There are numerous spells spanning six different magic schools in V Rising. Each one has its perks, but some are stronger than others when combined with the right tools and combos.
Here are the best spells in V Rising’s Invaders of the Oakveil patch update, including a deep dive on why these spells are powerful.
The Best Spells in V Rising’s Invaders of the Oakveil Update
Heart Strike (Blood Magic Ultimate)
Heart Strike is one of the strongest AoE burst damage spells in the game. Since it is an ultimate skill, you cannot use it all the time to clear out enemies. However, in situations like farming Rift Incursions, it becomes extremely powerful at sustaining your hitpoints and clearing out the waves as fast as possible.
When you stack the enemies together and go through them with the Heart Strike, they’ll have a “Heart Strike” marker on their heads with a duration. Once the timer runs out, they’ll explode, dealing 150% magic damage altogether. If you kill one enemy before the duration, it explodes immediately, making it a fast wave-clearing ability.
You can also use the skill to escape a tricky situation since it is basically a dash ability.
Related:All the New Bosses and Their Locations in V Rising Invaders of Oakveil
Veil of Frost (Frost Magic Dash)
Each school of magic has an exclusive Veil or dash ability, and Frost has the best survivability, especially for spellcaster builds. Each Veil ability heals you for 5% of your maximum health after using the dash and attacking an enemy, but the second effect is always different.
The Veil of Frost shields you for 70% of your spell power, giving you an HP buffer, which is important in boss fights since you want to keep your maximum HP up.
Use any of the jewel effects below:
Veil of Bones (Unholy Magic Dash)
The Veil of Bones is also a useful dash ability. The main difference is that Veil of Bones inflicts Condemn and summons a skeleton warrior instead of shielding you for an extra 70% of your spell power and inflicting Chill. The skeleton warrior, while weak, may attract the enemy’s attack. It is great against bosses, as even the bosses can target these warriors with their powerful attacks.
Veil of Blood is great for your non-boss fights since Leech is incredibly useful. Veil of Chaos is great for clearing a lot of enemies if you don’t have another spell that can inflict Ignite on enemies.
Power Surge and Blood Rage Combo
Blood Rage
Power Surge
The Blood Rage and Power Surge combination gives you two strong buffs that apply movement and attack speed. Power Surge lets you ignite enemies, and they’ll explode when you kill them. Blood Rage gives you leech, offering some HP sustain.
If you want a no-brainer skill where you can hack and slash enemies nonstop, these skills are your go-to spell combo. The 0.1 cast time allows you to cast both of them almost simultaneously. You can even usefast weapons like the Twinbladesor Slashers to make your attacks even faster.
you may also benefit from using this combo when farming resources like ores, flowers, Tech Scrap, or anything that requires you to hit something.
Use the following jewel effects for Blood Rage:
Use the following jewel effects for: Power Surge:
Both spells may have “remove all negative effects” from the jewel, which can be good in specific fights, especially against bosses in Oakveil Woodlands, where you can get Corruption debuffs.
Sanguine Coil (Blood Magic)
Sanguine Coil is a powerful skill that can be used defensively and offensively. It can heal your allies and deal damage at the same time while having three charges. However, its strongest use comes from a jewel effect where a lethal attack restores one charge, allowing you to keep launching Sanguine Coils as often as possible.
The cooldown is low anyway, but the charges stacking up to three gives you the potential burst window.
Arctic Leap (Frost Magic Ultimate)
Arctic Leap is a powerful ultimate skill that can even freeze enemy vampires for 2 seconds. The cast time is very fast, and you can even use it as a mobility skill if you are in a dire situation. The magic damage is great, but you are mainly going for the instant freeze on the enemy.
You can use the Blood Rage and Power Surge combo once enemies are frozen, since you don’t have to worry about getting staggered or going up against shields or counters.
Death Knight (Unholy Magic)
The Death Knight is one of the strongest minion spells in the game. It can inflict Condemn, which may even spawn some more minions for you during an encounter. It is sturdier than most minions, so it can take more hits while you attempt to summon more minions.
The spell is perfect for long-range builds, where you can rely on the Death Knight and maybe your dash to inflict Condemn and spawn more minions by shooting them with your projectiles.
Use the following jewel effects for the Death Knight:
Spectral Wolf (Illusion Magic)
While the Spectral Wolf doesn’t sound strong enough on paper, its strongest effect is its ability to apply Weaken while giving you stacks of Phantasm.
Weaken reduces the enemy damage output by 15% for 5 seconds while giving you a chance to get Phantasm stacks when a Weakened enemy dies. Phantasm gives you reduced spell cooldowns and spell charge gain per stack of Phantasm.
If you can constantly apply these debuffs to strong bosses, it is already worth its value. Spectral Wolf has the lowest cooldown out of all the Illusion spells, so you can spam it as much as possible for the debuff.
Use the following jewel effects for the Spectral Wolf:
The Curse spell also works well since it can grant more stacks of Phantasm and can also inflict Weaken and Curse.
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