Uncover every weapon and vampire ability in V Rising with this in-depth guide.

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:

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 abilities to your hotbar and vampire power wheel.

Weapon abilities are unlocked differently. Instead of hunting down targets, you must use a weapon of a certain quality to unlock its other abilities. All weapons can use their Left Click attack by default. A second ability unlocks when you use Copper weapons, and the third ability unlocks if you're using a weapon made of Iron or higher quality. Each weapon archetype has a unique ability set, although you cannot change the skills provided by the weapon itself. If you want to swap your weapon abilities, you'll need to switch weapons.

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Most Chaos skills have a means of healing you or nearby allies, the magnitude of which is determined by either your spell power or maximum health.

Most Unholy abilities inflict Amplify, a status effect that causes the target to take 25% more damage from all sources for the next five seconds.

Illusion skills can inflict the Weaken status effect, causing the target to deal 30% less damage for the next five seconds.

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Chaos abilities inflict a damage-over-time effect called Chaos Burn. Enemies afflicted with this debuff take a small amount of damage each second for a few seconds.

Frost abilities inflict Chill onto targets, covering them in a layer of frost. Hitting them again will freeze the target, preventing them from making actions or moving. Enemy players are frozen for half as long as PvE enemies.

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