Should Vampires regenerate health faster based on stage at the cost of reduced healing taken?

TX12001rwb17_ESO

As it currently is when you are at stage 4 you do not heal at all, I have a problem with this mainly because Vampires are supposed to heal quickly as implied in the Lamae Bal flashback, this passive is as unlorefriendly as it gets, It does seem as if ZOS wants to promote the idea of a Vampire being someone who cannot be healed as effectively as normal as seen with the PTS changes to Blood to Blood, I believe this following idea of mine would actually improve upon their vision and make the Vampirism system feel more consistent.

At stage 4 instead of not healing it should be the exact opposite, your base health regeneration would be significantly higher based on the Vampire stage you are in, to balance this it would however reduce your healing taken from outside sources by 3%/6%/9%/12% per stage, the base health regeneration would be significant enough that a higher stage Vampire could rely on their health regeneration to save them, something like 250 extra health regeneration per stage so at stage 4 they would have +1000 Health Regeneration on top of their normal Health Regeneration.

What do you think of this idea?

Zanderscotxub17_ESO

I kinda agree with this it made no sense for me the - reg when in all the movies vamps drank blood to regenerate faster. With the blood for blood changes maybe they can revamp regen from negative to positive and make stage 4 have massive regen.

Radiance

Stage 1 Buffs/ Debuffs should NOT be a thing and Stage 4 should not be absolute 0 Regen.

Why open up another can of worms on top of what we're already dealing with!? All they really need to do is undo the dmg they've done. Full Stop.

kylermacdb16_ESO

They just need to reduce the 100% regen reduction at stage 4 to 95% reduction.

Thannazzar

IMHO, its a trait of vampirism, the more you have fed, taking the life energy and a portion of the soul from mortals the more inhuman you become, and the easier the unnatural powers are to manifest. Conversely as you become more inhuman the vestiges of human training/divine traits start to fade making your learned skills or connection to the Divine or Magicka more tenuous, incurring additional effort to manifest those abilities.

Similarly with health, the more Inhuman you become the less able your body is to repair itself by natural means.

However that doesn't mean that ZOS has got everything about the vampire right.

Particularly with the Vampric Drain Power. If the point of this power was to provide Vampires with an in-combat self heal, then it could have been implemented in afar more immersive and rewarding way.
a) The visuals of the ability suck(forgive the pun).
- A stream of vampire bats racing to the enemy, harvesting their blood and then returning to the vampire would have
been far more evocative.
b) The power itself is not in keeping with the design of the Vampire skillset which focuses on actively managing a health
pool rather than stopping to replenish it. 23% of your health/second for a buffed DPS equates to about 4600 health per
second restored (whilst you are taking no actions). Particularly in the scenario where blood for blood disables non-self
healing, this doesnt make sense, better to make it a non channeled power with a static and lower return rate which
requires building into a rotation in the same what Strife and its morphs do.

Vevvev

You know what, I actually like this idea but knowing ZOS they wouldn't do it. So here's a counter idea... So keep the stage regeneration debuffs as they are now, but the less your health is the more health regen you get back. So like if you're at stage 4 and you lose 60% of your health you should get 60% of your health Regeneration back. Like Vampiric drain this effect would lose its effectiveness the more health you have. So it'd still take a very long time to passively heal to full and your HP Regen at the higher stages would still be low and unreliable.

gatekeeper13

Funny how vampire stage 4 has more cons than pros in comparison to the lower stages.