Vampire Hunter (Player Class)

## Vampire Hunter

### Melee Speed

~1.15x ("Increased Attack Speed" Skill)~1.30x ("Attack Swift as the Wind" Skill)

### Misc.

Higher Armor, Exclusive Weapons, Food Options

## Transformation:

Right-clicking a Vampire Hunter (Mob) with Garlic or an Injection Chair with a Garlic Injection transforms the player into a Vampire Hunter.

Vampire Hunter is a class/route of progression that players can take on by giving Garlic to a Vampire Hunter (Mob) or by using a Garlic Injection with an Injection Chair. Injection chairs can be found in the Vampire Hunter Coach houses of villages but can also be crafted. Hunters have the ability to unlock and use the Hamon Subclass. After becoming a Vampire Hunter, the player becomes immune to the Sanguinare Vampiris effect that transforms players into Vampires.

Vampire Hunters boast increased attack speed allowing them to wield heavier weapons more easily, the ability to create special weapons / armor such as crossbows, and the power to make potions that give them vampire abilities. They also have marginally lower attack power when compared to Vampires.

A Vampire Hunter has a blue nametag (both above their head and in chat) in comparison to the purple text of a Vampire.

## Gameplay Changes

### **Increased Stats**

 Attack Power
 Attack Speed
 Speed
 Max Armor

### Taking Over Villages

Vampire Hunters can capture villages by right clicking their totems. If the beam is white, it will be easy to claim. If it is purple, however, the player must first take out all of the vampires in the area, and potentially villagers that have been turned into vampires. When a village becomes taken over, villagers get garlic in their blood making them immune to sucking/vampire and Vampire Hunter specialist traders appear. Hunters guard the area.

### **Exclusive Gear**

Only Vampire Hunters can wear Swiftness Armor, Hunter Coat Armor, Obsidian Hell Armor, and Space CQC Enhancer Armor. The "Heaven" version of these sets are among the best sets in the game for their specific specialties. They also are the sole wielders of the Hunter Axe and the Crossbow. Only they can brew Blood Potions and perform alchemy, and, while not exclusively locked to Hunters, Hamon Clackers require ingredients that can only be crafted by hunters.

## Leveling

### Transformation:

Becoming a Vampire Hunter involves opening the Subclass menu and using a Gold Ingot to unlock Hamon. Once the Hamon Subclass is unlocked, the "Hunter" button can be pressed at any time to become a Hunter.

Alternatively, using garlic and glass to craft a garlic syringe and using it by right clicking on an injection chair (depicted on right) in a Vampire Hunter house found in some villages. Both garlic and the injection chair can also be crafted, if finding them proves too challenging.

### Levels 2-4

Leveling up to level 4 is quite simple for a Hunter. They need to trade Vampire Blood obtained by killing Vampires with Stakes to any normal Vampire Hunter in exchange for training (levels).

### Levels 5+

Leveling beyond level 4 is considerable more complex and expensive, costing Iron and Gold Ingots as well as Vampire Books. Furthermore, a Hunter Coach is required to level up rather than a generic Hunter. After getting the "Hunter Intel" that is needed from the "Research Table", the player must do another transaction with the Hunter Coach. While initially not too costly, resources get more demanding as the levels go up. One of these resources, Pillar Man Blood, is only dropped by Pillar Men found in Vampire Forests at night. The max level for Hunter players, as with their Vampiric counterparts, is 14, not including Updog.

Vampire Hunter Coaches can also be summoned with a Ritual should locating one prove too difficult a task.

## Skills

### **Main Path**

This section consists of the "base" abilities that Hunters must acquire in order to access the separated paths on the skill tree.

A Hunter can never obtain every skill on the tree, but can re-allocate their points at the cost of being (temporarily) set back a level.

### **Alchemy Route**

This path focuses on the ability to detect and weaken Vampires as well as create materials used to make powerful Hunter equipment. A notable ability granted by the Alchemy Route is to make and upgrade Garlic Diffusers, devices that repel and weaken Vampires. The final skill senses Vampires nearby in a manner similar to how Hamon users could feel the menacing energy emitted by the undead.

OR Enhanced Holy Water
Enhanced Holy Water enables the creation of enhanced holy water potions, which in splash potion form damage the undead.

## Blessed salt and holy water

### Effects

you can craft it by using the alchemic cauldron. put a water bucket in the cauldron and that will make the salt, then go to a church and find an altar of cleansing. right click the altar with the salt to make "blessed salt." then take the blessed salt and apply it to water bottles in a brewing stand and youll get "blessed salt water. right click the altar with the blessed salt water and youll get holy water, which can be cobimed with gunpowder to throw at dirty vamps.

### **Blood Potion Route**

This path focuses on learning how to brew Blood Potions, which give a number of status effects, both good and bad. The effects granted by Blood Potions are unpredictable and can come with detrimental side-effects, but their ability to grant normally unachievable effects makes them very versatile. Though Blood Potions are generally considered less favorable than the other trees for combat purposes, they have some advantages that can validate their use. It is said that Vampire Blood Potions give their users the supernatural abilities of Vampires temporarily without relinquishing their humanity.

### **Battle Route**

This path focuses on two major characteristics: The ability to craft the majority of Hunter exclusive weapons/armor and increasing combat abilities via increases in attack speed.

## Removing Hunter Status

To remove garlic from one's blood and make oneself susceptible to becoming a Vampire, one must craft a Sanguinare Injection and inject it using an Injection Chair.