ParaNostram wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

Vamp have also been resistant to cold as well iirc.

Also sucks to see that vamp lord costume is going in the crown store rather having it as a reward. Guess it'll satisfy all the QQ I don't want to have to become vampire to do vamp content to earn a vamp costume cry babies.

What's this about a vampire lord costume? I haven't heard a thing about a vampire lord costume. I know there's a vampire lord set of robes (which are junk) coming out?

Thevampirenight wrote: »

Roechacca wrote: »

Thevampirenight wrote: »

Vampirism, basically has more then 100 strains alone. I would think most are conceived in daggerfall and other places.
Basically each strain would differ or have different forms of weaknesses. Some vampires might have a special weakness. Garlic coated weapons might do more damage to vampires but I don't think it will really hurt them if ingested unless its a special case like the vampire in the darkbrotherhood in elder scrolls 4.

Vampires vary from each other some will take like a lot of damage from sunlight and die. Some might even be instantly destroyed by it. While some vampires might also be extremely weak to the shrines of the eight and other shirnes to aedric deities while some vampire types might feel pain while inside a chapel or holy place or can be killed by just being there. While some clans don't have this weakness at all. Some vampire clans might be immune to sunlight but extremely weak to silver or weakened or destroyed in holy places. It depends each vampire type is different and has different strengths and weaknesses.
So think of esos strain as one of many possible types of vampire out there you could possibly encounter or be infected with.

I think you're off on a tangent. I just go by the games and they read pretty much the same though out the series. I don't read fan fiction. Basicly resistance to frost, poison and disease in all strains. Fire and sunlight are weakness across the board. Higher abilities include Vampire thralls and Vampire Lord.

They didn't even get the basics right here.

I imagine the poison resistance is basically for a lot of vampire types requiring age to gain it. Skyrim strain had this as a default. Also Frost resistance was basically apart of the Vohkohar vampire strain as well.
Fire and sun light damage and weakness has differed or been changed through out the elder scrolls games.
Vampirism gives vampires abilties to do things they would had to train for years or weeks to do. Like for example a vampire could cast a very powerful expert level spell while before hand they could only cast a novice spell. But the skyrim and online strains do not give the bonus to skill levels.
So basically most vampire strains might increase the intelligence level and agility of a vampire basically allowing for them to do things normal mortals otherwise could not do without years of training.
Basically vampirism will vary like I posted above. Not every strain is the same.

Recremen wrote: »

Actually, just like vampire lore on Earth, vampire lore in The Elder Scrolls is extremely diverse and suffers/benefits from "unreliable narrator". Specifically in terms of The Elder Scrolls, vampires are known to belong to various clans, each with their own powers, weaknesses, and predilections. You were likely reading lore written by an idiot (not an iRL idiot, ZOS writers are delightful, but an in-game idiot like Phrastus of Elinhir), or you were reading lore pertaining to a certain clan. So you see, it is not that the game contradicts the lore, it is that you do not yet know enough of the lore.

phreatophile wrote: »

KhajiitiLizard wrote: »

Did you read anything in the books in the game? The vampirism strain in ESO is different than the ones seen in the other games (convenient, I know).

Not good enough. Lamae Belofag, our progenitor, healed up from her wounds in a funeral pyre, before the Nords that attempted to burn her corpse could react. We saw the little replay in the initiation quest.

We are supposed to to be unharmed by the sun but stronger in the dark but we aren't.(lore break)

We are supposed to have superior health regen but we don't. (Lore break)

We are supposed to be able to blend into the general public per ingame dialogue but we can't. (Lore break)

While not specifically mentioned in game, Elder Scrolls vampires are resistant to cold, disease, paralysis and have access to abilities that increase their speed, turn them invisible, and charm mortals; none of which is true ingame.

So ya, ZOS has done a hilariously terrible job of portraying vampirism in this game. That's been true since day one. Most of the fail is "because MMO" so we're stuck with it, some of it (always ugly) is just dumb but we're still stuck with it.

Darkonflare15 wrote: »

I find it ridiculous that people always act like Zos is the only one that breaks lore. Bgs breaks lore all the time. You know why they do that because the lore is not set in stone. It the reason why they base their lore off of the opinions of characters in the game. Since opinions are not always fact because each person experiences of life in Tamriel are different thus most of the lore is bunch of he said/ she said and you can only believe what you actually see. Regardless of what a bunch of books said or wannabe lore masters says what is actually lore appropriate is what is in the game. So what ever the devs put into the game is lore. Despite what most people say on the contrary, Zos and Bgs lore on Elder Scrolls comes from the same source.

RebornV3x wrote: »

Just pretend ESO isn't cannon and just have fun most of this game spits in the face of already established lore that would have taken someone like 5 minutes to google.