V Rising is a new survival where you play the game as a vampire. Unlike many other survivals, V Rising has new elements that players enjoy in the wide range of gameplay features. In our V Rising Beginner’s Guide, you will see all of them.
Game Modes
The are several official server modes:
- PvE: Purely PvE servers, no PvP or castle siege between players. Recommended for 1-4 players.
- PvP: Servers with PvP between players. When you die you will lose what we have in the inventory but not the equipment or the tools. Recommended for 3-4 players.
- PvP+: PvP full loot servers. When you die you will lose everything that your character has. Recommended for 4 players.
- PvP Duo: Similar to PvP servers but only allow 2 people per clan (group). Recommended for 1-2 players
Journal Quests
V Rising has a system of quests that is called Journal Quests, you can see them in the top left corner of the interface. They are not obligatory and you can ignore them, but if you follow the quest line you will learn how to play. So you really should ignore the quests because they will show you the way to unlock many features of V Rising’s core mechanics and key features are claimed as rewards for completing set tasks. These rewards can include recipes for essential items, blueprints for core building structures, and even more.
Avoid Sunlight
Remember that you are playing as a vampire in V Rising and that means that you need to avoid the Sun. There is a dynamic Day and Night cycle in the hours you see below:
- Daylight hours: from 10 AM to 6 PM.
- Night hours: from 7 PM to 9 AM.
You will get damaged by the sunlight so it is better to explore Vardoran or stay in your castle.
Blood Types
Your survival needs you to eat. Vampires drink blood that has several types in V Rising. There are Blood Types and Blood Quality. You can feed on hostile, living humanoids and creatures with low health.
There are 6 different types of blood you can get in-game, each one with its own buffs. To change your blood you have to drink blood from enemies, to do this you first have to lower their HP until you can press F. You will get a Type and a % of quality. Higher quality grants you more buffs in that blood type.
If you drink high-quality blood you will get more bonuses. But the properties don’t stack. If you drink from different species you will get the properties of the last creature.
Skill System
V rising is a top-down game where you need to dodge projectiles with WASD controls and aim with the cursor. Abilities are as usual bound to the keyboard.
You can have 7 different skills assigned to your action bar: 3 weapon techniques, travel skill, 2 basic skills and Ultimate.
Weapon skills
Each weapon has its own skills and they change every time you switch your active weapon. Primary Attack is available to all weapons, while 2nd skill is unlocked only for Copper or higher quality weapons and 3rd slot for weapons Iron or higher quality.
- Sword: Primary Attack, Whirlwind and Shockwave.
- Axe: Primary Attack, Frenzy and X-Strike.
- Mace: Primary Attack, Crushig Blow and Smack.
- Crossbow: Primary Attack, Rain of Bolts and Snapshot.
- Reaper: Primary Attack, Tendon Swing and Howling Reaper.
- Karambit: Primary Attack, Elusive Strike and Camouflage.
- Spear: Primary Attack, A Thousand Spears and Harpoon.
Magic Abilities
There are 5 different groups of skills in V Rising: Blood, Unholy, Illusion, Chaos, and Frost. You can combine skills from different groups to make your own build. To unlock these skills you have to beat different V Blood bosses that you will find in the world.
- Blood – focus on life steal and self heals.
- Unholy – focus on debuffs.
- Illusion – focus on summoning illusions.
- Chaos – focus on Chaos debuff, which causes damage over time.
- Frost – focus on chill and frozen debuffs.
Each of these groups has Basic, Travel and Ultimate skills.
- Basic skills are active skills, like ranged spells, AoE, shields and more.
- Travel skills are used for movement and dodging attacks as well as repositioning yourself.
- Ultimate skills are more powerful than the others but have a higher cooldown.
Vampire Powers
In addition to skills, there are 10 unique Vampire Powers that you can unlock by completing Quests and defeating V blood carries. These abilities you will see in the action wheel to use them. Many of these powers can boost your resistance to elements and damage taken, health regeneration, shapeshifting into different forms that can disguise you from humans, increase your travel speed, and more.
- Rat Form: Turn into a small rat and blend into the environment making it harder for enemies to detect you. Taking damage breaks the effect.
- How to Unlock: Defeat the Putrid Rat
- Wolf Form: Turn into a swift creature increasing your movement speed by 45%. Taking damage breaks the effect.
- How to Unlock: Defeat Alpha Wolf
- Bear Form: Turn into a powerful creature able to destroy massive resources. Increases your resistances by 25, movement speed by 15% and reduces damage taken by 25%. You regenerate health slightly quicker while in this form.
- How to Unlock: Defeat Ferocious Bear
- Human Form: Turn into a human allowing you to sneak around unnoticed in human settlements. Be careful though, the strong-willed can see through your disguise. While in human form you can interact with traders. Human Form greatly increases the blood consumption rate.
- How to Unlock: Defeat Beatrice the Tailor
- Bat Form: Turn into a bat and fly high into the air allowing you to cross impassable terrain. Cannot be used while carrying resources, while indoors and requires a valid landing location when exiting the form. Beware of the sun!
- How to Unlock: Defeat Nightmarshal Styx the Sunderer
- Toad Form: Turn into a toad able to jump high into the air. Taking damage breaks the effect.
- How to Unlock: Defeat The Duke of Balaton
- Blood Hunger: Allows you to instantly recognize blood type and blood quality of nearby units.
- How to Unlock: Defeat Tristan the Vampire Hunter
- Expose Vein: Lower your guard and allow other vampires to drink your blood. Splits your blood pool in half as you share your blood and blood type with another vampire.
- Blood Mend: Consume 0.2 liter blood per second to recover 4% of your maximum health.
- Dominating Presence: Grants you seductive abilities allowing you to charm enemy targets. You cannot use normal spells while in Dominating Presence.
Bosses – V Blood Carriers
You can press O to check all Bosses in the game. To be able to see what skills, recipes or things that this bosses can unlock you have to be close to the level of the boss. To be able to find this Bosses you have to build a Blood Altar in your castle. This will allow you to track them and be able to find them in the world. A line of blood will show up every 5 seconds around your character showing you in which direction you have to go.
These NPCs are the source of achieving new powers and knowledge so they are pretty tough. In addition, each V Blood carrier offers a unique reward, which can range from abilities that allow you to shapeshift into different forms such as Humans and Bears, key Structure unlocks for your Castle, as well as essential crafting recipes such as empty vials.
Building Castle
The castle in V Rising can be unlocked via the questline. Just follow the main quest and you will get to it. Castles are also very important in V Rising, there you can store your loot and hide from the sunlight. Also, you will unlock the ability to build key production machinery that can be used to refine raw materials, research powerful new ancient techniques and recipes, and craft powerful weapons, armour, and stat-increasing consumables.
First, you have to choose a good location for your castle. It’s highly recommended to build it on a mountain and not in a plain field:
- Place the Castle Hearth. Keep in mind that this is the core of your castle so build it somewhere where you can protect it easier.
- Fill it with Blood Essence. You can get this from most humanoid enemies.
- Place borders. They have to be connected to the Castle Hearth and you have a limit on them. To increase the border limit you need to upgrade the Castle Hearth.
- Place walls, furniture and all the stuff you need.
Servants
Servants are humanoids that you charm and command them to hunt for treasure, knowledge, and blood. They will also boost your Blood Type and Blood Quality.
Before being able to get servants you will need to be in Dominating Presence this will allows you to use Kiss of the Vampire a skill who seduce humans to make them follow you. You will unlock this skill following the quest line, just right after you build the first Servant Coffin and interact with it.
How to get a servant:
- Find a human, you can look for them in human towns, farms roads, military camps or other places.
- Check is blood type %, the higher the better.
- Cast Kiss of the Vampire. This will be draining HP from the target and when the HP is below 30% the human will be seduced and will follow you. (You can lower the HP first by attacking the target and then use the Kiss).
- Bring the seduced human to your castle.
- Put the human in a Servant Coffin
- Wait until the human is transformed into a servant.
- Raise your servant.
To make your servants work you will need to build a Castle Throne to be able to give them orders. Sitting on the Throne will show up a map where you can see zones where you can send your servant to gather resources for you. Keep in mind you have to equip your servants to make them have a good gear score before sending them on expeditions. Your servants can fail the expedition and die, but you can resurrect them with blood in their respective Servant Coffin.
Ingots
Ingots are specific resources needed for crafting and building in V Rising but you need to know where to find the ore.
- Copper Ingot
- Craft: Melt Copper Ore in the Furnace.
- Locations: You can obtain Copper Ore in almost all zones of the map or find the Bandit Copper Mine in the Farbane Woods zone.
- Iron Ingot
- Craft: Melt Iron ore in the Furnace.
- Recipe: Defeat Quincey the Bandit King.
- Locations: You can obtain Iron Ore in almost all parts of the map (not in Farbane Woods) or find the Haunted Iron Mine in Dunley Farmlands.
- Dark Silver Ingot
- Craft: Melt Scourgestone and Silver Ore in the Furnace.
- Recipe: Defeat Octavian the Militia Captain.
- Locations: You can obtain Silver Ore in the Silverlight Hills area or in Sacred Silver Mine (is a zone in Silverlight Hills). You can obtain Scourgestone from high-level mobs or in Church of the Damned (which is a spot north of Dunley Farmlands).
- Gold Ingot
- Craft: Melt Sulphur and Golden Jewellery in the Furnace.
- Recipe: Defeat Azariel the Sunbringer.
- Locations: You can obtain Golden Jewellery from V Bosses or rare drops from elite monsters. You can obtain Sulphur in almost all zones of the map.
Buffs and World Events
There are also World Events in V Rising. They occur randomly during the whole day cycle. One of them is the Blood Moon. It boosts the effects of your current blood type by 20% and in addition increases your movement speed by 10%. This comes in handy when you don’t have servants that can give you extra bonuses as well.
Also, you will sometimes see NPC battles and get the advantage of that. They are not necessary world events, but you can stumble upon them and loot valuable and helpful resources such as Bones, Animal Hides, and Blood Essences.
Soul Shards
Soul shards are one of the main objectives in the game. There are only 3 soul shards in PvP servers, 1 of each type and you need to fight for them. In PvE servers, it can be more than 3 shards total and more than 1 of each type. Obtaining shards is a high priority due to the buffs you will get from them.
To get a Shard you have to be the first one to kill each one of the last three bosses in the game:
- Gorecrusher the Behemoth
- The Winged Horror
- Solarus the Immaculate
When you kill the boss you will get the shard as a normal item and you will have to carry it to your castle, but keep in mind that when you have a shard in your inventory you will be moving slowly and you will get more damage from your enemies. Each shard will grant you a 2 hours buff with different resistances and powers.
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