In whiterun vamps have killed the girl smith and the general goods guy. Anyway to get them back?

unless you reload a save,then no,they are dead.

I've lost the blacksmith in Riften and Whiterun so far. Im sure if I visit the other cities I'll lose more. This is total [censored], really. I dont even really want to keep playing it, for fear of losing more of my favorite shopkeepers. Was this really needed? It would be different if there was a way around it, but so far after multiple reloads, they always die. I dont understand why they thought this was a good idea.

beth needs a new idea guy.

They need to take those vamp attacks out of cities.

I hated losing Adrienne to the Vampires. She is my bff in Skyrim. I reloaded and lost her hearthmate (big burly guy who runs the interior shop). Adrienne has to run both now.

Or make it so that the vamps can only kill guards. They could make it so that civilians go into crouch position when low health and the vamps then ignore them. Just like what happens when a follower get low on health.