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Discover the best clans to choose in Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2, including powers, playstyles, and beginner recommendations.
When the Elder Vampire mythically known as the Nomad wakes up in Seattle, they quickly familiarize themselves with the city’s underworld. At the top of the criminal food chain are six vampire clans, each with signature styles and powers. As Phyre, you are free to join any one of the six clans in Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2.
Functioning as classes, each clan has special powers to learn via spending ability points. Being a part of the same clan and having synergy with the clan power you’re learning reduces its cost. Therefore, selecting the right starting clan is crucial to evolving the playstyle you will enjoy most.
Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2: Best Clans Guide
In Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2, you can pick a clan soon after completing the tutorial and reaching The Haven. Here are our top picks for starting clans:
Toreador
- Teleportation
- Mind Control
- High Mobility
- Feeding Buff: Increase Speed
Although Toreador is rated at Normal difficulty, the clan’s seductive powers are versatile and make you a powerhouse in combat. For players seeking the best of stealth, head-on combat, and skillful abilities, Toreador delivers on all fronts. Using the “Entrancing Kiss” power on an enemy makes them temporarily fight for you, creating a useful distraction. The clan comprises the artists and divas of vampire society, offering a stylish wardrobe for you.
Also Read: How To Unlock All Outfits in Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2
Ventrue
- Strong Mind Control
- Make a target forget they saw you
- Stop multiple enemies from attacking
- Force a target to take their own life
- Possession
- Feeding Buff: Damage Resistance
Classed as the only easy-to-master clan, Ventrue features wealthy, aspiring leaders of vampire society. With talents honed from pulling strings at the Camarilla Courts, Ventrues are true puppeteers in combat, manipulating enemies with an array of abilities.
Their clan passive, Flesh of Marble, temporarily increases your damage resistance upon feeding. When combined with mind control powers, which you can use as panic buttons, these abilities make playing Ventrue very forgiving for beginners.
Banu Haqim
- Invisibility
- Time Stop
- Silence
- 1v1 Specialist
- Crawling Sprint
- Feeding Buff: Silent Actions
The anti-vampire vampires, Banu Haqim, yearn for the blood of their kind. With a code of law, faith, and ethics, this clan represents the lawful evil faction. Their edgy sense of justice aside, Banu Haqim offers some borderline broken powers to dismantle your prey. When it comes to stalking a target with the silence of death and executing them within an instant, no other clan compares.
Other Clans
While these might be the most enjoyable clans to join from a gameplay perspective, each of the other clans has notable abilities and compelling role-playing potential. Here is a brief rundown of each one:
Lasombra
- The Night Clan
- Stealth Focus
- Teleport into Enemy Shadows
- Feeding Buff: Cloaked in Shadow
Brujah
- The Learned Clan
- Anarchist Gangsters
- Brawler Playstyle
- Feeding Buff: Stronger Melee Attacks
Tremere
- The Broken Clan
- Vampire Mages
- Ranged Playstyle
- Explosive Powers
- Throw Summoned Daggers
- Feeding Buff: Bitten Body Dissolve
Even if you start off with one clan, you can still learn other clans’ abilities, making the game’s class system quite flexible. So feel free to mix and match clan powers to cement your legacy as an Elder Vampire of legend.
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