V Rising: A Complete Guide To Abilities

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V Rising features a myriad of vampire abilities for players to use. From shapeshifting to summoning unholy minions, there's a skill for just about every style of play. There are skills for your vampire, weapons, and abilities tied to specific disciplines of magic.

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Finding the right combination of weapon and character abilities can be daunting, especially when you don't know what each skill does. This guide will go over how abilities work in V Rising, how to unlock them, and cover every ability in the game—including every vampire skill, the game's plethora of spells, and every weapon ability you can use.

V Rising features three sources of abilities: vampire powers, weapon abilities, and character abilities. Vampire powers are available to all builds and grant utility benefits such as health regeneration outside of combat or the ability to morph into certain forms. Weapon abilities are tied to certain weapon archetypes and cannot be changed. The quality of the item determines how many weapon abilities you have available. The better the item, the more skills you'll have.

Finally, your character can also run four abilities from various disciplines: Blood, Unholy, Illusion, Chaos, and Frost. Each of these disciplines has the following ability types:

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Harvesting V Blood from bosses is your main source of new abilities. Your castle's Blood Altar will pinpoint the location of V Blood enemies you've yet to face. Defeating these enemies and feasting on their blood will unlock new crafting blueprints and powers. Vampire and character abilities are all earned from V Blood hunts. You can view your unlocked abilities by pressing "J" at any time. This is also where you allocate