Diablo 4’s Season of Blood invites players to get in touch with their sanguine side through the use of twenty-two Vampiric Powers. These powers are unlocked using Potent Blood and then activated using Vampiric Pacts.
Vampiric Pacts generate randomly on gear, but you can also farm them as a standalone resource. Additionally, you can change the pacts currently on a selected piece of gear so that you can use the powers of your choice. Keep reading to learn where to get Vampiric Pacts, what each of the three types means, and how to change Vampiric Pacts on your favorite gear.
What Are Vampiric Pacts?
Vampiric Pacts are a gear affix that is necessary to activate your Vampiric powers. There are three types of pacts: Ferocity, Divinity, and Eternity.
The Three Types Of Vampiric Pacts
Each type of Vampire Pact is geared towards a different type of power. Generally, Ferocity denotes an aggressive power with damage potential, Eternity-based powers give you survivability, and those that require Divinity affect your resources (such as reducing cooldown or increasing resource generation).
This could really shake up builds, as it can provide access to normally rare mechanics, such as allowing Rogues and Sorcerers to gain Fortify. However, it can also augment already powerful late-game builds.
How To Use Vampiric Pacts
Once a Vampire Power is unlocked, it can be dragged from your seasonal inventory to your Sanguine Circle. If the power is active, it will be surrounded by a red ring of blood, while an inactive power will not (you can see one inactive power and two active powers in the picture above). This is determined by whether your gear has enough of a relevant Vampire Pact. You can see what pacts your currently equipped gear has by hovering over the items on the left-hand side of the window.
If your gear has room for additional pacts, you can use a standalone pact on it by selecting the pact in your inventory and selecting the relevant piece of gear. If the gear already has the maximum number of pacts, it will have no effect.
|
Gear Piece |
Maximum Pacts |
|---|---|
|
Helm |
3 |
|
Boots |
3 |
|
Pants |
4 |
|
Chests |
5 |
|
Gloves |
5 |
How To Get Vampiric Pacts
Vampiric Pacts will often drop on gear such as chest pieces, pants, boots, gloves, and helmets. They will never appear on weapons or jewelry. Initially, the pacts on a piece of gear are generated randomly, although you can later change them. Additionally, standalone pact items can drop during Blood Harvest events from Seeker’s Cache.
How To Change Vampiric Pacts
Vampiric Pacts can be shuffled around or changed in much the same way as any other Affix on your gear. To do so, you’ll need Cleansing Acid. This will remove all pacts from your gear, making them standalone items like gems. Then you can place these pacts onto any piece of gear with available space at your leisure. However, if you only want to remove a pact of a specific type, you’ll need to have the Alchemist modify your Acid first.