I would assume because of the talents. Most of the cores now have lifesteal talent. And for pushing Dominator seems better.
To me it seems that talents changed the way you build heroes for one reason or another, depends on a hero. I'm sure some bluestars will answer to this question better anyways..
I'm actually curious myself too, tbh
new regen formula makes regen much better than lifesteal for most heroes so hotd is better. also 20 AS > 15% damage for summons as well
Lifesteal is not better
U already go bf and the Regen change makes it enough to sustain you
Bf wand is pretty good regen
it's still very good, same as blight stone. People are just too dumb to buy them
battle fury gives regen
current focus on tempo means vlads is very underwhelming on most heroes
meteor hammer is better for pushing, hotd gives insane regen and is good for pushing, heroes that really liked Vlads (like ursa or old am) are now trash tier, emphasis on jungling dropped a lot, emphasis on soloing rosh dropped a lot
Vlads was core on antimage, cuz it gave you the ability to stay on lane and blink without limiations (manaregen). Since you can regen now while hitting neutrals, getting a clarity if needed or a salve is just the cheaper choice, without slowing your farm down.
Hope they either make a new item that builds from vlads or just rework it entirely. Ignoring how good it is, it's just kind of a bland item that just gives an aura that boosts a bunch of stats a bit.
Wasn’t vlads core for the lifesteal and because orbs back then didn’t stack so it was the only lifesteal available
Vlads basically became a support item only used for its aura.
It became shit when they removed the Attack Modifier/Orb effect from items, since its the only lifesteal item before that wasn't an Attack Modifier.
I think the reason is no more orb effects on simple lifesteal. Previously vladimir was the only lifesteal which wasnt orb effect. Ursa now needs only mask to take solo roshan
I asked myself the same question and i bought it on Brew today. Was pretty good but it didnt feel as strong as it was. I think drums might have been better but I wanted to buy vlads since I cant even remember the last time i bought it. It needs a buff or rework because yeah as others have said in this thread already, the changes to regen and other items kinda make it obsolete right now
Ring of aquilla is the alternate to vlads imo, good stats and aura that we can manipulate. Vlads might be good item on supports rather than cores since there are many good items that surpasses vlads.
Not worth it anymore, multi-core setup is the game right now, not 4 protect 1, so the midlaner/offlaner wont bother getting an item just to boost the hard carry further. Also reason posted above; HotD is a better choice atm because of regen changes
Dunno guys, gona give it a go on my next AM game and post the results.
Thanks for all the inputs, and yea i’ve been building it mostly on pos 4,5 heroes
the problem with vladimir is that it takes a slot and a mid game item which is too costly for supports, and "too soon to be replaced" for cores and only a few semi-supporting offlaners would afford it for their builds.
carries doent need vlad since its waste a slot for them
offlanes doent buy vlad because hotd/greave/cg/etc is better
mid never meant to buy vlads
supp cant afford vlads and also other active items like forc/eul/ghost/glimmer is better
Vlads was a good split pushing item and now the meta asks for more team fighting utility items hence vlads is pretty much dead after 7.07
Vlads has lifesteal, and damage aura so i don’t see how its not a good team fighting item
they randomly nerfed it after the patch that hotd was ultra broken iirc. at the time it was pretty crap too
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What happened to that item, i remember the days when we used to build it on Anti-mage, phantom lancer, Lycan, ursa
How did it and why did it disappear since i was gona for almost a year and a half from this game since 6.83 came back around 7.02