And I'm still waiting for Werewolf to get things that other playstyles have (such as Grimoires, appearance customization, the ability to sneak, Companion(s) of this "class"/playstyle, the ability to heal your allies with slottable abilities, etcetera)

No it's not great being at such a huge disadvantage compared to regular builds in both high end PvE and competitive PvP.

tomofhyrule wrote: »

I love my werewolf. It's so much fun.

Granted - terrible. It's a total meme. I think I'm good enough that I can manage some things with him and I've tanked a few vet things with him (of course, only with friends, since I am not going to inflict that on randoms), but I do wish he had a bit more power.

Of course, I do wish he looked right too, but that's a different issue. I keep his transformation unmorphed overland since he's not supposed to be black or white. Then again, he's technically not supposed to be a wolf either - his entire lore says he's a brown werebear.

But seriously ZOS, please 1) balance werewolves better and 2) give us loads more werewolf colors as Transformation Skill Styles. And I would pay bank if you give me a werebear version as a Skill Style.

ZOS should add a werebear curse and associated skill line. That would make most people happy, I think.

wilykcat wrote: »

I would like to play as a werewolf but I don't know how to become one.

These are your options (this applies to Vampire too):

1. Find a special enemy that only spawns at night every other night in predetermined locations in The Rift, Reaper's March, or Bangkorai — then allow them to damage you for some time until you get a buff saying you've been infected. These enemies will be bloodfiends for vampirism, or werewolves for lycanthropy. Check all three zones repeatedly throughout the night — they'll despawn by morning if no one has already killed them. Note that the spawns are mutually exclusive — if one night has bloodfiends, then the next night will have no spawns and the night after will have werewolves. Werewolves and bloodfiends share the same spawn locations. Once infected, find the quest NPC in the main city of The Rift, Reaper's March, or Bangkorai zones (depending on the character's alliance) and complete the quest to unlock the skill line.
2. Find a player who is already infected and ask them to give you a werewolf or vampire bite. They'll take you to the werewolf or vampire shrine in The Rift, Reaper's March, or Bangkorai, where they'll infect you and you'll be able to start the quest to unlock the associated skill line.
3. You can purchase the Werewolf or Vampire skill lines directly from the Crown Store, skipping the quest and the need for another player or rare spawning enemy.
4. If you already have lycanthropy or vampirism on another Armory build, swapping to that build will also give you the curse associated with that Armory build.

Be sure not to overwrite your curse with a blank Armory build after receiving it! It's recommended to save an Armory build with the curse you might want to return to later. Also note that you can also pay Gold to cure yourself near the rededication shrines, if you don't have the Crowns to cure yourself through the Crown Store or an Armory build without a curse to overwrite your curse with.

I have a build saved in the armoury with the Vampire curse, as for playing it, I rarely bother too many drawbacks.

I played Vampire a lot more before they did the whole rework, biggest annoyance for me is the increased non Vampire ability costs.

Not playing either, as I feel vampire has been worthless since the rework and werewolf has a timer(I do not like timers). Though werewolf is a lot of fun playing still!

PS: Also hate these transformations in the new BG's.

I have tried both, but I find them too hard to manage.

Werewolf was fun, but only while soloing or in informal groups doing overland stuff.
Staying in werewolf form took up far too much of my attention to be an effective group member in harder content.

One character keeps a werewolf build in his armory. I haven't played with him in a while, but I think I'd enjoy picking it up occasionaly, if I find the time.

Vampire wasn't fun at all. Playing as one made me feel extremely fragile, and stressed out, all the time.
There were just too many conditions, drawbacks and timers to take into account, and I don't see how vampire skills give anything worthwile in return.

The health draining toggle was the worst of all. Sometimes I pressed it by accident and did't even notice it was on until it was too late to recover from the damage it had done. Other times I tried to toggle it off, but failed due to lag and/or unresponsive buttons. For me, it basically was an autodestruct skill.

Two of my characters keep a vampire build in their armory, for roleplaying purposes and in hope of better times, but they haven't used them for about 2 years.

My little wood elf travels time. . . so when she was in the game Skyrim, she got infected with Lycanthropy via the Fighters Guild but it turned her into a werefox. She ran and hid under a table until it wore off, then got it cured.

Vamprire? Are you kidding? My elf's name is Buffy and just being near a vampire gives her cramps. . . .

i have Armory builds for both on my main character ever since the Armory station got introduced, excluding the time i overwrote the builds.

i only use vampire for story quests (sometimes) and Dark Brotherhood and Thieves Guild activities.
i use werewolf for anything, though not often.

I used to play both but they lost their appeal to me a long time ago.

Yes the day I can’t play werewolf is the day I uninstall eso.

JaxontheUnfortunate wrote: »

Yes the day I can’t play werewolf is the day I uninstall eso.

Same. Vengeance is cool and all, but until it gets Werewolf, I can't see myself spending too much time on it. Sometimes PvE content like the Infinite Archive requires me to play something more effective than Werewolf, but that isn't what I installed ESO for. PvP is sort of a wild west in terms of what you can get away with bringing, because there will usually be some playstyle that you encounter that your build is a good counter to, but it's getting harder for Werewolf to counter any playstyle now that everyone else can use Subclassing to use active abilities to round out their toolkits. And obviously overland content or "roleplay" as Werewolf is only as exciting as you make it — though, without the ability to emote in or customize your werewolf form, even that department suffers.

ESO (and Skyrim) still have the best open world werewolf gameplay of any video game out there, though. It can absolutely be improved, but I genuinely don't think there's another game franchise out there that fulfills the horror werewolf fantasy in an open world format the way TES does.

PvE for the RP and vamp invisibility

PvP mostly for vamp invisibility

The skills are 🗑 rip OG aoe damage gap closer ult, fun drain that stuns, and og mist (toggle mist was also nice till stolen away blah).

I’m surprised to be in the category with the most votes.

My only experience with it is grouping up with a couple of players who were werewolves and nightblades, they just completely ignored their class abilities in favor of werewolf. It did not make a good impression on me.

I have caught both lycanthropy and vampirism from npcs, but got them cured right away.

Newish so haven't really tried either yet. Probably try werewolf first whenever I do, though!

Gingaroth wrote: »

I have tried both, but I find them too hard to manage.

Werewolf was fun, but only while soloing or in informal groups doing overland stuff.
Staying in werewolf form took up far too much of my attention to be an effective group member in harder content.

One character keeps a werewolf build in his armory. I haven't played with him in a while, but I think I'd enjoy picking it up occasionaly, if I find the time.

Vampire wasn't fun at all. Playing as one made me feel extremely fragile, and stressed out, all the time.
There were just too many conditions, drawbacks and timers to take into account, and I don't see how vampire skills give anything worthwile in return.

The health draining toggle was the worst of all. Sometimes I pressed it by accident and did't even notice it was on until it was too late to recover from the damage it had done. Other times I tried to toggle it off, but failed due to lag and/or unresponsive buttons. For me, it basically was an autodestruct skill.

Two of my characters keep a vampire build in their armory, for roleplaying purposes and in hope of better times, but they haven't used them for about 2 years.

Yeah, that's kind of how I feel about both of them right now. Vampire is not fun too use even with the undeath passive because the costs of your normal skills just made everything way more difficult to maintain.