The Vampire Lord is a vampire boss. At the lowest Threat it has 960 health, hits for 21 and carries 2 armor; the uber version you meet in the Mortal Arena has ×1.6 the health and ×1.75 the damage. You need Vampire Lord's Heart to call it out.

It waits at the end of Bloodspire Keep, in place of Imp Overlord, and belongs to Adventure Mode.

Every kill rolls its list 5 times. 8 Uniques sit on it: four ordinary ones splitting 90.0% of it between them, and four Exceptional ones splitting the last 10.0%, which puts any one of those at about 1 in 40 of what it gives up. The Exceptional ones are The Vampire Lord's Needle, Crimson Communion, The Belfry and The Widow's Stiletto.

It opens every fight with Sanguine Rush, then fights with Crimson Banquet and Blood Lash. The cast bar under its health names each big move as it winds up, so a party can call them out to each other. At 55% health it changes phase with Bat Communion into The Red Waltz. After each big set piece it stops for a breath: that is the opening to punish. At 15% it makes its Last Stand with Crimson Eclipse, one named, fully telegraphed finisher, and no burst of damage skips it. The uber version in the Mortal Arena fights in three phases (The Host, Blood Moon and Crimson King), grows between them, and adds Blood Moon and Swarm Lanes. Its weak spot: Drain His Cup. He's drinking from that pool — stand in it to drain it and starve him.

It calls in Bloodwing.