That would just mean that your invisibility spell will last 7.5 seconds longer. And people will stay frenzied/calm for 15s more. Personally, that's not exactly a worthy enough bonus to get in a bundle with the weakness to sunlight.

Why would you fight in the sunlight? If you are a vampire you should know better than that. I don't ever fight during the day, if I can help it. During the day, I travel and buy/purchase items. When the sun sets, I do my mayhem.

I was a vampire from level 8 to 51. It was a ton of fun until I met my first fire breathing Ancient Dragon. Those guys one shotted me over and over and over with their fire breath until I cured vampirism.

Being a vampire is fun but it could be improved greatly without making it unbalanced. You should be able to feed on people who are awake, just give vampires an unarmed sneak attack that is a feeding. Would greatly improve the experience. Secondly improve the hp drain spell, it's incredibly weak and shouldn't cost magic.

I'm guessing they gave them that drain spell instead of going to the trouble of making feeding animations for quick kill and stealth kill. Kinda like in Morrowind, before Vampire Embrace mod.

Yeah but they require you to feed to manage your vampirism. So only allowing you to fed on the sleeping and giving you that weak ass ability us [censored]

I was a vampire from level 8 to 51. It was a ton of fun until I met my first fire breathing Ancient Dragon. Those guys one shotted me over and over and over with their fire breath until I cured vampirism.

Being a vampire is fun but it could be improved greatly without making it unbalanced. You should be able to feed on people who are awake, just give vampires an unarmed sneak attack that is a feeding. Would greatly improve the experience. Secondly improve the hp drain spell, it's incredibly weak and shouldn't cost magic.

I'm glad you like the exact copy past poor implementation of Vamps from Oblivion, I feel you'd Go crazy if you saw/fought Volikars that where actually true to lore, and just not a renamed High level Vampire. ;p

I'm glad you like the exact copy past poor implementation of Vamps from Oblivion, I feel you'd Go crazy if you saw/fought Volikars that where actually true to lore, and just not a renamed High level Vampire. ;p

All you vampire haters out there, you don't know what your missing. Vampires are sooo much fun to play as. I think the people that say they are terrible, are simply playing them all wrong. The trick is you have to focus on the skills that vampirism enhances. Mages work but assassins are the best as vampires. Any race can become one, but Molag Bal must have had the Dunmer in mind when he created vampires. The dark elves are the perfect race for the vampire, and that is the race I chose.

Focusing on sneak, bow, light armor, illusion and destruction magic and one handed (daggers). My dunmer vampire has been terrorizing all kinds of towns. I sneak in and kill guard after guard with my bow from afar. I also like to sneak in and slit their throats with my dagger. Too many people use vampiric drain as their main offense weapon before "softening" up their prey. I find after wounding them with arrows they die so much easier with this power. Then of course I love using the other vampire gifts like raising a body to fight for me and calming a enemy only to slit their throat, fun times.

Vampires are suppose to be stealthy killers of the night, not raging forces of destruction, like the werewolves are. Play them right and man are they fun.

Exactly. I understand why we can't do the whole "pull people under the ice" thing, but they could've made the vampires more similar perspnality-wise, making them more aggressive and wild, and maybe give them waterbreathing to account for the fact that they can live under frozen lakes. Simple stuff. But they just didn't put the effort in I guess.

I feel the Skyrim vamps are worse than the oblivion ones

the skyrim vamprie (volkneir) are paranoid, icey demons that spring from solid ice to catch their pray and eat them (like 30 days of night vampires eat them, not cyrodill "svck some blood" eat them), they could easily rival werewolves

But why did I get this contract with the Dark Brotherhood to kill this vampire and I find him at this mill outside in the sunlight? And he's not having any problem with it? Something's wrong with this picture. Either the guy's not a vampire or someone at Bethesda screwed up.

That would just mean that your invisibility spell will last 7.5 seconds longer. And people will stay frenzied/calm for 15s more. Personally, that's not exactly a worthy enough bonus to get in a bundle with the weakness to sunlight.

All you vampire haters out there, you don't know what your missing. Vampires are sooo much fun to play as. I think the people that say they are terrible, are simply playing them all wrong. The trick is you have to focus on the skills that vampirism enhances. Mages work but assassins are the best as vampires. Any race can become one, but Molag Bal must have had the Dunmer in mind when he created vampires. The dark elves are the perfect race for the vampire, and that is the race I chose.

Focusing on sneak, bow, light armor, illusion and destruction magic and one handed (daggers). My dunmer vampire has been terrorizing all kinds of towns. I sneak in and kill guard after guard with my bow from afar. I also like to sneak in and slit their throats with my dagger. Too many people use vampiric drain as their main offense weapon before "softening" up their prey. I find after wounding them with arrows they die so much easier with this power. Then of course I love using the other vampire gifts like raising a body to fight for me and calming a enemy only to slit their throat, fun times.

Vampires are suppose to be stealthy killers of the night, not raging forces of destruction, like the werewolves are. Play them right and man are they fun.

Not in a fair fight they can't - they need to use ambush and stealth to kill effectively.

In northern http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Valenwood, there are the Bonsamu vampires which are indistinguishable from normal http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Bosmer unless seen by candlelight, the Keelrlith who can disintegrate into mist, the Yekef who swallow men whole, and the Telboth who prey on children, take their place in the family, and eventually murder all of the family members.

The Volkihar vampires of eastern http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Skyrim live under haunted, frozen lakes and only leave their dens to feed. They have the power to freeze their victims with icy breath, and can reach through the ice of their frozen lake dens without breaking the ice.

Why have all-weather fighter aircrafts instead of those that are severely limited?

Thats wrong. The bonus didnt modify the duration but the maximum level for enemies to be affected with illusion spells.

Or, maybe he's a smart vampire, and keeps himself well-fed, so he can blend into normal society and enjoy the sunlight? After all, in Bram Stoker's Dracula, the titular character had no problems walking around in broad daylight - Sure, his supernatural powers didn't work, but it didn't hurt him.