Meh. That would be cool; but my Vamp just finished off Valkyn skoria in VCoA after all but 1 (Our actual "healer") of 
my 3 templar teammates had fallen. I am much more excited about this being possible, considering just last week, 
CoA was a Trial for the same character on normal.

I have to admit, first time seeing a vampire feed I was confused af, like... do they have a huge invisible straw that they pluck into their food and...what what what??? xDDDDDDDDDDD I was hoping so much that at least we have the option to feed romantically with a neck bite ;___;

Although, thinking about this a little more... since feeding only stuns and does not actually do any damage perhps "gruesome" is not entirely appropriate. But a series of cool animations where you leave the NPC looking confused and they do not attack you would be great. You should really only be attacked IF another NPC spots you feeding.

But I also love the idea of a "kill feeding" that would indeed work like the Blade of Woe for vampires. You'd have to use something other than the X for it though.

Aye, I agree with this. A proper vampire bite animation would be awesome.

camilla_noctis wrote: »

Now if only feeding was actually useful, instead of taking away my passives, then I would actually get to play with it.

Each feed makes you less vulnerable to fire. Maybe not worth it if you NEED regen and the undeath passive, but there is a reason. I would also be cool with a rework to vampire leveling, make it similar to WW in that feeding increases your level (that more skills).

The blood drain through a straw animation reminds me of the Legacy of Kain series. The only difference here is that Legacy of Kain actually had some really cool bite/kill animations. It might be nice if vampires could toggle a kill animation for their bite. Since kills only work vs. weak npc's anyway I really don't see a problem with this.

+1

But who actually feeds though? There is almost no reason whatsoever to feed.

This would be awesome. But since dark stalker is only available in stage 4, the only time I feed now is when I am trying to use the blade of woe.

The messed up part is, Zen, gives the BoW animations the same button press prompt as the vampire feeding buttons. Talk about mocking the vampire players.

I want townspeople to question what is wrong with us at stage 2, fear us at stage 3, and attack or run from us we are at stage 4. It would definitely be more exciting being a vamp.

Vampire needs more flair. Watch Dracula A Tale Untold, not the best movie, but if we got a feed where we turn into a cloud of bats, fly behind the NPC's neck and bit down, that'd be amazing. That idea could possibly even replace the animation of Drain Essence because vampires lack cool and meaningful Active abilities.

I would appreciate Bat Cloud teleporting abilities, maybe in a Mist form animation change, a gap closer where you swarm towards enemies as a cloud of bats, turning into a Vampire Lord during the Ultimate would be cool, and even summoning thralls or powerful Blood Fiends in addition would be awesome. If the new werewolf ultimate has Direwolves, we can have thralls (even if summons are notoriously bad). Vampires could have a cool execute ability where zombies claw out of the ground and pull you down with them (Possibly a passive that does or doesn't stack with implosion), and those same zombies could act as a separate ability where they come out of the ground and hold players as a CC. ZOS could change Dark Stalker to lower the detection radius, you could then feed on NPCs, guards, and even enemy players in Cyrodiil. As it stands right now it is hard to find NPC characters to feed on in in PvP zones. Just think how amazing and disrespectful it would be to feed on a lone or separated player!

Being a Vampire from a roleplay standpoint isn't that cool either, the vampires in Windhelm are outcasts, feared by society. It would be cool to be attacked in stage 4 as a vampire. A lot of players wouldn't mind having stage 4 be crippling and having stage 1 give you all the passives, you would even solve people's complaints about looking horrible as a vampire because stage one actually makes my character look good. Another player who's name I can't remember suggested werewolf running instead of a mount or as a mount. Why not an obvious cloud of bats for the vampire based mount transformation?

Sounds OP, but don't act like there isn't a way to balance it, if you think it sounds too cool... Well, I can bite one player per character, per week.

Kalebron wrote: »

I want townspeople to question what is wrong with us at stage 2, fear us at stage 3, and attack or run from us we are at stage 4. It would definitely be more exciting being a vamp.

This. Even just a mention of it from NPC's would be nice.

A Blade of Woe style bite, however, is definitely needed.

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