I started a game as a Tremere. Is there any way to change your appearance, or your clothing?

No way to change your appearance short of maybe a mod. You can get different clothes as you progress through the game. They have some clothing options for mods too. Brigitte’s wardrobe looks different than her typical vanilla set.

What clan is Brigitte? I don't recall you ever saying.

She’s a mad Malkavian! If you can, you may want to play through the game at least once as a member of one of the other clans before playing as a Malkavian. Their dialogue will make much more sense...

In V:TM-Bloodlines 2 news, Clan Toreador is confirmed as a starting clan. Might make an excellent choice for a first play through character.

I've played Gangrel, Malk, Toreador and Tremere, in that order. Played as Malk at least twice btw, best clan ever if you can stand the dialogue font which I barely could.


-Don't skimp on Tharmaturgy, SubRosa. It's crazy powerful!

Thinking Gangrel might be Khajiit’s next character. This one has never played them but finds their animal powers interesting

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: May 17 2019, 05:14 PM

Yeah, Animalism is the Gangrel equivalent of Tharmaturgy in my opinion in the sense it's almost OP in the higher stages.

Loved making people’s blood boil with my Tremere character all those years ago!

Although Thaumaturgy is fun, I just didn't like the Tremere character model. Looked too stiff. Malk was better. Funnily enough, both character models remind me of people I know!

Lol, I always thought it was funny that the female Malk model got boob physics

Giggity.


Anyway, so Khajiit's gonna do another playthrough after this one?

I like the Tremere model. The big bouncy jugs of the Malkavian looks rather silly to me. It says something about the people who made the game.

Khajiit certainly will start one!


Khajiit thinks that was the point. Malkavians have a super silly vibe to them. Everything about them is “over the top”.

When I first started playing the game I was taking it quite seriously. But I soon found that having a more relaxed approach and being goofy was much more interesting

My Tremere (named Hecate of course) is mostly done with Santa Monica now. She has picked up several weapons, a .38 revolver, a knife, and a baseball bat. The .38 is really underwhelming. I have read in places that firearms are good in the early game, but weak in the later game. They don't seem that great even in the early game. It looks like melee or unarmed is the way to go. I did just get a shotgun however, so maybe that is better. I have not had the chance to use it yet.

So far I liked the knife most. At least until I got the disembodied arm. That is now my favorite weapon. It is so over the top and insane it must have been put in for Malkavians. But it is undeniable fun to beat someone to death with an arm.

TBH, the thaumaturgy has not been great so far. There is a blood strike which does only a little bit of damage, and returns the blood it spends back to you. But it takes dozens of hits to put someone down, in which time I get really beat up. Hence my using the arm mostly instead. I never got the second level thaumaturgy power to work. I have not gotten the 3rd level one yet, that makes a shield out of blood.

I am wondering if the Dominate power that makes people commit suicide might be better?

I am also having trouble when I try to feed in combat. Does this ever work? It only did once for me. Most of the time she just grabs at my enemies with no effect.

Trust me, Thaumaturgy is Da Skit later on with Blood Boil. But hey, whatever works for ya!


Feeding while in combat is indeed a difficult task as the enemies are aware of you and thus can resist your attempts. If you want to increase your chances, put some points in Brawl I think. Anything that makes your character physically stronger. Blood Buff can also help with that.


And yeah, guns suck in this game. I used them anyway though since I like to shoot and some weapons like the Steyr Aug and the automatic shotgun are not halfbad.

This post has been edited by mirocu: May 18 2019, 07:59 PM

Yeah firearms are really somewhat situational. Khajiit’s Brigitte is pretty good at using firearms. During the late early/mid game, she used the combo of the Glock-ish pistol and the JaegerSpas assault shot gun and a combat knife when she really needed to hurt something supernatural. Guns are great against zombies, but so is melee. Brigitte also killed the Vampire Hunter, Bach, with the assault rifle you can get in that mission. So really it’s up to you.

If you are having trouble feeding, it’s because your brawl skill isn’t very high. In combat, enemies will actively fight you to keep you from feeding on them, so a higher brawl score will make this easier. Otherwise, pop the Blood Buff power before trying to feed on a combatant. This will increase your strength and make it a bit easier to feed on the unwilling. Blood Buff is really useful when in melee combat with other vampires as well.

*Edit* Derp, ‘d by ‘Rocu!

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: May 18 2019, 06:03 PM

So can you block while in melee combat? I thought I saw something say you can use the Tab key to block or dodge, but it has never done anything for me.

I got Thaumaturgy up to level 3, and it seems to be working a lot better now. The Blood Shield was really cool. It seemed to stop everything in the big fight in the parking garage Downtown. The Blood Strike is doing much better damage now too. Something like 28 points an attack, where it was only 6 or 7 when I first started.

I also found that the Trance power works great in combat. It not only instantly takes one guy out of a mob, but it also makes it really easy to feed off them in the fight. Which has the added bonus of getting you back the blood point you spent on using the power!

Hecate is running around with an axe now. With Blood Shield to defend her, and Trance and Blood Strike, she is racking ass against mortals. I have not tried it against vampires though.

I was disappointed to find that even though I have Dominate, it does not work in dialogue however. It seems only the Ventrue can use it to get special options when talking to people.

See? I told you Thaumaturgy was Da Skit. Wait till you get Blood Boil!


Not sure about blocking though. As I'm an all gun kinda vampire I never really delved into it. But I do know that putting points into Dodge helps with that, although there's no animation for it. You just avoid taking damage when the dice are rolled.

Khajiit was sure Dominate can be used in certain instances in conversation. It’s been a while since this one played as a Tremere though. Blocking is done by pressing the secondary attack button while in melee, if memory serves correctly. Khajiit has that mapped to one of the “thumb buttons” on the left side of his mouse.