While I have really enjoyed the Dawnguard content I feel like its left me hanging in so many areas SO MANY! Here is the sort list of things that left me desiring more (mainly from a vampire play through prospective):


1. Castle Upgrades - While the castle designs are great the options to upgrade them is horrible and it might even be broken for castle Volkihar. If the only option to "trick it out" is to clean up some rocks out of a hall way its a bad dev decision. Castle mods are huge and some of the good ones have 30k + subs, if I was a pure console player I would be hugely disappointed because they depend purely on bethesda for content. Why didn't the castles have more options to personalize them? A bat room with a safe and lots of mannequins and weapon racks/cases would be a nice option or the ability to clean the place up like the Dark brotherhood sanctuary. The Lord's chambers is a huge disappointment, the coffin is great but its useless compared to the moth priest's chambers.

2. The option to marry Serana - Not much to add here but I know a lot of players would like this feature, she is by far one of the best followers just from her personality. Plus she has some excellent npc animations compared to the other followers who just stand next to you all the time, she will lean up against a wall, sit down next to a camp fire, and over all has so much life in her compared to the other NPCs. Reminds me of the mod companions can relax too.

3. Vampire Appearance - I absolutely love the new vampire bat face that you see on certain NPC, I just wish this was a feature the player's character had as well. Maybe this is how it was suppose to be for all vampires, but there is definitely some bugs going on with the appearance some races more then others.

4. Conjuration issues - Summoning Arvak or transforming into vampire lord kills off your dead thralls, Arvak makes one of your dead thralls drop and vampire form kills off both. However if you have bonemen or Atronachs summoned they stay until you cast the gargoyle spell. I doubt this will ever be patched so I will have to wait for a PC mod to fix this.

5. Lord Harkon's appearance in vampire lord form - I wish there was a necklace or something that you could wear to have his appearance in vampire lord form, after all you are the head vampire now. I mean you get other jewelry that effects your abilities while in vampire lord form why not your appearance. I hope there is a mod for this too.

6. Lord Harkon's Sword - While I like this sword it has issues that are kind of a let down

• it has no scabbard (could of easily used the blades sword scabbard)
  
• Smithing issue, it can't be upgraded as high as the blades sword (most likely not assigned a smithing perk)
  
• This weapon has hardly any charges, seems like after 5-6 hits and the weapon needs to be re-charged.

This really isn't a complaint per say its main some issues/options that left me wanting a little more, interested in what you have to say particularly the guys who went the dawnguard route.

They should have had an alternative voice actor for Harkon while in Vampire lord form. His voice just seems so odd while he looks like that.

Bethesda should seriously look at mods like Greystone Keep to see how castles should be made (at least the players quarters) honestly I think I will continue to use my house in solitude.

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Yeah Soul Cairn was way under developed. I was shocked when the Ideal Masters didn't offer me some kind of deal in exchange for some summons or Souls let alone make an appearance. Like Kill Serana's mother and we'll give you the Keeper Summon or at the very least bring us souls for delicious swag. Then navigating around was just horrible. Easy if you just want to get in an out but a pain with no map for exploration. Then everything looked the same with no variety.

I agree some things were a let down.

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Good points, and they should all be somewhat simple to fix. I'm afraid Bethesda won't consider any of them, but on the PC there'll be.. you know.. mods to fix it!

i wish we were able to fix up the areas of castle volkihar that lead to seranas mothers alchemy area,and maybe recruit more vampires that would hang out there.

Yeah its a bummer also upgrading the castle is bugged too, I had to load an old save to fix it.

Harkons sword is AWESOME, the handle itself is unique, and when you attack something the screen darkens.

I love the sword too but Beth screwed it up by not making it smith as high as other steel weapons and by not giving it a scabbard. Also the dang thing can't hold a charge worth a crap, other then those issues it has a cool enchantment and wicked hilt.

I role played with it, I used as the dark screen effect as a symbol of the blade corrupting me more, by the time I started the thieves guilds my character was a dark as Mercer Frey.

That's what the ebony blade is for.

Amazing stuff!

i agree with all of this