Dawnguard is Skyrim’s first expansion. It’s not just added stuff to bolster what we have, there is a lot of new content as well. We’ll be able to join the Dawnguard or become a Vampire Lord.
Killing people as a Vampire Lord opens a new skill tree to level up. The more Vampiric carnage you cause, the more you can upgrade your Vampire Lord abilities. Some of the new powers include: Summoning Gargoyles, Turning into a cloud of Bats, Slowing Time, inflicting Instant Paralysis, and Flight (Although it looks like hovering. I’m not yet sure if we can fly over Skyrim, especially because the developers have previously stated that they took away the Levitation spell because they didn’t want people going into Dungeons, Caves, and Cairns backwards. Corroborated by the fact that many exits are up and out of reach from players.) Take a look at the Vampire Lord Skill Tree:
The Dawnguard is a group of vampire hunters. The Dawnguard will be battling vampires and trying to stop them from using an elder scroll to permanently block out the sun. If you choose to be a Werewolf while fighting against the vampires, you’ll have an all new Werewolf skill tree giving you the capability to upgrade your skill set to fend off and destroy the powerful Vampire Lords. Here is the Werewolf Skill Tree:
There are new weapons too. The Crossbow does great damage, but takes a long time to fire bolts in succession… We can craft Crossbow bolts as well, so finding and buying aren’t the only ways to replenish your stock. I am personally loving the crossbow right now. As long as the reload isn’t too long and/or you can speed up reload like you can speed up draw speed on the long bow, I might be using it almost exclusively. And we can finally craft Dragon Bone Weapons (which will be above Daedric level). We’ve had Dragon Bone Armor and it always felt like I was missing out on Dragon weapons so I’m really happy that I’ll be able to make powerful Dragon Bone Weapons now.
You’ll be able to get Arvak, a badass horse that you summon from Oblivion and can bring to you at almost any time you’re in the open world. You can fight and wield weapons while on horseback which is long overdue. You can even have your own armored troll as a companion if you want.
There should be new spells to cast for the magic wielding folks and new shouts, including Soul Tear where you can rip out someone’s soul and make them your undead minion…
Overall I think this upgrade will be well worth it. I’m looking forward to almost everything I’ve heard from Bethesda about the Dawnguard expansion, other than having to choose Vampire Lord or Dawnguard, sure I’ll replay the other side, but which do I go with first? Evil vampire that has some awesome new abilities, or to be a Werewolf fighting for the greater good of the realm.
Release will be on Xbox Live June 26 2012 for $20 or 1,600 Microsoft points…
PS3 and PC will come eventually…
Jerry Loveless
If you know nothing about the game, then DON’T WRITE ABOUT IT! You cant even spell the name of the game right. Its spelled Skyrim. Not SkyRim. Do some research before writing about a game that you cant even spell right. And no you cannot fly and no you do not become a bat. You turn into a swarm of bats that travel a few meters to evade damage. And no you do not choose to turn into a werewolf to fight the vampires. You make it sound like the dawnguard are all werewolves when the public doesnt know yet. To be honest this whole article makes it sound like you did a small amount of research and typed this for an easy article. Which also means you probably wont play this EVER because you know nothing about skyrim and apparently the whole elder scrolls series. So heres my advice, shut the **** up. Good day.
You are a total brasser by the way mate =D
Exactly my thoughts after reading. This is terrible journalism.
Thanks for the feedback, I happen to love Skyrim and have played it a lot since it came out. I’m glad that you love it and maybe you’ve had a chance to play Dawnguard already, the Beta was extremely limited and personally I haven’t played it yet. I did say IF you choose to become a Werewolf while fighting against the vampires you’ll have a Werewolf skill tree. From what Todd Howard has said, I believe that becoming a Werewolf would be a great tool to use against the new stronger Vampires, but I didn’t say you have to become a Werewolf. I believe you’re right that it isn’t flight, I referred to it as “hovering” in the article based on footage I’ve seen of a Vampire Lord floating around.
boring grow up geek
You forgot to say…. have a nice day
“Waaah, he spelled Skyrim with a capital ‘R’! He didnt get all the information exactly right!!” why dont YOU shut up, you fucking sniveling nerd.
The amount of haters on the internet makes my blood boil… has anyone ever gone through more then 3 or 4 comments before hearing someone rage about the content on the page, in one way or another?
Anyways, it was an interesting article and I saw no problems with it, you were simply sharing your excitement for Skyrim’s first DLC.
Strange that you guys are tearing into Loveless. He’s the same guy that broke multiple Skyrim stories along with Perreault, Reny, and I at Pax Prime 2011.
http://nerdtrek.com/skyrim-answers-bethesda/
Loveless was the first person to break the news on:
1. Thief skill tree (entire tree)
2. Smithing skill tree (entire tree)
3. Daedric Shrines/Quests
4. Werewolves (telling hint…)
Don’t tear down the people who write these articles. If you think you can do better you are welcome to. Anyone can register a domain name, create a website, and start blogging. I find it strange that people feel the need to seek out articles that they find sub par just to rag on them. Perhaps these individuals should attempt to write their own articles, and experience what it’s like to be on the other side of the fence.
Theres nothing wrong with the article now because he fixed it. If you were to read it last night then you would understand.
You will die alone =)
You sycophants are calling the sane people haters. And this is the only time I have ever agreed with someone who is raging (besides the times when it was me raging, trolol)
You did little to no research, and (sorry, but spelling is a very large peeve for me) you spelt Skyrim wrong! Also, you claimed that there will be new spells for magic users, which is not been confirmed or even mentioned yet- only the Vampire Lord has confirmed spells, in the transformed state. You also made it seem as if you must be a Werewolf to join the Dawnguard, with the last sentence on the second-to-last paragraph. And you seriously haven’t seen anything but the trailer, right? If this is incorrect, you don’t pay attention. There is no way that the V.L.’s fly, and Matt Carofano has said that it is just hovering in countless interviews and the E3 game demo. And the Crossbow has been explained as well- very slow reload time, but very powerful with a stagger affect. It takes the Archery perk tree, meaning you can obtain a perk to make the reload speed up.
Anyways, sorry for the rant, I try not to be a total jerk when I am responding but that doesn’t always work.
Ist das eine apfel?
Always good to hear that they haven’t left us avid Skyrim fans hanging with no new content but Bethesda has always been good about that. I am going to play the hell out of Dawnguard. I am really looking forward to The Elder Scrolls Online. I have been checking out a lot of information at The Elder Scrolls Online Zone and it looks promising!
The Elder Scrolls Online? That will be the death of what has been an absolutely amazing saga…
TES will soon go the way of Final Fantasy… lame. Strange how when things get insanely popular they start sucking. Maybe I’ll build the next fantasy RPG…. and I’m not letting all you crazy WoW kids spoil it, it will remain OFFLINE.