dlc Werewolf vs Vampire Lord. or Balanced vs Unbalanced.

So, I finally went through and maxed out both perk trees and one thing stands out:

The Vampire Lord is really, REALLY unbalanced. It's almost like a God mode.

I find this really strange, since, by contrast, the Werewolf is really well balanced. Don't get me wrong, a werewolf can still be very powerful. Two things, however, differentiate it from the Vampire Lord:

1. It doesn't get AS powerful.

and

2. You need to work to get there.

To illustrate what I mean, lets first look at what the Vampire lord gets that the werewolf doesn't. The biggest thing the vampire Lord has is a ranged attack. A very powerful ranged attack at that, which also restores health. The werewolf is forced to stick to melee. Now, they're very strong in melee, but a powerful ranged character (i.e. Dragon Priests) can do a lot of damage to them while they close the distance. When you also consider the healing properties of the Vampire's ranged attack against the werewolf having to feed to heal and it gets even more one sided.

The Vampire also gets a number of abilities that allow it to escape harm (mistform, bats, etc.). These are, of course, to help it stay out of melee range, but the werewolf doesn't get anything to help it get into melee range other than a slightly increased sprint speed.

The Vampire also gets nighteye, leaving the Werewolf to blunder around in the dark (which is stupid, really. Why the hell don't they have night eye. I'd even take it being always on.).

Another reason the Werewolf is more balanced is what abilities it does get, it has to work for.

When you first become a Vampire Lord, you are told the only way to increase your perks is to consume "mortal lives." This is untrue. You can absorb ANYTHING and it counts towards your perks. The werewolf can only increase the perks by eating, and can ONLY eat playable races. Until, that is, you get a perk at the end of a long chain that allows you to eat almost anything, with the exception of draugr, skeletons, and (strangely enough) vampires.

Additionally, the werewolf can only transform for a limited amount of time and only once per day. Once you get the Ring of Hircine, the Once a Day limit is lifted, but can still only transform for a limited amount of time. Furthermore, you cannot manually exit the form, you have to wait until it wears off. The Vampire on the other hand can enter and exit the form at anytime, and as many times as it wants.

Finally, the werewolf has 3 abilities it can have on the "Powers" button. To use any but the starting one, however, you need to complete the questline and then get quests to retrieve an item for each ability. Even once you have these abilities, however, you can only access one at a time and to change which one you have access to you have to return to the By comparison, the vampire lord can unlock its abilities right away through the perks menu and (once unlocked) can access any of them at any time.

This is just silly. Why is one form so well balanced, while the other is basically God mode?
Did they really look at this and say, "yep, this looks like it won't break gameplay at all."

To be honest, I'm having much more fun being a werewolf than a vampire lord. It's just too easy as a vamp. As powerful as the werewolf is I still feel threatened against powerful foes and am seriously disadvantaged against the undead, since I can't heal from them. Vamp Lord just kills everything.

Does anyone else think they did a really bad job balancing the Vampire Lord?

Not to mention their sprinting power attack knocks down even giants.

Honestly the werewolf is fairly overpowered "no sleep bonus? whoop-tee-*bleep*ing-doo"
Paired with the fact that the can knock most enemies on their ass in one swipe.And dont have the debuffs that the vampires have in daylight have you ever tried to fight an ancient dragon whilst in sunlight?They are not balanced they are far from it.