[Ashley Campos]

Post here your ideas, speculation, hopes for Dawnguard and discussion of confirmed information.

Some details of existing quests might be related to discussion of DLC, so please remember to use spoiler tags when appropriate.
Note that it is a "timed exclusive," which means it will release first on Xbox360 and soon thereafter on PS3 and PC.

May 1: From http://www.bethblog.com/2012/05/01/dawnguard/:
http://cdnstatic.gamesas.com/bethblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Dawnguard.jpg


May 29: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/05/29/is-hearth-fire-another-skyrim-dlc-add-on.aspx

May 30: http://www.youtube.com/embed/3PjBSicSVqI

http://www.bethblog.com/2012/05/31/dawnguard-trailer/

EDIT: Summary of Dawnguard Information prepared by me. The Unconnected One:


Legendary Dragon Picture http://i.imgur.com/18jft.jpg The name of the dragon in the Soul Cairn was Durnehviir.
There are new enemies called Keepers
There are new enemies called Bonemen. [skeleton's with helmet's]
There are new enemies called Wraithmen
The daughter of Lord Harkon's Name is Serana
Dawnguard will be 10 to 20 hours long
Dawnguard will hopefully release on June 26th for Xbox 360 with a month exclusivity if all goes well beta testing and bug finding. Ps3 and PC will get the DLC though
According to Todd Howard mods may be soon coming to consoles if "something clear's up" He also said "In a perfect world that would all be possible, but it's something that hasn't worked out yet."

Vampire Lords can summon Gargoyle's
Vampire Lords can attack with their claws
Vampire Lords can hover
Vampire lord Perk tree: 11 Perks

Power of the grave - 50 bonus to M/H/S
Blood Healing - Killing a person with a power attack bite restores all of your health
Unearthly Will - Night Powers and Blood Magic costs 33% less
Poison Talons
Night Cloak
Vampiric Grip
Summon Gargoyle
Corpse Curse
Detect All Creatures
Mist Form
Supernatural Reflexes

There will be some Werewolf content but they aren't telling us anything as of yet
EDIT This is regarding customizeible bases Here is Todd's exact quote "And in this there are two fortresses that you can make your own and kinda trick-out"

The Purple Flaming horse was seen near a Giant fire which is only at Giant camps, so we can use the Purple Flame horse outside of the Soul Cairn
Todd Howard says that the Dawnguard get's Armored Troll pets. EDIT: Machinima confirms that Armored Trolls are treated as Companions and have to be hired

Most of the Werewolf Perk Tree http://imgur.com/a/5iBUK
Here's the left side of the Werewolf Perk Tree
Totem of the Predator
Savage Feeding
Totem of (Ice?) Brothers
Totem of The Mace
Can barely make out the far left perk, but it looks like "Totem of the Moon"
Screenshots i took, entrance to the Soul Cairn http://i.imgur.com/tOdcV.jpg Dead Legendary Dragon http://i.imgur.com/FCNU8.jpg

Gameinformer Hands on preview. http://www.gameinformer.com/games/the_elder_scrolls_v_skyrim_-_dawnguard/b/xbox360/archive/2012/06/05/hands-on-with-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-dawnguard.aspx Looks like we go on a quest to get Auriel's Bow
We can now craft Crossbow Bolts
The Purple Flame Horse's name is Arvak as confirmed by Gstaff
?We enter the Soul Cairn in search of an Elder Scroll
Gamespot confirms that your gender affects your Vampire Lord Transformation. There are female Vampire Lords
IGN Confirms that you can become a Werewolf again if you have cured your Lycanthropy. This could mean Wild Werewolves.
Kotaku confirms we get at least 2 big landmasses http://kotaku.com/5916595/skyrims-massive-dawnguard-sounds-like-a-proper-old+school-rpg-expansion

Thank you Senor CInco for the Vampire Lord Perk tree, Thank you Xenonychus for the Dragon's name, Thank you Korbu for the rest of the Werewolf Perk Tree. Thank you Verbose for the Kotaku article.

Did i miss anything?

I've heard of five werewolf perks, and i will list them in a minute.

OK

1. Bestial Strength - increases damage by 25% 4 times

2. Animal Vigor - increases health and stamina by 100 points

3. Gorging - Feeding heals twice as much health

4. Totem of Fear - Makes the fear roar work on high level enemies

5. Totem of the Moon - Allows you to summon a (were?)wolf to aid in battle

Previous threads

Spoiler

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1325612-unofficial-skyrim-dlc-discussion/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1329169-unofficial-dlc-discussion-spoilers-thread-2/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1338202-unofficial-dlc-discussion-spoilers-thread-3
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1348297-unofficial-dlc-discussion-possible-spoilers-thread-4/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1364960-unofficial-dlc-discussion-possible-spoilers-thread-5/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1367158-unofficial-dlc-discussion-possible-spoilers-thread-6/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1367439-unofficial-dlc-discussion-thread-7/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1331322-unofficial-skyrim-dlc-discussion-thread-8/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1369662-unofficial-skyrim-dlc-discussion-thread-9/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370019-unofficial-skyrim-dlc-discussion-thread-10/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370560-unofficial-skyrim-dlc-discussion-thread-11/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370638-unofficial-skyrim-dlc-discussion-thread-12/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370752-unofficial-skyrim-dlc-discussion-thread-13/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370766-unofficial-skyrim-dlc-discussion-thread-14/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370778-unofficial-skyrim-dlc-discussion-thread-15/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370797-unofficial-skyrim-dlc-discussion-thread-16/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370808-dawnguard-and-future-skyrim-dlc-discussion-thread-17/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370827-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-18/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370856-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-19/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370894-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-20/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370930-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-21/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1370998-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-22/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1371090-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-23/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1371091-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-24/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1371334-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-25/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1371845-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-26/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1372881-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-27/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1373537-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-28/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1374669-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-29/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1376113-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-30/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1376443-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-31/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1376618-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-32/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1377335-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-33/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1377696-dawnguard-and-future-dlc-discussion-thread-34/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1379222-dawnguard-dlc-general-information-and-discussion-thread-35/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1379799-dawnguard-dlc-discussion-thread-36/
http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1380197-dawnguard-info-and-discussion-thread-37/

[Nana Samboy]

I've heard of five werewolf perks, and i will list them in a minute.

OK

1. Bestial Strength - increases damage by 25% 4 times

2. Animal Vigor - increases health and stamina by 100 points

3. Gorging - Feeding heals twice as much health

4. Totem of Fear - Makes the fear roar work on high level enemies

5. Totem of the Moon - Allows you to summon a (were?)wolf to aid in battle

[Steven Hardman]

I am looking forward to Dawnguard,I could use a good Elder scrolls expansion right now x/

[Quick Draw]

I do hope the dawnguard dont mind me having the beasts blood

[Shaylee Shaw]

Are you Making a new char or continuing with an Old one, in the sense that making a new char = doing other quests and leveling to where you don't get your face pwnt by *REDACTED* near the summit of *NUMMIT* after the Quest *NO SPOILERS* ?

[Gen Daley]

Are you Making a new char or continuing with an Old one, in the sense that making a new char = doing other quests and leveling to where you don't get your face pwnt by *REDACTED* near the summit of *NUMMIT* after the Quest *NO SPOILERS* ?

Keeping my main, in oblivion and morrowind I'd be making different characters all the time, but for this game i've stuck with the same one since release

[FITTAS]

Are you Making a new char or continuing with an Old one, in the sense that making a new char = doing other quests and leveling to where you don't get your face pwnt by *REDACTED* near the summit of *NUMMIT* after the Quest *NO SPOILERS* ?

Personally, with 1.6 live on the 360 I've deleted all my Skyrim saves, deleted my cache, and did a fresh install of the game and then intalled the patch and made a totally new character to avoid as many bugs as I can. My games been running really smooth now and I'm working on getting to level 20ish before Dawnguard comes out. =D

[Wayland Neace]

Are you Making a new char or continuing with an Old one, in the sense that making a new char = doing other quests and leveling to where you don't get your face pwnt by *REDACTED* near the summit of *NUMMIT* after the Quest *NO SPOILERS* ?

I am continuing with my old character that i have played for about 291 hours then i will choose to side with the vampires with my other characters

[Jeff Tingler]

Are you Making a new char or continuing with an Old one, in the sense that making a new char = doing other quests and leveling to where you don't get your face pwnt by *REDACTED* near the summit of *NUMMIT* after the Quest *NO SPOILERS* ?

Started a high elf whose fate led her to Skyrim, will be a College mage, Imperial Battlemage, Dovahkiin, but will be turned into a vampire. You can guess what happens next .

[Ellie English]

Will you change your "class"?

[Devils Cheek]

Will you change your "class"?

Nope+ i think its too late for a high leveled character to do that well you can try but.. I will still be a warrior. But trying to be more sneaky and using long range weapons,Also use beast form more since we are getting a werewolf perk tree

[Craig Martin]

Bro was asking me the other day if they have raised the level cap in this one cuz you know...it would kinda blow to have to make a whole new character cuz you are level 81 already thus only way to get any vampire perks or werewolf perks in would be to make new one...

[leigh stewart]

Bro was asking me the other day if they have raised the level cap in this one cuz you know...it would kinda blow to have to make a whole new character cuz you are level 81 already thus only way to get any vampire perks or werewolf perks in would be to make new one...

You didnt know that the werewolf and vampire perk trees isnt like normal perk trees? I am not sure how to get perks,i guess kills and feeding,you only get perks to those perk trees. They did it like that so high leveled character wont be sadface

[GLOW...]

You didnt know that the werewolf and vampire perk trees isnt like normal perk trees? I am not sure how to get perks,i guess kills and feeding,you only get perks to those perk trees. They did it like that so high leveled character wont be sadface

holy cow! No i had no idea! Thank you!!
*Runs to tell bro*
(Tho I do think personally they should do away with a level cap, not like this is a MMO where it actually needs one imho)

[Johanna Van Drunick]

As for the 3 perks that are not listed in the first reply, I will update it when they are revealed.

[Emily Shackleton]

Holy [censored]! Auriel's Bow! That was one of my favorite weapons in morrowind! I'm excited

[Krystina Proietti]

Aww, no credit to the chronicler for making the pretty screenies of the werewolf tree?

Ill have you know that those took me a whole 10 seconds to resize in paint!

Jk unconnected one, thanks for gathering all this info into one place for us.

[Ross]

Any news on new regular spells? Like Conjuration summons and Destruction attack spells?

[Lilit Ager]

Ah, can't wait I'm still having trouble perfecting build ideas for a vampire lord and a werewolf who joins the Dawnguard, so I haven't been playing much of Skyrim lately, but I hope to change that soon.

To that end, can anyone kindly link me to any really awesome character build threads?

[Elisabete Gaspar]

But how will the Dawnguard react to werewolf players? Aren't they just as bad as vampires?

[Manuel rivera]

Aww, no credit to the chronicler for making the pretty screenies of the werewolf tree?

Ill have you know that those took me a whole 10 seconds to resize in paint!

Jk unconnected one, thanks for gathering all this info into one place for us.

[Scarlet Devil]

Are you Making a new char or continuing with an Old one, in the sense that making a new char = doing other quests and leveling to where you don't get your face pwnt by *REDACTED* near the summit of *NUMMIT* after the Quest *NO SPOILERS* ?

Glad to hear that there won't be any kind of "Congratulations, you just bought Dawnguard!" dialogue box, etc., as my plan was to install the new update and simply encounter the new content naturally during the course of a complete playthrough.

I will probably do this twice with different characters, once siding with the Dawnguard and another siding with the Volkihar. Still haven't played a Dark Brotherhood character yet, so I'm looking forward to joining that faction as well.

[Keeley Stevens]

Ugh, all this cool stuff and excitement right smack dab in the middle of my finals week!!!

[Nicole M]

I heard a roumer that they said that they are changeing the way normal vampires look i want to know if its true or not and if so does any one know what their going to look like becase i have a few "normal" vampire saves and i don't whant to load up a saved file and end up yelling what the "hell is that thing!!" and get cased out of town by ever man woman and child.
any info will be appeated.

[Pawel Platek]

Do you guys think we'll get to fight Harkon? If so, I'm going to max out my lycanthropy skill tree and rip his head off!