Vampire Slayer Quest
The Vampire Slayer armor is available at Yulgar's Inn for 600 gold with a level requirement of 5.
To become a Vampire Slayer, you would have to talk to Vampire Hunter E and complete his quest to kill Khyte the Vampire. If you switch your class away from Vampire Slayer (such as to become a Dragon Slayer), you can still return to Vampire Hunter E in the future to regain your status as a Vampire Slayer.
Initialization
"You have accepted the quest to find and slay the Vampire named Khyte. If you are successful you will become a Vampire Slayer and begin your training in the art of night hunting. Fail... and you will become a blood donor for the Vampires blood bank." -- Vampire Hunter E.
To kick off the quest, you would have to fight a random monster (see below for description) and then pass a dice roll of 50 with Luck/5 bonus. If the roll succeeds, you will encounter Khyte in one of his two forms:
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Characters below level 50 will encounter the Khyte as a lvl 20 Vampire Warrior while those above will meet Khyte as a lvl 50 Vampire Warrior.
Random Encounters
For subsequent levels, you will first have to fight a series of 4 random monsters with only 3 rests in between. The monster you face is dependent on which range of character levels your character belong to. Characters below level 50 will meet a random monster from one selection group, whereas characters 50 and above will meet random monsters from a different and much stronger selection.
A list of the monsters you may meet in the random encounters for levels 50+ can be found in the appendix.
Boss Battle
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After completing the series of battles, you would have to check if you have found the vampire boss by making a dice roll with a luck/5 bonus based on the requirements above. If the roll is successful, you will face a random vampire boss of one of the following four types:
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Upon the defeat of the vampire boss, your Vampire Slayer level will be increased by 1 and you will unlock a special ability on the Vampire Slayer armour. Adventurers, however, are restricted to a maximum level of 5 as compared to Guardians who can attain the full 10 levels.
Vampire Slayer Stats
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Vampire Slayer
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Skill Breakdown
1. Vampire Strike (40 MP)
A triple attack piercing technique that does 2x or more damage to Vampires, Zombies and the Undead.
base random stats First Hit 100% 100% 100% Second Hit 100% 100% 100% Third Hit (kick) 1 6 100% As you might see, each of the first two hits is like a full damage single hit and its third hit is a mediocre 1-6 damage plus stats bonus. This brings the damage potential very close to and even exceeding that of WWF against vampires and undeads except when you are using a weapon with exceptional base damage (like Bludrut Blade).
The keywords used is also more flexible than 100k, as it works on "zombie", "vampire", "undead" and "lich", possibly even a few others.
2. Evil Proof Aura
Increased defense! +5 vs Melee, +5 vs Magic and +5 vs Ranged attacks against Vampires, Undead and Werewolves.
3. Hunter's Eye
Increase your chances of successfully landing an attack of any kind against Vampires, Undead and Werewolves by 10%.
Not sure how this would work for spells, but this would be an overall decent innate bonus to have. Extra bonus to-hit never hurts anyone.
4. Werewolf Strike (40 MP)
A triple attack piercing technique that does 2x or more damage to Werewolves.
base random stats First Hit 100% 100% 100% Second Hit 100% 100% 100% Third Hit (kick) 1 6 100% Same as Vampire Strike, each of the first two hits is like a full damage single hit and its third hit is a mediocre 1-6 damage plus stats bonus. This brings the damage potential very close to and even exceeding that of WWF against vampires and undeads except when you are using a weapon with exceptional base damage (like Bludrut Blade).
5. Lift Curse
Gain the ability to cure yourself or another of Vampirism or Lycanthrope if you ever become infected.
Currently not too useful but it is expected to be valuable during the Vampires vs Werewolves where you might get stuck in some cursed form and would need to lift the curse in order to switch armor or cast spells or whatever. No one will know the value of this innate skill until the war actual starts.
6. Summon Huntragon (90 MP)
Summon a Vampragon that was trained from birth to fight Vampires and Werewolves.
dmg type effexts Normal Attack 4 to 14 Fire - Special Attack 4 to 24 Light heals 5 HP/5 MP Damage are experimentally-determined estimates only and may not reflect the true values.
While not the highest damage of guests, the Huntragon is still quite a useful companion to have around, especially when you need some damage and a bit of healing at the same time. Best of all, once it is out, you do not need to worry about lacking the mana to maintain it in combat.
7. Stake and Shake (200 MP)
The ultimate slaying strike. This nearly unblockable technique gives you a bonus of +100 to hit Undead and Werebeasts with a triple attack.
base random stats First Hit 100% 100% 100% Second Hit 100% 100% 100% Third Hit (kick) 1 6 100% The same three hit attack as before, just that this time you will virtually not miss due to the extra +100% bonus to hit. Not worthwhile for normal attacks due to the inhibitive mana cost, it still makes for a very good finisher.
8. Ultra Strike
Unlocks a 20% chance of using the triple hit ability on all monsters when performing a normal attack.
base random stats First Hit 100% 100% 100% Second Hit 100% 100% 100% Third Hit (kick) 1 6 100% A nice innate bonus to have but nowhere near a replacement for the usual multihit armour. 20% chance of the triple hit is nice but generally it would be far more effective to just use a multihit armour. Still nice for low levels though who do not have access to such armor.
Too bad there is no charging ability on Vampire Slayer armour unlike the Call Forth Fire Dragon on Dragon Slayer. Otherwise, this could prove to be a real sweet ability.
9. Turn Undead (75 MP)
Scare the daylights (literally) out of the undead inflicting heavy damage with this light based spell.
base random total Initial Hits (x5) 4 2 4 to 6 Final Hit 12 24 12 to 36 Damage are experimentally-determined estimates only and may not reflect the true values.
With 150 Int bonus on each hit, this can equate to 5 hits of 4-24 plus an extra hit of 12-54 for a total of 32-174 (average 103). Since this ability works on all monster, it becomes a very decent replacement for Sunburst and in fact has better average damage with maxed Int bonuses. It costs less mana too.
10. Vampire's Blood (100 MP)
One can only fight the vampires so long before their life stealing powers are revealed. Works on non-undead only.
This abillity does a normal single hits and heals you for half the damage done. Similar in nature to Dragon Blood from Dragon Slayer but cost a huge 100 MP and is generally not viable at all. You're better putting that mana to other more effective uses.
Conclusion
The Vampire Slayer skills are interesting and very effective against Undeads and Werewolves.
The two class-specific triple hit attacks (Vampire and Werewolf Strike) are very powerful and rivals even standard multihit armour like WWF although the high mana costs could be inihibitive for warriors with only a small mana pool. Among the five guardian abilities, the Huntragon makes a rather useful guest with good damage and minor healing for free. Turn Undead has also become a force to be reckon with since it is now extended to affect all monsters... in fact, it has better damage potential than even Sunburst at a lower mana cost and is only disadvantaged by its slower animation time.
The rest of the skills are fairly average but would have been more useful if the mana costs for Stake 'n Shake and Vampire's Blood had been significantly lowered. The 20% Ultra Strike probability also makes it not as useful since multihit armour would do much better. If there was a charging ability on the Vampire Slayer armor like Call Forth the Fire Dragon on the Dragon Slayer armour, that extra chance of multiple hits would have been much more valuable. Too bad this was not the case.
Appendix
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