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I feel like most of the first post focuses on 'vampires can't stay hidden and use their full power and their abilities aren't strong enough to consider the drawback of being discovered' a few times at least, but the problem with this mentality is that there is no drawback to being discovered. It is not illegal in the main area of the game to be a vampire. People can't kill your character over it, deny you mechanical options that are available to any other player, or do anything to you. The most they can do is switch to holy damage in a duel just like someone could switch to fire damage against a doriad or whatever else have you if they have the option.

There is no reason a vampire should be stronger than any other race because of some head canon that they have any sort of masquerade in how this game actually functions. If you want to RP it that way personally you can, but it shouldn't affect balance discussions or even gameplay in that regard.

Changing their base stats and getting them in line with other races would be great, though, but monstrous races don't need monstrous stats because that's just not the game we're playing here.

Putting their weakness in line with other races if it's not already would be a good idea, and throw them a resistance against dark if they don't already have it.