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V Rising – Greater Blood Essence and Unsullied Hearts Guide

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V Rising being a crafting-focused game, of course there’s farming too. You may be a powerful vampire trying to expand their territory, but you can’t do everything on your own. You need to recruit Servants to take care of missions for you. Players also need to hunt down rare and common resources for crafting, such as Gem stones and dust, or maybe Sulfur. That all is just the early game though, there’s so much more.

V Rising puts far more emphasis on survival than a more action-oriented vamp game. Surviving against the many enemies is going to be tough. Blood is the core of your survival. You will need blood to continue fighting and growing your power. Your holdings also require various resources, including specialized forms of blood essence. Eventually, you need Greater Blood Essence to continue progression in the game. This is one of the more powerful items you need in the crafting-focused vampire game.

Every time you kill an enemy, you’ll notice blood essence orbs collect in your inventory. These can be used to protect your Castle Heart from decay, and to power more advanced crafting recipes. But that’s not all, as you will also need to gain basic blood essence.

You will also need to constantly replenish your health by Feeding on downed enemies. When you take down a foe, you can press Feed on their body to draw health from them. Later upgrades in the skill tree can improve the efficiency of this as well. And each enemy you feed off of has its own stats and effects. The more powerful the enemy you feed from, the more intense the positive effect to your stats for a time.

How to Get Greater Blood Essence in V Rising

Greater Blood Essence is basically the distilled life force of your slain foes. This particular item is used in a few different recipes, and is very important to late-game progression. You can loot Greater Blood Essence from higher-level enemies, such as those found in the Dunley Farmlands. The drop chance is pretty low, so farming for it can be pretty rough.

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You also have the option to use a conversion item to make more of the stuff. There’s a recipe that allows you to use the Blood Press to convert 200 Blood Essence into a single Greater Blood Essence.

You can craft Greater Blood Essence at a Blood Press, and the initial recipe requires 4 Unsullied Hearts. You can unlock this recipe by slaying Tristan the Vampire Hunter, a level 46 V Carrier boss.

What are Unsullied Hearts in V Rising?

Unsullied Hearts in V Rising are a particular loot item you can use to refill your blood. As you fight hire-level enemies, you will find a bunch of new drops you haven’t seen before.  The higher the enemy level, the higher the chance for Unsullied Heart drops. These are very important, and you should hang onto them. Unsullied Hearts appear to most often drop off of enemies who are level 30 or above.

Other aspects of the game can help with your journey, like farming in V Rising and growing stuff from seeds. Seeds harvested from bosses can be used to grow unique items for crating intriguing new armor. Some of the best armor in the game is the Dark Silver gear, which is super powerful.

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