Avarice Blade provides no AD at all.
Despite it being a Long Sword with some yellow magic stuff around it.
Apparently yellow magic shit lowers a person's AD.

Despite it being a Long Sword with some yellow magic stuff around it.
Apparently yellow magic shit lowers a person's AD.

it turns attack power into luck
and money
You could say ... it gives piss poor AD.
"You would hit for less, but sometimes you just might hit double the punch..."
Yep totally a fair tradeoff.
I guess.
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I'll take no AD for more gold gen. plus a 10% chance for AOE rocket crits
You also get additional gold with every minion kill.
On a similar note, almost every marksman item is a sword of some kind.
It provides 10% extra AD because double damage extra 10 attacks (I wish it worked that way), though instead I seem to crit every 2-5 because awesome random number generation.
its fine, because for an 800 item, it has 2 stats, crit and gold. you want an 800 item with 3 stats????
TOO BAD

(its not like tear has ap on it)
I would prefer AD > crit, but then that item would be a bit OP.
okay so what if it doesnt give ad the item that ppl normally get that it builds into doesnt give you AD either unless your getting Ghostblade
I wish it built of longsword. I wish every item recipe made more sense...
Thematically, it would make sense.
Balanced wise, it's on purpose. Because it's gp10 for a popular laning item(s), it has a stat that's not terribly useful on its own (10% crit isn't... amazing, unless you already have lots of other crit). I mean, 10 AD wouldn't be gamebreaking, but...
Nevermind. This is why I'm not a game designer.