Skyrim: Dawnguard - Why bother to feed?

[Deleted3282815User]

Hello,

 

I am listing my mods for my next play trough and was planning on becoming a vampire. Now I like vampires as they are in the vanilla game. I like vanilla vampires because they are created by Bethesda and because of this they remain true to the lore of The Elder Scrolls. Because of this I do not really want to use a 'reversed progression' mod.

 

But that creates a problem, see: I like the idea that I 'have' to feed. But in Skyrim with Dawnguard you are no longer hated at stage 4. So, at stage 4, your both at you're strongest and you're no longer hated.

 

That raises the question: Why bother to feed at all?

 

Or am I mistaken is there some use in vanilla Dawnguard for feeding as a vampire?

 

Thanks for reading.

[HelenaGrace231]

When you don't feed you have many bonuses such as increased frost resistance, invisibility, compulsion, and reanimate more powerful zombie.

Yet, however not feeding causes you to has increase fire vulnerability and upon combat you are immediately recognized as a vampire and will hear people yelling "Vampire! Burn it!" or the simple "Die Vampire!"

Feeding may reduce your powers, but makes you less prone to be a yummy snack for Fire Breathing dragons or a charred corpse to Fire Specialized mages.

 

Hope that helps,

happy feeding!

[Kuboxy]

Fire Dragons will ruin your day as a stage 4 vampire. Otherwise there is no need to feed, but there is also no reason not to feed : You can just RP it. I was playing a good guy character and decided that, even if it made him weaker, he would still feed on people, just so he keeps his humanity. But he didn't want to cure it either, as the powers were useful, and that vampires weren't necessarily evil (Serana comes to mind).

 

In the end, it depends on what you want. but if you want to keep it Vanilla, you'll have to RP your need to feed, because there is none otherwise. The fire weakness can be countered with enchanting anyway.

[StatiSky]

Even your followers scream VAMPIRE when u enter a fight at stage 4.

[kleinstaff]

because bethesda screwed up on that

my opinion vampires should be strongest when fully fed and not the other way round

that is why i use bettrr vampire mod

[modder3434]

I know you said you wanted to keep the vanilla bethesda vampire feel,

 

However, regardless of what vampire lore you read on the internet, it all points to "feed = strength", "not feeding= weakness"

 

While some might suggest one of the larger vampire overhauls, if you want to keep the vanilla/dawnguard feel but want a change, try

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/23205/? Vamprism Inverter Dawnguard

 

 

works great and keeps the bethesda feel, while being more logical in its feeding approach.

[redraptor27]

The Bethesda approach is perfectly logical. The ES vampires drink blood to maintain the appearance of mortality - with mortal blood flowing through their veins, they are more able to appear as mortals themselves. If they go without feeding, the inner Daedric monster becomes more and more exposed, bringing it's own powers, strengths and weaknesses along with it, as well as a loss of mental clarity to their basic instincts, until finally there is little left *but* the vampiric monster.

 

I actually think this makes *more* sense than the traditional "feeding makes vampires stronger" approach.

Edited April 24, 2014 by redraptor27

[StatiSky]

Even your followers scream VAMPIRE when u enter a fight at stage 4.

 

Even if it is backwards I think Bethesda's reasoning is the more blood u have the more human you are so u have less powers.

You know or they could have done it that way for convience to keep the powers.

 

Granted it doens't make sense but meh. There should be a mod to reverse it to the logical standpoint.

Edited April 26, 2014 by StatiSky