Originally Posted by Lemonhead
Anyone played dawnguard on xbox yet? Can you please hype it a bit…

Here are some bullet points:
Assuming everyone knows that Dawnguard is largely about Vampires, and that Skyrim has random world encounters … if not

• more system lockups after Dawnguard installed
• bug where you cannot upgrade to an Alchemist lab in Breezehome (despite NPC repeatedly taking your 500g to do it, one will never 'spawn')
• not a fan of the look of 'Dawnguard Armor' sets
• huge fan of new mob types (quite challenging)
• a lot of the Dawnguard destinations are beautiful: Castle Volkihar, Fort Dawnguard, Soul Cairn
• most of the quest rewards in Dawnguard are NOT leveled
• some cool new tomes for conjurers
• the story itself, at least from the perspective of signing up to be a Vampire hunter … is unbelievably far-fetched
• tried vampire lord, not my playstyle
• tried werewolf and loved the leveling mechanic and perks unlocked in doing so

While I do not regret my purchase, due to the spoiler tag and list item 1 … I have uninstalled Dawnguard until I have a character of level to enjoy the challenge properly. If I was playing on less than Master difficulty, some of the negative bullet points above would likely go away.

I am having a difficult time coming up with a set-and-forget difficulty/game parameters due to destruction magic being underpowered, enchanting being overpowered and the difficulty slider making allies mitigate more damage on higher difficulty settings (thereby simplifying the game). I refuse to adjust the slider constantly as I did in Morrowind and Oblivion.

So far I have settled on a Breton Warrior who has promised to never take up enchanting (master difficulty)!