Abilities

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 Movement, Combat, Support, and Utility.

Movement Abilities

Name	Use	Description	Lvl Range
Ghost Walk	Cast	Makes you invisible for a duration of time. Attacking anything during the Ghost Walk will cancel its effect.	1 - 2
Spirit Walk	Cast	Makes you invisible for a duration of time. Attack anything, breaking a block, or opening a container during the Spirit Walk will cancel its effect.	1 - 2
Dash	Cast	Propels you a distance in the direction you are facing!	1 - 8
Bullet	Cast	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	Cast	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
Mega Jump	Cast	Gives you the ability to mega jump up in the air.	1 - 5
Mega Dig	Cast	Changes Mega Jump to a Mega Dig! Instead of launching you up in the air it drills you downwards into blocks, breaking them on the way. Note: This ability does not work in the overworld.	1 - 5

Combat Abilities

Name	Use	Description	Lvl Range
Nova	Cast	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
Poison Nova	Cast	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
Hatred Totem	Cast	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 apply any on-hit effects you may have, with the exception of Lucky Hit.	1 - 8
Javelin	Cast	Summon a magical Javelin to hit your foes afar. Deals an amount of damage based on your weapon damage and knocks mobs away on impact.	1 - 2
Piercing Javelin	Cast	Summon a magical Javelin to hit your foes afar. Deals an amount of damage based on your weapon damage and pierces an amount of mobs on impact.	1 - 2
Scatter Javelin	Cast	Summon a magical Javelin to hit your foes afar. Deals an amount of damage based on your weapon damage and scatters an amount of javelins on impact bouncing several times.	1 - 2
Smite	Toggle	While active, Smite will periodically strike a mob within range dealing a random percentage of your ability power, and transferring any on-hit modifiers to the target.	1 - 8
Archon	Toggle	While active, Smite Archon will turn you into a spark. Making any mob you physically touch get bolted for a random percentage of your ability power.	1 - 8
Hero´s Landing	Cast	Reduces fall damage when landing while active dealing damage based on ability power to nearby mobs in a radius. The radius is increased with your fall distance.	1 - 8
Storm Arrow	Cast	Shoot an arrow that creates a storm above upon impact. Deals a random amount of damage based on your ability power. The storm cloud stays for a duration and will strike every so often.	1 - 8
Fireball	Cast	Summon a magical Fireball to hit your foes afar. Deals an amount of damage based of your ability power.	1 - 8
Fire Volley	Cast	Summon a magical bouncing Fireball that scorches mobs in its path and deals an amount of damage based on your ability power. After a duration of time, it explodes in a radius dealing its full damage.	1 - 8
Fireshot	Cast	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
Implode	Cast	Drains all of your mana dealing damage equal to a percentage of the mana drained to all enemies in a radius.	1 - 8
Shield Bash	Cast	Bash mobs with your shield, dealing Thorns Damage in front of you in a line.	1 - 8
Retribution	Cast	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

Support Abilities

Directly enhancing teammates' capabilities or providing direct protection.

Name	Use	Description	Lvl Range
Frost Nova	Cast	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
Rampage	Toggle	Puts you in a state of rampage, giving you an additional physical damage increase while active.	1 - 4
Vampiric	Toggle	Changes rampage to give you life leech instead of increasing your damage while rampaging.	1 - 4
Chaining	Toggle	Changes rampage to give your attacks a chaining effect, hitting multiple mobs beyond the first, instead of increasing your damage while rampaging.	1 - 4
Shell	Toggle	While active, Shell will give you hardened skin, giving you a chance to stun mobs when getting hit.	1 - 8
Porcupine	Toggle	While active, Porcupine will increase your Thorns Damage.	1 - 8
Quill	Toggle	While active, Quill will increase your Thorns Damage and chain your thorns to hit additional targets.	1 - 8
Wrath Totem	Cast	Creates a totem near you that increases physical damage of all players in a radius.	1 - 8
Ice Armor	Toggle	Encase yourself in a barrier of frost, chilling any mob that hits you for a duration of time while active.	1 - 8
Entropic Bind	Toggle	Gives you an aura of entropy slowing down mobs in a radius around you while active.	1 - 8
Taunt	Cast	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	Cast	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	Cast	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
Coldsnap	Cast	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
Battle Cry	Cast	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	Cast	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	Cast	Drains the essence of mobs around you, gathering Battle Cry stacks and releases 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
Blizzard Arrow	Cast	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 mobs for a duration every so often.	1 - 8
Ice Bolt	Cast	Summon a small Ice Bolt, dealing no damage but chilling mobs hit for a duration of time.	1 - 8
Glacial Blast	Cast	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

Utility Abilities

Providing broader benefits that enhance gameplay, often not directly combat-related.

Name	Use	Description	Lvl range
Vein Miner	Hold	Allows you to mine multiple blocks at once!	1 - 4
Finesse Miner	Hold	Changes Vein Miner to gain a chance of ignoring taking durability damage while using it to mine blocks. However, the number of blocks mined is lowered.	1 - 4
Void Miner	Hold	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
Rejuvenation Totem	Cast	Creates a totem near you that heals all players in a radius per second.	1 - 8
Heal	Cast	Heals you for an amount of hitpoints.	1 - 8
Spirit Totem	Cast	Creates a totem near you that regenerates mana of all players in a radius.	1 - 8
Group Heal	Cast	Changes your Heal to a group heal! Healing yourself and teammates in a radius around you for an amount of hitpoints.	1 - 8
Cleanse	Cast	Changes Heal to instead Cleanse any negative effect affecting you.	1 - 8
Empower	Toggle	Gives you an aura of movement speed. Affecting you and other players within range while active.	1 - 8
Hunter	Cast	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	Cast	Shoot a magical Javelin that’s scans the area on impact in a radius revealing all chests and mobs for a duration of time.	1
Stonefall	Cast	Reduces fall damage when landing while active knocking back mobs in a radius.	1 - 8
Mana Shield	Cast	Grants a protective barrier for a limited time absorbing all incoming damage until the shield is depleted or the time runs out.	1 - 8