Dark Age of Camelot: Catacombs Preview

GameSpy has put together a four-page preview of Catacombs, the upcoming expansion pack for Dark Age of Camelot. Here is one of the new Hibernia classes:

The Vampiir

Hibernia’s new character classes draw from the realm of the unliving, beginning with this half-vampire. At their core, these characters are a leather-wearing fighter class that make use of a piercing weapon, specifically the rapier, in its right hand. Vampiirs dual-wield, in a sense, because their left hand is a weapon all its own, used to cast their own form of magic. A Vampiir’s magic doesn’t draw from a standard power pool like other casters, and is instead fed by the blood of enemies (gained in combat, of course). This character design should be highly familiar to anyone who has read Michael Moorcock’s stories of Elric of Melniboné or watched the seminal Vampire Hunter D anime films. Vampiir magic comes in the form of attacks, self buffs, and crowd control. Empty reserves can be gained with an initial ranged attack, but Vampiirs will mostly have to earn their spell energy through melee.