===Skills===

* Gains 7 Base Damage per level, instead of 5
* No Health Regen - you lose 1 HP per tile explored instead
* First Strike
* Immune to Poison
* Immune to Mana Burn
* Can sense the locations of all monsters of equal or lower level
* Spells cost Health instead of Mana
* Restores 10% of Max Health from blood pools
* 25% Life Steal, gains an additional 5% for every glyph converted
* Every next spell cost one more HP, than last; cost sets to normal after hand-to-hand fight
* HALPMEH doesn't work.

Life Steal causes you to get back a percentage of your Total Damage you dealt as Health when you use a melee attack. So if you hit a monster for 50 damage, you'd recover 12 Health with 25% Life Steal.

===General Strategy===

Vampire is tricky at the start; once you've gained a couple of levels though, your increased Health and Damage makes taking on almost any enemy a breeze. Also, First Strike does not let you go before other enemies with First Strike, and the lack of regen means that Gorgons can pose a minor threat if you're not careful. The increased Base Damage means that effects that increase your Damage Bonus are even more potent as well.

Once you get BURNDAYRAZ, the Vampire can beat bosses almost immediately, because they draw mana from health, and at level 4, you can have, say, 52 health, which gives you 6 casts: 52-6-7-8-9-10-11=1, where each cast costs one additional HP, for a total of 96 damage, which is enough to take out most level 7 monsters, possibly level 8 if you can take advantage of First Strike.

Vampire is the only race/class in the game, that don't need exploration control - actually, you should explore as much of dungeon as you can. After first exploration you could start attacking - even with 1 HP you can kill a bunch of monsters. Level up will heal you; from this moment you can attack monsters 1-2 level higher than yours.
One thing that you really need is BURNDAYRAZ. Other glyphs usually can be converted for lifesteal.
Try to save bloodpools.
First two-three levels is hardest. Use you potions - on high level you usually wouldn't need them. Factory is exception, though - save all potions you can.

Due to the Vampire's nature, neither BLUDTUPOWA nor HALPMEH is of any use. They should be converted on sight.

=== Deity Choice===

Be careful with Glowing Guardian; praying to him will heal you, but first attack will make him denounce you - because of lifesteal. Still, one healing can save the game

===Challenge Modes===

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MrGuy:

The '''animated armour''' is a rare [[monsters|monster]] exclusive to the Factory bonus dungeon. They are dangerous opponents that take a specific amount of hits to bring down.

==Statistics==
*Health: 1
*Damage: 160%
*Protection from death equal to their level

==Strategies==
Each animated armor will take a specific number of hits to bring down, regardless of your own attack power or what method you use to deliver these attacks. To make matters worse, their attacks are the strongest you'll find from non-boss monsters, so a prolonged battle is suicidal. However, it is perfectly viable to hit them once, be it with a rogue's sword, a BURNDAYRAZ glyph, or a Mystera Annur-blessed poke, and then explore more to regenerate and repeat. Animated armours never replenish their death protection, so once it's depleted, a single hit will do them in. The result of this is that if you have a method of avoiding their attacks (Namely BURNDAYRAZ or CYDSTEPP), you can easily abuse the Level Catapult system to gain several levels at once with little effort.

Alpha:Transmuter

2010-05-07T10:18:23Z

MrGuy:

Alpha:Transmuter

2010-05-07T10:14:20Z

MrGuy:

Alpha:Berserker

2010-05-06T19:45:26Z

MrGuy:

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===Skills===
*Bloodlust - +30% damage against higher level monsters
*Spellkill - 50% magic resistance
*Mageslay - skills cost +2 mana, attack +30%

===General Strategy===
Due to his skills, the Berserker is basically a physical powerhouse against magic attackers. Basically you should try to kill as many high level (magic) monsters to use Bloodlust to the fullest. Especially against the bosses the 30% extra damage are useful. Since the Berserker has +2 skill cost, it is a viable option to ditch fireballs, HALPMEH or CYDSTEPP to convert them for better use.

===Race and Deity Choices===

Ragarding race it is up to your choice, if you want to power his strenght as a Human or to boost endurance as a Dwarf or a Halfling. Since the Berserker has no reliable source of recovery, Orc is a good choice for midfight leveling.

Taurog makes a great Deity for the Berserker, since his high skill cost will make it hard to put skills to a good use, while Taurog boosts his strength even more. Besides that, Jehora, The Pactmaker and Binlor are good choices as well to boost strenght.

===Challenge Modes===

====Snake Pit====
Use an Orc Berserker and get Taurog (or another powerboosting Deity) early on and start slaying Gorgons 1-3 levels above you to level up fast. Avoid fighting with Nagas of equal or higher level, since their weakening ability can be really annoying. Also don't get poisoned by a Serpent, unless there is a level up in sight to make up for it. Conserve your Glyphs for the boss fights. When you reach level 7 you can start taking on Medusa. You should be able to kill her in a few hits, just keep your health at max with a level up or potions. Afterwards you can use your (hopefully) stocked potions to outlast Nidhogg.

====Crypt====
Your aim is to build up power as soon as possible. Get Glowing Guardian or Taurog and start hacking away. With clever tile regeneration management you can easily kill monsters 1-2 levels above you. Especially Wraiths will help you level up, since they won't get their defence boost due to Berserkers special abilities. If you have one of the aforementioned gods as your friend you can start at around level 6-7 to go for the bosses. Start with the Tormented One, as he will go down faster. Regenerate with potions and level ups (with Glowing Guardian HALPMEH of course is an option, too) and he shouldn't last long. Frank can be handled with the same strategy and will be outlasted in the end. If you want to make this run extra easy, restart until you get the flaming sword (physical damage counts as magical damage), making a laugh out of Wraiths.

====Library====
Start out by killing low-level mages and dragonspawn. Once you start gaining levels, you can generally kill imps of lower level in one shot; you can also begin killing mages/dragonspawn a level or two above you, which should be done whenever possible, but make sure to conserve potions for the Matron. After killing all normal enemies, start out by targeting Aequitas, and after defeating him move on to the Matron.

Gods

2010-05-05T20:59:29Z

MrGuy: