Renounce Death

Use the ten-second window to recover through attacks

Renounce Death activates in place of a fatal outcome. For ten seconds, Coen gains immortality and lifesteal on attacks. Attack during that window to recover Health.

The effect is limited to once per combat. After it has activated, a second fatal hit later in the same encounter cannot be planned around another Renounce Death rescue. The ten-second duration is real-time combat protection, separate from the two campaign time segments spent learning the perk.

Mandrake Ward restores three vampire Health Segments after a fatal hit, once per night. Renounce Death resets each combat, while Mandrake Ward’s limit applies across the night’s encounters.

Renounce Death uses the Vampirism Ultimate choice at Corruption 15. Selecting it gives up Lethal Crescendo’s encounter damage growth and Sanguine Renewal’s Bite-based cooldown refresh in that tree. It suits a plan that values one recovery opportunity more than either of those offensive effects.

Rank effects and learning costs

Costs are shown for each rank. Totals include this skill’s ranks only.

You can learn only one Ultimate Perk in the Vampirism skill tree. Learning Renounce Death makes the other Ultimates in this tree unavailable.

More Vampirism skills

Blood Theft

Clawpierce

Closing Wounds

Crimson Feast