Draining an enemy with a high blood type is an easy way to buff yourself in V Rising. With a variety of bonuses given depending on the type of blood, it’s important to know what blood grants what bonus. Here’s a full overview of blood types, their bonuses, and how to get the higher tiers in V Rising.
Blood Types in V Rising
There are seven different blood types that you can drain and take on in V Rising.
- Creature
- Brute
- Scholar
- Worker
- Rogue
- Warrior
- Mutant
Each blood type has its own tiered bonuses, which are determined by the percent of that blood you drink. Not all enemies will be 100% of that blood. For example, you can drain a bear that only has 13% Creature blood. You’ll see these bonuses when you mouse over the enemy or over their heads if you have the Blood Hunger ability. There are five tiers, with each tier unlocked depending on the percentage of blood.
- Tier 1: 1%
- Tier 2: 30%
- Tier 3: 60%
- Tier 4: 90%
- Tier 5: 100%
Once you unlock prisoners and the cells, you can bring those with a high percentage blood type to your castle. Draining these prisoners repeatedly will give you a steady supply of consistent blood with the buffs you prefer. This can take awhile, but I’ve found a few 90% and up Blood Types while wandering around the Farbane Woods or Dunley Farmlands. Even the smallest amount of any Blood type will give you a boost over being Frail, your natural state when you spawn, so keep an eye out while wandering.
Blood Type Buffs
Here are the list of buffs for each Blood type in V Rising. In the beginning of the game you’ll run into more creature, rogue, and warrior Blood types, with the rest coming as you progress more.
Creature
- Tier 1: 3-15% Movement Speed
- Tier 2: 10-25 Increased Sun Resistance rating
- Tier 3: 10-20% Damage Reduction
- Tier 4: 150% Increased Health Regeneration
- Tier 5: Boost all above effects by 30%
Brute
- Tier 1: 7.5-12.5% Primary attack Life Leech
- Tier 2: 7.5-15% Increased Primary Attack Speed and gain 1 Gear Level
- Tier 3: Healing received increased by 20% – 35%. Heal self for 4% of your victim’s health when striking a killing blow
- Tier 4: 6% chance per relative health recovered to boost movement speed by 20% and damage of primary attacks by 25%
- Tier 5: Boost all above effects by 30%
Mutant
- Tier 1: 25-50% reduced Blood Drain rate
- Tier 2: 10-25 Increased All Resistance rating
- Tier 3: 10-20% Increased movement speed while Shapeshifting
- Tier 4: 40% chance to convert the victim to a random Mutant when killing them with a Bite
- Tier 5: Boost all above effects by 30%
Rogue
- Tier 1: 10-20% chance to Critical Strike on Weapon Attacks
- Tier 2: 8-15% Movement Speed
- Tier 3: 12-25% Reduced cooldown on Travel Skill, 100% chance to critical strike on next physical attack after using a travel skill
- Tier 4: 50% Chance on Critical Strike to expose victim’s armor, increasing damage taken from all sources by 15% for 4s
- Tier 5: Boost all above effects by 30%
Scholar
- Tier 1: 10-20% Increased Spell Power
- Tier 2: 8-15% Reduced cooldown on Spells
- Tier 3: 5-10% Spell Life Leech
- Tier 4: 15% Chance to reset spell cooldown on cast
- Tier 5: Boost all above effects by 30%
Warrior
- Tier 1: 10-20% Increased Physical Power
- Tier 2: 8-15% Reduced cooldown on Weapon Skills
- Tier 3: 8-15% Reduced damage taken and 25% increased damage when striking enemies at full health
- Tier 4: 15% Chance to parry an attack reducing damage taken by 50%. Parrying an attack increases your own damage by 20%.
- Tier 5: Boost all above effects by 30%
Worker
- Tier 1: 10-30% Increased Resource yield
- Tier 2: 15-25% Increased Damage against Resource Objects
- Tier 3: 10-20% Increased Mount Gallop Speed
- Tier 4: 3% chance to instantly destroy a resource node and trigger a burst of speed
- Tier 5: Boost all above effects by 30
Those are all the bonuses you can get from different blood types in V Rising. If you’re aiming for a certain build, or need to boost an area you’re lacking it, finding the corresponding blood type is something you’ll want to pay attention to.
Check out the rest of our V Rising guides for more help in game, including how to get oil, what the best weapons in the game are or how to salvage.
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