User blog comment:Thewikilover/Dawnguard or Vampire? Which side has more benefits?/@comment-5194330-20120715183625

First of all, Dawnguard is really more for the vampire character. Siding with the Dawnguard will just give you stuff to kill vampire and if you're a werewolf it give you new ability (if you side with the Dawnguard i suggest to be a werewolf).

Ok so for the gameplay, as a vampire lord you mostly use magic so if you have boosted your mana it will help (in my case i put no points in mana so i have 100 mana points and i rarely run out of mana - btw him level 81 and i play master just to gave you an idea of my gameplay). You may also fight on the vampire lord form but its not very good (like werewolf but werewolf is far better for fight). All the spells can be found in the wiki.

As a Dawnguard, you get a crossbow (more powerfull than the bow but slower) you also get an armor with bonus against vampire. The armor as i saw is both heavy and light armor (it maybe a problem if you put a few point in one of these).

So whatever your gameplay is (thief/assassin/warrior/mage) it doesnt really care. The only thing i will say is; what do you prefer? the ability of the vampire lord (at the end you can shroud the sun so the sun its not a problem) or the ability of the Dawnguard + werewolf? I will also suggest you do two characters and try both.