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In all seriousness ....

Dragon info:

Vampire info:


Other info:

why do i seriously not like the sound of that last one... Are we talking RL premiums or in game?

Good; this makes the many perks I'm investing in pick pocketing, and speech worth it.

Not to be rude but Source

Massive DLC!

In game confirms. Except DLC Todd Howard was talking about it somewhere. He said their first DLC is in the works and to be roughly half the size of Shivering Isles.

LIAR! Want too see the full list of Vampire improvements!

I have not witnessed being a vampire yet so I can't imform you of that but I can inform you NPC vampires are better built and look graphically better.

HERE! (got from leak) Full credit to OP



"Vampire:
1st Stage - Your eyes are red and NPCs will start to comment on your eyes and your skin. While sneaking you have have the ability to feed on sleeping NPCs to lower your vampiric stage to the first stage.

Abilities:
Champion of the Night - Illusion spells cast by a vampire are 25% more powerful.
Night Stalker's Footsteps - Vampires are 25% harder to detect while sneaking.
Resist Disease - Your vampiric blood gives you 100% resistance to disease.
Resist Poison - Your vampiric blood gives you 100% resistance to poison.
Resist Frost - Your vampiric blood gives you 25% resistance to frost.
Weakness to Fire - Your vampiric blood gives you -25% weakness to fire.
Weakness to Sunlight - Health, magicka and stamina do not recover while in sunlight and are reduce by 15 points. (only when your outside during the day)

Powers:
Vampire's Servant - Reanimate a weak dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds. (can only be use once a day)
Vampire Sight - Improve night vision for 60 seconds. (can be use multiple time and be toggle on/off)

Spells:
Vampiric Drain - Absorb 2 points of health per second from target. (its a novice destruction spell, cost 5 mana a sec)


2nd Stage (24 hours after first stage without feeding)

Changes from Stage 1:
Resist Frost - Your vampiric blood gives you 50% resistance to frost.
Weakness to Fire - Your vampiric blood give s you -50% weakness to fire.
Weakness to Sunlight - Health, magicka and stamina do not recover while in sunlight and are reduce by 30points. (only when your outside during the day)
Vampire's Servant - Reanimate a more powerful dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds. (can only be use once a day)
Vampiric Drain - Absorb 3 points of health per second from target. (its a novice destruction spell, cost ? mana a sec) *forgot to check mana cost*

Powers:
Vampire Seduction - Creatures and people up to level 10 wont fight for 30 seconds.

3rd Stage (24 hours after 2nd stage without feeding)

Changes from Stage 2:
Resist Frost - Your vampiric blood gives you 75% resistance to frost.
Weakness to Fire - Your vampiric blood give s you -75% weakness to fire.
Weakness to Sunlight - Health, magicka and stamina do not recover while in sunlight and are reduce by 45 points. (only when your outside during the day)
Vampire's Servant - Reanimate a powerful dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds. (can only be use once a day)
Vampiric Drain - Absorb 4 points of health per second from target. (its a novice destruction spell, cost 12 mana a sec)

4th Stage (24 hours after 3rd stage without feeding) Most NPCs will attack you on sight. Unknown if a follower or faction you belong to will also attack you.

Changes from Stage 3:
Resist Frost - Your vampiric blood gives you 100% resistance to frost.
Weakness to Fire - Your vampiric blood give s you -100% weakness to fire.
Weakness to Sunlight - Health, magicka and stamina do not recover while in sunlight and are reduce by 60 points. (only when your outside during the day)
Vampire's Servant - Reanimate a very powerful dead body to fight for you for 60 seconds. (can only be use once a day)
Vampiric Drain - Absorb 5 points of health per second from target. (its a novice destruction spell, cost 15 mana a sec)

Powers:
Embrace of Shadows - Vampire is invisible and has improve vision for 180 seconds. (can only be use once a day)"

What's the details (and proof) on Umbra?

Is Umbra a NPC too, or just the sword?

"Dragons are easily defeated by some builds on easy"

The game is a joke on easy. Easy is for anyone that wants no combat challenge at all and is only playing Skyrim for the story.

"Book shelf activate"

Best. News. Ever.

"Money Hard to Get" is hard to believe... sounds great, but I'm not letting my hopes get up here, there are always huge money 'semi-exploits' that are hard to ignore, usually in the crafting categories.

Agreed.

can someone explain "Book Shelf Activate" to me?

This is really interesting; if this is true I may consider going vampire.

Edit: Also about this "activate bookshelf"; what does that mean? Does it mean I can store my books away now without having to drag, and drop?

massive DLC? Half the size of Shivering Isles?

Thats not massive, thats awful. They said the dlc are going to be bigger.

Someone saw one bookshelf that could be Activated. (it was likely a secret door, or a special unique situation)
Now people think that all bookshelves can be interacted with.

DLCs can be both big and small, EXPANSIONS however i suspect will be bigger?

Not a reliable source, at all.

Yes it does. Only certain bookshelves allow it though.

Huh, once again they've made it so the less you feed, the more powerful you are. I've never understood this. Just one more thing i'll be modding i guess.

IMO, it should be flipped around. Ya know, some incentive to actually feed? If you wana keep your vampiric abilities you keep feeding, otherwise they fade away and you become visually more... not pretty...

I thought it meant that we can activate the bookshelf and when we do, we can put books into it instead of spending hours slaving over putting all our books in (which may not seem like a big deal but if you're like me and want to decorate your house past what the stores sell, it is a huge help)

when you say werewolves have no magical abilities do you mean they cant cast spells while transformed or the cant cast spells at all?

While transformed.