Vampire: The Masquerade – Blood Hunt is now available and features a new archetype called the Enforcer. This archetype is part of the Venture clan and currently the only clan with one archetype available in the game. Here’s a quick overview and guide of all you need to know about this archetype.

The Enforcer archetype

The Enforcer is one of the seven archetypes available in Vampire: The Masquerade – Blood Hunt and is one of the sturdiest archetypes in the game. You can hold your ground with proper use of the Flesh of Marble skill and deny a player’s use of her own skills for a limited time with their charge, and even slow down their retreat with your passive.

Enforcer Clan Powers

Archetype power: Unyielding Charge

With the Unyielding Charge, an Enforcer can dash forward dealing moderate damage to a player and silencing them for a few seconds, which prevents the player from using their vampiric powers. This is the Enforcer’s only skill that provides mobility but it that can be used either offensively or defensively. You can dash away to get more distance if needed or use the dash to cripple a player that decides to fight in melee range by reducing his/her options.

Clan power: Flesh of Marble

Flesh of Marble is a vampiric power that allows the Enforcer to be invulnerable to damage for a few seconds. This is probably one of the strongest abilities in the game as being immune to damage at the right time can really throw off your opponents. Be warned though, shooting or doing another skill will cancel the ability. A fantastic ability to safely get in close or give you time to get your composure if you find yourself abused by another player.

Passive Power: Subjugating Presence

Subjugating Presence is a passive ability that slows down players near the Enforcer. A solid passive best for when you’re in the hunt to finish a player off as this archetype makes it slightly hard to disengage. The passive also informs Enforcers if a player enters your passive’s radius.

Enforcer Archetype Blood Resonance

In Vampire: The Masquerade – Blood hunt, a player can have a total of seven (7) Blood resonances slots, meaning, a player can only max out two of the three blood resonances available to a player.

Phlegmatic Blood Resonance (Aqua)

The Phlegmatic blood resonance will reduce the cooldown of your Unyielding Charge skill by 10%/25%/50%. This is one resonance I don’t suggest picking up early on as the current cooldown of Unyielding Charge is at a reasonable spot even in endgame scenarios. With how this archetype plays, it would be best to reserve your blood resonance slots for others.

Melancholic Blood Resonance (Purple)

With the Melancholic blood resonance, an Enforcer can decrease the cooldown of their Flesh of Marble skill by 10%/25%/50%. With how strong this ability is, maxing this resonance as soon as you can is ideal as you’ll want this to be available as soon as possible. It also feels good using Flesh of Marble multiple times during a skirmish.

Sanguine Blood Resonance (Pink)

The Sanguine blood resonance gives players a passive health recovery of 1/2/4, and this is one blood resonance you can never go wrong with as a passive health recovery is always a good thing to have. With Sanguine maxed out, you can easily heal yourself to full with just a blood syringe and Sanguine doing its thing in seconds. Also, as an Enforcer you’ll mostly find yourself in point blank to short range, so definitely worth picking up when you get the chance.

Choleric Blood Resonance (Orange)

The Blood Resonance that increases your melee damage by 10%/25%/50%. Yet another good option to have as Enforcers focusing on melee damage is hard to deal with.

Enforcer Archetype Perks

Perks in Vampire: The Masquerade – Blood Hunt feel like it aims to support a specific playstyle. When it comes to the Enforcer archetype, you should consider perks that compliment close range encounters. You can even go with Melancholic to lessen your Flesh of Marble’s cooldown reduced at the start of the match, go Warrior to start the game with a melee weapon, or Juggernaut to make heavy landing do damage.

Here’s the full list of perks available for the Enforcer.

Bandolier - Start with extra ammo and ammo capacity. Unlocks at archetype level 1

Impervious - Immunity from the red gas for a short duration after entering it. Unlocks at archetype level 16.

Juggernaut - Heavy landing now deals 25 damage. Unlocks at archetype level 20.

Knight - Start with 50 armor and a spare. Unlocks at archetype level 12.

Marshal - Gain double blood resonance but bloodhunts last twice as long. Unlocks at archetype level 18.

Melancholic - Star with 2 Melancholic blood resonance. Unlocks at archetype level 10.

Nobility - reduces bloodhunt durations by 50%. Unlocks at archetype level 14.

Sanguine - Starts with 2 Sanguine blood resonance. Unlocks at archetype level 3.

Survivor - regenerate from a downed state 20% faster. Unlocks at archetype level 6.

Enforcer final thoughts

Enforcer is undoubtedly one of the strongest archetypes in the game right now. Flesh of Marble has so many applications that, if used right, puts an Enforcer player in an advantageous position. It’s also rather difficult to keep your distance against an Enforcer thanks to their passive, and when they do get close, they can charge in to silence yo, crippling you even further.

Again, the Enforcer is at their deadliest in melee to short distances. Shotguns greatly complement the archetype’s skillset as it’s now common to run around with a good melee weapon and a shotgun as an Enforcer. Experienced Enforcers tend to use marble up close to safely secure easy point blank shotgun shots since the skill will only deactivate the moment you fire.

There’s a reason why you see a lot of Enforcers in your games, especially in Ranked, which was recently released. We suspect a few balance changes coming for the Enforcer but right now, it’s at a good spot at easily dominating in Vampire: The Masquerade – Blood Hunt.

Interested in other guides on Vampire: The Masquerade - Blood Hunt? Check out our guide for the Nosferatu Saboteur.

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