As I had said in a previous post, but for which this thread is more appropriate:

#1) The "Elusive" component to Mist is completely worthless now.

Since there is ZERO information within the games built-in UI to display movement rate in the world (along with substantial other broken or absent information), I can only estimate that Elusive Mist imparts about as much speed as Sprinting, without the stamina cost.
This is only a guess, as I "seem" to reach the same locations at distance when manually estimating the travel time from point A to B while sprinting, versus traveling in Mist form.
This would be about as useful as allowing us to "Sprint" while in regular mist form.
If the "Advantage" here was to reduce damage and impart a magicka cost instead of a Stamina cost, okay, but that still seems quite underwhelming.
Vampires are supposed to be FAST creatures, which they were, prior to the nerf.
If spamming it is a problem, then the solution is simple: increase the cost of use, or lower/remove the damage reduction component.

#2) Dark Stalker Passive is STILL broken after Death.

From what I read, this has been a bug since beta.
C'mon devs, this is a simple variable check in your code.
Shall I write out an expression example for you?

; Pseudo code
If Skill<x> = True, Set Flag_A = 1
If Skill(Sneak) = True && Set Flag_A =1, AddMovementSpeed<%>

This should execute ANY time there would require a check for a passive flag, which shouldnt be required more than once per Login.
That Skill Flag should persist through death, since its, you know, "passive".
Passives dont just go away magically. Sure you can stack debuffs that reduce the effectiveness of a passive in situations where warranted to facilitate challenge, but the passive itself should never expire, and we shouldnt have to relog every time we die just to reset it.

#3) The Drain Component of Life Drain should work on ALL mobs, not just mobs that can be stunned.

Im getting rather annoyed with the "This mob is too powerful for that effect" message I see.
Okay, so we cant stun a boss, or special elite mob, fine. Im perfectly okay with that.
However, that doesnt mean that they dont have "Life" which cant be drained. There is no imbalance in limiting the the ability to one use per PLAYER (not total, as is currently the case), regardless of whether its fatal or not. Obviously the mobs have more life to drain if they dont die immediately from use, so charring them into a blackened state renders the use of the ability by any other vampires impossible.
Its not blood we're draining obviously, since we can "Drain" things like Skeletons, Ghosts, and anything else which would not qualify as containing "Liquid Blood".
What also adds ammo to the argument is that a mob can be "immune" to vampire drain, but not immune to all other non-CC effects applied to them, including health drains like the Siphon skill from Resto.

#4) Feeding is pointless, as are the stages.

They only serve as RP components, and impart no relevant benefit or penalty.
A myriad of suggestions for this have already been made, and hopefully it will not require 6 months for you to add a half-dozen lines of code to accommodate them.

rfpalmerb16_ESO wrote: »

Vamps needed a BIGGER nerf. There is, in reality, NO disadvantage to playing a vampire. You can mitigate all the bad, leaving all the good. In reality Vamps should have a HUGE debuff during day-time hours -- something like a constant 1%/second stamina, magic, health and Ultimate drain. Then at nigh-time it should be reversed so there is a constant 1%/second regeneration of stamina, magic, health and ultimate. There is nothing more lore-wrong then a vamp being out in the middle of the day killing without regard. Likewise at night time, all should fear the vampire.

A good indication that Vamps are not balanced is that people are actually able to SELL their vamp bites for substantial money (8-15k).

And yes, it would make your character almost unplayable during the day if you are out in the sunlight -- such are the drawbacks of being an undead to whom sunlight is lethal. Only thing that would need to be done is make day-time and night-time equal in duration and last a little bit longer.

You're a fool, im glad you don't know anything about the different types of vampires in ESO , and the lore around them. Go bck to twilight ***.