Please make it easier to become a vampire.

Nightlord · June 2015

Every time I head out to the vampire spawns in bangkorai, and the bloodfiends attack (level 40) and I do not get infected.
Also players from PC who have come over to Xbox One, who have the disease or are werewolves poach the spawns to prevent players from being able to get the infection. This needs to stop, as it is ruining the gaming experience.

Sidney · June 2015

Are you letting them smack you for a while?

Nightlord · June 2015

Sidney wrote: »

Are you letting them smack you for a while?

Yes I was hit like 5 times, before a bunch of people came as werewolves and slaughtered them all.
I have yet to get the disease.

RedTalon · June 2015

Sure it may end up in the crown store one day but doubt it, give it time and it will die down just level till you reach the spawn area level anyhow since you don't have to die to get infected anyhow by the spawns

Elijah_Crow · June 2015

This is a very temporary problem. Within a couple weeks everyone will be giving bites away for free. It was like this at PC launch but after a couple weeks was easy to get scratched and bitten. My advice is to move on and play the game. Come back and revisit the area after a couple weeks and open up that skill line. It will really make very little difference in the long run.

Nightlord · June 2015

RedTalon wrote: »

Sure it may end up in the crown store one day but doubt it, give it time and it will die down just level till you reach the spawn area level anyhow since you don't have to die to get infected anyhow by the spawns

Me dying is not the issue, its a bunch of poachers coming to prevent players from getting infected, so they can continue to extort people for gold charges for bites.
I'd like to be able to get infected from the actual npc vampires. Or remove the need of the infection, to do the quest to become one.

UrQuan · June 2015

Nightlord wrote: »

Sidney wrote: »

Are you letting them smack you for a while?

Yes I was hit like 5 times, before a bunch of people came as werewolves and slaughtered them all.
I have yet to get the disease.

That's odd. On the characters that I've had infected the natural way it has only taken a couple of hits for me to get infected.

PoseidonEvil · June 2015

Nightlord wrote: »

Every time I head out to the vampire spawns in bangkorai, and the bloodfiends attack (level 40) and I do not get infected.
Also players from PC who have come over to Xbox One, who have the disease or are werewolves poach the spawns to prevent players from being able to get the infection. This needs to stop, as it is ruining the gaming experience.

the pc players poaching the bloodfiends is kind of annoying but it's a rare thing to come by in the game and if they make it easy to come by ill probably quit lol

Elijah_Crow · June 2015

Try taking off all of your armor and clothing. Vampires like naked people!

Elijah_Crow · June 2015

Elijah_Crow wrote: »

Try taking off all of your armor and clothing. Vampires like naked people!

Come on now. You know someone's going to try this.

Nightlord · June 2015

Elijah_Crow wrote: »

Try taking off all of your armor and clothing. Vampires like naked people!

All my armor and clothes were off, I just had the cosmetic ordinator outfit.

drodgreen · June 2015

I agree. I've been waiting so long for a blood fine to spawn and when the finally did some guy named blood diamond killed them all. All that time I spent wasted.

dlepi24 · June 2015

No. Pay the 20k for a bite like I did last year. Or, just wait a month.

Elijah_Crow · June 2015

Aahhh. That must be the problem. See you must appear to be naked to the hunting vampire. This is been known to work in many cases. Except that one time with my very overweight red guard...

Astrid2909 · June 2015

I'll bite u...I should be on tonight after 5:30 central time. GT- Zeus2909

Tonturri · June 2015

Elijah_Crow wrote: »

Elijah_Crow wrote: »

Try taking off all of your armor and clothing. Vampires like naked people!

Come on now. You know someone's going to try this.

Funny story...back when vamp bites were still somewhat kinda a little difficult to get, a good 10+ players all striped down to our undies at a spawn location and began dancing. I think I saw some boxing as well. It was glorious. We all got mauled, too. That was how my first character, a Khajiit nightblade, became a vamp.

Gabriel_Froste · June 2015

I don't Werewolf or Vampire. I revived a werewolf with one of my soul gems. Then they chased me around for awhile. I don't associate with monsters of Hircine... despite saving one's life.. damn it... my honor...

SEPPUKU!

Sidney · June 2015

I usually wait for lots of hits. With armor. But I never check how long it takes me to get the disease I just always wait plenty of hits. Like others stated, it was like this for PC but it will stop in time though you will still likely need to watch the time in game and know their locations. People want to prevent bites so they can sell theirs. Don't give in, just wait.

I think it is deliberately made rare so that it feels like you're earning the bite or maybe to prevent vampire and werewolf overload. I'm honestly not sure.

Good luck on next attempt!

Chuggernaut · June 2015

The only time "the natural" way hasn't worked was when I was too high of level for them (which I submitted a bug for) or when I get attacked in Cadwell's Silver or Gold.

AlnilamE · June 2015

That is odd. I got infected with Vampirism 3 times by accident since I started playing. Keep at it. You'll get it eventually.

Tallowby · June 2015

I thought you can only get infected during the New Moons phase? Correct? For vampire.

For Werewolf it is Full Moons.

Also do NPC work like a player and are only able to infect one person a week?

drodgreen · June 2015

I'll be looking for you Zeus

UrQuan · June 2015

Tallowby wrote: »

I thought you can only get infected during the New Moons phase? Correct? For vampire.

For Werewolf it is Full Moons.

Also do NPC work like a player and are only able to infect one person a week?

You can only get infected from a mob when the special mobs spawn. For werewolves it's on the full moon, and I believe for bloodfiends it's on the new moon, but I've never confirmed that.

The mobs can infect as many players as they can attack.

milesrodneymcneely2_ESO · June 2015

What I don't understand is why you can ONLY get infected by werewolves/vampires in ONE particular spot.

According to lore Lycanthropy and Vampirism are EXTREMELY virulent. In point of fact, a HUGE number of quests (spread throughout every faction's zones) point this out OVER AND OVER while encouraging you to do everything you can to STOP the speed at which the populace becomes infected.

IMHO, infection should be relatively simple. Learning to live with the infection without being overwhelmed (i.e. gaining the skill line) should be incredibly complicated. I think the system needs a rework.

And the werewolf ultimate needs some help, too. It's WAY past time for that thing to be a toggle.

YMMV.

P.S.: And while we're at it, werewolves SERIOUSLY need one of their morphs to include an AoE taunt.

Athas24 · June 2015

hmm I've actually accidentally contracted both diseases on accident before on a character while just wondering about in the veteran areas. Probably because nobody's using those to contract the illness though...

UrQuan · June 2015

milesrodneymcneely2_ESO wrote: »

What I don't understand is why you can ONLY get infected by werewolves/vampires in ONE particular spot.

It's because it's not supposed to be common enough that every player is a WW or vampire, and it's because you're not really intended to become one before level 38+.

milesrodneymcneely2_ESO · June 2015

UrQuan wrote: »

It's because it's not supposed to be common enough that every player is a WW or vampire, and it's because you're not really intended to become one before level 38+.

That's a fair point, and I completely understand why they did it that way.

I'm just not happy that lore has to take a backseat to mechanics, but this IS a multiplayer game so they made a sound decision in doing it that way.

I think my primary problem with the way it is now is the fact that some players - by camping mobs - get to decide whether or not other players get to experience a piece of content. It's a complete A-hole thing to do, and I wish there were a way around for folks that want to pick up the skill lines.

Of course, I'm playing my main as a Psijic, so I don't have a dog in that fight.

Pun fully intended.

lsneakl · June 2015

Personally I think being a WW should remove some control of your character at times as you can't completely control yourself. With Vampires you should find yourself randomly attacking innocents in towns with your blood lust.

There should be massive downsides and upsides to being infected with either. It should not be a simple buff and should be reworked. In the end it should be something a majority want to avoid not take part in, I would assume in Lore most humans did everything possible to avoid being infected you wouldnt have the hero's going out of their way to get infected.

Heromofo · June 2015

Nightlord wrote: »

Every time I head out to the vampire spawns in bangkorai, and the bloodfiends attack (level 40) and I do not get infected.
Also players from PC who have come over to Xbox One, who have the disease or are werewolves poach the spawns to prevent players from being able to get the infection. This needs to stop, as it is ruining the gaming experience.

Console peeps are worse than pc players for this its gone as far as people offering real money over pay pal for it.
look just relax i have both sets ww and vamp and yeah they have some fancy powers but trust me they have weaknesses that make it a painful choice. Also know that within 6 months just like the pc side you will see the twilight mmo you want.

I shared a smoke with one of my guildies who recently went vamp and the bugger burst into the flames then fell into a heap of ash the moment he tried to inhale.....

I told this to my werewolf mate and he laughed so hard he turned werewolf for about 4 seconds.
turns out the werewolfs in ESO are known at "quick finishes" *sigh* poor buggers.

If you understand these two above then you should know not to go this path lol or at least be prepared.

Nyghthowler · June 2015

I have both Vampire and WW characters, and being a Vamp isn't that great. They are PAINFULLY vulnerable to fire and 99.9% of casting mobs in this game use flame attacks.

coryevans_3b14_ESO · June 2015

Umm, no.

They should actually make it harder. It's too easy as it is. Just wait a bit and you'll get it. Stop trying to get things made easier in the game console OR PC. That is a horrible thing that happens to MMORPGs because of impatient children. I don't know that you are a child but you are definitely impatient.

This game is already at half the difficulty it was at PC launch. Stop trying to make it worse please.