Why You Should NOT Join Clan Volkihar

Clan Volkihar is sort of lame - which is why I argue in this video that you're better off joining the Dawnguard in the Dawnguard DLC for the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Vampire Lord Harkon lore.

[urthofthenewsun]

I can’t hear you over the sound of my giant haunted gothic castle

[becca-deso]

“If you join the vampires then you are complicit in Harkons plan”

Me who just joined because of the pretty girl: 👁 👄 👁

[heyfell]

I like how, in the start of the quest, Isram is so damn nice with that one NPC you meet while going to the fort, laughing at how dumb he looks but then saying that "we can turn you into Dawnguard material."
That's a nice touch to show you they genuinely seem to care about the people in their ranks.

[hortiz]

I’m still waiting on your video titled “Don’t join any faction, everyone is an idiot, just don’t bother playing this game” 😂

[nathanwells]

Sounds like dawnguard propaganda but ok.

[shappy]

“If you’re roleplaying as a good dragonborn”
Do you know that you are talking to the guildmaster of the Thieves Guild, the listener of the Dark Brotherhood and the person who slayed Alduin to prove that there is no dragon as strong he?

[pandorasbox]

The funny thing is that you won't let Harkon win, no matter which side you choose.

[The.Nasty.]

Have you seen the Dawnguard?

They have armored trolls!

Armored.

Trolls.

[bane]

Kids : I will become a werewolf
Adults : I will become a vampire
Legends : I will glitch the game so I will become both without any debuffs

[natebush]

It's quite simple, really: Fort Dawnguard has a smelter, Castle Volkihar doesn't. End of discussion.

[TheElementalSage]

“Dawngaurd is much cooler” bruh I can literally transform into an extremely powerful vampire and chuck people around like a sack of meat

[stripeybag]

"Because without the sun all the plants are gonna die which is gonna kill all the animals which is gonna kill all the people which is eventually gonna kill all the vampires...not to mention the sunlight doesn't even hurt you guys, I've been walking around with your daughter for weeks you can go out in the sun whenever you want."-True Genius

[artydomi]

So long as Serana is with me...I'll stay wherever I please

[drewmyself]

I honestly think rejecting the Volkihar and having Serana follow you to the Dawnguard makes her relationship with the DB so much more meaningful that she risked her life to both do the morally right thing as well as to trusted you enough to take that risk.

[Magnosummit]

"There's little point to becoming a vampire." "You're weaker in the sunlight."

Not if you know how to combine perks from the Alteration skill tree, atronach standing stone, and necromage in the right order.

100% Magicka absorption + lots of other additional bonuses to a plethora of stats/skills.

Then you're essentially unstoppable.

[firestarter]

And I feel like Bethesda wanted to give the player more options by letting you join the Vampires, but then just forgot about fleshing it all out halfway through, in the typical Bethesda tradition.

[angelite]

Heard they’re reforming the Dawnguard. Vampire hunters or something.

[DarkChaoto]

NPC's only attack you if you're in your vampire lord form. Otherwise they don't attack you. Before Dawnguard was released they did attack you if you hadn't fed for a while but that all changed after the DLC was released.

[dracorim]

The problem I have with the factions in Skyrim is how limited the story in each of them are, you join the Collage of Winterhold, have one lesson then get trapped dealing with the Tamriel equivalent of a nuke before suddenly becoming the Archmage. You join the Dark Brotherhood and you only have one large complex contract which is to kill the Emperor then you are the Listener and head of the entire Dark Brotherhood.
Clan Volkihar is so underwhelming, it's story shouldn't have been about the apocalypse sun plot, it should have been about complex political manoeuvring with multiple sub factions that you have to manipulate to achieve whatever your personal goal is as a vampire. For instance you could intercept a shipment of vampiric cattle to reduce the thrallmaster's influence in the court and to hijack his authority and as you gain authority in the court you become the master of other lower ranked vampires who you can send on missions that will help you further.
Another issue is that the Dawnguard are so unimportant in the vampire side of the questline, they just act as enemies a couple of times then disappear until you get the quest sending you to destroy them, they should have been a major issue for the vampires constantly damaging vampiric operations and one of the main activities being killing Dawnguard patrols and outposts until you go to Fort Dawnguard and root them out.

[nightterror]

Avarti: Being a vampire in Skyrim would make the game harder


Necromage perk: Am I a joke to you