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Diablo 4 Season 2’s best Vampiric Powers are looking rather strong
08.10.2023 - 16:33 / pcgamesn.com / Best
Diablo 4 Season 2 is right around the corner, and Blizzard has given us a look at the full range of Vampiric Powers you’ll be able to wield in the upcoming Season of Blood. While the recent Diablo 4 developer livestream didn’t go over them in detail, we’ve since had a chance to look at all of the powers in detail, and a few of them promise to help you craft some exceptionally powerful builds when Season 2 starts.
Diablo 4 Season 2 begins Tuesday October 17, and it brings with it the new Vampiric Powers feature and its corresponding Pact Armor to the loot-grinding RPG game. Armor that you find during the season will grant you three types of ‘pact’ – Ferocity, Divinity, and Eternity – that can then be spent to activate the various Vampiric Powers coming to Diablo 4, of which you can have up to five selected at once. You can even craft your armor with specific consumables to ensure it has the exact pacts you need.
Blizzard breaks these Vampiric Powers into two groups: ‘minor’ powers require just one to three pacts to activate, while each of the ‘major’ powers requires a total of six pacts to use. While the major powers are certainly more immediately dramatic, a little reading shows that some of the minor powers can provide rather strong effects to bolster your best Diablo 4 builds – particularly once you start grouping several of them together.
It’s also worth noting that these powers aren’t tied to specific Diablo 4 classes in the same way that many of the Diablo 4 Malignant Hearts from Season 1 are. That means you should have more room for experimentation. Some also make use of a ‘Vampiric Curse’ keyword, which causes your character to store the souls of defeated enemies and later unleash them upon other targets.
While we’re still waiting on the upcoming second developer livestream on Tuesday October 10 for details on how damage numbers and resistances are being reworked for Diablo 4 Season 2, we did already get a glimpse that at least some of the Vampiric Powers (such as ‘Feed the Coven’) offer a multiplicative damage bonus, suggesting they’ll be stronger than a lot of your average damage boosts.
What we can be sure of, however, is that some of the buffs to the likes of attack speed and damage reduction are looking rather spicy. ‘Resilience’ grants you 1% damage reduction for every 2% missing life – meaning you’ll be getting upwards of 40% damage reduction as you near death, rivaling or even exceeding some of the strongest defensive Legendary items. ‘Sanguine Brace’ meanwhile offers a big boost to Fortify potential for classes that use it, and offers the defensive tool as an option for classes that otherwise couldn’t.
‘Ravenous’ promises to offer a very consistent attack speed buff that seems
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