Welcome to the ESO Vampire Guide. Yous might ask yourself how good is a Vampire in ESO? The guide here is split in three parts and will explicate all aspects of Vampirism in ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). In the first role of the ESO Vampire Guide we are going to take a expect at the nuts, the second part is about Vampire mechanics and in the final part nosotros are taking a look at avant-garde things such every bit how and why Vampire is used in PvE and PvP.

Table of Contents

Part i – Basics

  • What is Vampirism and how to get infected
    • Crown Store
    • Infection from Bloodfiend NPCs
    • Infection from other players
  • Vampire Shrine Locations for all Alliances
  • Vampire Quest
  • Appearance equally Vampire
    • Spooky Vampire
    • Hide Vampirism
  • Cure Vampirism

Part ii – Mechanics

  • Vampire Levels & Leveling
  • Vampire Stages
  • How to increase or subtract Vampire Stages
  • Vampire Abilities & Passives
  • Vampire all-time Race?
  • Vampire Sets

Part 3 – Advanced

  • Strengths & Weaknesses of Vampires (PvE & PvP)

Part ane – ESO Vampire Basics

What is Vampirism and how to get infected

Vampirism in ESO is too known as "Sanguinare Vampiris". It is an affliction your character tin can take hold of that has benefits and drawbacks. Before you can be a Vampire in ESO, you need to be infected by "Noxiphilic Sanguivoria/Vampirism". In one case you have this debuff in your character sheet, you accept to complete a quest in lodge to turn into a total Vampire in ESO.

In that location are iii unlike means how you lot can go Vampirism in ESO. You can simply purchase Vampirism via Crown Store, this will instantly turn you into a Vampire. You can get infected by another player or via a Bloodfiend NPC, once infected yous have the debuff "Noxiphilic Sanguivoria/Vampirism" on you. With this debuff y'all can become to one of the iii Vampire Shrines to consummate the quest and plough into a Vampire.

Crown Store Method

The easiest manner to plough into a Vampire is past purchasing Vampirism via Crown Store. It costs a total of 1500 Crowns, which is a lot and usually not worth it because the other two ways price nil and it takes around twenty minutes to cease the process with the quest.

Infection from Bloodfiend NPCs Method

The most hard style to get infected is via Bloodfiends that tin be found in Reaper'south March, Bangkorai and The Rift. They commonly spawn around midnight and vanish in the morning during the Blood Moon phase. They don't spawn every night, it is quite tricky to really find them and even if they damage you the infection is not guaranteed, y'all might have to try several times. I don't recommend trying to become it this way, getting infected via another role player is way easier and volition be explained below.

Infection from other Players Method (recommended)

The easiest fashion to get Vampirism without having to pay via Crown Store is getting a bite from another actor that already has Vampirism. To go infected by some other actor, you need to be shut to one of the Vampire Shrines and you need to brand sure that the player that will infect you has the Claret Ritual skill unlocked. Players that are already infected with Lycanthropy, tin can not be infected by Vampirism.


Vampire Shrine and Bloodfiend Locations for all Alliances

Here is a map of the three Zones (Reaper's March, Bangkorai and The Rift) where you can find the shrines and the Bloodfiends.

  • Reaper's March (Aldmeri Rule)
  • Bangkorai (Daggerfall Covenant)
  • The Rift (Ebonheart Pact)

Vampire Quest

After you take been bitten, brand sure to read the Formalism Scrolls and enter the "Monument of Lamae Bal" Dungeon. Once you have entered the dungeon, talk to the NPC with the quest marker. Now just follow the quest log and check out my pictures beneath, all you lot take to do is get to the ii basins, kickoff on the right side and then to the left side. You lot have to scout the vision on each basin, once done brand sure to destroy the monument, like you can see in the movie below, stride 1 to step six.

Vampire Guide ESO

Once you take finished those half dozen steps, you have to go to the centre into the pool filled with blood. Lamae Bal volition announced and commencement the ritual. Your health volition drain, but don't worry, you aren't going to die!

After the ritual is finished, y'all are obliged to kill 10 Worm Assassins in the cave once you go through that door on the correct side of the area. I marked all the Worm Assassins on the map, then you lot don't miss any of them. One time past the door, you accept to bound down into the h2o, you lot will non receive any damage so just go ahead.

Here you tin find all the locations of the Worm Assassins that you need to kill in lodge to complete the quest.

After you accept killed all the Worm Assassins in the cave, you can return to Lamae Bal, she will give you the Vampire Skill-line equally a reward, congratz!


Appearance as Vampire

In one case y'all are a Vampire, your advent will change. Your pare gets more stake with every Vampire stage. Check out the following moving picture where I showcase the different stages with the skin color.

Vampire Stages Showcase 1 - 4 ESO

Spooky Vampire

In case you want to create a very spooky vampire, I can recommend a combination of a few things similar here. Night colors like black and red fit well with the looks of a Vampire. Styles like Fang Lair, Stormlord, Glenmoril Wyrd tin also make for pretty good combinations for your outfit. Personalities that you could use that work well with Vampire are the Worm Wizard, Telvanni Magister, Douchess or Scholar.

Here is ane example of how your Vampire could look like:

Hat: None
Shoulders: Stormlord Pauldrons – CAB
Chest: Fang Lair Cuirass – CAB/HC/HC
Hands: Glenmoril Wyrd Gloves – CAB/HC/CAB
Belt: Glenmoril Wyrd Sash – HC
Legs: Malacath Greaves – CAB/HC/HC
Boots: Fang Lair Shoes – CAB/CAB
Weapon: Bloodspawn staff – CAB/HC/CAB

Used Dyes: CAB = Coldharbour Ash Black, HC = Hollowfang Cruor

Hide Vampirism

There are a few ways how you tin hide the vampire pale skin. All these pictures here have been taken with Vampirism Phase four active. The skins that yous encounter here all hide Vampirism:

  • Acme Purified Skin
  • Blackmarrow Necromancer Pare
  • Maormer Skin
  • Decayed Zombie Skin
  • Arctic Rime Skin
  • Peryite's Afflicted Peel
Hide Vampirism, Vampire Guide ESO

How do I Cure Vampirism in ESO?

Curing Vampirism in ESO tin can be done in two ways. You tin can observe a NPC in the last zone of the base game in the Mages Guild building and inquire him to cleanse the curse for a small corporeality of gold or you tin buy a cure vampire token from the crown store, which would be a total waste product of money because this method hither only costs around 693 gold and takes 5 minutes to complete.

  • Ebonheart Pact: The Rift in the Riften town Mages Guild edifice.
  • Aldmeri Dominion: Reaper's March in the Rawl'kha town Mages Guild building.
  • Daggerfall Covenant: Bangkorai in the Evermore town Mages Lodge building.

Part 2 – Mechanics

In the second part we are going to take a closer wait at all the mechanics of Vampires. There are benefits and drawbacks to each Vampire stage in ESO, we are also going to take a look at the skills and passives. There are also a few things to mention about races and sets for Vampires.

Vampire Levels

There are a total of ten Vampire Levels that will unlock both active and passive perks.

Ultimate & Skills for Vampire

ane. Claret Scion Ultimate

The Blood Scion Ultimate lets you transform into a Vampire Lord for a short duration and boost your stats like crazy.

Vampire Lord Ultimate ESO

2. Eviscarate Skill

The Eviscarate skill is the spammable ability from the Vampire skill-line. Depending on what morph you choose the skill either costs Health or Magicka.

3. Claret Frenzy Skill

The Claret Frenzy skill is a toggle that can be activated or deactivated at any time. It boosts your Weapon and Spell Damage by a lot but drains Health.

4. Vampiric Bleed Skill

The Vampire Bleed skill lets yous aqueduct an set on that will deal Magic Damage and heal you for some of the damage done. Depending on what morph you choose you either go Stamina or Ultimate bkac.

five. Mesmerize Skill

The Mesmerize Skill is an AoE stun that tin be used confronting enemies. The stun cannot exist blocked.

six. Mist Form Skill

The Mist Form skill is a toggle that allows you to mitigate 75% of incoming damage.

Passives for Vampire

7. Feed Passive

The Feed passive lets you feed on enemies, if y'all feed on enemies your Vampire Stage volition increment.

eight. Dark Stalker Passive

The Dark Stalker passive lets you lot ignore the movement speed penalization while sneaking. Information technology also decreases the time information technology takes to enter sneak by 50%.

9. Strike from the Shadows Passive

The Strike from the Shadows passive requires Vampire Stage 2 or higher. You will gain 300 Spell and Weapon damage when you exit sneak, invisibility or Mist Form toggle.

10. Blood Ritual Passive

The Blood Ritual passive allows you to infect another histrion with the Vampire infection.

11. Undeath Passive

The Undeath passive requires Vampire Stage 3 or higher. It reduces your impairment taken by up to thirty% based on your missing Health.

12. Unnatural Move Passive

The Unnatural Movement passive requires Vampire Stage 4 or college. It reduces the cost of sprint by l%. If yous sprint for more than than 3 seconds, you lot automatically become invisible.

Notation: Vampire will naturally level upwardly while you are getting normal feel. If you become more experience per hour, you lot will as well reach level ten quicker.


Vampire Stages

There are a total of four different vampire stages, each stage comes with benefits and drawbacks, you have to make sure to choice the right stage for your needs. As you can see, if yous are a stage 1 Vampire, you will have no drawbacks in combat but also no benefits. That means you lot don't have to cleanse Vampirism every time yous are doing fire heavy content, you tin instead just reduce your stage to i and become no drawbacks.

  • Stage 1
    • -10% Wellness Recovery
    • +5% Extra Fire Impairment
    • +3% Regular Power Cost
    • -6% Vampire Power Price
    • Feed & Dark Stalker are active on all Vampire Stages
  • Stage 2
    • -30% Health Recovery
    • +8% Extra Burn Damage
    • +5% Regular Ability Cost
    • -10% Vampire Ability Price
    • Strike from the Shadows is active
  • Phase three
    • -sixty% Health Recovery
    • +13% Actress Fire Damage
    • +eight% Regular Ability Cost
    • -xvi% Vampire Power Cost
    • Strike from the Shadows & Undeath are agile
  • Stage four
    • -100% Health Recovery
    • +20% Extra Fire Damage
    • +12% Regular Ability Price
    • -24% Vampire Ability Cost
    • Strike from the Shadows & Undeath & Unnatural Move are active

How to increase or decrease Vampire Stages

Increase

  • Feed on NPCs to increment your Vampire Stage.
  • If you are drinking the Corrupting Bloody Mara you will instantly jump to stage 4 Vampirism.

Corrupting Bloody Mara Drink buff food ESO

Subtract

  • If you don't feed on NPCs the stages volition decrease over long periods of fourth dimension.
  • Use the Purifying Bloody Mara Potable, every Double Bloody Mara Drinkable will reduce your Vampire phase by 1.

Purifying Bloody Mara Drink buff food ESO


Vampire Abilities & Passives

Y'all can also find a full list of all Vampire skills and abilities on https://eso-hub.com/en/skills/globe/vampire

Ultimate

  • Claret Scion
    • Swarming Scion
    • Perfect Scion

Active Skills

  • Eviscarate
    • Claret for Blood
    • Arterial Outburst
  • Blood Frenzy
    • Simmering Frenzy
    • Sated Fury
  • Vampiric Drain
    • Drain Vigor
    • Exhilarating Bleed
  • Mesmerize
    • Hypnosis
    • Stupefy
  • Mist Form
    • Elusive Mist
    • Blood Mist

Passives

  • Feed
  • Dark Stalker
  • Strike from the Shadows
  • Claret Ritual
  • Undeath
  • Unnatural Move

Vampire best Race?

Vampires take actress damage from burn down, therefore Dark Elf (Dunmer) is one of the good choices that yous can pick. Nighttime Elves have increased burn down resistance, information technology can therefore reduce the extra damage yous take from burn equally a Vampire. The second choice would exist a Breton, they become extra Spell Resistance in their racial passives, therefore overall reducing harm that you have from any source of magic.

That beingness said, no matter what race you are playing, yous can utilise Vampire with it. Every bit long equally you remember the drawbacks that come with it and have them into business relationship with your decision making, y'all volition exist fine in most content.


Vampire Sets

There are three sets that accept the proper noun Vampire in it, every bit you can see beneath. The Vampire Lord will be the most useful ready out of all these because you can farther reduce the toll of your Vampire abilities and Ultimate!

  • Vampire Lord
  • Vampire'due south Kiss
  • Vampire Cloak

Part three – Avant-garde

In this section of the Vampire guide for ESO, I desire to talk nigh the more than advanced things such as where Vampires are usually used and why. That fashion you should be able to get a pretty practiced stance on whether you lot want to be a Vampire in Elder Scrolls Online or not.

Strengths & Weaknesses of Vampires

PvE

The extra cost of regular abilities makes Vampire hard to apply in PvE. Vampire tin can be used for builds like the Vampire Necromancer Build or the Vampire Nightblade Build that are tailored around the Vampire experience. However, in near endgame content Vampire is only used in niche applications such as in the Rockgrove Trial on the 2nd dominate where you have to mitigate a lot of damage, which works well with the Blood Mist ability thanks to 75% impairment mitigation.

PvP

Mist Form is often used in PvP because it removes and grants amnesty to all disabling and immobilization furnishings. This is frequently used as an escape tool to increase your mobility, because enemies commonly hammer you with snares, roots and stuns.

In that location are also plenty of drawbacks, specially for PvP. First off you take increased fire impairment, this tin exist especially devastating if you are fighting a Magicka Dragonknight, which almost exclusively has burn abilities in its kit. You are besides going to have more damage from Fighters Society abilities due to the Skilled Tracker passive. With addons or special skills it is also easy to spot Vampires in PvP zones, therefore experienced players that have a setup made to be constructive against Vampires, might target you first.


Fun Fact – ESO Vampire

The Sanguine Goat has a special characteristic. When the Blood Moon is upwardly, its eyes will glow crimson. That ways there is the possibility that you can find Bloodfiends.

Sanguine Goat ESO