Maelstrom instead of BF on AM

So I played an AM game about 1hr or so ago and had **** early game and so I decided to go an alternate build for farming on AM with cheap stats + mealstrom intead of BF cuz it would've been to late and probably lose us the game.
Anyway for farming I had;
-brown boots
- Ring of Aquila
-PMS
- Ring of Health (got this to help survive lane)
- Quelling Blade
- Maelstrom

What is your opinion on this build. Is it viable. I have seen it done before and honestly I'd prefer it more over the bf build due to extra attack speed although you probably farm slower.
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Wow so many AM threads xD

Ring of Aquila (1010) + Ring of Health (875) + Maelstrom (2800) = 4685 gold spent on items that don't increase AM's survivability in any way.

Battle Fury = 4350 gold spent on an item that doesn't increase AM's survivability in any way.

So your build comes online even later than Bfury, because in order to fight AM needs to build HP.

Conclusion, if you buy a Ring of Health, get a freaking bfury. And Ring of Aquila is a terrible item, that even got nerfed when Ring of Protection got a cost increase.

If you build regen items like RoH or Aquila, might as well go bfury. If you replace RoH/aquila by an Urn of Shadows or a Bottle for regen, going Maelstrom next is legit.

Question:

Why Maelstrom though? What advantages it have over Bfury? When should i get BF or Mael?

Yes, but the problem with that math on paper is a naked BF does not get u tons of farm, aquila = cheap stats/armour/dmg/mana regen. Ring of health = survivability (slightly) in jungle. Maelstrom = atk speed + farm accelerator. Honestly I decided this way was better because it was 12 minutes when I was like hell nowhere near bf. change.

@ Unscathed
The advantages it has over BF is you can fight earlier. It's active works! More of a fighting build but really, in hind sight bf is better due to health/mana regen. Honestly try both see what works.

Wow that Dire team though. The classic 5-core lineup, literally no stun dota. Easiest AM game ever xD

what i like about BF is that it allows spamming Blink though. Maelstrom can't do that.

and besides it also gave reasonable damage for fights.

unless its a rush Mjollnir though..

BF is superior with treads since you literally never run out of mana.

Ok, so what I am reading is that people prefer BF over Maelstrom due to mana regen, farm acceleration is better due to spamable blink and better damage for team fights. Does everyone agree?

If you are going Maelstrom, ditch the Aquila and RoH and get a Vlads instead.. Vlads + Mjollnir is actually a legit alternative for an AM, in my opinion..

IIRC, Kuroky built this combo back when he was playing carry for Team Secret.. I think it was in one of the games against Na'Vi in the XMG Captains Draft 2.0..