V Rising: Combat Tips And Tricks
V Rising can be a surprisingly difficult game when starting out. Enemies are relentless, hit hard, and can even disable a portion of your health bar if you take enough damage. Surviving in Vardaron is going to require a good castle, constant research and crafting, and a good understanding of this game's health and combat systems.
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In this guide, we'll be providing some tips and tricks to help you survive V Rising's tougher combat encounters in the early game. We'll cover how the health system works, how to restore your HP, and we'll give some general tips that will make tough skirmishes a little easier.
V Rising doesn't spend much time explaining its health system, yet it's different enough from most games that it warrants its own small section. Whenever you enter combat and begin to take damage, you'll lose a portion of your health. Lose a large chunk of your HP (about 25%), and part of your health bar will be grayed out for the remainder of combat. Grayed-out HP cannot be healed until combat ends, even if you use Blood Mend.
Recovering any lost HP that isn't grayed out can be done through the use of some abilities and consumable items, notably salves and potions. Once you are no longer in combat, you'll need to use the Blood Mend vampire ability to recover any grayed-out HP, consuming your blood gauge for each second it's in use.
Your blood gauge is not your health bar; it's a second resource that determines your character's passive buffs. This gauge decays slowly with time, doing so more rapidly if you activate Blood Mend or Human Form. When your blood gauge is empty, you'll lose a small amount of HP per second until your health reaches one point. You recover your blood gauge by
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