I thought it would be awesome to be a vampire lord but i m not a fan of the powers it gives you plus the whole weakness to the sun was a major negative.
Benefits of siding with vampires dawnguard.
New weapons and armor to fight the vampires.
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You can either side with the dawnguard vampires hunters or join lord harkon and the vampire faction.
I m joining the dawnguard when i get skyrim special edition because i ve never joined the dawnguard before i hate being a vampire i like being a werewolf despite never entering beast form i hate being a vampire i can t stand any of the vampires even serana this is because she whenever i used her as a companion after killing her father she would cause my game to crash every ten seconds.
Vampire s are magic based however if you side with the dawnguard you are not locked out of vampire lord just locked out of some vampire lord buffs.
Note however you must join the dawnguard first by default but you can later betray them by joining the vampire faction.
After i was done with dawnguard i just got rid of it becaus it was such a pain to deal with.
Skyrim on the xbox 360 a gamefaqs message board topic titled what are the benefits of siding with the vampires.
There also 3 new spells these are sun based like the turn undead spells and only do damage to undead enemies but they are awesome as all hell.
The unique benefits of joining the dawnguard include full access to fort dawnguard various new weapons armor and spells to help fight vampires such as crossbows dawnguard armor and faction specific spells such as sun damage and vampire s bane.
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The dawnguard s artifacts are even more effective against vampires and undead than the normal dawnguard equipment and one are also more effective against normal enemies.
Paarthurnax has taught me a value life lesson through the power of wisdom and it was his speech that lead me to this decision of siding with the vampires and not the dawnguard.
The only benefit i see with siding with the dawnguard is not getting pestered by dawnguard soldiers for what feels like everytime i use fast travel.
So i m wondering if i can do that.
Yeah i wasn t too happy with my choice to join the vampires.
I m using a custom race and don t particularly want to become a vampire but have heard that the vampire side of the dawnguard questlne is infinitely more interesting than siding with dawnguard.