I can see Nightblades being the new anti tank meta if this one vampire feature works on players.

Thevampirenight · April 2020

One thing I don't think many have thought about, and if Zenimax didn't put in a block for this like they did Blade of Woe then a new form of Ganking play style one that would likely get cries for nerfs on the forms by many pvpers. If they didn't put in measures to prevent it then Lethal vampires will be roaming Cyrodiil looking for Necks and one shot feeding those they ambush. Even the most unkillable of tank builds couldn't avoid it if they are not careful.
Many players don't use vampire feed on other players likely do to the fact that starving is where they want to be. Feeding does no damage it just drains their blood through a straw animation. The New Vampire feed is the exact opposite, Not only is feeding one shot kill but feeding is what you want to be doing as a vampire. Unless your a nightblade or have some form of invisibility. It would be very difficult to feed on a player so this type of build would require some form of invisibility. If the new feeding mechanic effects players as well as npcs then expect to be munched on in Cyrodiil.
Players would have to watch out for Vampire Nightblades and prepare for it if the vampire feed is able to work as a anti player version of the blade of woe.

Feeding passive if this worked on players, Nightblade Gankers would be extremely deadly.

Allows you to feed on an unsuspecting target, killing them increasing your Vampire Stage. Higher Stages make you a strong Vampire at the cost of your humanity. Stages decrease over long periods of time.

Stage 1/2/3/4

Health Recovery: -10%/-40%/-70%/-100%

Flame Damage Taken: +5%/+10%/+15%/+20%

Regular Ability Costs: +5%/+10%/+15%/+20%

Vampire Ability Costs: -10%/-20%/-30%/-40%
Those would be draw backs but still can see Nightblade vampires being a meta for ganking builds that is if the new feed works on players along with npcs.

SodanTok · April 2020

ofc it doesnt kill players.

Fact i have to point this out is ridiculous on its own.

Thevampirenight · April 2020

SodanTok wrote: »

ofc it doesnt kill players

We don't know that yet, it could very well do so it doesn't say anything against it not working on players. Blade of woe has this to say.
Call the weapon of the Dark Brotherhood to your hand and deliver a killing blow to an unsuspecting target. Experience from this target is reduced by 75%. This ability does not work on players or difficult targets.

Vampirism Feed does not have this noted on the passive. So there is a chance that it could work on players and if it does oh they would have to watch out for this.

FakeFox · April 2020

Feeding already exists and does not work on players. You can not even target players in the first place.

Danksta · April 2020

If it did work on players it would encourage players to run vampire tanks. And it would be the cheesiest thing to hit ESO.

Dracane · April 2020

It does not work against players next patch.

Feizao · April 2020

This was pre-scalebreaker i believe. Back when any of my gimmick builds were viable in BGs. From my experience it is pretty difficult to pull off with either cloak breaking, player already vamp, or synergy not working b/c of CC immunity. But it was a fun build. The new feed mechanic is unclear against players

Mortiis13 · April 2020

Feizao wrote: »

This was pre-scalebreaker i believe. Back when any of my gimmick builds were viable in BGs. From my experience it is pretty difficult to pull off with either cloak breaking, player already vamp, or synergy not working b/c of CC immunity. But it was a fun build. The new feed mechanic is unclear against players

Played nb vamp cause of this ^^ dots, meteor, cloak, feed. It was a fun noob killer and felt like a vampire.

Deathlord92 · April 2020

I’m damn sure it won’t kill players but it would be really cool if it damage them at least or even lethal to the less experience players with bad gear etc.

Thevampirenight · April 2020

Deathlord92 wrote: »

I’m damn sure it won’t kill players but it would be really cool if it damage them at least or even lethal to the less experience players with bad gear etc.

We will have to wait and see with Greymoor there is a good chance it won't work on players but there is that chance it might actually work on them. Its because of that chance the reason I made this thread and that is because I know full well we can feed on other players. Just got to have to right tools to do it like the Nightblade Cloak ability unless they made some silly change to prevent it in some patch and someone might want to link that to me. We will have to wait and see how they do it, and it would be nice if it did do a lot of damage to players. Hopefully Greymoor will be on pts at the end of the week or next week.

Finedaible · April 2020

lolwut. They didn't allow Blade of Woe to kill players, so this concern is baseless. Zos wouldn't allow such fun anyway. Even if they did forget to prevent that, you can bet your arse they will have a patch out sooner that you can say "crown store exploit".

Yamenstein · April 2020

Thevampirenight wrote: »

One thing I don't think many have thought about, and if Zenimax didn't put in a block for this like they did Blade of Woe then a new form of Ganking play style one that would likely get cries for nerfs on the forms by many pvpers. If they didn't put in measures to prevent it then Lethal vampires will be roaming Cyrodiil looking for Necks and one shot feeding those they ambush. Even the most unkillable of tank builds couldn't avoid it if they are not careful.
Many players don't use vampire feed on other players likely do to the fact that starving is where they want to be. Feeding does no damage it just drains their blood through a straw animation. The New Vampire feed is the exact opposite, Not only is feeding one shot kill but feeding is what you want to be doing as a vampire. Unless your a nightblade or have some form of invisibility. It would be very difficult to feed on a player so this type of build would require some form of invisibility. If the new feeding mechanic effects players as well as npcs then expect to be munched on in Cyrodiil.
Players would have to watch out for Vampire Nightblades and prepare for it if the vampire feed is able to work as a anti player version of the blade of woe.

Feeding passive if this worked on players, Nightblade Gankers would be extremely deadly.

Allows you to feed on an unsuspecting target, killing them increasing your Vampire Stage. Higher Stages make you a strong Vampire at the cost of your humanity. Stages decrease over long periods of time.

Stage 1/2/3/4

Health Recovery: -10%/-40%/-70%/-100%

Flame Damage Taken: +5%/+10%/+15%/+20%

Regular Ability Costs: +5%/+10%/+15%/+20%

Vampire Ability Costs: -10%/-20%/-30%/-40%
Those would be draw backs but still can see Nightblade vampires being a meta for ganking builds that is if the new feed works on players along with npcs.

They won't allow you to feed on player characters sorry.

Feizao · April 2020

cant feed on players and cant use cloak to feed on npc while in combat. must sneak as if using BoW

ne.ga.kurai_ESO · April 2020

This game is so broken. I did a feed on a player in noCP PvP a couple of months ago. It pissed me off b/c I was going in for an Onslaught gank and got stuck in the animation. I even have the addon that is supposed to block blade of woe and feed.