Meta rules are to bent, not to follow!
In-game-Economic Units in Starcraft2 for example.
Ignore drones and queens, and get the swarmhost.
a drone harvest 0.8minerals per 1sec = 0.016coins per sec per 1 mineral invested
a swarmhost generates 200coins of units per 1 min = 3.33minerals per 1 sec = 0.019coins per sec per 1 mineral invested
Playing some 4vs4 atm, Nydus-swarmhost, only 22 workers, and most kills/most damage, every game.
Attack multifronds since min4, and never loose army-supply
Poe-Economics works the same way.
Get hybrid es/mana/life, and ignore the meta-gear of es-only or life-only.
Get flat heals, like Unbreakable, and ignore the need of a Big-life-pool to boost leech-rate or %-regen-rate
Get resist-passive-notes, and free up item-affix for hybrid stats