When it comes to combat as a vampire in the world of V Rising, it is not enough just to have the best weapons at your disposal. Counting on your supernatural abilities can help tremendously, and turn a tough fight into a more manageable one. With over 38 different Blood Abilities and several more Ultimates, you can be spoilt for choice, so if you are looking to understand them all, this guide on the best Abilities and Ultimates in V Rising is for you.
Understanding Abilities & Ultimates
In V Rising, players can gain access to three different tiers of powers in addition to their choice of weapons and gears. Blood Abilities are categorized into Basic, Travel, and Ultimate abilities, and are further separated into the disciplines of Blood, Unholy, Illusion, Chaos, and Frost.
The Blood tree is all about protecting and healing oneself, the Unholy tree will debuff your enemies, Illusion abilities causes chaos by tricking enemies, while both Chaos and Frost abilities deal AoE damage with burn and freezing damage respectively.
You can acquire more of these Blood Abilities in V Rising by defeating the various V Blood Bosses found in the game. Read on for our pick of the more useful ones when enjoying both PvE and PvP experiences in V Rising.
Best Blood Abilities in V Rising
Being able to heal oneself is quite important during your adventures, and this is the perfect tree for that. Out of the five Blood Abilities found in the game, consider the following to add to your arsenal:
Blood Rage
Using Blood Rage casts a shield around your vampire and nearby allies, and is dependent on 110% of your spell power. Not only are you protected, but you also get increased attack speed by 25% for the next 4.5 seconds, making sure you can end your opponents before they can even damage you.
This is extremely useful both in PvE and PvP, especially if you find yourself up against a single but tough enemy, or a group of more fragile foes. Blood Rage is obtained by defeating Rufus the Foreman V Blood Boss.
Sanguine Coil
If you want both damage and healing, then Sanguine Coil is the Blood Ability for you. This launches a projectile that deals 75% magic damage. It will then heal any allies for 100% and yourself for 40% of your spell damage. If you are in a team, launching several Sanguine Coil attacks can essentially keep everyone in great fighting shape.
Meredith the Bright Archer will grant this ability once she is defeated in the Dunley Farmlands.
Best Unholy Abilities in V Rising
Pestilence
A ranged Unholy Ability that can swiftly build up the damage, using Pestilence launches three Unholy projectiles at enemies, each dealing 40% damage when hit. More importantly, you are looking at a knockback effect for each hit, together with applying the Amplified status effect.
This increases the damage taken by the target by 25% for the next five seconds. If you want to get rid of something fast and keep yourself safe, Pestilence is a great choice and can be obtained from felling Nicholaus the Fallen in Farbane Woods.
Ward of the Damned
Turn defense into offense with Ward of the Damned, an Unholy Ability that grants 10% bonus movement speed and grants blocking of both melee and ranged attacks on your front. In addition, every hit absorbed will summon a skeleton to help your fight, all while enemies are knocked back from you.
When facing a crowd or even PvP players, this can give you more numbers for an advantage, and save you from potentially fatal damage. This Unholy ability is also obtained from Nicholaus the Fallen.
Best Illusion Abilities in V Rising
Wisp Dance
Wisp Dance will summon at least three wisps that will form a protective circle around your character, acting as a shield that causes enemies that are close to take 25% magic damage. However, you can recast the ability to launch the wisps as projectiles, each dealing 50% magic damage, while causing the Weaken status effect that reduces their damage output by 30% for five seconds.
Protecting oneself while retaining the ability to cause harm and weakening the enemy, this is a great way to stack the odds in your favor. That said,it is a late-game ability, obtained from defeating Forecrusher the Behemoth in the Cursed Forest.
Spectral Assassin
Give yourself some help with the Spectral Assassin ability, which brings a shadowy friend into the mix for 6 seconds that does 125% magic damage to anyone that is unfortunate enough to be in the area. Each hit also knocks back the enemy, while also inflicting the Weaken status effect.
Crowd controlling becomes easier with this ability, and Leandra the Shadow Priestess will be the one you have to kill to obtain this ability. She can be found in the Dunley Farmlands.
Best Chaos Abilities in V Rising
Chaos Volley
A ranged attack that may seem basic, but is actually quite a useful one in all situations. Chaos Volley hurls two chaos bolts in quick succession, dealing 125% of overall magic damage, while applying a constant Chaos Burn status effect, dealing damage over time.
If you find yourself at range and need a good damage dealer, then Chaos Volley is what you will need. You can obtain this ability from Lidia the Chaos Archer in Farbane Woods.