Should I go vamp?

TrickyTrifecta

This is my first time playing an elder scrolls game. I am a level 25 dark elf sorcerer. My focus is heavily on destruction staff and storm calling. I want to be a heavily offensive player with escapability.

I have the opportunity to receive a bite, im just trying to make an informed decision. I really like the passives for vampires and the ultimate looks great. However, do the negatives threaten to cripple my survivability?

Right now, I use mostly heavy armor. I know that's against the grain, and eventually I plan to level up light armor for spell buffs, but the way I saw it, constitution was the single best armor passive in the early going, so I have two points towards that for a large armor boost and decent health regen boost.

Overall, considering that I have natural racial passives to offset the fire vulnerability and currently running with heavy armor and constitution fully leveled, would this be advisable?

Alucardo

I've seen multiple vampires get out of tricky situations using two spells; mist form (absorbs like 70% damage for a short duration) and devouring swarm (deals buckets of damage while healing you based on the number of targets it affects). So I'd say yes, you can use it offensively and for escaping. The fire damage won't affect you as much being dark elf, and there is jewellery in the game that provides very high fire resistance as well. The initial spell you get is just beautiful in PvE.. drain essence. It stuns the target while dealing damage and healing you at the same time. This has saved me on multiple occasions. I'm currently running vamp on my level 33 Breton sorc and ran into no issues. When fighting mages I keep Annulment up which gives me reasonable spell resistance too. So yes, I'd say go for it and try it. If you don't like it, you can always pay a priest 600 gold to cure you of Vampirism - so it's fully reversible. If you decide to go back later on it will keep your Vampire rank and any spells you collected along the way.

leepalmer95

Sorc don't really need to go vamp.

Mist form is a manoeuvrability skill as sorc have bolt escape it's not really needed.

Bat swarm is a nice skill, but it's mainly a close combat aoe skill which isn't were sorc should be unless your a stamina sorc.

In my opinion it's not worth it, too many things use fire in this game, a lot in pve, bosses/dungeons and a lot if pvp. Not to mention in pvp people can use the fighters guild skill line against you and dawnbreaker will 1 hit you.

TrickyTrifecta

Isn't it true that if I may potentially want to go vamp I should go ahead and level it up now? I can always cure myself.

I guess what im getting at... do the pros outweigh the cons or is that completely up for debate?

Sandshark95

@TrickyTrifecta It's honestly debatable. If you simply love the idea of becoming a vampire, then naturally the cons will appear more trivial. It's up to you. I have a lvl 12 Breton Sorcerer that I made into a vampire because I felt it was fitting for my character. I also have a Dark Elf DK Fire Mage vampire. Fire really hurts, but it will hurt to a lesser degree after the coming update.

I will say that if you are leaning towards going vamp that it's best to get bitten early, IMO. The skill line takes forever to level up. Yes, you face having to cope with the negatives for a longer period, but you'll unlock the positives much sooner. Like you said, if you discover that you don't like it, there's always a cure.

Artifact

At a lower level vampirism is great. Only problem, as I found out, is that when you get to vet rank and are doing dungeons and trials, anything using Fire has the potential to 1hitko you and there are quite a few fire mobs. If your going to be doing PVP then yh get it, the stun and mist form are great!