o.O lolwut? Versus what? Getting SotD instead? In terms of damage out, the two are virtually identical... You're not supposed to worry about HP and resistances. You're squishy. That's the nature of the ranged carry. Sit back and gank when the opportunity presents itself.

Runes/masteries? Starting with Doran's Blade, and a 9/21/0 build with HP quints nets you 743 base HP at lvl 1, or 683 if you sit with 21/9/0.

That's a fair bit of HP to start with, particularly if you end up solo or laned against a DPS that doesn't take a doran's item from the start, and has around 400HP. It's an uphill battle for them, and not hard to end up with first blood. Your range and stuns will go a long way to harrassing the enemy, and keeping you alive. Typically, the other carries you face will be building damage as you build damage, keeping your HP advantage intact, though it becomes less and less of a buffer as levels go up.

I run flat HP quints, and Dodge yellows with nimbleness; those alone make a pretty big difference. Should their team have alot of physical damage dealers, Starting with a Doran's Shield and Going to Ninja Tabi will put you in the same survivability bracket as their tanks early game, but with alot more damage. It's not that hard to farm up the 3-4k for a LW/SotD and a Pickaxe/BF Sword at that point assuming you can last hit and know when to gank.

Okay, it might sound utterly newbish as a question, but WHEN to gank? I seem to have little experience with squishy characters who take some time until they develop into glass cannons and it seems this is the factor I've been missing and is the source of the problem.

As soon as you hit 6, never let your ult come off CD. Every time its up, go somewhere and kill something.

That's a bit overkill. When to gank, as in how to gank efficiently, not when to use the skill

you fail to mention the 55% attackspeed bonus of sword of divine and the gold costs of the items yes, infinity edge gives an extra 80 damage but it costs twice as much and gives no attackspeed.

Trinity force is bad on twisted fate why? first of all no one uses it for the stats realy 25 ap, 10 damage, 10% atackspeed and crit??

It is used for the passive but lets look at it,

Slow is nice, movespeed almost usless, and the proc which scales off DAMAGE if your goal is ATTACKSPEED you lack damage so let us say you have 150 damage on tf with triforce thats an insane extra 175 damage every time you use an ability :O. So worth it for the most expensive item in the game...

I tried Boots of Swiftness -> SotD -> Madred's Bloodrazor -> Infinity Edge -> bf sword(wanted to make the bloodthirster) and if it wasn't for the fact that I keep forgetting to use SotD's active, I did 11/7 and I finally got my first Twisted fate win after 4 or 5 losses. Yay :P

Btw I didn't have Flash as a summoner spell yet due to level, which might have affected my playstyle as well. My personal opinion about this hero is that his blue card and passive are relatively useless.

Anyone has any feedback, possible alterations to this item build?

Get some HP early game, and grow a pair. Most Zilean I've ran into tend to pick up an AP item for bomb damage; which means they don't have much for HP. A large majority of them also expect you to both run away from them to avoid bombs, and then run away like a girl ONCE they get the timer on you.

With Zilean, once you have the debuff, you're taking the damage. Might as well do something constructive with the time instead of panic. He's only really dangerous when he starts getting chain bombs, and even then, if you aren't dead when after he double bombs you, he's out of tricks damage wise. He can either pop movespeed and run, or waste his ult.

My success v Zilean solomid is just to not be afraid. You'll take a bomb or two, but you should have a stun, more damage, and more HP on your side. Starting game: if he's running to you to bomb, run at him and yellow/red card and get in a few auto attacks. He has to come within card range to bomb you; make sure you let him know he better be **** sure he'll come out alive when he does.

If you find you need a little HP, grab a Frozen Hammer at some point, other than that, it's a good build.

His passive is also pretty decent, considering it's free gold for the entire team. Helps people who can farm immensely, and gives those who can't a little extra gold otherwise.

Blue card is great for harassing, last hitting creeps and dropping towers; does great damage, and is essentially free to use due to the mana restore.

In my experience with twisted fate you say attack speed, then damage. I go vamp specter to stay alive, dorans blade if i'm expecting a hard mid.
go into greves and malady (still thinking about that one, but it has worked well for me so far) go for a SotD, its cheap and gives nice dmg + atk speed + proc. Many chars are going 9 def and stacking yellow dodge making it a wise investment in almost every game. Then go into a black clever. Fixes the armor pen and the damage problem in one item. Usually a madreds in nice at this point, maby rush it if they have many many bulky characters. You can finish it with a BT or get it before the bloodrazor if they have no bulk. At this point malady looses its luster as your build is full so sell it for a phantom dancer or something. You can throw in mallet if you are getting shreded. Remember that when replacing your malady to get back the attack speed you lose.

Thats my build and i think it holds well. I'm down for critisism and by no means claim to have the most optimal build possible