Skyrim Argonian Vampires: are they still ugly?

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My Orc went with Lycanthropy. It's so much better, you don't have to do anything to maintain it, and the only real downside is the lack of the Rested buffs. As long as nobody in town sees you transform, you're golden.

What about the drawback of the inability to pick things up? The official player's guide states that werewolves can't place anything into their inventories while transformed, including keys, don't even have an inventory menu, and it isn't mentioned but that would the lack of inventory would probably mean that werewolves couldn't pick locks either, which means that the werewolf would be useful for combat only, and you'd have to transform back and forth all the time to be able to get loot and progress through many dungeons, which also means that you would to either transform all the time or just be handicapped for exploring dungeons and solving quests, so basically for most of the game. If I really wanted to be a werewolf that can change whenever I want, I'd want to have as little reason not to stay transformed as possible.

I will probably become a werewolf eventually, but I think I'll wait until someone makes a mod that can fix the above, otherwise I probably wouldn't be a werewolf long or if I did I would treat it like a toggleable buff that I'd use only when I really needed it.

You are right that as a werewolf you can't pick any items up. You aren't permanently a werewolf though, its an activated power like a dragon shout that you can use once a day, and that wears off after a couple minutes. To stay in werewolf form for longer you just have to feed on the enemies you killed to sustain your bloodlust for longer. I dont know whether you can open locked doors or not as I haven't personally tried. But being a werewolf isn't as bad as you make it seem, since you have control over when you become a werewolf (but you cant control when you change back to normal, as far as I know)

EDIT: Also, think about it. If you turned into a werewolf, would you be fussed over picking up that shiny gold coin in the bandits pocket, or would you be more concerned with ripping his fucking throat out, as well as every other throat within a 100 meter radius?

 

[Aethren]

My Orc went with Lycanthropy. It's so much better, you don't have to do anything to maintain it, and the only real downside is the lack of the Rested buffs. As long as nobody in town sees you transform, you're golden.

What about the drawback of the inability to pick things up? The official player's guide states that werewolves can't place anything into their inventories while transformed, including keys, don't even have an inventory menu, and it isn't mentioned but that would the lack of inventory would probably mean that werewolves couldn't pick locks either, which means that the werewolf would be useful for combat only, and you'd have to transform back and forth all the time to be able to get loot and progress through many dungeons, which also means that you would to either transform all the time or just be handicapped for exploring dungeons and solving quests, so basically for most of the game. If I really wanted to be a werewolf that can change whenever I want, I'd want to have as little reason not to stay transformed as possible.

I will probably become a werewolf eventually, but I think I'll wait until someone makes a mod that can fix the above, otherwise I probably wouldn't be a werewolf long or if I did I would treat it like a toggleable buff that I'd use only when I really needed it.

1. Find small bandit lair with one entrance.
2. Transform at entrance.
3. Proceed to slaughter everything inside.
4. Wait an hour to force transformation.
5. Collect loot.

Werewolves can also sprint faster than horses, so it makes traveling cross-country even better. And the Ring of Hircine allows a second transformation per day.