So Serana cured herself of vampirism but her eyes are still yellow but her pupils are now green. Hmm ok, then I find out she talks as if she is still a vampire, complaining about the sun and what not. Then we get in a fight against some baddies and she uses vampiric drain, WTF! Is she cured or not?
>> Yes, you are right ! I cured her from vampirism but her eyes are yellow and pupils are green. I think that Bethesda DO NOT HAVE a quality assurance team at all. Skyrim is in my opinion the best game out there but there are too many logical errors and unacceptable mistakes. Here is a short list :
1 - TOO MANY HOUSES. If you became a Thane on each hold, then you are ending up with 6 houses ( including the one in the island of Solsteim ) plus the Arch-Mage quarters in the College of Winterhold. On the top of that, they give us another 3 houses through Hearthfire. Why ? It would have been better to only get ONE MORE HOUSE but instead a house, a PALACE with several layouts to customize it much better way than it was planned. In Hearthfire you have 3 options per wing and I find the Library, the Storage room and the Greenhouse, absolutely unnecessary additions. Why a library when you have on each house not one but several bookshelves, capable to store each one of them, around 60 books ? Beside, who cares about storing books ? You only care about the spell books and they are destroyed in the process. Why a Storage room when you have not one but several chest, safes, barrels and dressers where you can keep your stuff ? Why a Greenhouse when you have a garden outside ? Also, why you are keeping your Divines Shrine in the Cellar ? That shrine should be in the back room of the main hall or a special place where the dragonborn sit down to meditate ? Why is the Cellar is made out of stone, you should get the freaking skeevers in there ? Why not having the Enchanter and the Alchemy tables in one room together as you have them in the house in Windhelm ? This room should have access to your smithing room ( forge, smelter, grindstone and working table ) because they are all related to build and / or improve weapons and armors. Why in the first place you had to pay more than 30 thousand pieces of gold to buy the house in Solitude and you are lacking a smithing area ? Ridiculous ! I would be more than happy with only that house but with a smithing area added to it.
2 - HOTTEST WOMEN UNABLE TO MARRY TO. Lydia and Serana are the hottest women and followers but you can not marry them. Even if you cure Serana, she is not fully human and the marriage conversation with her is not possible. As a follower, if for any reason you say to her "it is time to part ways", you will not be able to make her follow you again. She does continue using her vampire spells and complaining about the sunlight when outside. If you are not a werewolf and she hit you by mistake while in combat, you will get vampirism. Ridiculous ! It does look like Bethesda want you to become a vampire not matter what.
3 - WEREWOLF or VAMPIRE ? Personally I did not want to turn myself into a vampire, but I find unnecessary for the dragonborn ( if you do not want to become a vampire ) to turn into a beast to fight off vampires. Beside, if you fight as a beast ( werewolf ), you are very weak against vampires and especially if they are surrounded by other vampires or mages. You will die soon, so you are much better off to fight as a human using your dragonborn powers to kill vampires. On the other side, why if you are practically a heroe, you want to turn yourself into a bad person by becoming a vampire ? By doing so, you are an enemy of the people and they will kill you on sight. I find Dawnguard, a better good addition to the whole game, but by taking away the Werewolf tree if you want not to turn yourself into a beast. Now, here is the problem, if you DO NOT turn yourself into a beast ( werewolf ), you will get vampirism when being hit by vampire spells. This is absolutely ridiculous. The game should give you the option ( a shout or spell cloak ) that allow you to be immune to vampire spells. By the way, you are a half dragon and half human, so getting infected by vampirism should not even be a possibility for you since you are practically a half animal already, a dragon. After you kill Harkon, you should become the second in command at Ford Dawnguard and be able to make anybody to follow you, even Serana. When I say they should follow you if they are asked for, they should obey you completely as one of your housecarls does. Also, you should get your own quarters in that Fort as a second in command and live there if you want to.
4 - DRAGONBORN. A nice addition as well but the fight against Miraak is ridiculous. Both are dragonborn but if you use you best weapon, spells or shouts on him, he will use Become Ethereal for hours and you will not be able to cause him any damage. In order to kill him, you must use your fist and hit him till Mora finish him completely. This fight is ridiculous. The Become Ethereal shout could be used but not that long but for the time allowed which I think it is 60 seconds at the most and you must wait for your magicka to regenerate before you are able to shout it again. That would have been better rather than see Miraak as a coward protecting himself for long time, which makes this fight, one of the most ridiculous of the whole game. That is why, Mora give you the Dragon Aspect shout so you were able to overpower Miraak and kill him in combat, but if you use it, then he becomes Ethereal and you know the rest of the story.
5 - THANE, LEGATUS AND HEROE but NOT ENOUGH. If you sided with the Imperials, General Tullius make you a Legatus after the imperials win the battle. So, you are a Thane, a Legatus ( practically a general ) and a heroe in Skyrim, so why guards should bribe you ? On the contrary, if they try to bribe you, you should be able to arrest them, report them or to put them in jail. Being a Thane does not means that you are outside the law, but if you are a Legatus, you are a general and nobody but another general can make you pay for your mistakes. In Solitude, you should be able to have guards watching your home so your wife is not kidnapped when playing Hearthfire.
6 - THIEVES GUILD. You finish the main quests and still you are receiving orders from Vex and others. How so ? Are you not now the boss, the one who restored the organization and saved it from failing ? Ridiculous. As soon as you finish the Thieves main questline, you should become a Thane automatically. This lady, the Thane, the Briar whatever is her name, is one of the most nasty in the game and I would like to kill her. You have to kiss her butt to make you a Thane in that hold and after she tells you "I should be fool not to have you on my side so I am granting you the tittle of Thane". As you were able to kill Ulfrich, then you should be able to kill any Jarl but they are invincible.
7 - ADOPTION. Why should you adopt a child or two to have a family ? Is the Dragonborn unable to produce children or the wife unable to conceive ? You should be able to pregnant your wife and have your own child. Another ridiculous thought in the game.
8 - EBONY WARRIOR. A tough warrior ... but I killed him in one single strike and cut his head off. What's his story anyway ? Where did he come from ? He was there all the time but you never met him. He is not related to any quest in particular, other than he challenge you because now, you are tough enough to fight him. He should be able to have some story, which end up in a fight against you not just by challenging you because now you are worthy to him. It does not makes sense.
In Skyrim, Alduin, Miraak, Harkon and the Ebony warrior, were very easy to defeat in compare to the mages, vampires and some bandits whose put up a better challenge for you in the game. You are able to marry the ugliest women and you are a landlord instead a heroe with a Palace. You are a Thane and Legatus, but still being annoyed by corrupted guards that should be put in jail. You are an Arch-Mage, boss of the Companions, Thieves Guild chief, second in command at Ford Dawnguard, dragons fear you after defeating Alduin and Miraak, the Greybeards respect you, Paarthumax respect you and help you to become who you are but not enough.