09-06-2019, 08:38 PM
(09-06-2019, 03:25 PM)Malong Wrote:(09-06-2019, 05:30 AM)Winter Wrote: "You can be a wampire, if you really want to."
What does this reference? I searched the forum and only found this post, and then googled, and didn't find anything.
Sorry, I probably shouldn't have posted that reference. It is from ESO, where a popular player who makes lots of guides for new players to introduce them to some endgame concepts says that you can play as a vampire if you really want to, implying it isn't necessary. However, for actual endgame, you definitely want to be a vampire to be most effective. To summarize the trade offs, it has the benefit of damage resistance and higher resource regeneration and negatives that have little to no impact on combat, just make your character a little pale and ugly, so lots of "casual" players tend not to go vampire for aesthetics or RP reasons.
The meme is that you definitely should be a vampire as there are many positives and no significant negatives in gameplay (and you can remove them situationally at any time), but he presents it as an option anyways because you don't always have to be optimal to have fun in a game. Also he says it with a funny accent.
I view Forward's argument in a similar way - many of the classes are not optimal, but some people enjoy playing them for different reasons, so it is worth having them as options, just like being a vampire is an option and you can get by without it, you just won't have optimal stats.