Talk:Vladimir/@comment-175.114.56.3-20110817223605/@comment-3238314-20110818153739

It's worse of an items for the exact reasons that you say it's good.

First off, you have to wait alot longer to get to 25% spell vamp, which is really good really fast. The gold difference between gunblade and WoTA is about 1700, which means that you're either gonna wait a whole lot before getting gunblade, or delay 1700 gold's worth of items for some useless AD and lifesteal (trust me, since you have no armor penetration and no AS, you won't even see your hp gain from life steal, and you'll damage for about 75 damage at the most on squishy targets. You basically use it for nothing. The active is ok, though, but not extremely good.

Now take WoTA. It's 80 AP ( Which is more than Funblade, not less) and 25% spell vamp for a very cheap price FOR YOU.

For the entire team, it's 200 AP, and 125% spell vamp. That's a lot of value for a small price.

The only situation that would actually allow for a gunblade is if your support insists on grabbing WoTa and the auras would stack. And you also had the money for a funblade and had everything else completed.