[Poruku]

I feel like I'm the only person speaking in favor of vampires every time this comes up, but really I think vampires aren't that bad. Banquet is a good ability because of the poison or charm you can apply with it, combined with the healing and essence. Silvermists is a good heal and overall I think vampires are a good class for doom walling such as with bk/hexer, because the sustain you get. They have good powers, and I feel people overplay their weaknesses. But they do have more weaknesses than most races. I think people often fail to take into account the fact banquet does a lot of different things at once.

Ultimately, I like vampires as they are. I don't think it's unfair to get hard countered by a glykin because that just makes sense. I don't think it's unfair to get countered by an exorcism weapon either.

And well if you're not building SAN on a vampire of course it's gonna suck.

HOWEVER I agree they are weak, and I feel like they deserve to be much stronger than this. Banquet is not reliable enough, sanguine crest is not strong enough, lunatism doesn't do enough. Their lore power isn't very useful in practice because people can simply capture them when they win. Unlike liches, their immortality power is more of extra steps to deal with than a protection.

I think they simply need some overall buffing, with exorcism being nerfed versus vampires.