How is vampire for melee builds?

[Puppet Pal Clem]

I'm using the mod better vampires, and i play as a scout type character. I have mods that make the game a bit realistic. And i'd imagine that sometimes i'd be fighting out in the open during the day when traveling. Not only that, i enjoy exploring during the day, does being a vampire make day travel a horrible idea at all times?

[Dr. Titties]

no but it can be a pain in the ass sometimes

[DrNewcenstein]

Vampires are not really known for melee. They're more into magic and stealth. Of course, it also depends on the base race. Orcs are all melee, all the time, even as Vampires. However, they're notoriously difficult to turn, so you don't see many of them, because they can break an average Vampire in half during the attempt.
As well, Orc blood isn't exactly high on the preferred list of most Vampires.
They taste like they look, apparently, if not worse.

Physically weaker races (Elf, Breton, Imperial) are easier to turn, because they're physically weaker in general. Nords typically turn if they are infected during a fight with one and don't get it taken care of. Argonians are, of course, naturally immune to disease, so the only realistic way for them to become a Vampire is to be followers of Molag Bal. Or, I guess, eat one.

Not sure about Khajiit. I'm guessing you'd have to be hard-up to nibble on one, what with the mouth full of fur you'd end up with. Ptoo. Ptoo. Ptoo.

Then again, apparently Tamriel is like Baskin-Robbins for Vampires - 32 varieties and counting, including those who go about in daylight willy-nilly. Volkihar Vampires allegedly can stay submerged under water, and under frozen bodies of water, and wait for a victim to walk onto the ice, where they bust through and drag them under, so it's not too far-fetched to build a melee vampire, I guess.

[alexander_dougherty]

Vampires gain no advantages for melee, and the vulnerability to fire, and no regen in sunlight are serious disadvantages for combat.

[FauxFurry]

Wrong monster type. It is werewolves who have the advantage in melee combat. They don't really have anything else going for them other than melee combat, either.

[Puppet Pal Clem]

Originally posted by FauxFurry:

Wrong monster type. It is werewolves who have the advantage in melee combat. They don't really have anything else going for them other than melee combat, either.

I know tons of furries who live in texas, is that a growing trend or something?