
At that point, your souped up vampire power will slowly drop over the next few hours. Each poor fool you bite will increase your power level, up to a total of four. Now you've got to keep feeding to keep your bloody powers, which makes more sense and is a lot more fun. They might slot in some of the special vampire active skills, but it was just as easy to benefit from some of the passive damage reduction abilities while sticking to combat skills relevant to your class. Many would become a vampire and then go on playing as normal. Players became more powerful by not feeding on NPCs. Previously, becoming a more powerful vampire required you to do, well, nothing at all. The cinematic action shots remind me of the excessive, gratifying combat combos in Yakuza 0, though the bite can get just a bit wonky depending on any obstacles you and your victim are standing near.Īs an incentive to get out there and dine on some folks, Zenimax has flipped the vampire paradigm of ESO's past on its head. I don't want to oversell these bitey new interludes as groundbreaking game cinematography, but they're sleek by MMO standards. I headed for Morthal, part of the newly added Western Skyrim area, thinking I would create some foreshadowing for the city's vampire problem in TES V: Skyrim. Not willing to try my luck waiting for a bite from a random NPC or generous player, I took the quick route and bought my way into the blood cult from ESO's cash shop, which let me drop right into the action.

Zenimax Online has fixed that with new skills, an ultimate ability, and an incentive to actually play like a hungry vampire. Unlike in Oblivion, growing fangs in ESO doesn't force you to stay indoors during the daylight. I was bitten early in my first TES IV: Oblivion playthrough years ago and remember it being a huge hassle.

I hadn't thought much about becoming a vampire in ESO. Ever since the Thieves Guild was added to The Elder Scrolls Online, I've become a casual player-I pop in to go on thieving and fencing sprees, or do a daily heist after a few story missions.
