League-of-legends – Customized item sets doesn’t appear in game

You mustn't mix up life steal and spell vamp.

Life steal steals on physical damage (meaning auto-attack for vlad). In fights, you very rarely use your auto-attacks to deal big damage because you're a caster.

Spell vamp steals on magical damage (meaning all of his spells), this is want you want if your plan is to steal more life.

• Zhonya's Hourglass is great because vlad's ult has low range but must be cast in battle engage to hit the most enemies and for the 15% extra magical damage. The two second invulnerability will allow you to stay alive in the heart of the battle if you get targeted.
• I also very often use Hextech Revolver with Vlad, but you need some AP. It's no use having 50% Spell vamp if you don't deal any damage.

Vlad spells cost life, the good thing about more spell vamp is you can get your life back faster with transfusions minion lines and you can cast life costing spells (specially Tides of Blood that stacks) with less impact on your life.

EDIT : I went to have a quick look at all the different Vlad builds. All (or nearly all) of the descent builds have hextech revolver in them with its evolution to will of the ancients - give more AP, more spell vamp and an aura :-)

As of patch 3.7, May 2013, the game now officially supports item sets. You can define sets of items in the launcher, and use these in-game at the shop.

You can define multiple sets, multiple categories per set, and any number of items per category.

For each item set, you can specify what champions and maps it appears on, or set them to appear globally.

In-game, you click on the Recommended tab to access a drop-down list which will have all the item sets available to that champion for that map.

If you specify an item set to be specific to a champion, it will default to that item set when you first visit the shop. Once in-game, if you select an item set through the shop, it saves that item set selection in Config/game.cfg under [RecommendedItems], and the next time you play that champion on that map it will show the item set by default.

The item sets are currently stored client-side in RADS/projects/lol_air_client/releases/*highestVersionNumber*/deploy/bin/preferences/*username*.properties. If you play on multiple computers, simply copy this file to copy your item sets.

They have plans to move them sever-side in the future, so you will eventually have access to them from any computer. They've also hinted that they may be adding import/export functionality, to share your item sets more easily.