How long should a pos 1 farm?
I feel like there is a lot of misunderstanding of the game at the lower MMRs. We have awful drafts, and there are random teamfights erupting all over the map for no apparent reason.
A few games ago, we lost our offlane tier 2 tower, and our mid Puck was ready to give up - but I was single-handedly taking the enemy offlane tier 2 at the same time because both teams were randomly skirmishing.
I mean, I think I'm right. I think it's okay for the safe lane core to be farming, shoving out the lane, getting farm, especially if uncontested. I'm clicking on their safe lane to see what items and how much farm the enemy safe lane has.
Is it crazy to be farming for 30:00 if you aren't being ganked or harassed? I'm farming faster than the other cores at my level - I'm getting between 600-700 gpm while the other team may not get more than 500 gpm.
I checked my item timings vs. D2PT - I'm nowhere near immortal level, but I'm usually with Mjollnir/BKB/shard by 28:00 which is about average for the core Bloodseeker build on D2PT. (I'm sure I'm slower at the beginning of the game, but I'm catching up when I'm uncontested in the middle game. It has to do with how weird the Herald/Guardian lanes go with weird drafts and odd supporting.)
I'm currently winning about 53% this past month.
EDIT: I should note that I got this idea originally from ZQuixotix's YouTube video: How smurfs win all their games. He was showing how the smurf was not joining fights, and basically waiting for an overwhelming advantage before ending the game.