Hello everybody. Well, as I'm sure everyone is aware, Dawnguard really screwed up with two major glitches related to shouts. One is with Drain Vitality. Essentially, if you install Dawnguard and you don't learn all three words for Marked for Death before learning some in Drain Vitality, it makes it impossible to learn any new Marked for Death words. If you learn all three words for Marked for Death and THEN learn the Drain Vitality words, you get them both just fine, except you also get two glitched Drain Vitality Shouts to go along with it as well. Clutters up the shout menu nicely.

The second major bug is the radient dragon shout learning quests from the Greybeards. Essentially, Arngeir will send the player to Arcwind Point, and then your screwed. Why? Cuz if you already learned the shout from that location, it is IMPOSSIBLE to complete the quest. This also makes it impossible to get any more radient dragon shout quests from Arngeir, though you can still get it from the Courier, but when and where he shows up is really unpredictable. Just shout in any Hold and eventually, he'll find you. Eventually can be hours at a time (real time). Ugh. So wait til you get the quest before going to Arcwind Point, right? Nope, too bad. According to everyone all over the internet, you'll learn the word, but the quest won't clear. Screws you over with the same result. So what do you do? Reload the save, right? Too damn bad again, cuz I guarantee you'll get Arcwind Point every time. Why? Cuz I tried it. EVERY SINGLE TIME. The radiant quests must be queud up well before you even walk into High Hrothgar because I even tried saving before entering the building, in case it generated the quest when you walk in the door, like some quests do. Still no luck.

So far, no official work around has been found for that bug.

The official work around for the Drain Vitality duplication bug is as follows:

1. Find a save in which you have NOT started the Dawnguard questline
2. Delete Dawnguard, then load that save
3. Learn all three words of Marked for Death
4. Reinstall Dawnguard

However, I have a level 81 Dark Elf Assassin and I want to try a possible fix. However, I don't want to screw up my savegame. As I'm sure a lot of people discovered when the resistance breaking MAJOR bug associated with the 1.2 patch came around, deleting the patch til Bethesda released 1.3 was a no go as you'd get that damn "This savegame is associated with a later version of Skyrim. Please update to the latest version and try again" message. Does this also apply with DLC?

What I want to do is this:

1. Uninstall Dawnguard to get rid of the extra Drain Vitality shouts that are bugged and cluttering my shout menu
2. Complete all the radiant Dragon Shout quests so I can master the Thu'um like I want to
3. re-learn Drain Vitality WITHOUT inheriting two to three bugged "drain vitality" shouts. I'll have just one, thank you very much

Bam, thats my goal. But if I uninstall Dawnguard, is it going to let me load the save? Will it glitch Drain Vitality again anyway, even if I relearn it? I'm not uninstalling this DLC and losing a ton of cool artifacts and stuff without knowing for damn sure. As we've all learned in passed Beth games like Oblivion and Fallout, DLC and patch uninstallation can really F#CK up your save game! Even corrupt it

Anybody? I really need some help with this. Has anybody tried this and had no issues with they're save games? I can't just reinstall it and have everything go back to normal, I gotta know what it's gonna affect