Vampire Skill Line - ESO

The Vampire skill-line is part of the "World" category in the Elder Scrolls Online. The Vampire skill-line has active skills and passives, as well as four different Vampire stages. The Ultimate transforms you into a Vampire Lord for a short duration.

Category: World
Other skill lines in World : Excavation, Legerdemain, Scrying, Soul Magic and Werewolf


Unlike Werewolf, Vampire doesn't lock your skills behind a transformation. Vampire abilities are usable in human form at any time. Cures are available in-game (gold cost reduced in U49) and from the Crown Store for free.

How to Unlock the Vampire Skill Line:

The full walkthrough is in the Becoming a Vampire Guide.

  1. New Shrines (U49): Visit a Vampire shrine in Auridon, Glenumbra or Stonefalls. 
  2. Player Bite: Another player with the Blood Ritual passive can infect you with Noxiphilic Sanguivoria once per week at a shrine
  3. NPC Bite: Special Bloodfiend NPCs spawn near the old shrines in Bangkorai, The Rift and Reaper's March. 
  4. Re-aquiring: If you've previously completed the quest and cured yourself, you can immediately regain the skill line without repeating the quest.
  5. Full walkthrough: Becoming a Vampire Guide.  

How to Level the Vampire Skill Line:

  • The Vampire skill line levels through normal experience gain, the same experience that levels your character and other skill lines.
  • The individual skills level separately through normal experience gain,
  • There's no special mechanic tied to feeding or your Vampire stage. Just play the game and the skill line will level alongside everything else. 
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Ultimate abilities
Blood Scion icon
Blood Scion 		|ce60000CRIMINAL ACT Transform into a monstrous creature of the night, instantly healing to full Health. While transformed, your Max Health, Magicka, and Stamina are increased by 10000, you heal for 15% of all damage you deal, and you can see enemies through walls.
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Perfect Scion icon
Perfect Scion 		Transform into a monstrous creature of the night, instantly healing to full Health. While transformed, your Max Health, Magicka, and Stamina are increased by 10000, you heal for 15% of all damage you deal, and you can see enemies through walls. You also ascend to Vampire Stage 5, which grants all the benefits of Vampire Stage 4 with none of the drawbacks.
You ascend to Vampire Stage 5.
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Swarming Scion icon
Swarming Scion 		Transform into a monstrous creature of the night, instantly healing to full Health. While transformed, your Max Health, Magicka, and Stamina are increased by 10000, you heal for 15% of all damage you deal, and you can see enemies through walls. Bats also swarm around you and shred enemies that come close, dealing 870 Magic Damage every 1 second.
Bats swarm around you and deal damage to enemies that come close.
Active abilities
Eviscerate icon
Eviscerate 		Rend an enemy, dealing 2323 Magic Damage and applying the Hemorrhaging status effect. Deals up to 33% more damage based on your missing Health.
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Arterial Burst icon
Arterial Burst 		Rend an enemy, dealing 2399 Magic Damage and applying the Hemorrhaging status effect. Deals up to 33% more damage based on your missing Health. If you use this ability while you are under 50% Health, it will always be a Critical Strike.
Will always be a Critical Strike if you cast it while under half Health.
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Blood for Blood icon
Blood for Blood 		Rend an enemy, dealing 2323 Magic Damage and applying the Hemorrhaging status effect. Deals up to 75% more damage based on your missing Health. After you cast this ability, you cannot be healed by allies for 3 seconds.
Costs Health to cast, but greatly increases the execute scaling. After casting the ability, you cannot be healed by allies for a short duration.
Blood Frenzy icon
Blood Frenzy 		|ce60000CRIMINAL ACT Allow your monstrous appetites to take hold, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 60 every 2 seconds, up to 5 times. While toggled on, the Health cost of this ability increases by 360 per stack and you cannot be healed by anyone but yourself, your pets, or your Companions.
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Sated Fury icon
Sated Fury 		Allow your monstrous appetites to take hold, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 60 every 2 seconds, up to 5 times. While toggled on, the Health cost of this ability increases by 300 per stack and you cannot be healed by anyone but yourself, your pets, or your Companions. When toggled off, you heal for 33% of the total Health cost you spent while active.
Reduces the ramping Health cost and when you toggle the ability off, you heal for a portion of the Health cost you spent.
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Simmering Frenzy icon
Simmering Frenzy 		Allow your monstrous appetites to take hold, increasing your Weapon and Spell Damage by 80 every 2 seconds, up to 5 times. While toggled on, the Health cost of this ability increases by 360 per stack and you cannot be healed by anyone but yourself, your pets, or your Companions.
Increases the Weapon and Spell Damage granted per stack.
Vampiric Drain icon
Vampiric Drain 		|ce60000CRIMINAL ACT Siphon away your enemies' vitality, dealing 870 Magic Damage and healing you for 25% of your missing Health every 1 second for 3 seconds. This ability is considered direct damage.
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Drain Vigor icon
Drain Vigor 		Siphon away your enemies' vitality, dealing 870 Magic Damage, healing you for 25% of your missing Health, and restoring 10% of your missing Stamina every 1 second for 3 seconds. This ability is considered direct damage.
Restores a portion of your missing Stamina.
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Exhilarating Drain icon
Exhilarating Drain 		Siphon away your enemies' vitality, dealing 870 Magic Damage, healing you for 25% of your missing Health, and generating 5 Ultimate every 1 second for 3 seconds. This ability is considered direct damage.
Generates Ultimate.
Mesmerize icon
Mesmerize 		Subdue enemies in front of you with your baleful gaze, stunning them for 5 seconds if they are facing your direction. This stun cannot be blocked.
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Hypnosis icon
Hypnosis 		Subdue enemies around you with your baleful gaze, stunning them for 5 seconds if they are facing your direction. This stun cannot be blocked.
Affects all enemies around you.
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Stupefy icon
Stupefy 		Subdue enemies in front of you with your baleful gaze, stunning them for 5 seconds if they are facing your direction. This stun cannot be blocked. After the stun ends they remain stupefied, reducing their Movement Speed by 53% for 5 seconds.
Enemies are snared after the stun ends.
Mist Form icon
Mist Form 		|ce60000CRIMINAL ACT Disperse into a dark mist, causing the next 3 projectiles to deal no damage to you for 1 second while you dash forward and reappear at your target location after a short duration. Casting again within 4 seconds costs 33% more Magicka.
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Blood Mist icon
Blood Mist 		Dissolve into a bloody mist, causing the next 3 projectiles to deal no damage to you for 1 second while you dash forward and reappear at your target location after a short duration. Upon activation you drain the blood of those around you for 20 seconds, dealing 435 Magic Damage every 2 seconds to enemies and healing you for 45% of the damage caused. Casting again within 4 seconds costs 33% more Magicka.
Deals damage to enemies around you and heals for a portion of the damage caused for a duration after casting.
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Elusive Mist icon
Elusive Mist 		Disperse into a dark mist, causing the next 3 projectiles to deal no damage to you for 1 second while you dash forward and reappear at your target location after a short duration. You gain Major Expedition and Major Evasion for 4 seconds after reappearing, increasing your Movement Speed by 30% and reducing damage from area attacks by 20%. Casting again within 4 seconds costs 33% more Magicka.
Grants you Major Expedition and Major Evasion after reappearing.
Passive abilities
Feed icon
Feed 		Allows you to feed on an unsuspecting target, killing them and increasing your Vampire Stage. Higher Stages make you a stronger Vampire at the cost of your humanity. Stages decrease over long periods of time. Stage 1/2/3/4 Health Recovery: -10%/-30%/-60%/-100% Flame Damage Taken: +5%/+8%/+13%/+20% Regular Ability Costs: +3%/+5%/+8%/+12% Vampire Ability Costs: -6%/-10%/-16%/-24%
Dark Stalker icon
Dark Stalker 		Ignore the Movement Speed penalty of Sneak. Decreases the time it takes to enter Sneak by 50%.
Strike from the Shadows icon
Strike from the Shadows 		While you are at Vampire Stage 2 or higher When you leave Sneak, invisibility, or Mist Form your Weapon and Spell Damage is increased by 300 for 6 seconds.
Blood Ritual icon
Blood Ritual 		Allows you to infect another player with Noxiphilic Sanguivoria once every week by returning to the Vampire ritual site. Players already infected with Lycanthropy cannot be infected with Noxiphilic Sanguivoria.
Undeath icon
Undeath 		While you are at Vampire Stage 3 or higher Reduces your damage taken by up to 15% based on your missing Health.
Unnatural Movement icon
Unnatural Movement 		While you are at Vampire Stage 4 Reduces the cost of Sprint by 50%. If you continuously Sprint for 3 seconds you automatically become invisible.