150 from 850.
  • Total cost increased to 3500g from 3200g.
• AD increased to 80 from 70.
• Life steal increased to 15% from 12%.
• Passive: removed.
• New Unique Passive: Your life steal effects can overheal you, converting the excess healing into a shield. The shield can block from 50 to 450 damage, based on champion level, and decays if you have been out of combat for 15 seconds.

V3.14 Hotfix:

• Combine cost increased to 850g from 650g.
  • Total cost increased to 3200g from 3000g.

V3.14:

• Combine cost reduced to 650g from 850g.
  • Total cost reduced to 3000g from 3200g.

V3.01:

• Combine cost increased to 850g from 650g.
  • Total cost increased to 3200g from 3000g.

V1.0.0.152:

• Combine cost reduced to 650g from 900g.
• Base attack damage increased to 70 from 60.
• Passive maximum stacks reduced to 30 from 40.
  • Maximum attack damage from stacks is now 30, down from 40.
  • Maximum life steal from stacks is now 6%, down from 8%.

V1.0.0.136:

• Life steal reduced to 12% from 15%.
• Life steal per stack reduced to 0.2% from 0.25%.
• Now only loses half stacks on death rather than all of them.

V1.0.0.108:

• Now shows you in its tooltip what the current stats on its passive are.

May 15, 2009 Patch:

• Life steal increased to 15% from 10%.
• Damage cap reduced to 40 from 60.
• Life steal cap reduced to 10% from 15%.

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