I agree with most of your post Zerg, though I actually really like vampires as they are now, it's my favourite race both in pvp and pve. I think a bit of help is all it needs.
Fade out is fine in concept yeah, having a racial evade buff helps with certain builds that lack buffs like some flavor of evasion duelist+mage, it's just that the buff is too weak usually even for such combos. But the worst part is that it feels bad when you use classes that do have much better buffs and simply let your race itself fade out.
Oh yeah, what if fade out gave range 1 incognito and also sneak?
Fade out is fine in concept yeah, having a racial evade buff helps with certain builds that lack buffs like some flavor of evasion duelist+mage, it's just that the buff is too weak usually even for such combos. But the worst part is that it feels bad when you use classes that do have much better buffs and simply let your race itself fade out.
Oh yeah, what if fade out gave range 1 incognito and also sneak?