The Vampie Class preview

[UngeheuerLich]

A good preview. It gives a good idea of the vampire and how he/she/it will interact with the party. Basically a healing surge machine. This character will likely never run out of surges.

Can a vampire spend their surges to heal themselves? I am not sure from the preview.

Edit: Ok, I see if they have more than their normal max after a short rest they lose them and full heal. Nice if badly wounded and they only are plus one surge. I imagine they can heal from a Healing word normally, and will be getting occasional surges from powers (and probably spending them) on powers.

I gotta admit, that is an interesting mechanic, and fits the vampires very well.

The potential gathering of healing surges over the day could be very strong if the vampire has ways to give them away to other party members.

It looks like they have healing surges of their own and can spend them. But from the preview it looks like their healing surge number for a day seems to be around the order of 0+con or 1+con or even 1 (without con)

So they have a small number of emergency surges, which may represent stored blood, but their usual means of regeneration is drinking blood from someone. And if a day starts badly and there is noonce to drink from, chances are great that a vampire runs around with 0 surges and bloodied hp.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I don't see anything about the number of surges. Where do you see that?

 

[UngeheuerLich]

It is just a guess... surges are mentioned in his features as if they are a very very rare thing.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I think you are probably right.

 

[nnms]

I'm really impressed by this. It hits all the right notes. I'm definitley going to play one of these Vampires at one point or another.

 

[rjfTrebor]

i'll probably buy this books just for this and the new warlock options. the vampire seems solid so far and im sure everything else in the book will be good too.

 

[Wednesday Boy]

One other thing in the preview, binder's were confirmed to be a controller build for the warlock.

I'm very excited about the binder. That's still my favorite class from 3.5 (even though I only got to play one in one session), so I'm hoping it will mimic the ToM version well.

I don't see anything about the number of surges. Where do you see that?

It's not explicit but the article does say, "The few healing surges you have can be augmented by the life force you drain from your foes with many of your powers." Maybe that's a hint?

 

[Insight]

I'll be very interested to see how the rest of the Vampire class looks, as well as any feats they release for it.

 

[renau1g]

Yeah, but I hope it's not yet another unsupported option... Seeker, Runepriest, Str.Cleric, Artificer, Changeling, etc, etc.

Especially with the comments from the DDI side about not wanting more crunch because it's too much for people...

 

[UngeheuerLich]

multiclass feats is all the vampire class really needs. So we need DDI support for that... and with "we" i mean those poor guys only having access to essentials...

A nice article on multiclass is what is really needed... and what should also be already done, since it was one of those things that were supposed to be in the cancelled books. I hope it is revised a bit so that paragon multiclssing becomes viable!