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JMadFour

As I said in another thread:

JMadFour wrote: »

As one of the few who remains a Vampire on most of their characters, the main issue I see is that I look at the design and intent of the skills in the Vampire line, and I wonder what content I am supposed to have access to. Like, am I SUPPOSED to be able to do Group Content with these skills? It doesn't seem like it.

It seems like they had an idea of what they wanted a Vampire to be, but they half-assed the implementation.

The Blood for Blood change to where you cannot be healed after using it makes you basically a liability to every group if yu use it instead of Arterial Burst..

Blood Frenzy is just...it sucks. It's not fun. It has never been fun. It never will be fun. It is not an enjoyable skill to use. Killing yourself for a couple points of dps on a target dummy does not "check all the boxes for what it means to be a vampire." I don't even put points in to level it up anymore. It sucks. It's stupid. I hate the skill with a passion and I want it replaced with something useful. Like a gap closer. Or something else.

Vampiric Drain does absolutely pitiful damage, in fact I am not actually convinced that it does any damage at all tbh. and one of its morphs recovers STAMINA...why? What stamina character will actually use this skill??

Mesmerize is cool. I'd remove the "have to be facing you" requirement but otherwise cool. The Hypnosis morph doesn't seem to have a target cap which is nice. But it doesn't do anything else, no damage, no resource drain, nothing. Just stun.

Mist Form is the only fully formed(and by that, I mean it needs no changes at all) skill in the tree, tbh. There is a Morph clearly for PVP use, and one that is clearly for PVE.

Then you go and look at the Vampire Passives and....generally speaking they are all GREAT. It's like half the playstyle is complete, and half of it is not.

JMadFour

One thing the Vampire skill line desperately needs is a Gap Closer and/or a Ranged Spammable option.

Seriously.

miteba

JMadFour wrote: »

Then you go and look at the Vampire Passives and....generally speaking they are all GREAT. It's like half the playstyle is complete, and half of it is not.

Imo "Mist form" and "Blood for Blood" (combined with CP tree reaving blows, and "Pale Order ring" *if solo in blackwood*) are awesome and all others are completely meh

JMadFour wrote: »

One thing the Vampire skill line desperately needs is a Gap Closer and/or a Ranged Spammable option.

Many players opine that vampire should be melee, because of vampire lore, so ranged skills would be against their nature.
So, i understand the gap closer wish, to balance, being a melee class.
Maybe developers didn't follow that road because the objective should be approach victims from stealth.

And you already have a spammable skill which is "Eviscerate".
But i admit that a skill like "Swallow soul" from Nightblades would totally fit Vampire theme.
(Since the first time i played Magblade, when i use Swallow soul, it always felt like using a vampiric skill)