I became a vampire once and hated it. The skill increases didn't seem very noticable probably because the combat in Oblivion is crap anyway and all it did was make going out in the sun annoying and make my character look like crap.
Were you a vampire in Oblivion?
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My best character was a vampire. It was kinda funny that when I played through Shivering Isles, I beat the final boss in broad daylight as a vampire. Those of you who have beaten the expansion know that the final boss goes on a long winded monologue for like 5 minutes and you can't move. Unfortunately, the sun damage still affects you so I had to spam restores for 5 minutes until the bastard finished. I wish they had kept the vampire house system from Morrowind though; that would have made oblivion for me.
Yeah I've been a vampire in both Morrowind and Oblivion. I did it in Morrowind because it boosts your magic skills and I used that to become guild master of the mages guild. Oblivion I tried it out but its not all that great. What I would like to try, if they ever think about it, is in their Fallout games make it so you can become a ghoul. Being immune to radiation and such at the cost of most people thinking you are ugly. Yeah that would be well worth it, but now I'm getting off the subject. Theres no real point to being a vampire, the skill boosts you gain from it are worthless, you can level them up to 100 without being a vampire anyway. And you can buy life detect and night eye spells, hell I find them sigil stones in the gates with nighteye and life detect bonuses and I put nighteye in an amulet I can put on at any time, and have life detect on my helmet 24/7.
This seems as good a time as any to state my opinion on Vampirism in games (and irl)... they're lots of fun, but it really isn't for me. Maybe my friends will go that route, but the idea of going vampire creeps me out, and I really appreciate being able to go outside whenever I want.
Of course, my main character in Oblivion was a sociopath, a psychopath and generally a terrible, terrible person already. No reason to give that sucker more power when he already kills almost everyone he sees. I magicked any and all vampires I met into oblivion, before they got close enough for me to notice they were vampires.
Of course, my main character in Oblivion was a sociopath, a psychopath and generally a terrible, terrible person already. No reason to give that sucker more power when he already kills almost everyone he sees. I magicked any and all vampires I met into oblivion, before they got close enough for me to notice they were vampires.
I think 2012 meant that you can use a console command to 'give' yourself vampirism.EcksTeaSea said:
Also, I'd recommend the Unofficial Oblivion Patch's optional UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix. It keeps you from looking like a complete monstrosity, which makes sense. All the other vampires have been so for a very long time or they just went mad with blood-lust, so they should look like Nosferatu rejects. I'm a sophisticated adventurer who takes care of himself, therefore I'm likely to take care of my appearance to avoid people looking at me and screaming in fear/disgust.
I only have one character who I made start out as a vampire. I also had a mod so that it didn't affect your appearance though because I didn't like the old look that vampires have.
I became a vampire very early in the game, and I found that the bonuses outweighed the negative side effects for quite a while. Plus it was kind of fun sneaking up on sleeping people to bite them.
After I was able to learn the night vision and life detection spells, I went ahead and did the cure quest.
After I was able to learn the night vision and life detection spells, I went ahead and did the cure quest.
There wasn't much point. I found the drawbacks outweighed the benefits. Even at stage one you had to go out of your way to feed constantly, so you'd wind up mutating halfway through a quest.
I just recently started playing oblivion again. I decided I was going to be one of those assassins, and take whatever hard knocks came at me. The head assassin guy happened to be a vampire, and at one point, offered me his "dark gift." I thought, "shit yeah! Lets be as evil as we can!" And vampirism was born!
I then forgot to feed for a day, and became EXTRA sensitive to sunlight. At the same time, I "waited" for a store to open. When I came out of the "wait," I dropped dead from all the sun damage I had built up from waiting in the sun.
I'm still a vampire though. The play style I use has changed dramatically because of it. When the sun rises, I find the closet cave, dungeon, town, whatever! If it's indoors, I take it! It's a twist I kind of like, because I went into the character expecting to take those hard knocks and not be to put off by them.
I then forgot to feed for a day, and became EXTRA sensitive to sunlight. At the same time, I "waited" for a store to open. When I came out of the "wait," I dropped dead from all the sun damage I had built up from waiting in the sun.
I'm still a vampire though. The play style I use has changed dramatically because of it. When the sun rises, I find the closet cave, dungeon, town, whatever! If it's indoors, I take it! It's a twist I kind of like, because I went into the character expecting to take those hard knocks and not be to put off by them.
I was on one character, but that didn't work out too well, so after that I never even thought about making one of my characters a vampire.
Though the whole "makes my character ugly" thing never factored in for me, since I mostly just played argonian and khajiit characters.
Though the whole "makes my character ugly" thing never factored in for me, since I mostly just played argonian and khajiit characters.
I used a console command to revert me back, and then reloaded a save from before I was a vampire and then going to back to after I'd been cured to get rid of my ugly default Breton face and get back my awesome one.
I did have one interesting experience where it was raining and the guards were chasing me because of my vampirism, while the sunlight was only barely breaking through the thick clouds and burning my character as he ran from the law.
I did have one interesting experience where it was raining and the guards were chasing me because of my vampirism, while the sunlight was only barely breaking through the thick clouds and burning my character as he ran from the law.
Depends on my race and class I guess. I mean, if I'm playing a race that doesn't look like shit, and doing something like hand-to-hand, then sure, I'll go vamp. But I have a "Let's try a different race/build/class/etc" issue when I play games like oblivion or Dragon Age or Diablo 2, so the limitations of vampirism just make my "New Game!!!" mentality come that much sooner.
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Four.TheJulz said:
Not only was I a vampire but the quest to cure myself was glitched with no way to fix it. The woman wouldn't accept my bloodgrass. I learned to deal with it. God knows how many times I sucked the blood of the prophet camping out on the streets outside my house.