Vampires - you should be afraid of the night

[thejeff]

I think the ethereal with vamps was supposed to reflect the normal weapons not having much effect, not actually the same as the ghostly passing through walls real etherealness, but still ignoring bullets and knives.
Ethereal is the way you get that effect in Dominions.

Even ethereal vamps in Dom2 didn't really need the nerf. I think the nerf came along with nerfing the VQ. Who didn't really need it after earlier, mostly cost nerfs.