Hand of Midas

The Hand of Midas is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Accessories.

Recommended Heroes
Carry heroes who need to farm for late game items and benefit from the experience and attack speed for farming and/or fighting often buy an early Hand of Midas.

Some support heroes who are not very item dependent may choose to build Hand of Midas in order to accumulate gold for bigger late game items and gain levels at a faster pace.

Tips

 * It should be noted that Hand of Midas active replaces the targeted units gold bounty, and therefore doesn't grant a total of . But instead it grants minus the units' gold bounty. This means that if you use it on big units you lose out almost half the gold, but you gain almost double the exp. This makes the item give you less GPM but more XPM.
 * The earlier Hand of Midas is purchased, the earlier it will pay itself off during the match and the earlier you will have an effective networth gain.
 * Assuming it is always used when off cooldown and used on a unit with a gold bounty of 0, Hand of Midas increases the user's GPM by, meaning it takes a minimum of minutes to pay for itself, or  minutes for the recipe (from the point on it was first used).
 * This means you need to use  times to pay for itself, or  times for just the recipe.
 * with his and   will have their Hand of Midas payed out effectively earlier than other heroes.
 * Hand of Midas is an important item if you want to increase your level quickly and unlock talents, especially if you rely on your talents to counter enemy heroes in late game.


 * To get the most out of the x experience bonus, use on:
 * Large neutral creeps ( +  per 7.5 minutes) -, , , ,.
 * Ranged creeps
 * Siege creeps

Trivia

 * Midas is based on Midas, a figure from Greek mythology who turned all he touched to gold.

Recent Changes
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