Vampire build

How players win with Vampire Community consensus

Summarised in our own words on 13 November 2026; check the patch date of each source against PC 1.2.

Weapons Vampire boosts most Computed from rules

Vampire: ordered by how much Vampire's modifiers raise each weapon's damage compared with a character without modifiers, then by damage per second; weapons Vampire doesn't boost fall back to raw DPS. Reference profile: Vampire's own stats plus 20 points bought in the weapon's main scaling stat, both multiplied by Vampire's modifiers; one weapon, its highest tier, no items, single target, every projectile hits. 89 of 95 equippable weapons scale with a stat Vampire can raise.

#	Weapon	Boost	DPS	Main stat	Hit	Cooldown
1	Flamethrower IV	×1	11.1+ burn 11×5	Elemental Damage	1	0.09 s
2	Combat Shotgun IV	×0.41	142.4	Ranged Damage	13 ×8	0.75 s
3	Machine Gun IVStarting option	×0.41	102.6	Ranged Damage	9	0.09 s
4	Minigun IV	×0.40	91.6	Ranged Damage	8	0.09 s
5	Obliterator IV	×0.40	89.3	Ranged Damage	280	3.23 s
6	Flaming Brass Knuckles IV	×0.40	68.1+ burn 3×18	Melee Damage	40	0.59 s
7	Power Fist IV	×0.40	68.1	Melee Damage	40	0.59 s
8	SMG IVStarting option	×0.42	67	Ranged Damage	10	0.15 s
9	Double Barrel Shotgun IVStarting option	×0.41	61.8	Ranged Damage	12 ×6	1.20 s
10	Fist IVStarting option	×0.40	57.9	Melee Damage	34	0.59 s

Starting weapons by the same measure

• Machine Gun#3 of 89, 102.6 DPS at tier IV
• SMG#8 of 89, 67 DPS at tier IV
• Double Barrel Shotgun#9 of 89, 61.8 DPS at tier IV
• Fist#10 of 89, 57.9 DPS at tier IV
• Revolver#11 of 89, 55.4 DPS at tier IV
• Knife#13 of 89, 52.6 DPS at tier IV
• Medical Gun#21 of 89, 42.9 DPS at tier IV
• Hatchet#22 of 89, 42.5 DPS at tier IV
• Pistol#26 of 89, 40.2 DPS at tier IV
• Blowgun#28 of 89, 36.5 DPS at tier IV
• Claw#33 of 89, 31.6 DPS at tier IV
• Thief Dagger#36 of 89, 30.7 DPS at tier IV
• Shovel#37 of 89, 30.5 DPS at tier IV
• Spiky Shield#39 of 89, 28.6 DPS at tier IV
• Whip#43 of 89, 27.3 DPS at tier IV
• Awl#47 of 89, 26.4 DPS at tier IV
• Carbon Bow#49 of 89, 25 DPS at tier IV
• Tranq Rifle#54 of 89, 23.6 DPS at tier IV
• Screwdriver#55 of 89, 23.1 DPS at tier IV
• Flail#60 of 89, 21.9 DPS at tier IV
• Scissors#61 of 89, 21.2 DPS at tier IV
• Sickle#64 of 89, 17.7 DPS at tier IV
• Shuriken#65 of 89, 17.5 DPS at tier IV
• Lightning Shiv#66 of 89, 16.9 DPS at tier IV
• Sticky Grenade#68 of 89, 16.6 DPS at tier IV
• Ghost Flint#72 of 89, 15.5 DPS at tier IV
• Crossbow#73 of 89, 15.3 DPS at tier IV
• Shredder#76 of 89, 13.7 DPS at tier IV
• Sharp Tooth#79 of 89, 12.7 DPS at tier IV
• Wrench#80 of 89, 12.4 DPS at tier IV
• Stick#82 of 89, 12.1 DPS at tier IV
• Torch#83 of 89, 10 DPS at tier IV

Legendary-only weapons

These exist only at tier IV, cost a Legendary shop slot and carry the Legendary set penalty of −20 Max HP per weapon of the class. At the same profile: Chain Gun 296.2 DPS; Gatling Laser 197.3 DPS; Excalibur 167.3 DPS; Scythe 97.3 DPS.

Burning weapons

Burn damage is not in the DPS column. Per application at the same profile (damage per tick × ticks; the strongest burn on an enemy is kept unless you own Pyromaniac): Wand 12×12, Particle Accelerator 12×10, Molotov Cocktail 10×7, Flamethrower 11×5, Fireball 11×5, Flaming Brass Knuckles 3×18.

Items for the stats this build buys Computed from item data

Ranked by points per base material after Vampire's multiplier; prices rise each wave. Downsides are listed because they hit other stats.

Items that turn Vampire's stats into more

• Frozen HeartWeapon and pet damage additionally scales with 10% Elemental Damage
• Strange Book+1 Engineering for every permanent 1 Elemental Damage you have

Items that use Vampire's effects

What the modifiers change Computed from rules

Vampire has no stat multiplier, so the weapon decides the stat. At the reference profile the highest single-target damage comes from Flamethrower IV (11.1 DPS).

Max HP ×0.75

Counts ×0.75, including its penalties, which shrink by the same factor.

missing health → Damage

+2% Damage for every 1% of missing health.

missing health → Life Steal

+1% Life Steal for every 3% of missing health.

missing health → Armor

+1 Armor for every 5% of missing health.

Never offered to Vampire

Item groups: hp regeneration, consumable heal.

Assumptions and method

• Damage per hit = round(trunc(base + Σ stat × scaling) × (1 + %Damage/100 + class %Damage/100)); crits average in as chance × round(hit × multiplier). Formulas are datamined from the game code; weapon numbers come from the game-file tables.
• Cooldown is the tooltip value, which includes the attack animation. Reload weapons average the long cooldown over its shot count. Attack Speed divides the tooltip, an approximation: the game divides only the cooldown frames.
• Not modelled: pierce, bounce, explosion splash, knockback, on-hit and kill-count effects, structures, and how often the weapon actually reaches enemies. Multi-projectile weapons assume every projectile hits the same target, which favours shotguns.
• Version: Brotato PC 1.2 with the 12 November 2026 patch. Reviewed 12 November 2026.