The 'Perfect Scion' description seems to be wrong

Maguallen · October 2022

Reading the description it states:

You also ascend to Vampire Stage 5, which grants all the benefits of Vampire Stage 4 with none of the drawbacks.

One of the benefits of Stage 4 is that you can use the Unnatural Movement passive (become invisible after 6/3 seconds sprinting) - but this doesn't seem to function when in Stage 5 if you weren't already at Stage 4 before the transformation. I'm guessing that the Undeath passive (less damage taken) probably also doesn't work unless you were already at Stage 3 or above, but I haven't tested that specifically.

If the benefits of the passives are not going to be given by the ultimate (and it IS an 'ULTIMATE' ability... so it seems it should), then the description should be changed to say that it gives 'most of the benefits' of Stage 4.

Vevvev · October 2022

Sounds like a bug because that's exactly what it did to when I last used the morph. (For testing purposes as I already had it maxed out from it's old incarnation as Bat Swarm)

You could be stage 1 and when you were in the ultimate you got invisibility sprint from stage 4 to. When I get online next I'm definitely going to be looking into this.

Vevvev · October 2022

Update

I just tested it at stages 1, 2, and 3 @Maguallen and Perfect Scion works just fine. I was able to activate the stage 4 passive while in stage 5 from the ultimate.

Maguallen · October 2022

OK, thanks for looking into it. Maybe it was just an odd bump when I tried it.