New vampire feeding and how to circumvent it.

Shadowasrial

While I agree with many of my fellow vamps. I don’t agree that feeding should make us more powerful. It will be an annoyance for many to stay fed in order to keep your stage 4 buffs. However for those of you who have farmed a certain recipe (Disastrously bloody Mara) you can use this food to increase your stage much like a potion then simply eat your normal food. Assuming they don’t make a separate consumable that allows you to instantly increase your stage and or lower it as well. I hope they don’t change the vampire skills too much however. As many of our passives are great as they are. The active skills however could use some work.

Thevampirenight

Shadowasrial wrote: »

While I agree with many of my fellow vamps. I don’t agree that feeding should make us more powerful. It will be an annoyance for many to stay fed in order to keep your stage 4 buffs. However for those of you who have farmed a certain recipe (Disastrously bloody Mara) you can use this food to increase your stage much like a potion then simply eat your normal food. Assuming they don’t make a separate consumable that allows you to instantly increase your stage and or lower it as well. I hope they don’t change the vampire skills too much however. As many of our passives are great as they are. The active skills however could use some work.

They might keep the passives the way they are but make it that way for the abilties.

Vevvev

Be funny if they reverse the two drinks (Double Bloody Mara and the Disastrously Bloody Mara) to compensate for this change.

AlienatedGoat

Shadowasrial wrote: »

While I agree with many of my fellow vamps. I don’t agree that feeding should make us more powerful. It will be an annoyance for many to stay fed in order to keep your stage 4 buffs. However for those of you who have farmed a certain recipe (Disastrously bloody Mara) you can use this food to increase your stage much like a potion then simply eat your normal food. Assuming they don’t make a separate consumable that allows you to instantly increase your stage and or lower it as well. I hope they don’t change the vampire skills too much however. As many of our passives are great as they are. The active skills however could use some work.

Feeding reduces your stage, it doesn't increase it. Using vampire abilities increases your stage.

ZOS said they're changing it so vamps will be more powerful by being fed, so according to that you'd want to be at stage 1. So you'd want to use Double Bloody Mara exclusively.

Noxavian

Shadowasrial wrote: »

While I agree with many of my fellow vamps. I don’t agree that feeding should make us more powerful. It will be an annoyance for many to stay fed in order to keep your stage 4 buffs. However for those of you who have farmed a certain recipe (Disastrously bloody Mara) you can use this food to increase your stage much like a potion then simply eat your normal food. Assuming they don’t make a separate consumable that allows you to instantly increase your stage and or lower it as well. I hope they don’t change the vampire skills too much however. As many of our passives are great as they are. The active skills however could use some work.

Imagine thinking playing the game would be annoying. If people want to keep their stage 4 buffs, they have to feed. Almost like....you know, being a vampire means you gotta act like a vamprie? Kinda crazy, I know.

Yeah, the entire point of this re-work to prevent people like you from playing vampire. The subclass is NOT meant to be a passive-based thing that everyone takes just for stats. It's meant to be for people who, guess what, want to play as a vampire. They are completely changing the skills and passives.

They've said they're moving away from the passive-focused gameplay style for the vamp and moving to a more ability focused one.

Aznarb

Noxavian wrote: »

Shadowasrial wrote: »

While I agree with many of my fellow vamps. I don’t agree that feeding should make us more powerful. It will be an annoyance for many to stay fed in order to keep your stage 4 buffs. However for those of you who have farmed a certain recipe (Disastrously bloody Mara) you can use this food to increase your stage much like a potion then simply eat your normal food. Assuming they don’t make a separate consumable that allows you to instantly increase your stage and or lower it as well. I hope they don’t change the vampire skills too much however. As many of our passives are great as they are. The active skills however could use some work.

Imagine thinking playing the game would be annoying. If people want to keep their stage 4 buffs, they have to feed. Almost like....you know, being a vampire means you gotta act like a vamprie? Kinda crazy, I know.

Yeah, the entire point of this re-work to prevent people like you from playing vampire. The subclass is NOT meant to be a passive-based thing that everyone takes just for stats. It's meant to be for people who, guess what, want to play as a vampire. They are completely changing the skills and passives.

They've said they're moving away from the passive-focused gameplay style for the vamp and moving to a more ability focused one.

Agree that a good thing.
Vamp should be like WW, a full play-style, not just a free 2 passive bonus.
Was a bit stupid to see 80% eso player vampire because of that.
If they change it the way you describe it can be good.

Noxavian

Aznarb wrote: »

Noxavian wrote: »

Shadowasrial wrote: »

While I agree with many of my fellow vamps. I don’t agree that feeding should make us more powerful. It will be an annoyance for many to stay fed in order to keep your stage 4 buffs. However for those of you who have farmed a certain recipe (Disastrously bloody Mara) you can use this food to increase your stage much like a potion then simply eat your normal food. Assuming they don’t make a separate consumable that allows you to instantly increase your stage and or lower it as well. I hope they don’t change the vampire skills too much however. As many of our passives are great as they are. The active skills however could use some work.

Imagine thinking playing the game would be annoying. If people want to keep their stage 4 buffs, they have to feed. Almost like....you know, being a vampire means you gotta act like a vamprie? Kinda crazy, I know.

Yeah, the entire point of this re-work to prevent people like you from playing vampire. The subclass is NOT meant to be a passive-based thing that everyone takes just for stats. It's meant to be for people who, guess what, want to play as a vampire. They are completely changing the skills and passives.

They've said they're moving away from the passive-focused gameplay style for the vamp and moving to a more ability focused one.

Agree that a good thing.
Vamp should be like WW, a full play-style, not just a free 2 passive bonus.
Was a bit stupid to see 80% eso player vampire because of that.
If they change it the way you describe it can be good.

Yes, I agree completely!

A lot of people on here don't seem to get that for some reason.

Vampire should be a play style, not something literally over half of players take because "muh stats"