It builds out of recurve bow which is 25% AS but has 0% base AS, and only gets past the 25% once you have 4 stacks (8%/stack).
It would make more sense to make 
give 25% base attack speed and the stacking to just give 4%/stack instead. It just about evens out at max stats but you arent losing Attack Speed when you upgrade the item anymore
Gosh Darn13 votesI try to bring attention to this all the time. All they had to do was leave the pickaxe + blasting wand + recurve bow with the same total stats as the rageblade. Instead they reduce the AS and increase the AP and AD... Literally makes absolutely no fucking sense. The weird thing is the gold efficiency is quite similar to what it would have been if they just kept the stats of the components. It was a completely unnecessary change.
ProfDrDeath4 votesYou'd need 4%/stack to even out (now it is 6x8 = 48, with the change 25+6x4=49).
But yeah, I agree - Rageblade should be buffed this way.
R FLASH XD3 votesThe only problem there is is that the passive would stack faster.
QjTHqo3RTq11 votesIt's not like its this great purchase anyways
Melledoneus2 votesI prefer it to stay that way.
HaloDragonX2 votesOh no, it was OP once, NEVER MAKE IT DECENT TIER AGAIN
Melledoneus1 votesTo be honest, I'd rather see diving fighters get reworked before they touch up Guinsoo's again.
HaloDragonX2 votesExcept diving fighters needs like 3 months to work on, Guinsoo's Changes can take literally a day to think of and add in.
Melledoneus2 votesBecause we all know how taking only a day to fix a problematic item/champion works out.
HaloDragonX1 votesNot really, sometimes it can include making new abilities, which can take a while to code and make textures for.
Melledoneus1 votesExactly. Diving fighters are the main abusers of Guinsoo's when it's viable, so it'd be better to rework those divers first before touching up on Guinsoo's again.
HaloDragonX1 votesExcept the diver fighters didn't abuse it. Jax and Irelia were just two who could use it, then the item made some weaker marksmen viable. Wasn't a bad thing, the problem was devourer, there's a reason Jax top winrate was sub 50 before rageblade nerfs while jungle jax was like at 53.
Melledoneus1 votesYou forgot about Xin Zhao, Master Yi, every jungler using Devourer...
Guinsoo's is in a bad place, but that's what Riot does with problems they can't figure out how to fix.
Dengeden1 votesUnless Kog'Maw
dapositiveviking1 voteskog maw is a diving fighter, what way are you playing him?
Dengeden1 votesWith Rageblade 
dapositiveviking1 votesyeah, like every time i play him i fail at kiting and so i dive in with my passive
Sightless663 votesThat is probably a good thing. The item is pretty bad on everyone except kog and kayle.
Itankyou2 votesUpgrading it gives u its op passives though, the item makes it so that u have to be doing damage for it to be effective. I like it the way it was intended to work. It used to be all anyone ever built so... ya its fine.
Wolfess1 votesrageblade doesn't need a buff. People complain about it having less atk speed than its components but they keep forgetting to factor in the fact that once u have full stacks you get a whole additional attack every second hit, which multiplies your damage more than what you could get with just atk speed and in fact becomes stronger with more atk speed because the faster you atk, the more procs you will get in a shorter amount of time.
xevi3 votesIt only procs on-hit effects and does not attack with the base AD of a regular attack.
BatchBustsMeta1 votesWow I never noticed this... That does seem really counterintuitive... :-/
warpenguin5551 votesoh lol. thats not good. hope riot fixes it
4th3t0s1 votes
+
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, yet no mana regen.
No
SlashStriker1 voteswhat if rageblade doesn't give stats at all until you stack it
but it will make more sense if rageblade gives 30% attack speed and does not give any attack speed per stack for instance 30% attack speed 25 AD 40 AP upon stacking you get only AP and AD only
No
gives 15% manacost reduction
4th3t0s2 votesRageblade has been stated to be a lategame powerspike item, you get the intended payoff from staying in fights. Giving it base as would make it way too powerful as a rushable first item, which they don't want.
SlashStriker1 votesRageblade has been stated to be a lategame powerspike item, you get the intended payoff from staying in fights. Giving it base as would make it way too powerful as a rushable first item, which they don't want.
rageblade is powershit item on spike
razorblade and BorK are rushable items too
VladTheMage1 votesI hate the nerf. It became an quite useless item unless you are counting champs like Shyvana,Xin,Yi. They should've kept the Rageblade passive which made the item relevant, but nerf the AP and AS it gave.
HaloDragonX1 votesJust REVERT IT, then use the current build path and price.
VladTheMage1 votesYes. They made it due to bronze kids complaining about yi.
World Ender1 votesThis was done intentionally to keep it from being the broken monster that it once was and to make it much more of a niche or situational item than it was before. They explained all of this when they were making the changes; where were you?
HaloDragonX1 votesThe item is so bad right now, it needs a buff, especially for melees.
