Vamp Stage Reset

Pausekey

I am a bit curious, why reset the stages on vampirism? Both of mine went from 4 to 1, and so did others that I talked to in Zone.

Personally it wasn't a huge issue, but I don't see what it was necessary or even tampered with. The only change to the vamp skill line was about 1 passive being fixed, and its not like the points got reset or anything. Just the vamp stage.

Rylana

They had to take all vamps back to stage 1 because of the unnatural resistance passive fix.

Vamps start to suffer health recovery penalties as their stages increase, the UR passive lowered that amount.

However, if you zone changed at say stage 4, UR no longer worked, and youd have to feed up to stage 1 again to reapply the passive correctly (3 hours of staging just to get back to where you were before you changed zones).

So now when those of us at perma-stage4 reach it again, zoning or logging out wont bork our health regens back into double digit territory (single in pre-1.6)

Nebthet78

Rylana wrote: »

They had to take all vamps back to stage 1 because of the unnatural resistance passive fix.

My Vampire was not affected at all. I am still stage 10. Nothing changed for me.

LameoveR

So, now passive working as intended?

Rylana

Nebthet78 wrote: »

Rylana wrote: »

They had to take all vamps back to stage 1 because of the unnatural resistance passive fix.

My Vampire was not affected at all. I am still stage 10. Nothing changed for me.

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Rank 10 and Stage 4 are two completely different things. The reset being talked about was transformation levels accumulated for several hours of gameplay without feeding. Both the buffs and penalties associated with vampirism magnify as the stages increase.

Stage 1 - lasts 30 minutes
Stage 2 - Lasts 60 minutes (7 percent vamp skill cost reduction, 25 percent health recovery reduction)
Stage 3 - Lasts 90 minutes (14 percent vamp skill cost redux, 50 percent health recovery redux)
Stage 4 - Final (21 percent vamp skill cost redux, 75 percent health cost redux)

At each stage, health recovery drops by 25 percent 25/50/75

The passive Unnatural Resistance (for the investment of a skill point) lowers that by a third or so.

What was wrong was the buff was being lost when a player changed maps, logged out, or died. The buff is only calculated in Stage 1, and then the scaling begins.

So the devs had to reset everyone back to stage 1. We will no longer lose our calculated buff on map transition and logout (the bug that was fixed)

Level has nothing to do with it (besides having to be Vampire skill rank I believe 7 to unlock the passive)

Rylana

LameoveR wrote: »

So, now passive working as intended?

It would seem to be.

My bosmer vamp (maxed out, all SPs) has 310 health recover at stage 1, 155 at stage 2.

This implies 50 percent health recovery penalty.

At stage 4, its 75 (33 percent less from unnatural resistance = 50)

Sounds about right.


If its working the way I understand it to work (33 reduction in the penalty) you should see...

Stage 2 - 16.75% loss
Stage 3 - 33.5% loss
Stage 4 - 50% loss