it was in a bad place, only really used for a passive buff to mag recovery and survivability, with a few niche builds using moist form or the ulti. Now? Well after the initial excitement and outrage from different sections of the community, I swung one way then the other, there were positive elements and negative. I welcomed the changes, I think most agree change was needed. But ultimately, I think the rework failed to achieve what it set out to, which was make vampirism a viable play style instead of just forgotten about passive bonuses.

It just doesnt work like that. You can see the idea, make it prohibitively expensive not to use your vamp skills, but reward their use with far lower costs - but the balance isnt right, the negative debuffs you receive just arnt worth messing around with trying to actually play fully as a vampire, cos the skills just arnt strong enough to make up for it. It can be viewed as a high risk high reward play style, but for the average gamer, thats unlikely to appeal... while werewolf, to really get the most out of it needs skill and a proper ww build, but it is the case that almost anyone can chuck that ulti on and away you go, kicking bubble gum and chewing rear end.

I do think the new vamp skills are better for the most part, and I do think it is now more possible to play as a vamp more than it was before. I tried, it kinda worked, if you thought carefully about how to create incoming health, to offset the ticking damage, dps potential was high... but I just didnt enjoy the playstyle, it required intense concentration to manage the buffs to damage and debuffs to health etc, it wasnt relaxing. I actually created a new Magblade especially to build into vampirism and play as a vamp, which as I say I did for a while...but ive ended up reverting her to a normal Magblade and shes kicking out awesome dps without worrying aboutbeing a vamp and all that entails.