I had this idea to reverse vampire feeding totally on my own, and went looking for a mod to accomplish it, and I was very excited to find this mod here, though sadly I cannot use it because this mod has a hidden effect where it reinstated vanilla Skyrims issue where level 4 vampires are attacked on sight, by everyone, fixed by the Dawngaurd DLC. This isnt listed in the description and its not something I wanted, so this is useless to me. If this mod ONLY reversed feeding levels, it would have been perfect.
That's frankly how I've always felt about Skyrim's vampirism. Why bother with a vampire character if doing the most archetypical vampire thing, feeding, reduces your choice of playing a vampire to "Would you like to have a mild penalty in sunlight?". Having the player gain abilities which must be sustained by feeding makes more sense than giving them abilities for choosing to abstain from feeding, especially if vampires are supposed to need blood to survive. Sure, it's supposed to be a curse and not a blessing, but that's exactly why I've always just cast Cure Disease instead of playing a vampire character.
EDIT: Tried this out, and playing a vampire is still kinda BS. Even if no one sees me feed *and* I'm invisible (Ring of Khajiiti) and undetected, my followers get attacked by everyone in town for no reason. I think I'll stick with playing a necromancer so I can walk around town with actual zombies and skeletons following me around and people only get slightly creeped out in dialogue.
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EDIT:
Tried this out, and playing a vampire is still kinda BS. Even if no one sees me feed *and* I'm invisible (Ring of Khajiiti) and undetected, my followers get attacked by everyone in town for no reason. I think I'll stick with playing a necromancer so I can walk around town with actual zombies and skeletons following me around and people only get slightly creeped out in dialogue.