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My core items in any case are TB, aether lens, agha. Without Agha, you can not heal your allies as you want.
Next, for talent lvl 10, I always choose +3 mana regen. You can boost your health with a point booster. Mana regen is required. Without mana, pugna is useless !!!!
Finally I agree perhaps with your 2nd build. Your 1st build is bad for me.
Aghs' offensive potential is decent, but IMO, it's overrated, specially if the enemy team has several ways to cancel Life Drain, and if your team is lacking control . And against nukers, your greatest source of damage is the Nether Ward anyway, so you're better off using Life Drain more as a secondary nuke than a primary one
Usually, teams built around magical damage have several ways to cancel channeling skills, and against them, your greatest source of damage will come from the Nether Ward
Against such teams, the money you could spend on Aghs is better spent on Pipe of Insight, which softens their magical damage, or on Lotus Orb, which offers the excellent utility of dispelling silences, hexes and other debuffs on yourself and on your teammates, or even a Blink Dagger, so that you can keep up with your team's initiation, and place your nether ward where it'll be the most effective, when it's the most effective.
From the perspective of your teammates, when you're facing several nukers, the utility that a Lotus Orb's echo shell can provide to them is vastly superior to the utility that Life Drain's healing can . The same doesn't happen against right-clickers, where Lotus Orb has little value, and where you can save teammates with Decrepify + Life Drain . In that case, Aghs has definitely a great value, even more so with its 0 second cooldown, that allows you to switch through several targets
Once you're at this stage of the game, you gotta think about scaling up and becoming a 4th/5th core yourself, to aid your team, instead of going further down on the support road