Philosopher's Stone

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Philosopher's Stone edit
Stats
+7 health per 5 seconds
+9 mana per 5 seconds
Passive
Unique – Transmute: Gain 5 per 10 seconds.
Recipe
+  +  340
Cost	700
Sell	350
ID	3096
Availability
Builds into
Mikael's Crucible Ohmwrecker Eleisa's Miracle Shurelya's Reverie
Menu
Defense>Health Regen Magic>Mana Regen Tools>Gold Income

Philosopher's Stone was an epic item in League of Legends.

Recipe

Philosopher's Stone 700 ( 340)
		Faerie Charm 200
		Rejuvenation Bead 300

Builds Into

Mikael's Crucible
Ohmwrecker
Eleisa's Miracle
Shurelya's Reverie

Cost Analysis

Gold Value

• 7 health regeneration = 252
• 9 mana regeneration = 540
  • Total Gold Value = 792

Gold efficiency

• Philosopher's Stone's base stats were 113.14% gold efficient.

Similar items

Avarice Blade

Kage's Lucky Pick

Strategy

• Philosopher's Stone is very useful for its gold per 10 to champions who are not obtaining gold from last hitting minions, such as supports, tanks, junglers, and roamers, as well as for its health regeneration and mana regeneration, which aid in keeping champions from having to recall.

Trivia

• The balance team jokingly referred to two Philosopher's Stones and one Heart of Gold as the "Philly Cheese Stone Sandwich" build.
• Philosopher's Stone will pay for itself in 23 minutes and 20 seconds, or 14 minutes if sold.
• It is the least expensive of all gold-generating items.
• The splash art for the Bird of Prey Anivia skin shows her holding a Philosopher's Stone in her talons.
• In ancient alchemical tradition, the philosopher's stone was a legendary magical substance purported to be capable of turning base metals into gold and granting immortality.
• Before Riot decided they wanted to rework the Philosopher's Stone into Nomad's Medallion, they created an updated icon for Philosopher's Stone that ended up not being used.

Philosopher's Stone

Revisions

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• Season 4 Changes

• Renamed Nomad's Medallion
• Recipe changed to: Ancient Coin + 335g = 700g
• Health regeneration increased to 8 from 7.
• Mana regeneration increased to 11 from 8.
• Now grants 2 gold generation.
• Unique Passive - Transmute removed.

Patch History

V3.14

• Philosopher's Stone renamed to Nomad's Medallion
• Recipe changed to: Ancient Coin + 335 = 700
• Health regeneration increased to 8 from 7.
• Mana regeneration increased to 11 from 8.
• Now grants 2 per 10 seconds.
• Unique Passive - Transmute removed.

V3.7

• Added to recipe for Mikael's Crucible.

V3.02

• Added to recipe for Ohmwrecker.

V1.0.0.154

• Now correctly grants 5 gold per 10 seconds (was 4 gold per 10 seconds).

V1.0.0.152

• Item cost reduced to 700 from 800.
• Combine cost increased to 340 from 185.
• Health regen per 5 seconds reduced to 7 from 15.
• Mana regen per 5 seconds increased to 9 from 8.

V1.0.0.143

• Health regeneration per 5 seconds reduced to 15 from 18.
• Now indicates in the tooltip how much gold it has generated over the course of the game.

V1.0.0.120

• Gold per 10 effect is now Unique. It won't stack when the bonus comes from itself, but it will stack when having different items.
• Health regeneration per 5 seconds reduced to 18 from 22.5.
• Mana regeneration per 5 seconds reduced to 8 from 10.

V1.0.0.118

• Added to recipe for Eleisa's Miracle.

V1.0.0.101

• Philosopher's Stone added to recipe for Shurelya's Reverie.

V1.0.0.100

• Recipe changed: Now requires Faerie Charm + Regrowth Pendant + 185 gold.

V1.0.0.61

• No longer displays a +x Gold over the Champion although it is still granting the Gold.

V0.9.25.24

• Health regeneration per 5 seconds reduced to 22.5 from 28.
• Mana regeneration per 5 seconds reduced to 10 from 12.

V0.9.22.7

• Now sell back for 50% (from 70%).

May 9, 2009 Patch

• Gold gain per 10 seconds increased to 5 from 4.

Alpha Week 4

• Passion's Embrace renamed to Philosopher's Stone.

Alpha Week 2

• Changed passive ability on Passion's Embrace.

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