What are your specific hopes for making the Dawnguard faction as exciting and innovative as the Vampire Lords?

We all know that with the vamps we get a new gameplay mode as a vampire lord and a new perk tree to go along with it, so what innovation or unique coolness would you like to see go along with the Dawnguard?

Crossbows are cool and all but...

I have heard rumors of offensive type restoration spells that could be really cool. Perhaps new spells and abilities that give us a feel of being apart of some holy order that is more than just another guild?

And please, for the sake of the Nine, do not let the Dawnguard have any type of werewolf or any other "were" type of connection. It's been done.

What are your hopes for the Dawnguard?

Dawnguard get armored troll pets. Nuff said.

Armored Trolls

nuff said

edit: ninjad

Edit2: their Castle looks way cooler, at least from the outside

This basically. If this doesn't make the faction dawnguard appealing I don't know what will

basically this, i mean really what more would you want in a monster extermination biz than a friggin giant armored troll?

edit:look at all the people who beat me into this post...feel sorta like a tool right now lol

well, Todd Howard pretty much said that the only reason people wouldnt want to take advantage of the new features of vampirism and join dawnguard would be for non-evil role-play reasons

What?! armoured troll pets are exclusive to dawnguard? comment redacted

And the Dawnguard get Crossbow's.

Yes. Vampire Lords get a perk to summon Gargoyle's though.

Expansive interesting quest that is deep and engaging, I also want incentives to join what do they offer and how would it be beneficial to my character.
I also want no werewolf connections to this faction at all the companions already have this and several factions do not really need a vampire or a were connection. You would think the citizenry would be suspicious if two of the groups that get contracts from them and the other who are hunters kept leaving and certain maulings kept occurring in the land.

Dawnguard get to become werewolves (I kid I kid)

Todd Howard also said that the Dawnguard faction was focused on exploration and crafting. No idea what that means, but it hints at possible benefits for joining.

Maybe because the feeling of triumph due to the fact your regular people fighting monsters vampires that are 10 times more powerful then regular vampires, that have the ability to summon daemonic looking things made from stone?

So if we side with the vamps we don't get crossbows... there goes that play-style I had planned...

You can loot it off dead dawnguard members.

From the footage we saw at GTTV it looks like a weapon made by the Dawnguard. And the GI leak said that the Dawnguard castle get's weapons and Crossbow's. You may be able to pick up Crossbow's from fallen Dawnguard though.

Hopefully they become craftable anyways, and even if they aren't I can still use them off the dead as you pointed out, ALL IS NOT LOST!

Don't you guys get it the Dawnguard are the Cyrodiilic vampires, or the Order that we never got to see in Oblivion.

See my post above...

I want crossbows more than anything known in the DLC so far. Those crossbows just look awesome.

But imagine letting loose a crossbow bolt before your flesh begins to mutate into a Vampire Lord.

Is there a link to a pic of these armored trolls?
Where was this mentioned?

Only if vampires get access to crossbow. Well, they should be able to. I guess that would be better if I were siding with the vampires on my first playthrough. But I'm siding with Dawnguard.

It was mentioned briefly in an interview... I am not sure about screens though, the others can help a bit better than myself.

1st Dunmer Vampire- Vamps
2nd Wood Elf Archer based account - I dont know whose side yet, that's why I'm playing Vamps first, to see if they get crossbows or not, if not then he will probably side with DG.
3rd Heavy Armor Imperial - Dawnguard