How do you progress vampirism?

To progress vampirism, you need to understand that it is divided into 4 stages, and players start at Stage 1 and progress to the next level whenever they go 24 in-game hours without feeding on NPCs, which will always reset their vampiric status back to Stage 1. The vampirism skill line is leveled by just raw experience, and it will passively level regardless of the skills you have active, but the skills themselves level the same as any other skills and just need to be on your active bar when gaining experience.

Understanding Vampirism Progression

What is Vampirism?

Vampirism is a transformative disease that can be contracted in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How do you level up in vampirism? To level up further, you have to do some research first, craft yourself a Hunter Table, and open its GUI, then by inspecting some special items, you will get some intel/research about vampires which you can use to level up at a Vampire Hunter Trainer in a village.

2. How do you increase your vampire stage? As mentioned above, you need to feed on NPCs to increase your Stage level, moreover, if you are in a hurry, you need to consume the drink: Corrupting Bloody Mara, it will instantly make you a Stage 4 level Vampire in ESO.

3. How do I know what stage of vampirism in Skyrim? You can suss it out by checking your Active Effects in the Magic menu, you’ll lose 15 points of Health, Magicka, and Stamina per stage (1-4) during the day: 15, 30, 45, 60, you’ll also have elemental resistances shift (resistance to frost and weakness to fire) by stage: 20, 30, 40, and 50.

4. What is the hardest vampire in Skyrim? Harkon is, unsurprisingly, the hardest vampire in Skyrim, Dawnguard’s final boss doles out some serious pain, enough to put him near the top of the list – though in truth, he’s best described as ‘just another high-level vampire, except this time with high elemental resistance‘.

5. How to get vampire stage 4? Feed on NPCs to increase your Vampire Stage, if you are drinking the Corrupting Bloody Mara you will instantly jump to stage 4 Vampirism.

6. How do you get to Stage 4 vampire in Skyrim? It advances one stage per game day, usually at or just after the new day starts, so four game days of not feeding is necessary to reach stage 4, and feeding at anytime returns you directly to stage one as if you had just become a vampire.

7. How to be a pure blood vampire? Purebloods are the result of a union between two vampires and therefore, they cannot be created artificially, while it is more common for Purebloods to be born to convert parents, other combinations are possible such as convert/Pureblood or Pureblood/Pureblood, though the latter case is extremely rare.

8. How fast does vampirism progress? Full vampirism is difficult to cure and made up of four distinct stages, the disease progresses every 24 hours a vampire goes without feeding on a sleeping NPC.

9. How do you drink blood as a vampire in Skyrim? The easiest way is to pickpocket sleeping NPCs, the game will give players a prompt to feed, and the characters will be none the wiser, another way to feed is to attack people as a Vampire Lord, once enemies are close to death, a power attack will lead to a feeding.

10. How do you get to level 2 in vampirism? To reach level 2 Vampirism, the player must fill their blood storage using the Drink Blood ability.

11. What are the downsides of being a vampire in Skyrim? The Cons Of Becoming A Vampire, it’s the weakness to sunlight which makes vampire gameplay particularly difficult, as it prevents health, stamina, and magicka regeneration, additionally, NPCs will become hostile toward players who have become vampires, especially if they are in the fourth stage.

12. Does becoming a werewolf cure vampirism Skyrim? There are two main transformative diseases the player can take on in Skyrim: Vampirism, and Lycanthropy, better known as becoming a Werewolf, becoming a Werewolf will immediately cure the Dragonborn’s Vampirism, but being a Werewolf has drawbacks just like being a Vampire does.

13. What happens if you don’t feed as a vampire in Skyrim? For every 24 in-game hours that you don’t feed, you’ll progress a stage in vampirism, up to stage four, feeding resets you back to stage one, without Dawnguard, you can only feed on sleeping humanoid characters, approach them and click the interact button that lets you pickpocket them, but instead choose “Feed“.

14. Can you be a Vampire Lord and join the Dawnguard? You can become a Vampire Lord as part of the quest called Bloodline, you’ll be given a choice to continue helping the Dawnguard or join with the vampiric Volkihar clan, even if you side with the Dawnguard, you can still become a Vampire Lord later, with the help of Serana before she is cured.

15. How do I start the vampire quest? After the quest Awakening and discovering Castle Volkihar, the current lord of vampires, Harkon, offers you the gift of immortality: his blood, accept this offer to be embraced by vampiric thirst and start the questline of the Vampire Lords.