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Zayyeh at 12:54, 29 August 2016

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The Cakemeister at 04:54, 26 June 2012

2012-06-26T04:54:26Z

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2012-04-22T09:18:31Z

Robot: Cosmetic changes

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2012-04-22T06:30:59Z

clean up

Zaratustra: moved Vampire(race) to Alpha:Vampire(race)

2011-12-01T20:01:02Z

moved Vampire(race) to Alpha:Vampire(race)

Wojo at 21:59, 9 October 2011

2011-10-09T21:59:40Z

Newbie: /* Deity Choice */

2011-09-23T07:02:57Z

‎Deity Choice

Growing Guardian: /* Skills */

2011-08-19T07:46:58Z

‎Skills

Bizarro adams at 08:19, 16 June 2011

2011-06-16T08:19:29Z

← Older revision		Revision as of 12:54, 29 August 2016
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−	~~[[Category:Special Classes]]~~
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 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.
-Try to save bloodpools for later but use your potions early—at high levels you usually wouldn't need them (except for the Factory). Due to the Vampire's nature, neither [[Alpha:BLUDTUPOWA|BLUDTUPOWA]] nor [[Alpha:HALPMEH|HALPMEH]] is of any use, they should be converted on sight.
+Try to save bloodpools for later but use your potions early—at high levels you usually wouldn't need them (except for the Factory). Due to the Vampire's nature, [[Alpha:BLUDTUPOWA|BLUDTUPOWA]], [[Alpha:HALPMEH|HALPMEH]], [[Alpha:GETINDARE|GETINDARE]] and [[Alpha:LEMMISI|LEMMISI]] are all useless, any of them should be converted on sight.
 If you are lucky enough to find [[Alpha:CYDSTEPP|CYDSTEPP]] and push your Life Steal up high enough, you can set up for boss battles by leaving as many opponents (without First Strike) as possible one hit away from death. Hit the boss, kill someone to regenerate enough HP for CYDSTEPP, cast, then repeat until the boss is dead.

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 The '''vampire''' is one of the [[classes|special races]] in Desktop Dungeons. It is unlocked by clearing the [[Crypt]] with an [[assassin]]. Vampires gradually lose health on their own, but they drain blood to heal themselves, be it from living or fallen creatures. Additionally, they cast spells using their health rather than their mana.
-==Skills==
+== Skills ==
 * Gains 7 Base Damage per level, instead of 5
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 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==
+== 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. However, First Strike does not let you go before other enemies with First Strike, and the lack of regeneration means that [[Gorgon]]s 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 though.
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 If you are lucky enough to find [[CYDSTEPP]] and push your Life Steal up high enough, you can set up for boss battles by leaving as many opponents (without First Strike) as possible one hit away from death. Hit the boss, kill someone to regenerate enough HP for CYDSTEPP, cast, then repeat until the boss is dead.
-== Deity Choice==
+== Deity Choice ==
 Perhaps ironically, Vampires are arguably more likely than other classes to benefit from worshiping a god.   Since you'll be exploring as much of the dungeon as possible from the get-go, you're more likely to find most or all of the available shrines before even advancing to Level 2, which means more opportunities to gain Piety; the odds that you'll discover a shrine too late in the game for it to make any difference are also vastly reduced.  Knowing all of your options before picking a God is tremendously helpful, especially if you take into account the items available from the shops that you will likely have discovered by this point as well.
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 A final option (testing needed?) is the [[Glowing Guardian]] + [[CYDSTEPP]] option. [[Glowing Guardian]] rewards piety for being saved by death and for using [[CYDSTEPP]]. If you have less health than it costs to use the glyph, it will immediately cast and save you from dying for a gain of 3 piety. You can do this as many times as you wish until you have 100 piety. At this point, you can easily transfer to [[The Earthmother]] or [[Binlor Ironshield]] and take their best boons (If they are available, and if you can avoid their retribution). Or simply stick with the Glowing Guardian's boons.
-==Challenge Modes==
+== Challenge Modes ==
-===Snake Pit===
+=== Snake Pit ===
 This is as straightforward as it gets. Explore as much as possible, to find [[BURNDAYRAZ]] and all level 1 [[Serpents]]s and [[Naga]]s you can locate. Kill enough of them to go to level 2. Continue exploring if possible and repeat the process with the level 2 Serpents and Nagas. By level 3 you can probably start using BURNDAYRAZ to destroy high-level Enemies. Calculate the amount of damage you can dish out with the health you've got (heal it with blood-pools or potions if it can help take a higher-level one). This should lead to a chain of level-ups culminating around level 7. At 7, you can take out [[Gorgon#Boss info|Medusa]] with a fireball volley. At 8 take out [[Serpent#Boss info|Jormungandr]] the same way - you should have plenty of potions left too, so this should be easy as pie.
-===Crypt===
+=== Crypt ===
 Use the same method as above (see Snake Pit), except this time concentrate on [[Wraith]]s and [[Vampire]]s at the start (after thoroughly exploring everything you can explore!). Go for [[Zombie]]s only if you don't have any better target. You may want to set up a midfight level-up for your encounter with [[Zombie#Boss info|Frank the Zombie]].
-===Library===
+=== Library ===
 Yup, it's the same trick here. Your favoured targets should be the [[Warlock]]s and [[Imp]]s, as they possess the least health. Since you'll be exploring the entire map anyway, Imps shouldn't be a bother at all. Go for [[Warlock#Boss info|Aequitas]] first.
-===Factory===
+=== Factory ===
 Now this is the truly challenging part. In the factory, none of the enemies are as easy to take down as in other challenge dungeons. The [[Animated Armour]] requires a set number of hits to kill, the [[Meat man|Meat Men]] have huge health, and the [[Golem]]s are resistant to your BURNDAYRAZ. Patience here is the key, as is the help of [[The Pactmaker]], so make sure you can locate him early (but don't join him yet!).
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 As an alternate strategy, CYDSTEPP with BURNDAYRAZ can make the Factory extremely easy regardless of which gods are available; kill only the strongest creatures as you level up, spend the rest of your HP weakening the armors until the map is completely explored, then get the rest down to one hit kills. From that point, you'll be able to just alternate hits on the bosses with killing others to regenerate HP for the next cast of CYDSTEPP.
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 [[Category:Alpha Classes]]

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 |rewards=None
 |skills= Multiple:
-* Gains 7 Base Damage per level, instead of 5<br>
+* Gains 7 Base Damage per level, instead of 5
-* No Health Regen - you lose 1 HP per tile explored instead<br>
+* No Health Regen - you lose 1 HP per tile explored instead
-* First Strike<br>
+* First Strike
-* Immune to Poison<br>
+* Immune to Poison
-* Immune to Mana Burn<br>
+* Immune to Mana Burn
-* Can sense the locations of all monsters of equal or lower level<br>
+* Can sense the locations of all monsters of equal or lower level
-* Spells cost Health instead of Mana<br>
+* Spells cost Health instead of Mana
-* Restores 10% of Max Health from blood pools<br>
+* Restores 10% of Max Health from blood pools
-* 5% Life Steal, gains an additional 5% for every glyph converted<br>
+* 5% 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<br>
+* Every next spell cost one more HP, than last; cost sets to normal after hand-to-hand fight
 * HALPMEH doesn't work.
 |}}
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 The '''vampire''' is one of the [[classes|special races]] in Desktop Dungeons. It is unlocked by clearing the [[Crypt]] with an [[assassin]]. Vampires gradually lose health on their own, but they drain blood to heal themselves, be it from living or fallen creatures. Additionally, they cast spells using their health rather than their mana.
-===Skills===
+==Skills==
 * Gains 7 Base Damage per level, instead of 5
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 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===
+==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. However, First Strike does not let you go before other enemies with First Strike, and the lack of regeneration means that [[Gorgon]]s 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 though.
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 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.
-Try to save bloodpools for later but use your potions early -- at high levels you usually wouldn't need them (except for the Factory). Due to the Vampire's nature, neither [[BLUDTUPOWA]] nor [[HALPMEH]] is of any use, they should be converted on sight.
+Try to save bloodpools for later but use your potions early—at high levels you usually wouldn't need them (except for the Factory). Due to the Vampire's nature, neither [[BLUDTUPOWA]] nor [[HALPMEH]] is of any use, they should be converted on sight.
 If you are lucky enough to find [[CYDSTEPP]] and push your Life Steal up high enough, you can set up for boss battles by leaving as many opponents (without First Strike) as possible one hit away from death. Hit the boss, kill someone to regenerate enough HP for CYDSTEPP, cast, then repeat until the boss is dead.
-=== Deity Choice===
+== Deity Choice==
 Perhaps ironically, Vampires are arguably more likely than other classes to benefit from worshiping a god.   Since you'll be exploring as much of the dungeon as possible from the get-go, you're more likely to find most or all of the available shrines before even advancing to Level 2, which means more opportunities to gain Piety; the odds that you'll discover a shrine too late in the game for it to make any difference are also vastly reduced.  Knowing all of your options before picking a God is tremendously helpful, especially if you take into account the items available from the shops that you will likely have discovered by this point as well.
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 A final option (testing needed?) is the [[Glowing Guardian]] + [[CYDSTEPP]] option. [[Glowing Guardian]] rewards piety for being saved by death and for using [[CYDSTEPP]]. If you have less health than it costs to use the glyph, it will immediately cast and save you from dying for a gain of 3 piety. You can do this as many times as you wish until you have 100 piety. At this point, you can easily transfer to [[The Earthmother]] or [[Binlor Ironshield]] and take their best boons (If they are available, and if you can avoid their retribution). Or simply stick with the Glowing Guardian's boons.
-===Challenge Modes===
+==Challenge Modes==
-====Snake Pit====
+===Snake Pit===
 This is as straightforward as it gets. Explore as much as possible, to find [[BURNDAYRAZ]] and all level 1 [[Serpents]]s and [[Naga]]s you can locate. Kill enough of them to go to level 2. Continue exploring if possible and repeat the process with the level 2 Serpents and Nagas. By level 3 you can probably start using BURNDAYRAZ to destroy high-level Enemies. Calculate the amount of damage you can dish out with the health you've got (heal it with blood-pools or potions if it can help take a higher-level one). This should lead to a chain of level-ups culminating around level 7. At 7, you can take out [[Gorgon#Boss info|Medusa]] with a fireball volley. At 8 take out [[Serpent#Boss info|Jormungandr]] the same way - you should have plenty of potions left too, so this should be easy as pie.
-====Crypt====
+===Crypt===
 Use the same method as above (see Snake Pit), except this time concentrate on [[Wraith]]s and [[Vampire]]s at the start (after thoroughly exploring everything you can explore!). Go for [[Zombie]]s only if you don't have any better target. You may want to set up a midfight level-up for your encounter with [[Zombie#Boss info|Frank the Zombie]].
-====Library====
+===Library===
 Yup, it's the same trick here. Your favoured targets should be the [[Warlock]]s and [[Imp]]s, as they possess the least health. Since you'll be exploring the entire map anyway, Imps shouldn't be a bother at all. Go for [[Warlock#Boss info|Aequitas]] first.
-====Factory====
+===Factory===
 Now this is the truly challenging part. In the factory, none of the enemies are as easy to take down as in other challenge dungeons. The [[Animated Armour]] requires a set number of hits to kill, the [[Meat man|Meat Men]] have huge health, and the [[Golem]]s are resistant to your BURNDAYRAZ. Patience here is the key, as is the help of [[The Pactmaker]], so make sure you can locate him early (but don't join him yet!).
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-[[Category:Classes]]
+[[Category:Alpha Classes]]

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	Bear in mind when choosing [[Mystera Annur]], [[The Pactmaker]], or [[Dracul]] that Vampires gain no benefit from boons which increase your Max Mana.		Bear in mind when choosing [[Mystera Annur]], [[The Pactmaker]], or [[Dracul]] that Vampires gain no benefit from boons which increase your Max Mana.
		+
		+	A final option (testing needed?) is the [[Glowing Guardian]] + [[CYDSTEPP]] option. [[Glowing Guardian]] rewards piety for being saved by death and for using [[CYDSTEPP]]. If you have less health than it costs to use the glyph, it will immediately cast and save you from dying for a gain of 3 piety. You can do this as many times as you wish until you have 100 piety. At this point, you can easily transfer to [[The Earthmother]] or [[Binlor Ironshield]] and take their best boons (If they are available, and if you can avoid their retribution). Or simply stick with the Glowing Guardian's boons.

	===Challenge Modes===		===Challenge Modes===

← Older revision	Revision as of 20:01, 1 December 2011
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 === Deity Choice===
-Perhaps ironically, Vampires are arguably more likely than other classes to benefit from worshiping a God.   Since you'll be exploring as much of the dungeon as possible from the get-go, you're more likely to find most or all of the available shrines before even advancing to Level 2, which means more opportunities to gain Piety; the odds that you'll discover a shrine too late in the game for it to make any difference are also vastly reduced.  Knowing all of your options before picking a God is tremendously helpful, especially if you take into account the items available from the shops that you will likely have discovered by this point as well.
+Perhaps ironically, Vampires are arguably more likely than other classes to benefit from worshiping a god.   Since you'll be exploring as much of the dungeon as possible from the get-go, you're more likely to find most or all of the available shrines before even advancing to Level 2, which means more opportunities to gain Piety; the odds that you'll discover a shrine too late in the game for it to make any difference are also vastly reduced.  Knowing all of your options before picking a God is tremendously helpful, especially if you take into account the items available from the shops that you will likely have discovered by this point as well.
 Be aware that both [[The Earthmother]] and [[Glowing Guardian]] disapprove of Life Steal; attacking a monster will cause [[Glowing Guardian]] to immediately renounce you, while [[The Earthmother]] will both penalize you an (undetermined) amount of piety and set your Life Steal to 0%.  Since there's no penalty for being renounced by [[Glowing Guardian]], worshiping him for the one-time health boost may still be worthwhile if no better Gods are available.

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 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. However, First Strike does not let you go before other enemies with First Strike, and the lack of regeneration means that [[Gorgon]]s 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 though.
-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.
+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.  Note that the Health that you'll spend casting [[BURNDAYRAZ]] until a monster can be killed instantly with First Strike is usually much less than the amount of Health that you'd lose by allowing the enemy to hit you.
 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.