How to farm a shield breaker on Glacius the fastest

Another awesome post that found it's way to the HoN forums. Maybe you've already read it, maybe not. I would advise to read it anyway, even for the 2nd or 3rd time!

Original post by cummseng can be found here.

Ok so you want to farm shield breaker on your support character, before you do that, there's a concept you have to learn: Return on investment.

In a nut shell it's about spending money to gain even more money. Most of the time you gain intangible assets or money indirectly.

So how do you get your shield breaker quicker using this concept?

There's multiple ways but we'll start off with the basics:


1. Ward of sight
So here we spend 200 gold. You're probably thinking, no way, now ill be 200 gold short of my shield breaker. No. Here you gain an intangible asset, vision. Now you wont get ganked and lose 200+ gold every time you die. In 5 or so creep kills you will have your money back. After that you start earning money. Now you can farm all you want without helping the team and not be scared that you're pushed past the river.


2. Incremental inventory building
So you bought boots first at the start of the game and have been saving for shield breaker for the last 30 minutes, now because of your wards you have been farming pretty good and you backed to safety every time they tried to gank. On the odd occasion somebody may slip through because you lagged and missed the minimap, you will die because of your 700HP. You should start off with small items like a bracer. That 500gp will save your life and you wont lose that 200+gp.


3. Monkey and flying courier
So you're happily farming away getting ever so close to your shield breaker. You've avoided all the ganks because of your wards and you survived a few because of your bracer. But at this point you probably noticed that the enemy in your lane is higher level and can deny creeps before your glacius can kill them, at this point your farming comes to a stop, you cant auto attack creep for cash anymore.

Well that's because he has a courier, he doesnt have to leave the lane to buy those previously mentioned items therefore earning more money and more xp.
Buy a courier and share it, now you never have to back futher than your tower. You can even courier your shield breaker to yourself when you're done! Even better, do it at the start of the game so you dont ever have to return to base!

If you can master these basics you will have your shield breaker 25% quicker.
Now lets be realistic, you're probably a bit skeptical on these new radical concepts, you're probably a bit scared to do it. Since i've released these 2000+ PSR secrets you will feed and lose and you will never be able to get your shield breaker unless you use these technques as everybody will now be doing it. It's like not buying boots, you will feed and lose because everybody else has boots.

Now because im feeling generous ill leave an intermediate tip, it's OK that you dont master this one straight away, its for at least 1800+ PSR but you can practice it.


4. Ward of revelation
Again we spend 200 gold. This investment may even see an immediate return on investment. If you sucessfully kill an enemy ward, you will gain 50gp. You could essentially end up only spending 100gp. But you still spent 100gp and havent gained anything! You didnt end up with vision so what did you get? Well you can kill steal when your solo mid comes to gank your lane as the enemy doesnt have vision anymore, even if you miss the kill steal, at least you can free farm.