edit yr guide because it still says zohnya's ring (wich is really really outdated..) and it ahould be rabandons deathcap.

Nice build. Actually, i prefer Spirit Visage and Will of the Ancients to Hourglass though. For about 450 gold more, you get enormous spell vamp (25% from WotA and 15% from the SV), reduced cooldowns and 30 mr. The only minus is 10 AP and these 2 seconds in stasis, but i don't think that they are worth the 3.1k.. :) Otherwise, Mejai's unique item and in mid game you can pwn their *** spamming Transfusion and Blood's Tides.

i decided to go
9 G marks of force
9 G glyphs of force
9 G seal of potency
3 G quint of Force

went 10/11/9 focusing on AP related ones then filled in some general ones around them

and then i modified your item set to go
Hextech Revolver
Haunting Guise
Archangel's staff
Rabadon's Deathcap
Void Staff
Lich Bane

found that with it i play with about
3k health (which actually translates to about 4k damage to kill you)
730 AP (before applying Rabadon and Archangel's AP boost, ending u with over 1k AP!)
55% Magic Pen.
20.0 Magic Pen.
and 66 Magic Resist
with 15% spell vamp

it works well and i encourage you to give it a spin

Used to main Vlad before the nerf.
Still this guide is very useful.

Putting the second point in pool is useless because you don't really use it to farm at that level and you're not likely to get ganked.

Maxing pool second is not really good either. I think you should max Transfusion first like you did, but then alternate between Tides of Blood and Sanguine Pool because Tides of Blood comes in really handy to last hit/farm and pool is quite useless unless for escaping, until you get into the teamfights.

Rest of the guide seems alright.

ancient will is in vladimir's item core. you shouldnt build a vlad without it.

I do beleive that while it says this guide is updated, the Zring is no longer in game.

nice guide i tryed today vlad and was cool whit your build i had hp and ap in same time
+1

Thanks for a great guide, have helped me much when I took up vlad today.. Absolutely awesome champ :)

hi, sorry i dont wanna make your guide down, its really well made. good explantations but ur items sucks...in games witch guys lvl 22 and up they will buy 1 force of the nature and your dmg goes to 0. make instead of lich hells scepter or sth else but this build sucks (btw i hate Mejai's Soulstealer( now you may ask: " why this damn noob dont likes majais????" - ok ill tell you . Take the situation: you are well feeded and have your 20 stacks (normaly nobody wants to loose them so youll probably play verry safe) and you see ww and sona on a lane (every vlad knows: lol thx for this double kill, but then garen appears(he isnt that good feeded) so wen all know may well get all 3 at the same time but probably well get a double and die) so now you have to decide : whether you make 2 kills and die (then your team has 4 living guys and the other team has only 3, what can make a win) or you dont kill anyone and hug your 20 stacks (what probably 99.99999% of all the mejais fans are going to do) this is only 1 situation from more than 1000 why mejais makes you play more egoistic as you should for to win. So ok i know now youll tell me ofc you die for the best of your team but i tell you NO noone does, its verry simply most players ( me inluded) thinks if they are feeded :" im the best, *****es!, without me youll loose all our teafights look i can pwn 2 guys within no time by myself! so stfu and do whatever i say..." and then you never gonna die because its better for your team^^
but like i said verry good guide, exept items ( for items i would say this one is much better :http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/vladimir-the-immortal-hemomancer-68113) but this is only my opinion

nice...+1