Before dawnguard, if you reached stage 4 everyone would attack you. So you had a reason to feed. With dawnguard they got rid of that because A LOT of people [censored]ed and whined about it. Not only that but at stage 4 you had 100% weakness to fire but they nerfed it in dawnguard. I really wish they would bring back stage 4 hostility. Because with blood bottles and live cattle its very easy to stay well-fed.
I agree brother! It is very stupid for them to remove stage 4. But what if they did it on a lore standpoint? Feeding to avoid stage 4 means you are no longer detected as a vampire, which means you can blend in, which means the vampires in Skyrim aren't the Volkihar. I think they just removed stage 4 for both those who complained and also to backup the lore that the vampires in Skyrim are ugly 24/7. Still doesn't make sense that NPC's won't attack you considering your noticeably vampirish.
If you are on PC you can use http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/9717 to make your vampire character actually FEEL like a vampire. You can completely customize every aspect of the mod and it makes feeding important again. Works flawlessly.
IF you are PC. Not all of us have the PC version. I would laugh if the Elder Scrolls VI: (insert name) came out for only the PS4 and new Xbox and not PC. Have karma teach a lesson to the people who keep bragging about the PC version.
Not that you are bragging

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