I.E., a Ring that has a beneficial effect for Vampires.

Imagine a ring that allowed you to stay in a stage of Vampirism and prevented your condition from worsening. Because, let's face it, Werewolves have an edge over Vampires as far as Social Interaction goes. When I play as a Vampire, I always worry about whether I'll be able to walk through a town or not. If I could just stay stage 3, everything would be great.

Who is ultimately responsible for the Skyrim strain of Vampirism anyways? I want to say Sanguine, but I don't know why. "Ring of Sanguine"?

Edit: The vampirism strain in Skyrim is called "Sanguinare Vampiris," which may imply Sanguine, but the word Sanguine itself can mean "Cheerfully optimistic" or "A blood-red color" so I really don't know.

Clavicus Vile is responsible for the Cyrodillic disease Porphyric Hemophilia. I do not know who created the disease Sanguinare Vampiris. If Sanguine were responsible for it, vampires would feast on mead and greenmote and bleed out even more mead. At least that's what I think.

I do like your idea. I don't have a good summoning skill, but the servant spell makes a nice sponge when I'm outnumbered. I just hate the downsides.

As much as I hate vampires though, Necromage is the sole reason it's relevant IMO.

That's because werewolves are lycanthropes that are intelligent, sentient beings whereas vampires are vile undead that must feed on the blood of virgin females to maintain their energy...and they sparkle in daylight and drive Volvos apparently.

Well, you're actually referring to a different strain of Vampirism, known as "Flamboyanture Retardus"

Vampires were always known also as shape shifters and illusion masters. It just svcks in Skyrim how you have to drink blood to go unnoticed.

Hey! He also had really cool hair.

Lol, Twilight was the most [censored] thing to ever happen to vampire lore ever. God I hate the creator of Twilight for messing up like half a century of evil, wicked, dark, twisted, good ol' fashioned vampires. Now teen girls love them instead of fearing them, geeez.

Well, if they ever come across a real one they'll learn...wait...no, they wouldn't.

The vamps got an advantage then, they'll start feeding on teenagers! My God, get my hat, Buckom. We gotta hunt some vampires.

Personally i would have liked Vampirism to be like in Hellsing Ultimate(A freakin awesome but mature anime) but you know with out the guns and [censored]......

Oddly enough, inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood did Vampirism WAY better than Skyrim. First off, your condition only worsened if you fed off of people (but you gained better powers in the process). Need to move fast? No Problem! Turn into a flock of bats and fly (Although you use the inFAMOUS equivalent of Stamina in the process)! The main downside, however, is that you burst into flames come Sunrise.

I would have liked to see something like that.

GIve me a sec to Smith a couple of daggers (I think I'll go with Glass) and Enchant them with fire and I'm OMW.

Wow, if you're planning to go from like Markarth to Riften at 4:00am and Fast Travel you'll be in for a surprise when you arrive.

Bahaha!

Someone always has to bring Twilight into these type of threads, and it is because of you idiots Twilight's acknowledgement is still around. Seriously, shut the hell up about Twilight.

On topic though, I don't like the idea of a ring that helps vampires because they are overpowered as it is, werewolves got the short end of the stick.

Yeah, that's why it's still around. I'm sorry, you must be a True Blood fan. I guess I'd still be an idiot if I bashed Underworld because Kate Beckinsale is teh ub3r h0tne$$, right? I dislike all the bastardizations of the vampire lore - I cited Twilight because it's the most recent and probably the silliest.

I am not a True Blood fan, I think Twilight is not horrible, but it is not good either. I find it annoying when people bring it up when it has no relevance to TES. You can't say Underworld is bad though because Kate Beckinsale is probably the hottest woman alive.

They're all ridiculous. Vampires were established as heinous undead creatures who have no control over their cravings centuries ago. Then some writers who can't come up with any original ideas came along and bastardized a horrible, wretched creature into something sixy and sometimes benevolent. In a logical society it wouldn't be so easily accepted for someone to change the concept of something that has been established. We shouldn't worship vampires anymore than we worship liches or wraiths. I'm gonna' end with that so any of y'all can say what you want. There's a reason I avoid the werewolf and vampire threads - the only reason I clicked on this one was to see the Ring connection.

Kanpai as whoa to that.

But yeah, I don't mind vampirism as is in Skyrim. It's a less annoying than in Oblivion because you can actually go outside during the daylight hours, but naturally they can't make it as broken and all-encompassing if that's the case in Skyrim. At least it's easy to cure if you contract it and are just like "Well hey, this was a heinous mistake."

I completely disagree. Werewolves are way better than Vampires in Skyrim. Vampires have a ton of downsides, while the only thing Werewolves have that hinders them is that you lose the leveling bonus from sleeping.

Yeah, the fire thing is pretty bad.

No way, I have a vampire character that has mastered illusion, and I am so overpowered, I can kill everything in one hit, except dragons.

Werewolves svck, once you get past level 30 werewolves are useless and deserve to be fixed before vampires get fixed.

To solve the problem of Vamp vs werewolf in Skyrim, I choose neither. Werewolf at higher levels svcks and the only use is the run speed, and vamps are just bad... IMO. Unless I made an ultra stealthy vamp who was a nocturnal B-adass

I don't know how I missed this, but I love how you figure that if people just stop talking about Twilight, it will go away like it's not this giant inexplicable, and consequently inescapable, pop-culture phenomenon. It's not like Beetlejuice where it only exists if you say its name three times.

And vampires are only overpowered if you have a character tailored to their strengths. I only use it for my sneak thieves because they benefit greatly from the Illusion and Sneak increases. I wouldn't use it on my berserker unless I was looking for an easy way to frustrate myself. And werewolves aren't useless, you just can't Leeroy into a group of Bandit Marauders or Cave Bears like you've a death wish. You have to use a measure of strategy, which is awesome because it makes the notion of the hunt more realistic.

Fixed.

Ah, a make-over. Understood.