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All Diablo 4 Vampiric Powers, Effects & Pact Requirements

Everything you need to know about Vampiric Powers, their effects on your character, and the Pact requirements in Diablo 4 Season 2.
By Wessel Minnie | 
First Published November 9, 2023, 04:14
All Diablo 4 Vampiric Powers, Effects & Pact Requirements
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Want to learn everything about Diablo 4's Vampiric Powers unleashed in Season 2, from their detailed effects to how you can unlock them and the Pact requirements to use these powerful new abilities? Then we've got you covered, Nephalem!

In this guide, we outline the minor and major Vampiric Powers that players can use and unlock in Diablo 4 Season of Blood, alongside the Pact requirements, so you can slay the hordes of the Burning Hells with ease.

Update on 9 November 2023: We've updated this article with the latest on all the Vampiric Powers and how you can unlock them in Diablo 4 Season 2.

How To Unlock Vampiric Powers in Diablo 4

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Unlock 22 Vampiric Powers, available to use on all Diablo 4 classes! (Picture: Blizzard)

As you progress through Season of Blood's questline, you will unlock new Vampiric Powers. To unlock Vampiric Powers, head to Ked Bardu, then speak to NPC Oren, and he will give you a quest called Blood Money. Players can also unlock Vampiric Powers from the Blood Harvest seasonal event. 

Furthermore, as you slay enemies such as Vampires, bosses, and more, you will get Potent Blood. From here, you can spend Potent Blood to unlock a random Vampiric Power in Diablo 4 Season 2. Spend this new Potent Blood currency by heading to the Character Menu and then the Vampiric Powers tab to unlock either a random power or power upgrade.

Diablo 4 Vampiric Powers: Effects, Stats & Pacts

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You will need to find Pact Armor out in the wild to use Vampiric Powers. (Picture: Blizzard)

There are both minor and major Vampiric Powers. To actually use them, you will need to find Pact Armor (Chest, Pants, Gloves, Boots, and Helms) dropped from enemies across Sanctuary. 

There are three Pact types in Diablo 4, namely Ferocity, Divinity, and Eternity. You’ll need to ensure that the armor you’re wearing provides Pacts that match the activation cost listed on the power. As you can see from the example image above, you can get multiple Pacts on an armor piece. 

With a very quick explanation of how Pacts work out of the way, let's take a look at the Diablo 4 Vampiric Powers and the Pact requirements to use them below, starting with the minor powers.

Diablo 4 Minor Vampiric Power Vampiric Power Effect Pacts Required
Anticipation Your Ultimate Skills gain 20% Cooldown Reduction. Your Ultimate Skills gain 12% increased damage for each nearby enemy affected by your Damage Over Time effects. 1 Divinity
Coven’s Fangs Your Conjuration, Companion, Minion, and Bat Familiar attacks deal 52% increased damage to Crowd Controlled enemies. Lucky Hit: Your Conjuration, Companion, Minion, and Bat Familiar have up to a 30% chance to inflict Vampiric Curse when hitting enemies. 2 Divinity
Domination You deal 24% increased damage to enemies who are Stunned, Immobilized, Frozen, or Feared. If they're also Injured and not an Elite, they're instantly killed. 1 Ferocity
Feed the Coven Lucky Hit: Conjuration, Companion, Minion and Bat Familiar attacks have up to a 60% chance to restore 10 Primary Resource to you and increase your Damage by 10% for 4 seconds. 1 Eternity
Hectic For every 5 Basic Skills you cast, one of your active Cooldowns is reduced by 2 seconds. 3 Divinity
Hemomancy Your attacks deal 80% of your Maximum Life as Physical damage to nearby enemies. This can only occur once every 4 seconds. You heal for 1% of your Maximum Life for each enemy damaged this way. 3 Eternity
Infection Hitting enemies with direct damage infects them with Pox. Inflicting Pox 8 times on an enemy expunges their infection, dealing 70% Poison damage. 1 Ferocity
Jagged Spikes Thorns have a 10% chance to deal 300% increased damage and Chill enemies for 8%.

1 Ferocity, 1 Divinity
Prey on the Weak You deal 16% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies. Enemies are Vulnerable while affected by a Vampiric Curse from your other Vampiric Powers.

2 Ferocity
Rampart After not moving for 3 seconds, you gain a Barrier for 40% of your Maximum Life for 6 seconds. This effect can occur once every 20 seconds. 1 Divinity, 1 Eternity
Ravenous Lucky Hit: Up to a 20% chance to increase your Attack Speed by 40% of your Total Movement Speed for 6 seconds. 3 Ferocity
Resilience You gain 1% Damage Reduction for each 2% Life you are missing. 2 Eternity
Sanguine Brace When you kill an enemy, Fortify for 6% of your Base Life. While you have more Fortify than half of your Maximum Life, you gain 8% Critical Strike Chance. 1 Divinity, 1 Eternity
Terror When struck, you have a 14% chance to Fear nearby enemies and Slow them by 80% for 2 seconds. You are guaranteed to Critically Strike enemies who are Feared. 1 Ferocity, 1 Divinity, 1 Eternity
Undying Casting Skills heals you for 3% Life. Double this bonus while below 50% Life. 1  Eternity
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The major Vampiric Powers in Diablo 4 Season of Blood requires six Pacts! (Picture: Blizzard)

Now, let's get to the major Vampiric Powers that require six (6) Pacts!

Major Diablo 4 Vampiric Power Vampiric Power Effect Pact Requirements
Accursed Touch Lucky Hit: Up to a 44% chance to inflict Vampiric Curse on enemies. Enemies with the Vampiric Curse have a 15% chance to spread it to other surrounding enemies. Accursed Souls deal 200% increased damage. 6 Divinity
Bathe in Blood While Channeling a Skill, you form a pool of blood beneath you. While channeling a skill in a pool, your Channeled Skills deal 40% increased damage and you gain 30% Damage Reduction. A pool can only form once every 8 seconds. 3 Divinity, 3 Eternity
Blood Boil When your Core Skills Overpower an enemy, you spawn 3 Volatile Blood Drops. Collecting a Volatile Blood Drop causes it to explode, dealing 60% Physical damage around you. Every 20 seconds, your next Skill is guaranteed to Overpower. 6 Eternity
Call Familiar Casting a Mastery, Weapon Mastery, Macabre, Wrath, or Imbuement Skill calls a bat ally to attack nearby enemies, dealing 80% Physical damage with a 30% chance to Stun. 3 Ferocity, 3 Divinity
Flowing Veins You deal 60% increased Damage Over Time to enemies that are moving or affected by a Vampiric Curse. 2 Ferocity, 2 Divinity, 2 Eternity
Metamorphosis  When you Evade you turn into a cloud of bats, becoming Unstoppable for 4 seconds. Enemies along your path take 160% Physical damage and are inflicted with Vampiric Curse. 2 Ferocity, 2 Divinity, 2 Eternity
Moonrise Hitting an enemy with a Basic Skill grants you 4% Attack Speed for 10 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. Upon reaching maximum stacks, you enter a Vampiric Bloodrage, gaining 160% Basic Skill damage and 15% Movement Speed for 10 seconds. 6 Ferocity

 

Please note: Values in the tables above reflect each Diablo 4 Vampiric Power at their maximum Level 3.

It is important to note that all classes can use any of the 22 Vampiric Powers, so you can customize your build with great effect to slay the Vampires infesting Sanctuary in Diablo 4 Season of Blood.

In case you've missed it, check out the long, detailed Diablo 4 developer livestream below, revealing all the details for Season of Blood!

So there you have it, all the Vampiric Powers in Diablo 4 Season 2, including their Pact requirements and unique effects! If anything changes, we will endeavor to update this article with haste, so stay tuned, Nephalem!

For more Diablo 4, be sure to check out our dedicated section or some of our Guides & Tutorials just below:

Diablo 4 Season 2 Guides
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Tech Guides & Fixes
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Diablo 4 Items & Slots
Achievements/Challenges
Legendary Aspects
Strongholds
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Gameplay Systems
The Story, Lore & Characters
Diablo 4 Season Guides

Our section keeps growing, so check for new guides daily! Don't forget to pick up one of the Diablo 4 Editions and join the fight to save Sanctuary soon.

Wessel Minnie

Written by Wessel Minnie

Wessel is a former member of Bravado Gaming, a top South African esports organization, and a former editor at GLITCHED.online. He can also be found on HLTV discussing everything CS esports.  When he's not writing or editing, Wessel is clicking heads in Counter-Strike 2, pondering over the best Diablo 4 builds for each class, or venturing into the Lands Between of Elden Ring for the umpteenth time. He loves ARPGs and any SoulsBorne title he can get his mitts on, but feel free to email or drop him a message on social media with any interesting gaming-related topics you think he might enjoy.