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Vampiric Powers give your character additional skills with various effects in Season 2 of Diablo IV, unlocked when you find special Pact Armor from random drops around Sanctuary. The Blood of Lilith protects you from becoming a fully turned vampire, allowing you to wield supernatural abilities. A rare resource can be collected to upgrade your new powers that draw upon the darkest magics regardless of your character's class.
Those making a strong Necromancer class build in Diablo 4 do not have to worry about Vampiric Powers altering any Blood-related skills. While the Season of Blood content may seem similar, the gear and abilities given are available for every class in the game. No power offered is class-specific, meaning that any character can wield the same universal effects as long as they meet the right requirements.
How to Unlock Vampiric Powers
Around 22 Vampiric Powers are available to unlock through the Potent Blood currency introduced in Diablo 4's Season 2 content. You are also able to gain the vampire inspired abilities by meeting Reputation goals during Blood Harvest Events from the Hunter's Acclaim or from quest rewards in the Season of Blood campaign. You may have five Powers equipped at a time through the Sanguine Circle in your character menu.
You can bring up the Season Tab for your Vampiric Powers in the same way you accessed your Malignant Powers in Diablo 4 to see all the available skills you can buy with Potent Blood, along with those you already have active in the Sanguine Circle.
You may notice there are three different symbols called Pacts above the Powers within the Sanguine Circle. In order to use unlocked Vampiric skills, you need to have a number of Pacts from each category depending on the strength of the Power. For example, a Level 1 Power might demand a few Pacts, while a Level 3 ability will demand several Pacts of every type before you can use a Vampiric trait in Diablo 4.
How to Get Vampiric Pacts from Armor
To get the Pacts you need to wield your Vampiric Powers, you need to find Armor pieces like Helmets, Gloves, or Boots from random drops around the map. There are three types of Pacts Ferocity, Divinity, and Eternity all have different values depending on how strong a gear part is when your character finds it. If you are playing on a higher World Tier in Diablo 4, the items you find have a greater max limit of Pacts imbued into them.
The Powers listed in the Sanguine Circle will tell you which Pacts they need before they can be activated. Simply equip the Armor pieces with the right Pacts to your character to meet the prerequisites of various Powers in Diablo 4. As an example, if you want to equip a Level 1 Power that demands 2 Divinity Pacts, you cannot place it into your Sanguine Circle until you are wearing gear that fulfills that condition.
How to Find Potent Blood
Once you have Armor with the right Pacts, you'll need to harvest a lot of Potent Blood currency to gain new Vampiric Powers or upgrade your favorite abilities. Seasonal events called Blood Harvest are where you can find Potent Blood, dropped by Blood Seeker special enemies. These events are marked on your map similarly to how other World Events take place across the map of Sanctuary in Diablo 4.
When you enter a Blood Harvest, you need to find Blood Lures to attract the Seekers toward your character. Doing this will let you fight these powerful vampire monsters in Diablo 4 and kill them for a variety of loot. Armor with Pacts may drop in addition to Seeker Keys and Potent Blood. Keys found here are able to open Seeker Caches that may contain even more Potent Blood than you could obtain from regular drops.
Every Available Vampiric Power Effect
Vampiric Power effects are divided into two categories, Minor and Major, that usually tie into their overall Level for any character to use. Most Minor Powers demand 1–3 Pacts, while Major Powers typically cost far more with 6 Pacts of varying types. Some Powers will require multiple Pacts of the same type, while others may require you to mix and match items with unique combinations in Diablo 4.
A new effect exclusive to Vampiric Powers is the Vampiric Curse, which lets you store up to 8 enemy souls after you kill them. Using a Defensive, Agility, or Macabre skill unleashes stored souls to attack enemies targeted by your character.
Every Minor Vampiric Ability | ||
|---|---|---|
Vampiric Power | Pacts Required | Description |
Anticipation |
| Your Ultimate Skills gain 20% Cooldown Reduction. Your Ultimate Skills gain 12% increased damage for each nearby enemy affected by your Damage Over Time effects. |
Coven's Fangs |
| Your Conjuration, Companion, Minion, and Bat Familiar attacks deal 52% increased damage to Crowd Controlled enemies. Lucky Hit: Your Conjuration, Companion, Minion, and Bat Familiar have up to a 30% chance to inflict Vampiric Curse when hitting enemies. |
Domination |
| You deal 24% increased damage to enemies who are Stunned, Immobilized, Frozen, or Feared. If they're also Injured and not an Elite, they're instantly killed. |
Feed the Coven |
| Lucky Hit: Conjuration, Companion, Minion and Bat Familiar attacks have up to a 60% chance to restore 10 Primary Resource to you and increase your Damage by 10% for 4 seconds. |
Hectic |
| For every 5 Basic Skills you cast, one of your active Cooldowns is reduced by 2 seconds. |
Hemomancy |
| Your attacks deal 80% of your Maximum Life as Physical damage to nearby enemies. This can only occur once every 4 seconds. You heal for 1% of your Maximum Life for each enemy damaged this way. |
Infection |
| Hitting enemies with direct damage infects them with Pox. Inflicting Pox 8 times on an enemy expunges their infection, dealing 70% Poison damage. |
Jagged Spikes |
| Thorns have a 10% chance to deal 300% increased damage and Chill enemies for 8%. |
Prey on the Weak |
| You deal 16% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. Enemies are Vulnerable while affected by a Vampiric Curse from your other Vampiric Powers. |
Rampart |
| After not moving for 3 seconds, you gain a Barrier for 40% of your Maximum Life for 6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 20 seconds. |
Ravenous |
| Lucky Hit: Up to a 20% chance to increase your Attack Speed by 40% of your Total Movement Speed for 6 seconds. |
Resilience |
| You gain 1% Damage Reduction for each 2% Life you are missing. |
Sanguine Brace |
| When you kill an enemy, Fortify for 6% of your Base Life. While you have more Fortify than half of your Maximum Life, you gain 8% Critical Strike Chance. |
Terror |
| When struck, you have a 14% chance to Fear nearby enemies and Slow them by 80% for 2 seconds. You are guaranteed to Critically Strike enemies who are Feared. |
Undying |
| Casting Skills heals you for 3% Life. Double this bonus while below 50% Life. |
Every Major Vampiric Ability | ||
|---|---|---|
Accursed Touch |
| Lucky Hit: Up to a 44% chance to inflict Vampiric Curse on enemies. Enemies with the Vampiric Curse have a 15% chance to spread it to other surrounding enemies. Accursed Souls deal 200% increased damage. |
Bathe in Blood |
| While Channeling a Skill, you form a pool of blood beneath you. While channeling a skill in a pool, your Channeled Skills deal 40% increased damage and you gain 30% Damage Reduction. A pool can only form once every 8 seconds. |
Blood Boil |
| When your Core Skills Overpower an enemy, you spawn 3 Volatile Blood Drops. Collecting a Volatile Blood Drop causes it to explode, dealing 60% Physical damage around you. Every 20 seconds, your next Skill is guaranteed to Overpower. |
Call Familiar |
| Casting a Mastery, Weapon Mastery, Macabre, Wrath, or Imbuement Skill calls a bat ally to attack nearby enemies, dealing 80% Physical damage with a 30% chance to Stun. |
Flowing Veins |
| You deal 60% increased Damage Over Time to enemies that are moving or affected by a Vampiric Curse. |
Metamorphosis |
| When you Evade you turn into a cloud of bats, becoming Unstoppable for 4 seconds. Enemies along your path take 160% Physical damage and are inflicted with Vampiric Curse. |
Moonrise |
| Hitting an enemy with a Basic Skill grants you 4% Attack Speed for 10 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Upon reaching maximum stacks, you enter a Vampiric Bloodrage, gaining 160% Basic Skill damage and 15% Movement Speed for 10 seconds. |
Collecting Pact Armor in order to unlock Vampiric Power effects in Season 2 of Diablo IV will no doubt lead to many new, powerful character builds that will utterly destroy any evil that befalls the people of Sanctuary once again.
Diablo 4
- Franchise:
- Diablo
- Platform(s):
- PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Microsoft Windows
- Released:
- 2023-06-02
- Developer(s):
- Blizzard Team 3, Blizzard Albany
- Publisher(s):
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Genre(s):
- Action RPG, Hack and Slash
- Multiplayer:
- Blizzard Entertainment
- ESRB:
- M
- Summary:
- Players are set to return to the world of Sanctuary in Diablo 4. Set after the events of Diablo 3's Reaper of Souls DLC, Lilith, the daughter of Mephisto, has been summoned to the world and has assumed power in the absence of demons and angels. Lilith establishes Sanctuary as a haven for refugees caught in the crossfire between hell and heaven. Wanting to protect her kind from the recently emerged Nephelem, Lilith is banished to the void. Now she has returned, seeking revenge for the crimes committed against her. Players will choose between staple class choices, such as Barbarian, Sorceress, Druid, Rogue, and Necromancer, as they battle alone or together against Lilith's forces.
- How Long To Beat:
- 34 hours
- Prequel:
- Diablo 3
