Vampires haven't attack my cities yet. I feel left out.

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I doubt know, I had a few followers travel around with Braggen for a while who could use bows, they were terrible shots, I suspect the AI is just not that good.


Alvor's daughter does not run around talking about her father if he is dead. Braggen lost the Smith and his wife last year to a dragon attack shortly after I started playing Skyrim. Reloading never changed a thing so I ended up leaving them dead. I could not kill the dragon fast enough. You supply of ingots will still respawn by the bench though, even without a resident smith.

I'm fine with them being outgunned, but it would be nice if they (townsfolk) weren't dumb as rocks. "Look, a giant gargoyle! I shall dispatch it with my iron dagger! Who cares if I'm nearly sixty years old and I have arthritis on most of my joints? Really, I got this!"

I once saw almost the entire population of Solitude chase a gargoyle down the street. Who chases gargoyles? Seriously. One minute you're selling fruit, and the next minute you think you're Van Helsing. Guards should attack, named NPCs should always run for cover.

This made me laugh. Very true.

Is is possible travelling to or even close by the Dawnstar Sanctuary could cause a vampire attack on Dawnstar. Aussie is not an Assassin, but went by there doing something else and decided to go on to Dawnstar, got distracted by the new boat for a few seconds (checking if strange person was a vampire) and ended up with vampires all over Dawnstar. Braggen last night was working on his vampire perks, he has long finished the questline and has had no vampire attacks since. He was actually on the islands out in the water, but went close enough to get the creepy music that goes with the sanctuary, immediately went way out away from the coast and cut across to the other side a long way before going back in. He was attacked on the other side a fair way from Dawnstar by some Death Hounds, which I thought a bit strange. I did not want to change form and check on what mischief might have been set loose in Dawnstar, so continued working on Braggens perks.

Braggen did go back later and there had been an attack since there was a dead guard down near the bottom of Dawnstar, going back cause a Legendary Dragon to attack, and then 3 Dawnguard, but no one else was lost. Only the guard died in the first attack Braggen missed.

Some adventurous vampire hunter might want to check it out, but all Braggen went near was the Dawnguard Sanctuary and only till he got the music and I realised the mistake I might have made, but still Dawnstar was attacked.

Same here. I just started a new game to play the DLC (running a few other lines first to gain some levels and shouts). And I haven't seen a city attack. I have met a few vamps on the road. One had an Imperial solider enslaved. I took pity on him and killed the vamp.

I'd love to see the city attacks.

I head that the Deadly Dragon mod might conflict with some of the dragons in Dawnguard, so I removed the mod before starting this game (with sadness - I love that mod). All my other mods are weapon/armor mods mostly.

I'm level 14 now. And I want vamp attacks!

I only got attacked by fast travelling at night time. At day nothing. I did get attacked at day trolling around the non-town areas.

Are the vamp attacks interfering with dragon attacks? I rerolled, and in the middle of the MQ and seen VERY few dragons. Of course this game is without Deadly Dragons.

On the PC I've found that the Mod: Adventurers and Travelers seems to fix this since their groups usually charge in and fight the Vampires attacking the cities.

Complete the MQ to make them almost disappear

Question thats maybe been covered before.

Since I installed Dawnguard, does that mean ALL my character lv 10 or higher will have vampire attacks even if I DON'T start Dawnguard? Some of my characters are so deeply involved in other quest lines I'd have to see them ruined by random vampire attacks killing my quest marks.

If I don't start dawnguard, like visit ft dawnguard will I be safe from attacks on those characters?

On my new character I went into Whiterun for the first time during the day after I talked to Durak the Dawnguard recruiter outside the gates I went in to meet two Master Vampires, two Thralls and two Death hounds. I put the diffeculty to novice but they were too quick. I tried four times and they always managed to kill Adrianne, idolaf Battle-Born and the guards then move onto the next victims.
I fixed it by fast traveling to Honning brew meadery, waited 24 hours in there then waited until it was midday. I walked back to Whiterun and went inside and they were gone.
I wish I got the mysterious traveler more, I always get vampires and thralls.

for me, it happens all the time. i just did the quest for the horn of jurgen windcaller, and fasttravel to riverwood. BAM! vampire thralls, but they got completly annihalated by the townspeople and guards without deaths. i enter the inn, progress through the quest, go outside, and BAM! vampire master that slaughters the riverwood trader and his sister. i fasttravel to whiterun to drop off gear in my home, and BAM! vampire master that calls up an garoyle and slaughters a bunch of people. so now i just resurrect every death by vampire attack. it could be seriously toned down

Not necessarily, Aussie was in the mid 50's when she started, completely ignored the Dawnguard hints and continued exploring, went up about 5 levels before she finally decided to join the Dawnguard. Never had an attack on any towns till she joined the Dawnguard. Had random attacks in the wilds by vampires or vampire groups pretending to be other things.

Braggen who was around level 75 and had done all the questlines, was attacked in the first city he entered, he just got to hear about vampire attacks and bam! Instant attack. He immediately decided joining up might be an idea.

Rork the Ork wimp was around level 11 when he started Dawnguard, went all the way up to level 21 and never set eyes on a vampire in or out of towns, he has heard about the Dawnguard reforming, but is not interested at the moment being busy with other questlines. Due to his cursed luck he is demoted to level 16 at the moment, since someone was not paying attention to what saves were being overwritten. But still he wandered off doing some of the main game quests, and nothing with fangs jumped out and attacked any where.

I have no idea how they work out who gets what attacks where, some say they had their first attack at level 10. it seems two of mine would never get an attack without actually joining a faction, and one was a high level character. True she never actually completed anything but the Stormcloak campaign, but you would have thought that would be enough to get some attention. She got a lot of attention once she joined the Dawnguard, but the only walled town that was attacked was Windhelm. Small towns, Orc Strongholds, in the wilds, almost every time she went to Windhelm before starting Touching the Sky she would be attacked. But no matter how many quest she did in other walled towns or how much time she spent there looking for trouble, she never got an attack on any other walled town. Braggen was a vampire and got them in every walled town except Solitude, he only went there once after starting Touching the Sky if he had gone before starting the quest for the bow, I would think he would have had an attack on Solitude as well. He got no where near the amount of vampire attacks Aussie did though.

There would probably be a pattern to how it is determined who gets attacks, but you would need to collect a lot of data to work it out.

I started a new game with Dawnguard installed a couple weeks ago. At level 42 I've only had one vampire attack on a city and that was right after completing a vampire related quest from the original game which seems which it seems unlikely would be a coincidence (i.e., it was probably a scripted vampire attack and may even be in the original game). The Dawnguard orc has never talked to me and I haven't so much as visited the Dawnguard fort. I have run into vampires in the wilderness with death hounds but none of these apparently really annoying attacks in walled cities so I'm tempted to say these attack do not start until you start the Dawnguard quests.

I started a character a few days after downloading the add-on, went up to level 31, haven't been to Dayspring Canyon yet, and I had one attack at the Whiterun Stables (they killed the horse, bastards), and I had a few attacks in the wilds (Disguised into all sorts of things like Vigilants of Stendarr etc, they sure like dressing up those vamps)

I truly wish I was among those who get attacked every 2 seconds, I really like the constant feeling of fear or always having to watch your back. I envy you guys!! If I had my way, you wouldn't be able to move without being attacked. But I'm a svcker for punishment

I feel left out when I don't get attacked every two seconds. I only get moderate to none vamp attacks now. Which is funny cause I use to have a lot of them on an older save that I abandoned. Now it's nothing but crickets.

That's pretty much how it's been for me through 4 play through's. At most I've had 6 attacks on towns / cities across those 4 different toons, it was the mysterious traveler that scarred my Skyrim life. It's a long story so to make it short I was over encumbered by 300lbs as I walked by a priest in black hooded robes. I wouldn't have known a thing if it wasn't for the fact that I looked at his hands ( for no real reason, I was just looking down at the time ) which dawned on me.... Those are the gloves of a vampire, so I turned to face him just in time to see him summon his gargoyle, so here I am 300lbs over weight and trying to defend Solitude from this vampire and gargoyle. The only thing that saved the day was Ariel's bow ( sp?? ), if I never had it on me the whole of Solitude would have fallen victim to this one vampire.

-Sigh- still haven't met the mysterious traveler or a wild werewolf. That's it when the new patch comes I'm going all VL and no fast travel. I'm going to find this mysterious traveler and kill a wild werewolf.

I never fast travel, too many interesting things happen on the roads to miss out on. I have only bumped into 2 sets of 2 werewolves, Vagar werewolves or something like that and I've only bumped into the mysterious traveler once. But I have killed too many legendary dragons to count, weird that dragons appear more in my game then the vampire attacks One would think the randomization would span across both dragons and vampire attacks evenly, but not in my case

Finally found a wild werewolf. He wasn't very strong though. Just used vampiric grip

Did the werewolf have a name in front of werewolf ? Like Vagar ? I bumped into 2 of them and it was an interesting fight, not a hard one but an interesting one. Really opened my eyes as to what it's like being on the receiving end of a werewolf attack. How did you get vampiric grip to work ? All I was able to do was stun them with my V-grip

It was a werewolf skinwalker. And really? I just used vampiric grip normally. Must be a bug. Seems like I'm always getting the buggy versions.