Abilities in Vault Hunters are actions or powers that can be used in or outside the vault. They can be separated into different kinds of abilities, such as Utility, Offensive, Powerup, and Ultimate.
Utility Abilities
Icon | Name | Use | Description | Lvl Range |
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Vein Miner | β Hold Ability | Allows you to mine multiple blocks at once! | 1 - 4 | |
Finesse Miner | β Hold Ability | Changes Vein Miner to gain a chance of ignoring taking durability damage while using it to mine blocks. However, the amount of blocks mined is lowered. | 1 - 4 | |
Void Miner | β Hold Ability | Changes Vein Miner to void any blocks it mines inside a vault with the exception of vault ores. However the amount of blocks mined is lowered. | 1 - 4 | |
Ghost Walk | β΄ Cast Ability | Makes you invisible for a duration of time. Attacking anything during the Ghost Walk will cancel its effect. | 1 - 2 | |
Spirit Walk | β΄ Cast Ability | Makes you invisible for a duration of time. Attacking anything, breaking a block, or opening a container during the Spirit Walk will cancel its effect. | 1 - 2 | |
Heal | β΄ Cast Ability | Heals you for an amount of hitpoints. | 1 - 8 | |
Group Heal | β΄ Cast Ability | Changes your Heal to a group heal! Healing yourself and teammates around you for an amount of hitpoints. | 1 - 8 | |
Cleanse | β΄ Cast Ability | Changes Heal to instead Cleanse any negative effect affecting you. | 1 - 8 | |
Dash | β΄ Cast Ability | Propels you a distance in the direction you are facing! | 1 - 8 | |
Bullet | β΄ Cast Ability | Turns your dashes into bullets, making you deal a percentage of your physical damage to any mob you hit with your dash. | 1 - 8 | |
Warp | β΄ Cast Ability | Shoot a magic arrow that teleports you to its location on impact.
If you hit a mob or another player you swap places with them. |
1 - 8 | |
Hunter | β΄ Cast Ability | Highlights all POI's in a radius for a duration of time.
POI's include all chests, coins, god altars and objective points. |
1 | |
Hunter: Javelin | β΄ Cast Ability | Shoot a magical Javelin that scans the area on impact in a radius revealing all chests and mobs for a duration of time. | 1 | |
Mega Jump | β΄ Cast Ability | Gives you the ability to mega jump up in the air. | 1 - 5 | |
Mega Dig | β΄ Cast Ability | Changes Mega Jump to a Mega Dig! Instead of launching you up in the air it drills you downwards in to blocks, breaking them on the way.
This ability does not work in the overworld. |
1 - 5 | |
Mana Shield | β΄ Cast Ability | Grants a protective barrier for a limited time, absorbing all incoming damage until the shield is depleted, or the time runs out. | 1 - 8 | |
Mana Barrier | β΄ Cast Ability | Summon a magical Mana Cube around you for a duration of time. Mobs can not pass through these blocks but you can! | 1 - 8 | |
Taunt | β΄ Cast Ability | Taunts mobs around you in a radius, angering them towards you, and making them vulnerable for a duration of time.
Each level of Vulnerability increases damage taken to that mob by 10%. |
1 - 8 | |
Fear | β΄ Cast Ability | Instead of taunting mobs around you, they are now feared by you in a radius. A feared mob will get pushed away and refuse to attack you for a duration of time. | 1 - 8 | |
Charm | β΄ Cast Ability | Charms a random mob within a radius around you to fight for you. Charmed mobs deal a percentage of your attack damage as damage to their targets and can trigger on-hit effects. Charmed mobs also have increased speed. | 1 - 8 |
Offensive Abilities
Icon | Name | Use | Description | Lvl Range |
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Nova | β΄ Cast Ability | Deal a percentage of your ability power in a radius around yourself.
Nova's damage decreases the further away the target is hit in its radius. |
1 - 8 | |
Frost Nova | β΄ Cast Ability | Changes Nova to freeze mobs around you in a radius. The mobs will stay frozen for a duration of time, and then get Hypothermia, causing them to be permanently chilled and take damage every 3 seconds. | 1 - 8 | |
Poison Nova | β΄ Cast Ability | Changes Nova to instead inflict a percentage of your ability power through poison. The damage will be dealt over a period of time. | 1 - 8 | |
Fireball | β΄ Cast Ability | Summon a magical Fireball to hit your foes afar.
Deals an amount of damage based of your ability power. |
1 - 8 | |
Fireball Volley | β΄ Cast Ability | Summon a magical bouncing Fireball that scorches mobs in its path and deals an amount of damage based of your ability power.
After a duration of time, it explodes in a radius dealing its full damage. |
1 - 8 | |
Fireshot | β΄ Cast Ability | Summon a small magical fireshot to hit mobs from afar.
Deals an amount of damage based of your ability power, and transfers any on-hit effects from you. |
1 - 8 | |
Javelin | β΄ Cast Ability | Summon a magical Javelin to hit your foes afar.
Deals an amount of damage based of your weapon damage and knocks mobs away on impact. |
1 - 2 | |
Piercing Javelin | β΄ Cast Ability | Summon a magical Javelin to hit your foes afar.
Deals an amount of damage based of your weapon damage and pierces an amount of mobs on impact. |
1 - 2 | |
Scatter Javelin | β΄ Cast Ability | Summon a magical Javelin to hit your foes afar.
Deals an amount of damage based of your weapon damage and scatters an amount of javelins on impact bouncing several times. |
1 - 2 | |
Stonefall | β΄ Cast Ability | Reduces fall damage when landing while active knocking back mobs in a radius. | 1 - 8 | |
HeroΒ΄s Landing | β΄ Cast Ability | Reduces fall damage when landing while active dealing damage based off ability power to nearby mobs in a radius.
The radius is increased with your fall distance. |
1 - 8 | |
Coldsnap | β΄ Cast Ability | Reduces fall damage when landing while active.
Chilling and creating glacial prisons to mobs in a radius. The radius is affected by fall distance. |
1 - 8 | |
Ice Bolt | β΄ Cast Ability | Summon a small Ice Bolt, dealing no damage but chilling mobs hit for a duration of time. | 1 - 8 | |
Glacial Blast | β΄ Cast Ability | Summon a large Glacial Blast, that on impact explodes, chills and potentially glacial imprisons mobs in its radius, for a duration of time. | 1 - 8 | |
Implode | β΄ Cast Ability | Drains all of your mana dealing damage equal to a percentage of the mana drained to all enemies in a radius. | 1 - 8 | |
Life Tap | β΄ Cast Ability | Drain 80% of your remaining health to deal a percentage of your attack damage to all mobs in a radius around you, for each half heart drained this way. | 1 - 8 | |
Shield Bash | β΄ Cast Ability | Bash mobs with your shield, dealing Thorns Damage in front of you in a line. | 1 - 8 | |
Retribution | β΄ Cast Ability | Gives you a powerful aura of vengeance. When activated any incoming damage from mobs will build up Retribution Stacks, and when the aura expires it will unleash a powerful blast in a spherical radius, dealing Thorns Damage per stack accumulated, to all mobs around you. | 1 - 8 | |
Arcane | β Hold Ability | Channel a magical beam to melt mobs quickly by dealing a percentage of your ability power every half second in its distance.
Arcane drains the mana cost each second while being channeled. |
1 - 8 | |
Arcane: Rail | β Hold Ability | Summon a magical Arcane Rail to hit a single mob with incredible power, dealing a percentage of your ability power in damage, and triggering on-hit effects like Clouds and Chaining. | 1 - 8 | |
Earthquake | β΄ Cast Ability | Call forth a massive blast where you stand, dealing damage based on your attack damage and knocking back any hostile mobs in a radius after a delay of time.
The Damage dealt decreases the further away from the center the mobs are hit. Earthquake also has a chance to destroy blocks in its path. |
1 - 8 | |
Landmine | β΄ Cast Ability | Summon a Landmine where you are standing, which explodes in a radius dealing damage based on your Attack Damage, and knocking back any hostiles if stepped on by any mob.
Landmines can also trigger themselves by exploding in each other's radius. |
1 - 8 | |
Lightning Strike | β΄ Cast Ability | Conjure a lightning arrow that calls a lightning strike on impact, dealing lightning damage based on your Ability Power and spreads to mobs in a range around the impact. | 1 - 8 | |
Ball Lightning | β΄ Cast Ability | Summons a powerful Ball of Lightning that travels slowly, following your crosshair and zaps every mob it hits with Lightning Damage based on your Ability Power. | 1 - 8 | |
Chaos Cube | β΄ Cast Ability | Throw a mysterious, powerful Chaos Cube that explodes after a little while, dealing Attack Damage scaled damage in a radius. | 1 - 8 | |
Toxic Vial | β΄ Cast Ability | Throw a Toxic, poison-infused, vial that when it shatters explodes into a poison cloud, dealing Ability Power scaled damage in a radius over a certain amount of time. | 1 - 8 |
Powerup Abilities
Directly enhancing teammates' capabilities or providing direct protection.
Icon | Name | Use | Description | Lvl Range |
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Battle Cry | β΄ Cast Ability | Drain the essence of mobs around you, gathering Battle Cry stacks and release an amount of stacks, giving you bonus attack damage on your next direct on-hit attack.
The stacks will fizzle after a duration of time if not used. |
1 - 4 | |
Spectral Cry | β΄ Cast Ability | Drain the essence of mobs around you, gathering Battle Cry stacks and release an amount of stacks, adding ability power as damage, on your next direct on-hit attack.
The stacks will fizzle after a duration of time if not used. |
1 - 4 | |
Lucky Cry | β΄ Cast Ability | Drain the essence of mobs around you, gathering Battle Cry stacks and release an amount of stacks, giving you bonus Lucky Hit chance on your next direct on-hit attack.
The stacks will fizzle after a duration of time if not used. |
1 - 4 | |
Smite | β Toggle Ability | While active, Smite will periodically strike a mob within range dealing a random percentage of your ability power, and transfering any on-hit modifiers to the target. | 1 - 8 | |
Archon | β Toggle Ability | While active, Smite Archon will turn you in to a spark. Making any mob you physically touch get bolted for a random percentage of your ability power. | 1 - 8 | |
Empower | β Toggle Ability | Gives you an aura of movement speed. Affecting you and other players within range while active. | 1 - 8 | |
Ice Armor | β Toggle Ability | Encase yourself in a barrier of frost, chilling any mob that hits you for a duration of time while active. | 1 - 8 | |
Entropic Bind | β Toggle Ability | Gives you an aura of entropy slowing down mobs in a radius around you while active. | 1 - 8 | |
Rejuvenation Totem | β΄ Cast Ability | Creates a totem near you that heals all players in a radius per second. | 1 - 8 | |
Hatred Totem | β΄ Cast Ability | Creates a totem near you that does a minimal percentage of your ability power to all mobs in a radius on a delay. These hits applies any on-hit effects you may have, with the exception of Lucky Hit. | 1 - 8 | |
Spirit Totem | β΄ Cast Ability | Creates a totem near you that heals all players in a radius per second. | 1 - 8 | |
Wrath Totem | β΄ Cast Ability | Creates a totem near you that increases physical damage of all players in a radius. | 1 - 8 | |
Shell | β Toggle Ability | While active, Shell will give you hardened skin, giving you a chance to stun mobs when getting hit. | 1 - 8 | |
Porcupine | β Toggle Ability | While active, Porcupine will increase your Thorns Damage. | 1 - 8 | |
Quill | β Toggle Ability | While active, Quill will increase your Thorns Damage and chain your thorns to hit additional targets. | 1 - 8 | |
Rampage | β Toggle Ability | Puts you in a state of rampage, giving you an additional physical damage increase while active. | 1 - 4 | |
Vampiric | β Toggle Ability | Changes rampage to give you life leech instead of increasing your damage while rampaging. | 1 - 4 | |
Chaining | β Toggle Ability | Changes rampage to give your attacks a chaining effect, hitting multiple mobs beyond the first, instead of increasing your damage while rampaging. | 1 - 4 |
Ultimate Abilities
Providing broader benefits that enhance gameplay, often not directly combat-related.
Icon | Name | Use | Description | Lvl range |
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Storm Arrow | β΄ Cast Ability | Shoot an arrow that creates a storm above upon impact
Deals a random amount of damage based of your ability power. The storm cloud stays for a duration and will strike every so often. |
1 - 8 | |
Blizzard Arrow | β΄ Cast Ability | Shoot an arrow that creates an ice storm above upon impact
Each ice shard will freeze mobs on hit for a duration. Also has a chance to frostbite the mob for a duration every so often. |
1 - 8 |